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X Nm X, Lao Cai, Vietnam
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Pima Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. April 11, 2010
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Known as the Congo Cockatoo or the Parrot Impatiens. Native to tropical Africa but found mainly in gardens. Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver.
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Maria Enzersdorf, Niedersterreich, sterreich
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[syn. Nesoluma polynesicum]Keahi or Island nesolumaSapotaceae (Sapodilla family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (all the main islands except Niihau and Kahoolawe). Keahi is also found in the Cook (New Zealand) and Tubuai (French Polynesia).IUCN: VulnerableOahu (Cultivated)The fruits of keahi look like they might be delicious, but they are extremely sticky and inedible.EtymologyThe generic name Sideroxylon is derived from the Greek sidera, iron, and xylon, wood, in reference to its very hard wood.The specific epithet polynesicum literally means "from the Polynesian islands."NPH00012
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Nesoluma_polynesicum
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Florida, United States
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Castle Hill, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Seedling of Monotoca glauca (goldey wood). Monotoca is one of a number of stone-fruited Ericaceae that are frequently encountered in Tasmania. This group of species are particularly problematic to germinate and in recent years the RTBG seedbank has been making a concerted effort to resolve the germination requirements.
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Tasmania, Australia
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Primula parryi, Aug. 7, 2010, SL Co. Utah, lower elevation but still above 10,000 ft.
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Leucopogon fraseri (prickly beardheath) fruiting near the Poatina Road, Great Lake Conservation Area, Tasmania.
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Cyclamen creticum (Doerfl.) Hildebr.Cretan Sowbread, DE: Kretische AlpenveilchenSlo.: kretika ciklamaDat.: April 26. 2016Lat.: 35.36129 Long.: 23.90723Code: Bot_951/2016_DSC1694Habitat: light mountain cypresses (Cupressus sempervirens) wood, moderately steep mountain slope; north aspect, among grasses; rocky, skeletal ground; in shade; elevation 1.030 m (3.400 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C (estimated ?), Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: At the foot of White Mountains, north of Omalos plateau, next to the road from Omalos to north shore of the island, somewhat lower after the highest point of the road; West Crete, Mediterranean Sea, Greece EU. Comment: Cyclamen creticum is an endemic plant flowering in spring and found only on islands Crete and Cyprus. All species of this genus are very beautiful. There are more than ten different species known in the Mediterranean region. Several are limited to more or less restricted regions. So we know Cretan, Balearic, Persian, Libyan, Cypriot, African and Greek sowbread. Some bloom in spring, some in autumn.Cyclamen creticum is among the most tender one since it is uniformly snow white (or rarely barely noticeable pale pink-violet), rather small and of minimalistic, simple shape. It has no differently shaped and colorful blotches at the base of the corolla lobes as many others have. There were hundreds of them growing at the spot where I stopped and found them.Ref.:(1) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 144.(2) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 170.(3) D. Seidel, Blumen am Mittelmeer, BLV (2002), p 145.(4) V. Papiomytoglou, Wildblumen aus Friechenland, Mediterrane Editions (2006), p 144.
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Boone, North Carolina, United States
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Primula wulfenianaWulfen's primroseSlo.: Wulfeniv jegliDat.: May 18. 2009Lat.: 46.28974 Long.: 14.53845Code: : Bot_341/2009-8145Habitat: Upland grassland, near wood side, sunny place, precipitations 2.000-2.600 mm/year, average temperature 2-4 deg C, elevation 1.540 m (5.050 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Place: NW slopes of Mt. Krie, 1.658 m, above Krika Planina, SE of both ski runs, Kamnik Alps, Gorenjska, Slovenia ECComment: A beautiful narrow endemic limited to southeast limestone Alps. Most stands are in Kamnik Alps and Karavanke Alps in Slovenia.
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Nevada, United States
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Andersonia aristata It is interesting to note in this particular species that the stamens exert (get longer) as the flower ages. Andersonia plants are endemic to the South-West Botanical Province of Western Australia.They are a showy plant and often grow in mass in poor soils.Four more photos in first comment below.
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Fouquieria macdougaliijaboncillo or Mexican ocotillo tree. The English language common name is unsatisfactory because it is shared with other Mexican Fouquieria trees so it is best to use jaboncillo. F. macdougalli is found in Chihuaha. Sinaloa, and Sonora states in Northern Mexico. Like all ocotillos, it is a semisucculent. Photographed at Cactus Jungle, a cactus & succulent retail store in Berkeley, CA.
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Family: EbenaceaeDistribution: Common in scrub jungles.Found in Peninsular India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.Common name: Ooti.Small trees 3-5 mts tall, bark thin smooth black, Leaves elliptic-obovate,emarginate, base cuneate; coriaceous, Flowers 2-3 mm across, white in axillary fascicles, Fruit a berry, subglobose, yellow red on ripening, 2-3 seeded. Fruits are eaten, Wood is of low quality, used to make agricultural instruments.
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Linanthus watsonii (A.Gray) J. M. Porter & L. A. Johnson (syn. Leptodactylon watsonii (Gray) Rydb.). Also referred to as Watson's slenderlobe and Watson's prickly phlox. Moved from Leptodactylon to Linanthus in 2000 by Porter (although the two genera are close).July 25, 2009, Wasatch range, Little Cottonwood Canyon, 8500+ ft, Salt Lake Co., UtahTo some degree superficially resembles Phlox hoodii and like P. hoodii has marcescent leaves (shown above) and both have spine shaped leaves, however, L. watsonii has 6-merous (sometimes 5-merous) flowers (unfortunately not apparent in the picture above) compared to the 5-lobed flowers of P. hoodii and, among other things, has opposite palmately cleft leaves in 3-9 rigid segments that are spinulose and the central one is the longest and are up to 2 cm long whereas P. hoodii has shorter, more singular appearing opposite leaves usu. less than 1 cm long leaves that are not divided into palmate clefts; both can grow over a wide elevational range,L. watsonii normally grows in rock crevices whereas P. hoodii normally grows in dry/open places.
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California, United States