Securidaca rivinifolia A.St.-Hil. & Moq.POLYGALACEAELocal: Parque Nacional da Serra do Cip, Minas Gerais, Brasil.Ref.: Pastore, J.FB. Polygalaceae Hoffmannsegg & Link no Distrito Federal, Brasil. UnB, 2006.
close up image of Polygala senega SENECA SNAKEROOT at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - showing several individual flowers in bloom, along with flower buds above; several anthers and stigma are visibleThis species is featured in the soon-to-be-published book, Elusive Splendor: Wildflowers of the Tall Grass Prairie. Contact frank@black-sweater-art.com for more information.
2012-05-01 Lower Austria, district NeunkirchenGerman name: Buchs-KreuzblumeTheir flowers come in two colours: upper petals either are a very pale yellow or a deep purple, while the lower ones always have an egg yolk yellow. Usually, plants of the same species flower in different colours for a reason - in most cases they don't offer much pollen and hardly any (or no) nectar, and the diversity of colours is to make it more difficult for insects to avoid flowers with few nectar, but this is not the case here, as far as I know.On some places Polygala chamaebuxus flowers are only of one kind (either pale yellowish or dark purplish), but on other ones you can see both, like here on this place.Posted in EOL contest 080.
Bukit Tagar, Selangor, Malaysia.Xanthophyllum Roxb. sp. Polygalaceae, also placed in Xanthophyllaceae. CN: [Malay - Minyak berok (generically referring to almost a dozen Xanthophyllum spp. found in Malaysia. There are specific vernacular name to each species). Small to big trees up to 46 m tall, 3.7 m girth. Occurs in inland primary forest from lowland to mountain of 1500 m altitude, fairly common as understorey and main storey trees but seldom gregarious. Ref:www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?12938info.frim.gov.my/cfdocs/infocenter/booksonline/ttb/TTBno4...ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokok_Minyak_BerokKamus Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia