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Names Of Wildflowers
... " because the resin was burned as incense in early Spanish missions. It is perhaps more commonly known as "brittle bush" because of its easily broken branches. The name "calabazilla" or little ... has seed pods (called silicles) that resemble pairs of miniature eye glasses or spectacles. It commonly grows in sandy desert riverbeds and along roadsides of the Colorado Desert. Any discussion of unusual ...
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Palomar Mtn. Lichens
... flexuosa: Crustose lichen with a thin, powdery (granular), greenish thallus and scattered dark apothecia; it commonly grows on dead limbs and tree trunks in the forest. T. granulosa is very similar, but ...
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Fruticose Lichen Photos
... and not a moss. Ramalina leptocarpha. This is a pale yellowish-green fruticose lichen that commonly grows in pendulous tufts on oaks and conifers. It superficially resembles oak moss (Evernia prunastri), ... resemble miniature golf tees. The flowering plant is Jepsonia parryi, a native perennial that grows in shaded slopes among mosses, liverworts and lichens. The generic name commemorates Willis Linn ...
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Azolla and Anaebaena Symbiosis
... often form compact mats on the water surface. Azolla is sometimes called "duckweed fern" and commonly grows with one or more species of duckweeds (Lemnaceae), including Lemna, Spirodela, Wolffia and Wolffiella. When ... up for air because of the dense layer of Azolla on the water surface. Azolla grows very quickly in ponds and buckets, and in makes an excellent fertilizer (green manure) and ...
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Bamboo
... as var. henionis. Running "leptomorph" rhizome of black bamboo (Phyllostachys nigra). This type of rhizome grows horizontally under the soil, sending up aerial culms from buds that develop at intervals along ... houses are made almost entirely of bamboo. In Java, woven bamboo mats and screens are commonly used in timber house frames. With modern polymer glues and bonding cements, bamboos are made ...
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Job's Tears
... bead is produced by a tall, roadside grass (Coix lacryma-jobi) that grows like a weed throughout the Old and New World tropics. An ... many-grained modern corn plant was produced. In the region where teosinte grows wild, the native people call it "madre de maíz" or "mother of ... at one end. In Central America, strings of Job's tears are commonly used for the arms and legs of quaint little seed dolls. ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... of all these Hawaiian endemics is the silver sword (Argyroxiphium sandwicense ssp. macrocephalum) that only grows in the cinders of Haleakala Crater on the island of Maui. The rosettes of ... Australia. In addition, throughout the humid tropics intermediate types have arisen by hybridization with the commonly cultivated niu vai coconuts. Angular, small-seeded coconuts on Ambergris Caye, off the coast ...
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Arboretum Images 6
... Pacific coastal region of the U.S. The Mexican species Arbutus glandulosa cv. 'marina' also grows in the Arboretum. It has a smooth, reddish exfoliating bark similar to the Pacific madrone ... plum (Harpephyllum caffrum). The tart fruits are made into a delicious jelly. This tree is commonly used in landscaping in southern California. More Plants Of The Sumac Family Phytolacca Family (Phytolaccaceae ...
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Plant Fibers
... bamboo, paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) or another species. It is commonly used in calligraphy and ink paintings. In the case of ... the New World (including Central and South America), the kapok grows into an enormous rain forest tree with a massive buttressed ... with its distinctive thorny trunk and showy pink flowers is commonly planted in southern California. Kapok hairs are coated with a ...
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Flowering Plants
... the atmosphere and in the decaying organic matter of ponds and bogs where carnivorous plants commonly grow. However, the primary usable forms of nitrogen for plants are nitrates, produced from ... bears a greenish-yellow nectar gland (C). Chamaesyce polycarpa, a prostrate, native spurge that grows throughout dry chaparral hillsides in southern California. Left: Overall view of plant showing numerous ...
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