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Gardening with Verbascums, Alaskan Style
... ever wanted to touch a plant that feels like pure new wool? if the answer to one or more of these questions is ... so many verbascum are renowned for thier spikes that look like downy wool. The Digging Dog nursery in Mendocino, Calfornia explains that mulleins also ... of bright yellow flowers.” Yes, the flower spike are covered in downy wool. When in flower verbascum bombyciferum is like a scene from a ...
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Wallace W Hansen Native Plant Nursery and Gardens Perennial Section of Northwest Native Plant Catalog
... , it is a beautiful wildflower that attracts butterflies. The foliage is distinct, with its soft, downy wool on the stems and undersides of the leaves. The stems are 8-24" and end ... so well established in the Northwest that I carry this plant. The whorled leaves are downy soft. The many pinkish-purple or creamy flowers descend from the tall 3-4" stalk ...
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CalFlora Common Name Index D
... Umbel Downy Monkey-flower dye popcorn flower depauperate milkvetch desert unicorn-plant downy pincushionplant dye popcornflower Depauperate Rockcress Desert violet downy popcorn flower dyebush depressed fiddleleaf desert wheatgrass Downy- ... big-pod ceanothus desert almond desert winged rockcress drooping bulrush desert alyssum Desert Wool Star Drooping Wood-Reed desert apricot desert woollystar ...
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John Merle Coulter
... things in Anhalonium would be obtained. * Upper surface of tubercle with a broad and deep wool-bearing longitudinal groove which widens below. 1. Anhalonium engelmanni Lem. Cact 42 (1839) Mamillaria ... at the summit of nascent tubercles: ovary naked (that is free from scales, but often downy): fruit and seed unknown. These forms have been variously referred to Anhalonium and Echinocactus, but ...
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What's in a (Botanical) Name?
... e-r�] furcata, furcatum, furcatus cleft (L.) [f�r-KAI-t�s] furfuracea, furfuraceum, furfuraceus mealy/downy (L.) [fur-fyoo-RAI-see-�] fusca, fuscum, fuscus brown (L.) [FYOOS-k�m] fuscata, fuscatum ... �m] lanuginosa, lanuginosum, lanuginosus hairy/downy (L.) [la-noo�-ji-NO-s�m] lanigera, lanigerum, lanigerus hairy/downy (L.) [la-NIJ-e-r�] lasiantha, lasianthum, lasianthus wool + flower (L.) [lai-zee- ...
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The Succulent Plant Page: Glossary of Botanical Terms
... wool and bristles on a mature flowering stem which continues growth. See also cephalium. Pteridophyte - the general name for the ferns and related genera. Pubescent - covered with short, soft downy ... glochids, hirsute, lanate, lasiacantha, penicillate, pubispina, scabrous, villous, woolly Pubispina - with downy spines. See also: barbate, canescence, ciliate, cephalium, felt, glochids, hirsute, ...
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Orchid Disease : Sooty Mold
... map home the greenhouse orchid growthpests, diseases & potting orchid lingo DISEASE: SOOTY MOLD SYMPTOMS: Black, downy mold found on leaves, which reduces the amount of light and vigour. Of ten caused ... deposits left by greenfly and scale insects. TREATMENT: Wipe the leaves and stalks with cotton wool soaked in a 50 : 50 solution of water and methylated spirits. Member of the American ...
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