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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #143] What are the species of the Crassulaceae family? Photo list

The Crassulaceae family consists entirely of succulent herbs or shrubs, often with enlarged rhizomes or roots. The leaves are simple. The flowers are radially symmetrical, mostly hermaphroditic, but some genera are unisexual, monoecious, or dioecious. The calyx is somewhat fleshy, green (sometimes reddish)...

2022.12.13

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #142] What are the species of the Saxifragaceae family? Photo list

The family Saxifragaceae consists of herbaceous plants. Leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or compound. Most are deciduous, but some are evergreen. Stipules are present or absent. Inflorescences are cymose, sometimes racemes or panicles. Flowers are bisexual, dioecious, or dioecious, and radially symmetrical...

2022.12.10

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #141] What are the species of the Grossulaceae family? Photo list

The family Grossulariaceae was previously classified under the Saxifragaceae family, but has been separated into the order Saxifragales. It consists of a single genus, Ribes, with approximately 150 species distributed in the temperate and subarctic regions of Eurasia, South America, and Northeast Africa. This article will discuss...

2022.12.09

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #140] What are the species of the family Ilex crenata? Photo list

The family Iteaceae consists of evergreen to semi-evergreen (or deciduous) shrubs (or subshrubs, trees, or vines) (Flora of North America). The leaves are alternate, simple, spiny, petiolate, and the leaf blade margins are not lobed, but glandular and serrated (or entirely)...

2022.12.08

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #139] What are the species of the Daphniphyllaceae family? Photo list

The family Daphniphyllaceae consists of evergreen trees or shrubs. The leaves are densely arranged alternately at the tips of branches, narrowly oblong, and entire. The flowers are unisexual and dioecious, growing in axillary racemes. There are no petals, and the calyx has 3-6 sepals. There are 6-12 stamens. Because it has 2 carpels instead of 3, it is not related to Euphorbia...

2022.12.08

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #138] What are the species of the Katsura family? Photo list

The family Cercidiphyllaceae consists of deciduous trees. The leaves are simple and opposite. The flowers are small, lacking a perianth, and the family is dioecious (having separate male and female plants). Male flowers have very short stalks and are accompanied by four bracteoles, which are membranous and quickly deciduous. There are numerous stamens. Female flowers have somewhat elongated stalks, and the fruit is a follicle with a stalk...

2022.12.08

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #137] What are the species of Hamamelidaceae? Photo List

The Hamamelidaceae family consists of deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs, often covered in stellate hairs. Leaves are alternate, simple or palmate, and petiolate. They have deciduous stipules. Flowers are bisexual or unisexual, radially symmetrical, rarely bilaterally symmetrical, axillary, capitate, or conchoidal...

2022.12.07

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #136] What are the species of the Alingandsiaceae family? Photo list

The family Altingiaceae consists of trees. They are wind-pollinated (Ickert-Bond et al., 2007). They are native to Central America, Mexico, eastern North America, the eastern Mediterranean, China, and tropical Asia. They are often cultivated for ornamental purposes, and many produce valuable timber...

2022.12.04

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #135] What are the species of the Paeoniaceae family? Photo list

The family Paeoniaceae consists of perennial herbs or small shrubs. The leaves are alternate or basal, large, trifoliate, or somewhat pinnately compound, and lack stipules. The flowers are large, with 3-5 bluish-green sepals and petal-like petals without nectaries. Stamens are numerous. There is only one genus, Paeoniaceae, found in the Northern Hemisphere...

2022.11.30

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #130] What are the species of the Buxaceae family? Photo list

The Buxaceae family consists of shrubs or trees. The flowers are unisexual and monoecious. There are no petals, and the calyx has 4 to 12 lobes. There are 4 stamens opposite the calyx. The ovary has 3 superior chambers, rarely 2 or 4. The fruit is a capsule or drupe. There are approximately 100 species in 5 genera worldwide, with 2 genera and 3 species distributed in Japan. This article...

2022.11.29

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