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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #129] What are the species of the family Trochodendronaceae? Photo List

The family Trochodendraceae is an evergreen small tree. Its leaves are alternate, simple, and lack stipules. The flowers are borne in short terminal racemes, with long pedicels, and are small, bisexual, and lack a perianth. There are numerous stamens and 5-10 carpels arranged in a single whorl, with the lower parts fused together...

2022.11.27

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #128] What are the species of the Proteaceae family? Photo list

The Proteaceae family consists entirely of evergreen plants, mostly woody, with some herbaceous. The flowers are bisexual, with a tubular perianth (without distinction between sepals and petals) that is four-lobed at the tip, each bearing a single stamen. The pistil is single, with a superior ovary, and develops into fruits such as nuts. The inflorescence is a raceme or spike...

2022.11.22

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07.1319 Upper surface of a leaf of a London plane tree.

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #127] What are the species of the Platanaceae family? Photo list

The Platanaceae family consists of deciduous trees. They have a disjunct distribution in temperate regions of North America, southeastern Europe, Turkey, and near Vietnam (only one species). Some species are cultivated worldwide as street trees and park trees. The leaves are alternate. The flowers are unisexual, small, and wind-pollinated...

2022.11.22

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #126] What are the different types of Nelumbonaceae? Photo List

The Nelumbonaceae family are perennial aquatic plants. It includes the genus Nelumbo, and is the only extant family to include the North American native *Nelumbo lutea* and the widely distributed Asian *Nelumbo nucifera*. There are four fossil species...

2022.11.22

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07.1315 Mountain loquat (Loquat japonica) upper surface of the leaf

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #125] What are the species of the Melia family? Photo list

The family Sabiaceae consists of trees, shrubs, and sometimes climbing woody plants. Leaves are alternate, simple or pinnately compound, and lack stipules. They produce cymes or racemes, sometimes panicles. Flowers are usually bisexual, sometimes unisexual, and bilaterally symmetrical. Sepals are 2-5, sometimes fused at the base, and arranged in a tile-like pattern. Petals are 4...

2022.11.21

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #124] What are the species of the Ranunculaceae family? Photo list

The Ranunculaceae family mostly consists of perennial herbs, but some are annuals or biennials, and occasionally shrubs. Leaves can be alternate or opposite, and leaf shape varies considerably. Flowers are radially or bilaterally symmetrical, and many have sepals that resemble petals. Some petals are missing...

2022.11.18

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07.1174.a Narihirahiiragi Nandina (flower)

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #123] What are the species of the Berberidaceae family? Photo list

Berberidaceae are perennial herbs or shrubs. Their leaves are alternate and can be simple or compound. The sepals are arranged in groups of three in 3-4 whorls, or two in 4 whorls; the outer 1-2 whorls are smaller and fall off quickly during flowering, while the inner 2 whorls are larger and petal-like. The petals are 2 or...

2022.11.02

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #122] What are the species of the Menispermaceae family? Photo list

The family Menispermaceae consists of evergreen or deciduous climbing woody plants, and rarely, erect shrubs. The leaves are alternate, simple, and palmately venate. Stipules are absent. Inflorescences are mostly axillary. They are usually dioecious. The fruit is a drupe. They are common in tropical regions and comprise 71 genera and approximately 4...

2022.10.31

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #121] What are the species of the Akebia family? Photo list

The Lardizabalaceae family consists mainly of climbing woody plants, with shrubs being rare. The leaves are trifoliate or palmately compound with five leaflets. The flowers are unisexual, monoecious, and borne in racemes, radially symmetrical and trimeral. The sepals are petal-like. The fruit is an ellipsoidal berry with a fleshy pericarp. (Eastern Asia...).

2022.10.31

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #119] What are the species of the poppy family? Photo list

The Papaveraceae family consists of herbaceous plants whose stems and leaves are often covered in a powdery white substance. Breaking the stem releases a milky white or orange-yellow sap. The leaves are alternate, pinnately lobed or pinnately compound, sometimes simple, and lack stipules. The flowers are bisexual, radially symmetrical, or bilaterally symmetrical. The sepals are 2-4 in number and separate...

2022.10.28

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