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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #069] What are the species of Colchicaceae? Photo List

Colchicaceae are perennial herbs. They have corms or rhizomes. Leaves are alternate, opposite, or whorled, sometimes clustered at the base of the stem. Flowers are solitary or borne in racemes or cymes, exhibiting considerable diversity. They usually bear bisexual flowers. Perianth segments are separate or fused, with 6...

2022.08.01

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07.0218 Water chestnut (Arrowhead) upper surface of the leaf

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #043] What are the species of the Alismataceae family? Photo list

The Alismataceae family consists of submerged or wetland herbs. All leaves are basal, with parallel and reticulate venation. Flowers are bisexual or unisexual. Inflorescences are racemes or panicles, with three flowers or branches arranged in whorls at each node. The sepals and petals are three in number and white; the calyx is persistent...

2022.07.30

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #021] What are the species of the Chloranthaceae family? Photo list

The Chloranthaceae family consists of herbs or shrubs. The leaves are opposite, simple, serrated, and have stipules at the base of the petiole. The inflorescence is spike-like, terminal or axillary. Flowers are unisexual or bisexual, with bisexual flowers lacking a perianth. There are one or three stamens. In bisexual flowers, the stamens...

2022.07.26

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07.0040 Hinoki cypress leaf upper surface

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #011] What are the species of the cypress family? Photo list

The Cupressaceae family consists of evergreen, rarely deciduous, trees or shrubs. Leaves are scale-like, needle-like, or linear, arranged alternately, oppositely, or whorled. Flowers are unisexual, monoecious, rarely dioecious. Male flowers are borne at the tips of branches. Female flowers are also often borne at the branch tips and have scale-like structures arranged oppositely or whorled...

2022.07.25

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #003] What are the species of the Ginkgo family? Photo list

The Ginkgoaceae family consists of deciduous trees. The leaves are flattened and spread out, with veins repeatedly branching dichotomously from the base of the petiole, becoming parallel veins that reach the upper leaf margin. They are dioecious; male flowers bear numerous anthers on a slender stalk. Female flowers typically have two ovules facing upwards at the end of the pedicel. Fertilization occurs...

2022.07.14

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