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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 #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 #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 #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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[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 #074] What are the types of orchids? Photo list

Orchids (Orchidaceae) are terrestrial, epiphytic, lithophytic, mycoheterotrophic perennial herbs. Stems are monopodial (single-stemmed) or sympodial (compound-stemmed) with long stems, or they have rhizomes or enlarged pseudobulbs. Leaves are mostly flattened, with a tubular sheath at the base, sometimes reduced to scales. Flowers are...

2022.08.03

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #072] What are the species of the Smilax family? Photo list

The family Smilacaceae, also known as the Smilax family, is a perennial herb or subshrub, mostly climbing plants. They typically have short rhizomes. Leaves are alternate, with tendrils on the petioles. Inflorescences are usually umbels. Perianth segments are usually free, with three of each being identical in shape and texture to the outer and inner segments. The ovary is...

2022.08.02

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