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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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07.1353 Holly-leaved holly (Ixea tetragona) upper surface

[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 #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 #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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[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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07.1315 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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