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What are the differences between Japanese anemone and aster? We'll explain how to distinguish between similar species! Were you mostly misidentifying Japanese anemones?

Japanese anemone (Anemone hupehensis), Taiwanese anemone, and button-leaved.

2023.09.10

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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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #102] What are the species of the Zingiberaceae family? Photo list

The family Zingiberaceae is a perennial herb. It has a thickened rhizome, and the stem is enclosed in a leaf sheath. The leaf blade is linear to oblong, with a ligule between the leaf blade and the leaf sheath. The inflorescence is raceme or spike-like with bracts. The flowers are bisexual and bilaterally symmetrical. The outer perianth is tubular, the inner perianth is 3-lobed, and the base is...

2022.09.29

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #037] What are the species of the Lumpriaceae family? Photo list

The family Hernandiaceae consists of evergreen trees, shrubs, or vines. It comprises 5 genera and approximately 58 known species. They are distributed throughout tropical regions worldwide, with some species widely found in coastal areas, even at depths exceeding 2000 meters above sea level.

2022.07.28

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #024] What are the species of the Saururaceae family? Photo list

The Saururaceae family consists of perennial herbs with a generally pungent odor. Their leaves are simple and have stipules. The flowers are small, borne in dense spikes, and lack a perianth. The fruit is a capsule or berry, and the seeds are spherical with a high endosperm content. There are 4 genera and 6 species found in North America and Asia...

2022.07.26

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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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