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unusual facts about flowering plants



Rhododendron crassifolium

Rhododendron crassifolium is a species of tropical rhododendron, a perennial flowering plant belonging to the Ericaceae family.


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Beach pea

Galactia, a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae

Beeplant

Cleome - a genus of flowering plants also known as spiderplants or spiderflowers.

Bladderpod

Physaria, a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae

Paysonia, a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae

Bombus erzurumensis

It collects nectar and pollen from flowering plants as, for example, Cephalaria sp.

Bombus flavifrons

The bumblebee feeds on several flowering plants, most commonly those in Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Saxifragaceae, and Lamiaceae.

Braconidae

It underwent extensive diversification from mid or late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic, correlating with the radiation of flowering plants and associated herbivores, the main hosts of braconids.

Calla Lily

Zantedeschia, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa

Callistemon citrinus

Callistemon citrinus had become established in cultivation in England by 1794 when flowering plants that were more than five years old had been observed at both Kew Gardens and Syon House and younger plants had become available in nurseries.

Cerato

Ceratostigma, is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae

Edwin Percy Phillips

Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 Sea Point, Cape Town - 12 April 1967 Cape Town), was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.

Eomecon

Eomecon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the poppy family containing the single species Eomecon chionantha.

Extreme points of Antarctica

While animal life such as penguins and seals are found all around the Antarctic coastline, the continent's only flowering plants are found on the northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula (see Antarctic flora).

Fat Hen

Hen and chicks, common name for a group of small succulent flowering plants native to Europe and northern Africa

Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve

Spring-flowering plants that occur on the site include the bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), common primrose (Primula vulgaris), lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), ramsons (Allium ursinum) and wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).

Flora Zambesiaca

Flora Zambesiaca is an ongoing botanical project aimed at achieving a full account of the flowering plants and ferns of the Zambezi River basin covering Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi Strip, and is published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Franz Xaver von Wulfen

He is credited with discovering the flowering plants Wulfenia carinthiaca, Saxifraga moschata, and Stellaria bulbosa.

Georgia Southern Botanical Garden

The garden has a large number of flowering plants including camellias, azaleas, flowering quince, roses, magnolia trees, redbud trees, and others.

Geosiris

Arthur Cronquist, An Integrated Systems of Classification of Flowering Plants (Columbia University Press, 1981) p.1236

Gladiola

Gladiolus, a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae), sometimes called the sword lily or gladiola

Hanabusaya

Hanabusaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Campanulaceae, the bellflowers, containing the single species Hanabusaya asiatica.

HMS Nettle

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nettle, after the stinging nettle, a species of flowering plants.

Houstonia

Houstonia (genus) is a genus of flowering plants, belonging to the madder family (Rubiaceae)

John Muirhead Macfarlane

He also wrote many other works including The evolution and distribution of flowering plants (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae), The evolution and distribution of fishes, Fishes the source of petroleum, and The quantity and sources of our petroleum supplies.

Jumping plant louse

The explosive diversification of the flowering plants in the Cretaceous was paralleled by a massive diversification of associated insects, and many of the morphological and metabolic characters that the flowering plants exhibit may have evolved as defenses against herbivorous insects.

Làrach Mòr

He created shelter through plantings of Western Hemlock, bamboo and hornbeam, and established other flowering plants such as Embothrium, Gevuina, Weinmannia, Lomatia, Cunninghamia and Magnolia.

Leadwood

Ceratostigma, a genus of flowering plants native to Africa and Asia

Leopard's bane

Aconitum, also known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet or blue rocket, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the buttercup family

Lesser Grey Shrike

It is built by both birds out of the stems of various flowering plants such as cudweed (Gnaphalium) and (Filago), and thyme (Thymus), and lined with whisps of wool, hairs, roots and feathers.

Marguerite

Argyranthemum, a genus of daisy-like flowering plants widely sold for garden use

Mountain ash

Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants and other floral species

Nani Mau Gardens

Today the gardens claim to contain more than 2,000 plant varieties, with approximately 225 types of flowering plants, including 100 species of fruit trees; and over 2,300 orchids, said to be one of the world's largest collections of Paphiopedilum, Phalaenopsis, Epiphytes, Oncidium, and Cattleya orchids.

Olearius

Olearia, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae

Palafox

Palafoxia, a genus of flowering plants from the sunflower family

Pechuel-loeschea

Pechuel-loeschea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, and named after the German plant collector and geographer Eduard Pechuël-Loesche.

Pityopus

Pityopus is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the heath family containing the single species Pityopus californica, which is known by the common name pinefoot.

Plant reproductive morphology

Amborella represents the first known group of flowering plants to separate from their common ancestor.

Qavam House

The mirrored porch was a focal point of the house, overlooking the Eram Garden that was designed with fountains, date palms, and flowering plants.

Shaggy pea

Oxylobium, a genus of flowering plants native to Australia

Podolobium, a genus of flowering plants native to eastern Australia

Trautvetteria

Trautvetteria is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family.

Wireweed

Polygonella, a genus of flowering plants in the knotweed and smartweed family, Polygonaceae.

Amphibolis, a genus of marine flowering plants in the family Cymodoceaceae