Cotoneaster species

     041011-MS – 48- Rosaceae week -Cotton Easter from California: Attaching the photographs of Cotton aster.   Place :  Berkley Campus, California.  Date 19.9.2009.  ID confirmation needed.     Rosaceae Week: Cotoneaster for ID 041011 NS 1 ,from Cardiff, Wales:  This beautiful, wild shrub, with eye-catching fruits was photographed at Cardiff, Wales, in Aug 2010.I […]

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Calamus species

Calamus species;          FRUITS OF CALAMUS SP:   I am sure you all are familiar with cane furniture, but you may not be aware of the fact that Calamus bears small fruits also. I saw a beautiful art work made wtth the fruits of this plant. This is the time of Durga Puja […]

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Rosa rugosa (USA & UK)

Rosa rugosa Thunb., Syst. Veg. (ed. 14) 473 473 1784. (Syn: Rosa andreae Lange; Rosa cinnamomea Ledeb. (ambiguous synonym); Rosa coruscans Waitz ex Link; Rosa fastuosa Hort. ex K. Koch; Rosa ferox Ait. (ambiguous synonym); Rosa ferox Lawrance (ambiguous synonym); Rosa kamtchatica Vent.; Rosa kamtchatica var. ferox Van Geel; Rosa kamtchatica var. nitens Lindl.; Rosa […]

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Sarracenia psittacina (Introduced- Australia) ?

Sarracenia psittacina Michx., Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 311 1803. (syn: Sarracenia calceolata Nutt.; Sarracenia psittacina f. luteoviridis S. Mc Pherson & D. E. Schnell; Sarracenia psittacina var. okefenokeensis S. Mc Pherson & D. E. Schnell; Sarracenia psittacina f. viridescens S. Mc Pherson & D. E. Schnell; Sarracenia pulchella Croom);  native range is SE. U.S.A. as per POWO; […]

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Cotoneaster coriaceus (Introduced- USA)

Cotoneaster coriaceus Franch., Pl. delavay. 222. 1890 “coriacea“. (Syn: Pyrus coriacea (Franch.) M. F. Fay & Christenh.); China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, New Guinea (I), USA (I) (California (I), Oregon (I), Washington State (I)), Spain (I), Bolivia (c), Chatham Isl. (I) as per Catalogue of Life;   Cotoneaster lacteus (late cotoneaster) is a species of […]

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Coreopsis auriculata (Cultivated)

Coreopsis auriculata L., Sp. Pl. 908 1753. (Syn: Coreopsis diversifolia DC. [Illegitimate]; Cymbaecarpa auriculata (L.) Cav.);   Perennial ornamental herb with ovate to lanceolate leaves often with basal lobes; heads 4-5 cm across, with yellow ray florets, often spotted; disc yellow; achenes with wings; involucre bracts 2-seriate, inner often connate at base.       Flora […]

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Silene conoidea

Silene conoidea L., Sp. Pl. 418 1753. (Syn: Conosilene conica subsp. conoidea (L.) Á.Löve & Kjellq.; Conosilene conoidea Fourr.; Cucubalus conoideus Lam.);   Cone Campion, Large Sand Catchfly, Cone catchfly, Weed campion, Weed silene;  Images by Chitra Shanker (Id by D S Rawat), Nidhan Singh & Prashant Awale (Id by Gurcharan Singh) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For […]

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Dendrobium speciosum

Dendrobium speciosum Sm., Exot. Bot. 1: 17 1804. (Syn: Callista speciosa (Sm.) Kuntze; Dendrobium speciosum var. fusiforme F.M.Bailey; Dendrocoryne speciosa var. fusiforme (F.M.Bailey) Brieger; Dendrocoryne speciosum (Sm.) Brieger; Thelychiton speciosus (Sm.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones; Tropilis speciosa (Sm.) Butzin);     flora-Australia-47:  Dendrobium speciosum from Mount Annan Botanical Park   SK942 11 JAN-2018 : 7 posts by 3 […]

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Gunnera tinctoria (America)

Gunnera tinctoria (Molina) Mirb., Hist. Nat. Pl. ed. 2, 10: 141 1805. (Syn: Gunnera chilensis Lam.; Gunnera chilensis var. meyeri L.E.Moro; Gunnera chilensis var. valdiviensis L.E.Moro; Gunnera scabra Ruiz & Pav. [Illegitimate]; Panke acaulis Molina; Panke caulescens J.F.Gmel.; Panke tinctoria Molina; Pankea chilensis (Lam.) Oerst.);        CHILEAN RHUBARB Gunnera tinctoria:  Now each one is […]

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Arnebia guttata

Arnebia guttata Bunge, Index Seminum (TU) 1840: 7 1840. (Syn: Arnebia guttata var. thomsonii (C.B.Clarke) Kazmi; Arnebia thomsonii C.B.Clarke; Arnebia tibetana Kurz; Lithospermum guttatum (Bunge) I.M. Johnst.; Macrotomia guttata (Bunge) Farrer); Images by Prashant Awale 1, 2,  Inserted by Gurcharan Singh (Please click to see details and more images).   Arnebia guttata:  Seen this herb this […]

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Dianella caerulea (Australia)

Dianella caerulea Sims, Bot. Mag. 14: t. 505 1801. (Syn: Dianella angustifolia Schult. & Schult.f.; Dianella caerulea var. elegans (Kunth & C.D.Bouché) Schlittler; Dianella caerulea var. laevigata Schlittler; Dianella caerulea f. nutans Schlittler; Dianella coerulea Willd. [Spelling variant]; Dianella elegans Kunth & C.D.Bouché; Dianella laevis var. aspera Benth.; Dianella paniculata Kunth); S. New Guinea to […]

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Cypripedium species

Cypripedium species;   THE LADY SLIPPER ORCHIDS:  There are more than one genus in the Lady Slipper Orchids. They are called so because of the structure of the lip or labellum which looks like slippers. They all belong exclusively to the subfamily Cypripidoideae of family Orchidaceae. Cypripedium Mexipedium Paphiopedilum Phragmipedium Selenipedium Of these only two genus […]

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Impatiens walleriana (Cultivated)

Impatiens walleriana Hook.f., Fl. Trop. Afr. 1: 302 1868. (Syn: Impatiens episcopi H.J.Veitch (Unresolved); Impatiens giorgii De Wild.; Impatiens holstii Engl. & Warb.; Impatiens lujai De Wild.; Impatiens sultani Hook.f.);  im-PAY-shuns — impatient; referring to the seed pod’s habit of bursting open … Dave’s Botanarywall-er-ee-AH-nuh — named for Horace Waller, missionary in central Africa … Dave’s […]

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Eulophia andamanensis

    (Images by Prabhu Kumar M & Dr. Pankaj Kumar Inserted By Sushant More) Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f., Flora 55: 276 1872. (Syn: Cyrtopera andamanensis (Rchb.f.) Rolfe; Eulophia keithii Ridl.; Eulophia poilanei Gagnep.; Graphorkis andamanensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze);           ORCHIDACEAE: Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f.: Eulophia andamanensis Rchb.f., Flora 55: 276 (1872). Synonyms: Graphorkis […]

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Oenothera speciosa (USA)

Oenothera speciosa Nutt., J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 2: 119 1821. (Syn: Hartmannia speciosa (Nutt.) Small; Oenothera delessertiana Steud.; Oenothera obtusifolia D. Dietr.; Oenothera spachii D. Dietr.; Oenothera speciosa var. childsii (L.H. Bailey) Munz; Oenothera webbiana Steud.; Xylopleurum drummondii Spach; Xylopleurum nuttallii Spach; Xylopleurum obtusifolium Spach; Xylopleurum speciosum Raimann);          USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, […]

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