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- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...male fls. exserted: fr. the size of a pea, 4-lobed, fleshy, gland-dotted. Mauritius, Mozambique, Cape.—Intro. by Reasoner Bros., 1891.3 KB (486 words) - 17:22, 22 August 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...petals obliquely obovate-rotundate, white, rose-veined, margins blood-red. Mauritius. B.M. 7209. G.C. III. 36:112.3 KB (479 words) - 00:33, 14 September 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...of Mauritius). Leguminosae. Showy - flowered tropical tree, a worthy rival of the royal poinciana, which is closely allied, but easily distinguished, esp4 KB (622 words) - 04:18, 6 August 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...h; segms. lanceolate, 4—5 in. long; filaments half length of Begins., red. Mauritius, Seychelles. B.M. 2397. B.R. 679. — Warmhouse; effective.3 KB (484 words) - 17:39, 10 August 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...h by the staminodia; ovary densely tomentose, and styles free at top only. Mauritius and Bourbon. B.M. 2905 (form with entire lvs.).3 KB (493 words) - 14:13, 13 September 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...any ovules: caps. loculicidally 5-valved.—About 6 or 7 species, natives of Mauritius, St. Helena, and Mascarene Isls.4 KB (490 words) - 00:32, 14 September 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...d: perianth large, 2 in. long, white, tinged with red; filaments filiform. Mauritius. L.B.C. 3:289.3 KB (480 words) - 11:22, 15 September 2009
- '''''Ochrosia''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]] in the [[Asclepias|milkweed]] family, [[Apocynaceae]]. ...rolla salver- form, the tube cylindrical and dilated at point of insertion of stamens, the throat constricted and glabrous; disk small or wanting: carpel4 KB (557 words) - 20:00, 22 February 2010
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...broad, lightly red-tinged at center; stamens a little shorter than segms. Mauritius and Seychelles. B.M. 2466.—Autumn; greenhouse.4 KB (516 words) - 17:47, 10 August 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...lue aloe, extensively planted and more or less established in Amoy, India, Mauritius and Peru, and, as A. mexicana, in Italy. It has been hybridized with A. sis4 KB (530 words) - 05:48, 2 May 2010
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...ies, mostly natives of Trop. S. Amer., some species also in India, Malaya, Mauritius, Madagascar, W. Indies, and Mex. P. serratum, Engl. (Bursera serrata, Wall.4 KB (559 words) - 10:03, 20 September 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...nut" in Cape Colony. P. comosa, Sweet. A large climber with great panicles of blood-red fls.: fr. short-stalked, notched at both ends. Trop. Afr. B.R. 114 KB (565 words) - 15:09, 16 September 2009
- ...hys (Greek, shovel or hoe, and spike). Orchidaceae. Orchids with the habit of Angraecum. ...many-flowered; sepals and petals alike, spreading; lip adnate to the foot of the column, with a long thin or reflexed spur; column bent back against the4 KB (544 words) - 00:37, 16 April 2010
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...2 in. across, flattened-orbicular, edible.—A striking plant with the habit of Zantedeschia, growing in deep water.4 KB (555 words) - 19:36, 28 September 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...inate.—About 27 species, Trop. Amer.; one species also occurs in India and Mauritius. Two species have been cult. occasionally. T. coronopifolia, Hemsl. About 14 KB (547 words) - 09:08, 8 September 2009
- | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...erranean hemp, Mauritius hemp, taretra, green aloe, or pita, intro. by way of Madagascar and hence called Malgache aloe. Varies with moderate toothing, V4 KB (574 words) - 10:37, 24 August 2009
- ...(Latin, year's harvest, suggested by the Haitian name anon applied to one of the species. Commonly spelled Anona, but Linnaeus used the double n). Annon ...., but a few from Afr., and several now widely cult. in the warmer regions of both hemispheres.10 KB (1,635 words) - 13:57, 14 January 2010
- ...species of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[subfamily]] [[Caesalpinioideae]] of the large [[flowering plant]] family [[Fabaceae]], with a [[pantropical]] d Bauhinia trees typically reach a height of 6-12 m and their branches spread 3-6 m outwards. The lobed leaves usually a9 KB (1,407 words) - 18:54, 1 March 2010
- ...[Hymenasplenium]]'' separate, based on [[molecular phylogenetic]] analysis of [[DNA sequence]]s. The [[type species]] for the genus is ''[[Asplenium mari ...[[hybrid (biology)|hybrid]]s with other ''Asplenium'' species and because of this are usually included in a more broadly defined ''Asplenium''.17 KB (2,378 words) - 23:25, 28 January 2010
- ...illa''''', the '''vanilla orchids''', form a [[flowering plant]] [[genus]] of about 110 [[species]] in the orchid [[family (biology)|family]] ([[Orchidac ...ame from the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] word "vainilla", diminutive form of "vaina" (meaning "[[sheath]]"), which is in turn derived from [[Latin]] "[[9 KB (1,449 words) - 17:33, 21 October 2009