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  • ...cuminate. Common in S. W. Texas; winter-kills in N. Texas at a temperature of zero. S.S. 2:73. F.S. 10:1059. Gn. 19, p. 309. H.F. II. 7:231.—Intro. int ...northeastern [[Mexico]] and adjacent western [[Texas]] and southern [[New Mexico]] in the [[USA]]. It is the only species in the genus ''Ungnadia''.
    2 KB (216 words) - 05:37, 30 September 2009
  • ...k diameter. The [[leaf|leaves]] are 10-30 cm long, pinnate, with 3-6 pairs of leaflets, the terminal leaflet absent; each leaflet is 5-15 cm long. The le ...Trees, sometimes grown in the warmhouse, one of them yielding the mahogany of commerce: lvs. even-pinnate, very glabrous; lfts. opposite, petioled, obliq
    3 KB (413 words) - 19:08, 22 June 2010
  • | image_caption = Mature fruit (beans or legumes) of ''[[Screwbean Mesquite|Prosopis pubescens]]'' ...ited States ([[Texas]], [[Arizona]], [[New Mexico]], [[California]]) and [[Mexico]]. It has light brown bark, usually short, straight spines (1-3 cm), twice-
    3 KB (487 words) - 09:18, 20 September 2009
  • '''''Fouquieria''''' is a [[genus]] of 11 [[species]] of [[desert]] [[plant]]s, the sole genus in the [[Family (biology)|family]] '' ...states of [[Arizona]], southern [[California]], [[New Mexico]], and parts of southwestern [[Texas]], favoring low, arid hillsides.
    4 KB (533 words) - 17:06, 3 August 2010
  • ...he screw bean, two forage plants of considerable value in the arid regions of southern California and the Southwest. ...eous and indehiscent. — About 25 species, tropical and subtropical regions of the world.
    4 KB (572 words) - 09:13, 20 September 2009
  • .... Hernandiaceae, formerly included in Lauraceae. Jack-in-a-box. Ornamental trees, grown chiefly for their large handsome foliage. ...the center, and large, whitish, egg-shaped fruits. Propagation by cuttings of half-ripened wood under glass, which root easily with bottom heat.
    3 KB (408 words) - 14:15, 17 November 2009
  • ...on the shoot, but with the leaf bases twisted to be arranged to the sides of and above the shoot, with few or none below the shoot{{wp}}. The [[conifer ...lpine Fir''' ''Abies lasiocarpa'' in the narrow sense, is the typical form of the species, occurring in the [[Pacific Coast Ranges]], the [[Olympic Mount
    6 KB (858 words) - 17:15, 27 June 2010
  • | origin = <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous -->
    4 KB (638 words) - 03:57, 26 August 2009
  • | origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous -->
    3 KB (482 words) - 07:18, 5 August 2009
  • ...[[North America]] from the extreme south of [[Canada]] south to eastern [[Mexico]]; the others to east and south [[Asia]] from [[China]] south to [[Malaysia ..., formerly included in Cornaceae. Tupelo. Pepperidge. Sour Gum. Ornamental trees planted chiefly for their handsome foliage and brilliant autumnal tints.
    4 KB (630 words) - 19:21, 22 February 2010
  • ...ogle.com/books?id=to4rytwGiiwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+new+encyclopedia+of+orchids&lr= |accessdate=June 21 2009}}</ref>. ...thick woods, Jamaica, Trinidad, Brazil, etc. I. major, Cham. & Schlecht., of Mex., is taller, fls. larger and darker colored.
    2 KB (255 words) - 22:48, 31 March 2010
  • ...ntal 'trees with handsome dense foliage, often planted as shade and street trees. ...s, pistillate with 3-8 pistils with elongated styles: fr.-heads consisting of numerous narrowly obconical, 1-seeded nutlets surrounded at the base by lon
    11 KB (1,655 words) - 12:22, 16 September 2009
  • | origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous -->
    4 KB (539 words) - 13:38, 16 September 2009
  • | origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous -->
    4 KB (606 words) - 06:47, 12 August 2009
  • ...mid summers and dry winters in most of its habitat regime but in the state of [[Veracruz]] to the east it grows with precipitations all year long. Regula ...aturity about 7–9 months after [[pollination]]. Trees from the western end of the range on [[Colima (volcano)|Nevado de Colima]], [[Jalisco]] have cones
    3 KB (526 words) - 18:24, 29 June 2010
  • ...bout 75 [[genera]] in the [[Malpighiaceae]], a [[family (biology)|family]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the order [[Malpighiales]]. In particular in [[Amer ...'' in particular is known by that name, as it is an [[underutilized crop]] of some commercial importance in [[Latin America]].
    5 KB (646 words) - 20:48, 18 February 2010
  • ...[[United States]] from southern [[California]] east to [[Texas]], and in [[Mexico]] from northern [[Baja California]] east to [[Coahuila]] and [[Nuevo León] ...is [[plant sexuality|dioecious]], with male and female flowers on separate trees. The [[fruit]] is a [[samara (fruit)|samara]] 1.5-3 cm long, with an apical
    4 KB (649 words) - 02:45, 5 August 2010
  • | origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous -->
    5 KB (724 words) - 16:10, 8 October 2009
  • ...subtropical regions of [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]], [[Mexico]], and the [[Caribbean]]. The genus name is also used as the common name. ...r than the [[stamen]]s, tricolpate [[pollen]], and a [[chromosome]] number of 18.
    6 KB (932 words) - 23:20, 31 March 2010
  • | origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous -->
    4 KB (588 words) - 10:58, 5 September 2009

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