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• Ash tree
  ...[[seed]]s, popularly known as ''keys'' or ''helicopter seeds'', are a type of [[fruit]] known as a [[samara (fruit)|samara]]. [[Rowan]]s or Mountain Ash ...handsome pinnate leaves and some species also for the conspicuous panicles of white flowers.
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• Experiment stations
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...y by the state and representing the movement that began before the passage of the federal experiment station act.
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• Sedum
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia ...ich are commonly known as '''stonecrops'''. It contains around 400 species of leaf [[succulents]] that are found throughout the [[Northern Hemisphere]],
  19 KB (2,870 words) - 00:30, 25 May 2010
• Peony
  ...ae". pages 265-269. In: Klaus Kubitski (editor). ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' volume IX. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany.</ ...ome resemble [[trees]] up to 1.5–3 metres tall. They have [[Leaf#Divisions of the lamina (blade)|compound]], deeply lobed leaves, and large, often fragra
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• Plum
  Plums come in a wide variety of colours and sizes. Some are much firmer-fleshed than others and some have y ...tree will be covered in [[blossom]], and in a good year approximately 50% of the flowers will be pollinated and become plums. Flowering starts after 80
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• Walnut
  |image_caption=Shoot and nut of ''Juglans regia'' ...arly reached America through England; also, by extension, to other species of the genus Juglans. The name is sometimes, but provincially, given to hickor
  37 KB (5,914 words) - 19:07, 24 December 2009
• Cherry
  ...ained from a limited number of species, including especially [[cultivars]] of the [[wild cherry]], ''Prunus avium''. ...s, or to all members of the genus as a collective term. The fruits of many of these are not cherries, and have other common names, including [[plum]], [[
  25 KB (4,117 words) - 01:56, 5 March 2015
• Gooseberry
  ...er chilling. In California they are fairly productive in the coolest parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, the outer Coast Ranges and coastal northern Cal ...y spring. They are borne laterally on one-year old wood and on short spurs of older wood. The flowers are self-fertile and pollinated by wind and insects
  28 KB (4,738 words) - 16:55, 24 December 2009
• Spruce
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> [[Image:Picea_glauca1.jpg|right|thumb|Foliage and cones of [[White Spruce]]]]
  28 KB (4,363 words) - 17:57, 14 September 2009
• Exhibitions
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...arieties. No amount of descriptive literature can compare with this method of acquiring accuracy in naming and describing fruits, flowers, and vegetables
  37 KB (6,049 words) - 12:41, 1 October 2009
• Cabbage
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...ad of Brassica oleracea; also applied, with designations, to related forms of the same species, as Welsh cabbage, tree cabbage. Closely related plants ar
  38 KB (6,520 words) - 01:30, 5 March 2015
• Apple
  The '''apple''' is a fruiting [[tree]], of the [[species]] ''Malus domestica''. Now widely cultivated and immensely va ...[[autumn]], and is typically {{convert|5|to|9|cm|in}} diameter. The center of the fruit contains five [[carpel]]s arranged in a [[Five-pointed star|five-
  32 KB (5,304 words) - 00:39, 26 May 2010
• Strawberry
  ...an important commercial fruit crop, widely grown in all temperate regions of the world. ...switch from selling fresh to selling to freezers, and then get totally out of the market. Producers for the farmers market keep selling fresh through the
  78 KB (13,045 words) - 00:14, 17 April 2010
• Prunus
  ...ed species of ''Prunus'', spread throughout the northern temperate regions of the globe. ...e singly, or in [[umbel]]s of two to six or more on [[raceme]]s. The fruit of all ''Prunus'' species is a [[drupe]] with a relatively large &quot;stone&q
  35 KB (4,290 words) - 03:01, 14 January 2010
• Ribes
  ...''Grossulariaceae'''. The genus is native throughout the temperate regions of the [[Northern Hemisphere]]. or by some supposed to be the Latinized form of riebs, an old German
  42 KB (6,164 words) - 17:01, 24 December 2009
• Gladiolus
  ...tural History & Classification |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon|pages=138–42 |year=2008|isbn=0-88192-897-6}}</ref> Sometimes called the ' ...spectacular giant flower spikes in commerce are the products of centuries of hybridisation, selection, and perhaps more drastic manipulation.
  43 KB (6,589 words) - 05:30, 16 April 2011
• Tomato
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...g, with hairy leaflets. The small, 1-2cm yellow [[Flower]]s come in groups of 3–12.
  52 KB (8,941 words) - 04:16, 26 August 2009
• Peach
  ...[[tree]] growing to 4–10 m tall, belonging to the subfamily [[Prunoideae]] of the family [[Rosaceae]]. It is classified with the [[almond]] in the subgen ...Christian times.<ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.</ref> Cultivated peaches are div
  88 KB (14,935 words) - 01:57, 5 March 2015
• Iris
  ...k color and dwarf foliage. Oncocyclus.—I. pancrea, probably pancrace, var. of I. variegata. Buff and purple.—I. robinsoniana, F. Muell.=Moraea robinson ...ike those of I. sindjarensis but lacking the conspicuous patch at the apex of the outer segms.
  74 KB (11,688 words) - 04:02, 29 March 2010
• Pear
  Pear. A popular fruit and tree of the genus Pyrus, long cultivated scrotina. Pears of the European stock have been grown in North
  71 KB (11,964 words) - 01:53, 5 March 2015

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