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...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

...r Tree or Christmasberry (''[[Schinus terebinthifolius]]'') are the source of the spice known as [[pink peppercorn]]s<ref>[http://books.google.com/books? ...inous mastic-like juice of some species). Anacardiaceae. Resinous dioecous trees, one much planted in California.

|common_name=Pride of Bolivia, Tipu tree ...ed at one end. From January-June each year, the tipuana usually sheds all of its leaves, flowers, and large beige seed packets. The leaf, seed packet,

...s an [[ecosystem]] of [[Atlantic Forest]] [[biome]]. This plant grows in [[Bolivia]] and [[Brazil]]. ...ps of leaves regularly. Can be grown in soil, pots, moss in the crotch of trees.

...It grows as a terrestrial or [[epiphyte|epiphytic]] plant on moss-covered trees, rocks, or banks in [[cloud forest]]s at altitudes between {{convert|2000|m <!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 078941943

...on]] grown.<ref>United States Department of Agriculture: "The Encyclopedia of Wood", page 1-19. Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2007</ref> It is [[evergreen] ...obovate and wavy, clawed; calyx 5-lobed, subtended by a caducous involucre of 3 parts; stamens comprising a column which is topped by 1-celled anthers; s

| poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...th spines or hooks by means of which they climb or are elevated on growing trees, the sts. usually thin and flexuose and annular: lvs. scattered along the s

| poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...rlin; died 1780). Syn. Gledistichia. Leguminosas. Honey Locust. Ornamental trees grown chiefly for their handsome finely divided foliage; also the large con

...of about 24 species of [[shrub]]s and small [[tree]]s found in the forests of [[South America]]. They range from Colombia to Argentina or when certain sp In the wild, shrubs or small trees; spineless, glabrous or mostly stellate-tomentose: lvs. entire, often large

|common_name=Trumpet trees ...a]]. Well-known common names include '''[[Ipê]]''', '''Poui''', '''trumpet trees''' and '''''pau d'arco'''''.

...os, foot, and karpos, fruit; alluding to the conspicuous fleshy footstalks of most species). Including Nageia, Prumnopitys and Stachycarpus. Taxaceae. Or ...aluable timber trees in their native countries, and the fleshy seed-stalks of some are eaten.

...[[Smilacaceae]], native throughout the tropical and warm temperate regions of the world. Common names include '''catbriers, greenbriers, prickly-ivys''' ...Sweet William beside her / Out of his grave grew a red, red rose / And out of hers a briar.'')

...requiring hothouse and some coolhouse conditions; although a large genus, of minor importance horticulturally. Inflorescence simple or branched, nearly always terminal; claw of the labellum more or less adnate to footless column, the blade spreading an

...ly. It has 5 subfamilies, more than 800 genera, and hundreds of thousands of species and cultivars. ...al]]s (top, lower right, lower left), two normal [[petal]]s on either side of the dorsal (upper) sepal, and the [[labellum]], a modified lower petal in