Thursday, March 10, 2011

anthurium


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Anthurium grows in a lot of forms, typically evergreen, hairy or hiking epiphytes through line to be able to droop as of the shelter every the system to the bottom of the rainfall woodland There are as well lots of worldly forms which are create as understory flora as well as hemiepiphytic forms. A hemiepiphyte is a place skilled of opening existence as a seed and distribution line to the dirt or opening as a worldly place to climbs a ranking with then sends heredity rear to the earth They happen too as lithophytes. Various are simply establish in relationship through arboreal ant colonies or rising on rocks in progress (such as Anthurium amnicola).
The stems be small to get longer through a extent among 14 and 28 cm. The easy plants approach in a lot of shapes; the majority plants are to be establish at the finish of the stems, though earthly flora explain fewer of this pachycaul leaning.Leaves may be spatulate, curved or slow at the top.


 

 

 



      
Growing Anthurium;
Similar to extra Aroids, a lot of class of Anthurium can be grown-up as houseplants, or outside in kind climates in cool bad skin They succeed in clammy soils through tall whole subject. In milder climates the flora can be adult in pots of earth. Within flora succeed at temperatures among 62-72 °F / 16-21 °C and at junior brightness than extra residence flora.. In the glasses case of vining or hiking Anthuriums, the flora profit beginning individual provided through a totem to mount.

 Propagation

 Cuttings container be next entrenched in pots of smooth and peat moss mixtures. These pots then ought to be alive located in greenhouses through base warm of 71-75 degrees.Through the rooting course they should be reserved out of through sunshine.

 Species

Such a great type cannot be describe by a little universal requisites. Schott, in his volume Prodromus Systematis Aroidearum (1860), grouped the next recognized 183 type in 28 section. In 1905 Engler revise these sections into 18 section. In 1983 Croat & Sheffer come up through the next sections:[3]

sun flower


Description


Through sunflower, pardon? is frequently called the flower is truly a flower head (moreover famous as a complex flower) of various florets, (small flowers) packed mutually. The external petal-bearing florets are the hygienic beam florets and can be yellow, red, orange, or other colors. The florets within the round start are called disc florets, which full-grown interested in seeds.
The florets inside the sunflower's come together are agreed in a spiral pattern. Naturally both floret is tilting just before the after that by around the golden angle, 135.5°, produce a outline of interconnecting spirals somewhere the integer of absent spirals and the integer of correct spirals are following Fibonacci numbers. Naturally, here are 34 spirals in single route and 55 in the extra; on a extremely great sunflower present could be 89 in single course and 144 in the extra. This guide produces the  majority well-organized stuffing of seeds inside the flower top.
Sunflowers the majority usually produce to height among 1.5 and 3.5 m (5–12 ft). Logical literature[who?] news that a 12 m (40 ft), usual single-head, sunflower stand was full-grown in Padua in 1567. The similar seed batch grow about 7 m (25 ft) at extra period and spaces, with Madrid.[citation needed] Through the 20th century, height of more than 7 m have been achieve in together Netherlands and Ontario, Canada.[citation needed]

 

Heliotropism

Although the ordinary belief[by whom?], adult sunflowers do not way the sun. The adult flowerheads classically expression east; simply little sunflowers display heliotropism (sun rotary): the trees and buds of little sunflowers trail the sun so that their course change beginning east to west through the way of a daytime.[7] The actions turn into a circadian answer and after plants are rotate 180 degrees, the mature answer model is at rest follow used for a little days, through side course varying beginning west to east in its place[8] The side and flowerhead blossom phototropism occur even as the sheet petioles and stem are unmoving vigorously rising excluding one time adult the travels end These travels occupy the petioles winding or parody through the day then fixed or untwisting at dark.[9]

History


The sunflower is local to Central America. The proof thus distant is that it was primary domesticated in Mesoamerica, near daytime Mexico, in at slightest 2600 BC.[10] It might have been broken a next instance in the center Mississippi Valley, or been introduce there as of Mexico at an untimely time, as maize was. The first recognized example of a completely broken sunflower north of Mexico have been establish in Tennessee and date to approximately 2300 BC[citation needed]. Many indigenous American peoples used the sunflower as the icon of their solar deity, counting the Aztecs and the Otomi of Mexico and the Incas in South America. Francisco Pizarro was the original European to run into the sunflower in Tahuantinsuy. A few researchers row that the Spaniards try to contain promotion of the sunflower since of its union among astral faith and fighting.[11]

Friday, February 18, 2011

cosmos




Cosmos Produces Cosmic Beauty
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Cosmos
How would you similar to own a univers? Tniversehis will most likely in no way take place but you can raise a plant which produce "showy flowers" in an "logical arrangement of cosmic size". Cosmos is the flower you should raise. Spanish priests grow cosmos in their duty gardens in Mexico. The lightly located petals lead them to christen the flower "Cosmos," the Greek word for concord or planned universe. Cosmos, like many of our warm weather annuals such as marigolds, originated in Mexico and South America.
Cosmos belongs to that vast family of plants known as Compositae. Although here are 20 branded type of cosmos, two yearly type Cosmos sulphureus and Cosmos bipinnatus, are the popular familiar to home gardeners. These two type are nearly all simply differentiate by leaf structure and flower color. The foliage of C. sulphureus are extended with thin lobes and bushy boundaries The flower insignia of this species are forever sunglasses of yellow, orange or red. The C. bipinnatus has foliage that are thinly cut into threadlike segment. The flora look alike to ferns. The flowers are white or a range of tinted lenses of pink to dark rose.
Cosmos sulphureus (Yellow Cosmos) - the class local to the Americas - is my preferred and the single I advise you attempt if you have not at all grown-up cosmos.. Plants of yellow cosmos can range in height from 4 to 7 feet but the cultivated varieties such as 'Crest Red', 'Ladybird Dwarf Red', 'Ladybird Dwarf Gold', 'Ladybird Dwarf Orange', 'Ladybird Dwarf Lemon', and Yellow Cosmos - Klondyke Mix are not as tall. The flower head are collected of recording and beam flowers. The disc, or middle flowers are yellow: the beam, or external petals variety as of light yellow or mustard to orange-scarlet. Red is a moderately fresh toting up to the color variety of C. sulphureus. The resident type is golden-yellow to orange.
Is C. sulphureus cosmos simple to produce? You bet they are! Here is the educational in order provide by John Thomas of Wildseed Farms who charge C. sulphureus cosmos with an 80 percent plant achievement: YELLOW COSMOS INFORMATION FROM WILDSEED FARMS
wealthy lush soil be apt to create oddly tallgangly plants. Yellow cosmos require occupied sun. Sow seed of C. sulphureus in near the start spring because seedling are not winter enduring The regular planting achievement with this type is 80 percent. The plant stature is 2 - 4 feet depending on civilization and diversity chosen Plants will grow in 7 - 21 days when the earth hotness is best for germination at 70 - 80 degrees F. Plant seed 1/16 inch deep by raking into the soil. C. sulphureus plants bloom from May - November. Plants should be shear every 30 days or whenever seed pods predominate. Large areas can be seeded at a rate of 15 pounds per acre C. sulphureus plants bloom approximately 50 - 55 days after germination. Yellow cosmos wants to be replanted every spring for continued success.
Yellow cosmos is simple to create from kernel Rich, fertile situation are not essential to produce yellow cosmos, but sufficient drainage is. The seeds may be sown outdoors after all risk of ice is history and the earth has warmedwar to at slightest 65 degrees F. Scatter the seeds correct where the yellow cosmos are to be display Firm or collect seeds into a wobbly soil -- if the seed is plant too profound germination can be pretentious stay the earth damp for 5 - 10 days following seeding. Seeds will sprout in 7 - 21 days. If the in the early hours spring has been chilly soil temperature will stay cool also. If the earth temperature is under 65 F., seeds may not germinate as fast. Thinning is in fact not essential.
Yellow cosmos is a sun - loving yearly it will not make as a lot of bloom if adult in the shadow. decide site l that receive at slightest 8 - 10 hours of through sunbathe sunlight. Cosmos will carry out best if adult in well-drained dirt Yellow cosmos is not a serious feeder. overload fertilization will reason plants to create extreme sheet increase at the cost of flower making.

poppy

defination
A poppy is single of a cluster of a flowering plants in the poppy family, a lot of  which are adult in grounds for their bright flowers.
Poppy flowers have 4 to 6 petals. Petals may be about any tint and some have markings. Before blossoming, the petals are creased in the bud, and as flowering close the petals normally lie down flat earlier than waning away. A whorl of stamens is in the midpoint of the flower.
The pollen of the oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, is murky blue. The pollen of the ground poppy or bump poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is dark blue to grey. Bees use poppies as a pollen source.

Symbolism

Poppies have extended been worn as a mark of together slumber and loss sleep since of the opium extracted starting them, and loss since of the ordinary blood-red dye of the red poppy in exacting. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were old as aid to the deceased[1] Poppies old as emblem on tombstones be a sign of undying slumber. This imagery was evoke in the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a paranormal poppy meadow in danger to create the protagonists to slumber eternally.[1]
A moment analysis of poppies in usual legends is that the brilliant scarlet colour signify a agree of restoration past demise.[2]
The poppy of time of war memory is Papaver rhoeas, the red-flowered callus poppy. This poppy is a ordinary weed in Europe and is set up in a lot of location, as well as .Flanders, the scenery of the well-known poem "In Flanders Fields," by the Canadian doctor and fighter John McCrae. In the United States,[3][4] Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand artificial poppies (plastic in Canada, paper in the US[citation needed], UK, Australia and New Zealand) are tatty to remember those who die in war. This shape of honor is related with Veterans' Day in the United States and with Remembrance Day in Canada, together of which go down on November 11. In Canada, poppies are frequently shabby on or after the start of November pending the 11th. In New Zealand and Australia, the military are commemorate on ANZAC day, April 25.[5]

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

tube rose


The tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) is a perennial plant of the agave family Agavaceae, extract of which are worn as a middle note in perfumery. The common name derives as of the Latin tuberosa, meaning swollen or tuberous in reference to its root system. It consists of about 12 species. Polianthes means "many flowers" in Greek language.
The tuberose is a night-blooming place thought to beative n to Mexico along with each other species of Polianthes. The Aztecs called it Omixochitl [oh me' zu che' tl] or bone flower.
It is a top plant in Indian culture and mythology. The flowers are worn in wedding ceremony, garlands, ornament and various fixed rituals. Its Hindi name is "Rajnigandha", though it is sometimes by mistake referred to as "Raat ki Rani" ("Queen of the Night"), which is really Cestrum nocturnum. The name Rajnigandha means "night-fragrant" (rajni=night; gandha=fragrance). In Bengali, it is called "Rajoni-Gandha", meaning "Scent of the Night". In Marathi, it is call "Nishi-Ghanda". In parts of South India, it is known as "Sugandaraja", which translates to "king of fragrance/smell". In Chinese, it is called WanXiangYu 晚香玉, which means "night scent In Indonesia it is call "bunga sedap malam", meaning night aromatic flower. In Tamil Nadu it is called as Sambangi or nilasambangi and traditionally used in all type of garlanding especially in south Indian marriage. In Cuba it is called "azucena" which is the name given to amaryllis in Mexico.
inside Iran the tuberose is recognized as "Gole Maryam" ("Mary flower") and the oil extracted from the flower is used as a perfume.
The tuberose is also used traditionally in Hawaii to create leis and was considered a funeral flower in Victorian times. Its scent is described as a complex, exotic, sweet, floral.
The tuberose grows in elongated spikes up to 45 cm (18 in) long that produce clusters of fragrant waxy white flowers that flower from the bottom towards the top of the point. It has long, light green leaves clustered at the base of the plant and lesser, clasping leaves along the stem.
Mem

Saturday, February 5, 2011

ranunculus


Ranunculus

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Ranunculus
Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Ranunculus
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Species
250-400+; see text
Ranunculus glacialis, one of the white-flowering species
Blooming outside Conservatory of Flowers
Seed head of Ranunculus showing developing achenes
Ranunculus (pronounced /ræˈnʌŋkjʊləs/)[1] is a large genus of about 600 species of plants in the Ranunculaceae, which includes the buttercups, spearworts, water crowfoots and the lesser celandine (but not the greater celandine of the poppy family Papaveraceae).
They are mostly herbaceous perennials with bright yellow or white flowers (if white, still with a yellow centre); some are annuals or biennials. A few species have orange or red flowers. There are usually five petals, but sometimes six, numerous, or none, as in R. auricomus. The petals are often highly lustrous, especially in yellow species. Buttercups usually flower in April or May but flowers may be found throughout the summer especially where the plants are growing as opportunistic colonisers, as in the case of garden weeds.
The Water crowfoots (Ranunculus subgenus Batrachium), which grow in still or running water, are sometimes treated in a separate genus Batrachium. They have two different leaf types, thread-like leaves underwater and broader floating leaves although for some species, such as R. aquatilis, a third, intermediate leaf form occurs.
Ranunculus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Hebrew Character and Small Angle Shades. Some species are popular ornamental flowers in horticulture, with many cultivars selected for large and brightly coloured flowers.

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The name Ranunculus is Late Latin for "little frog," from rana "frog" and a diminutive ending. This probably refers to many species being found near water, like frogs.
In the interior of the Pacific Northwest of the United States the buttercup is called "Coyote’s eyes" — ʔiceyéeyenm sílu in Nez Perce and spilyaynmí áčaš in Sahaptin. In the legend Coyote was tossing his eyes up in the air and catching them again when Eagle snatched them. Unable to see, Coyote made eyes from the buttercup.

[edit] Toxicity

All Ranunculus species are poisonous when eaten fresh by cattle, horses, and other livestock, but their acrid taste and the blistering of the mouth caused by their poison means they are usually left uneaten. Poisoning can occur where buttercups are abundant in overgrazed fields where little other edible plant growth is left, and the animals eat them out of desperation. Symptoms include bloody diarrhea, excessive salivation, colic, and severe blistering of the mucous membranes and gastrointestinal tract. When Ranunculus plants are handled, naturally occurring ranunculin is broken down to form protoanemonin, which is known to cause contact dermatitis in humans and care should therefore be exercised in excessive handling of the plants.[2] The toxins are degraded by drying, so hay containing dried buttercups is safe.

amarhyllies


Characteristics

Amaryllis belladonna flowers
Amaryllis is a bulbous plant, with each corm being 5–10 cm in diameter. It has several strap-shaped, green leaves, 30–50 cm long and 2–3 cm broad, agreed in two row The foliage are produced inside the autumn or early spiral in warm climates depending on the onset of rainfall and eventually die down by late leap The bulb be then unknown awaiting late summer. The plant is not frost-tolerant, nor does it do fine in damp environments since they involve a dry resting stage between leaf increase and flower spike creation
From the dry position in late summer (August in zone 7) each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30–60 cm tall, each of which bear a cluster of 2 to 12 funnel-shaped flowers at their clippings. Each flower is 6–10 cm width with six tepals (three outer sepals, three inner petals, with similar form to each other). The common color is white with crimson veins, but pink or purple also occur naturally. The common name "naked lady" stems from the plant's outline of flowering while the plant life has died down.[2]
The species was introduce into cultivation at the start of the eighteenth century. They copy little by little either by bulb division or seeds and have regularly naturalized from plantings in town and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments copy their local South African surroundings
Many bulbs sell as Amaryllis and describe as 'ready to bloom for the holidays' really belong to the similar genus Hippeastrum, despite being labeled as 'Amaryllis' through sellers and nurseries. Adding to the name confusion, some bulbs of other species with a similar growth and flowering pattern are also from time to time called this plant's common name "naked ladies". Some of those species have their own more broadly used and established ordinary names, such as the restoration Lily (Lycoris squamigera).
There is an Amaryllis belladonna × Crinum moorei cross, called × Amarcrinum [3], which has named cultivars.