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found in sandy soils. It Flowers from June until September. The plant has had many common English names in Britain, which are now mostly out of use. These...

Wormwood was used by Chinese herbalists in ancient times to treat fever, but had fallen out of common use, to be rediscovered in 1970 when the Chinese Handbook...

the species name means "fetid" in Latin, it is possible that Linnaeus also had noted this trait.Template:Fact Medicinally, the leaves and roots are used...

Brazil and west to eastern Bolivia. It is very similar to the coconut palm. It had been classified within the Cocos genus as Cocos plumosa, was assigned to Arecastrum...

wall and therefore had access to less water and fewer nutrients; the right plant however grew at the bottom of the wall and therefore had greater amounts...

stumps of the former fronds: these are called "boots". Only palms that have had the boots removed will show the commonly seen smooth trunk. More information...

by Leon Diguet and grown at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Wild plants had been found in 1899 by J. N. Rose near Guadalajara, Jalisco. In nature, the...

Horticultural Society (RHS) has already moved a hybrid of the rupicolous Laelia that had been renamed Sophronitis esalqueana into the genus Cattleya. They have short...

the gall-forming cecidomyiid Dasineura dielsi as a biological control has had limited success in the effective control of this weed. photo 1 photo 1 photo...

ago the list had been reduced to six, namely the Eureka, Lisbon, Villa Franca, Genoa, Bonnie Brae and Messina. Five years ago the list had shrunk to three...

often split up into the 4 or 5 following species. The plants that Linnaeus had in mind were probably mostly G. clusii and G. kochiana. For pictures of G...

heavy, hard, brown or reddish. It is best prop. by seeds, but may also be had from cuttings of half-ripened wood. C. pellocarpus, Meyer, the small-fruited...

fruit in the peninsula. The month of July is the season at Malacca when it is had in the greatest perfection." Its season extends to Sept. A variety known as...

described in France as long ago as 1840, by Pepin, who says that, while the plant had been known in botanic gardens for 20 years, it was brought to notice as a...

called this plant teonanacatl, which signifies "sacred mushroom," but they had very imperfect notions of botanical distinctions, and their name may be compared...

was said to have placed several obstacles to hinder pursuers whose wives he had stolen, one of which was the ongaonga. Ongaonga is the main food plant for...

June to September. It was discovered by Lewis and Clark and before that it had been used by Great Plains Tribes as a medicinal herb. photo 1 photo 2 photo...

to New South Wales, Australia, closely related to Callistemon. The genus had a number of species, but some have been reclassified as Lophostemon and Tristaniopsis...

amongst thousands of the common pink-flowered kind. In October, 1892, Arderne had 400 spikes in bloom and in March, 1893, some of his plants were pictured in...

continually; by cutting down to the ground the sts. that have bloomed, it can be had in flower nearly all the year. M. floribunda is said to begin to bloom at...