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June, 30th

Schwantesia is a genus of the family Aizoaceae (Aizoaceae). The botanical genus name honors the German Professor of Prehistory and Early History and botanist Gustav Schwantes.

Description

The plants of the genus grow Schwantesia compact with many branches, each of which carries a tuft of leaves. Are the gray to bluish green, triangular shaped leaves with initial symmetrical.

They are usually wider than thick and can have toothed edges. Your leaf surface often feels stingy.

The solitary flowers are on short stems and are apparently hochblattlos. There are five sepals present. The petals are bright yellow and white at the base often. Filamentous staminodes are absent.

The stamens form a central pillar. The coronary nectaries form a ring. The capsule fünffächrigen fruits contain more or less pear-shaped seeds from 0.65 to 0.9 mm long and 0.45 to 0.6 millimeters wide.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwantesia

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June, 30th

Celandine
The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) is the only species of the genus Chelidonium of the family Papaveraceae (Papaveraceae) is.

Occurrence
It originally occurred in the temperate and warm-temperate areas of Europe and Asia, and in the Mediterranean. It was brought to North America by settlers who used it as a remedy for skin diseases.

It grows in the vicinity of human dwellings, such as on dump sites, to streets and even at the outside edges of the columns, to the mountains.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6llkraut

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June, 29th

Vegetative characteristics
Solanum species are ephemeral or perennial herbaceous plants or woody plants that grow as shrubs, vines or trees and up to 20 m can be high or even prostrate or climbing are. The stem axis has a sympodial branching pattern, which means that the stem axis is divided during the growth continues in Nebensprosse. There stolon, rhizome, tubers or brutkörperbildende representative. Some have rung the sting or are hairy with trichomes. The latter can be very diverse, it is simple and glandular, stellate, or arboreal species of sea urchin branched forms. The spines are usually on the shoots, the leaves or on the calyx to find they can be straight or bent back, his thin and needle-like or provided with a broadened base. The leaves are simple or compound, or more rarely sessile bestielt. The margin is entire, toothed, lobed or sinuate. The leaves of Solanum species are alternate, often the paper stands, however, appear opposite or in pairs, which can be caused by complex growth schemas.

Fruit
The fruits are berries juicy, slimy or fleshy pericarp, with or without stone cells, some of which there are differences, then the fruit woody or dry, jumping up and becoming fruit capsule. The shape of the berries is usually more or less spherical, (5) 90-20 (35) mm in diameter, but may also even greater. The cup stays on the fruit are, turn back part and / or widening. Usually located in a fruit about 20-80 seeds, but there are also species with up to 1600-1800 seeds per fruit. The seeds are disc-or kidney-shaped, strongly pushed in 1,2 to 4 (rarely up to 7 or 8) mm long, usually slightly pitted. The embryo is strongly helical, the cotyledons are shorter than the rest of the embryo, the endosperm is plenty strong.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachtschatten

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