Archive for June, 2010

Gardenia brighamii
Brighamii The Gardenia is a species of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is called Nanu or warehouse. Named by scientific botanic William Tufts Brigham.

Description
Inhabits the tropical forests of Hawaii at altitudes of 350 to 520 meters above sea level. If previously it was present in all islands at present is only natural way to Maui, Molokai, Oahu, Lanai, and the island which gives its name to the archipelago. The G. brighamii is a small tree that can reach 5 feet. The flowers grow solitary at the end of the branches, leaving the afternoon and do not live more than a day, like other species of this genus are very fragrant.

Source: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gard%C3%A8nia

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June, 28th

Milkweed (Euphorbia helioscopia) is a plant of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). It is a hairless plant 10-50 cm high. It is found on farmland or wasteland. By the color of the bracts show the plant has yellowish green.

The plant has a cyathium consisting of a number of male flowers with one stamen and one female flower surrounded by an involucre, which is oval and yellow.

The flowers are usually a display screen five rays. Among them are large bracts. The flowering period is from May until autumn.

The leaves are like the opposite ovate bracts. The stems are smaller and the leaves at the top they are toothed.

Milkweed has a plain brown box of fruit containing seeds.

In other languages:

German: Sonnen Milch-Wolf

English: Sun Spurge

French: Euphorbe reveille-matin

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroontjeskruid

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June, 28th

The small spurge (Euphorbia exigua) is a slightly toxic, perennial plant which belongs to the Spurge Family (Euphorbiaceae). It is a plant of moist, calcareous, clay soil on arable land and along roadsides. The plant is native to Europe. She is on the Dutch Red List of rare plants and greatly reduced.

The plant is 7 to 25 cm high, has a taproot and usually upright stems. The gray-green, linear leaves are often sessile and smooth edges. The leaf ends in a spine tip.

Small Spurge blooms from June to autumn yellow-greenish flowers. The flower is a cyathium consisting of a female flower with one stamen including several to reduced male flowers and surrounded by a bell-shaped involucre with crescent-shaped peripheral glands, which have two horns. The line-lanceolate bracts have a broad, heart-shaped base. The screen consists of 3 to 5 rays.

The fruit is a 2 mm wide kluizige, smooth fruit split, with an explosion and pops open so the seeds spread. The pale gray, oil-rich seeds are wrinkled and have a sandwich ants.

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine_wolfsmelk

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