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A bud about to open in the Darien of Panama. The species is found in this region and adjacent Colombia.
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Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Orinda, California, United States
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Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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Wrightia tinctoria from Apocynaceae.
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Native from Mexico to Ecuador. Photo from Bosque del Paz, Costa Rica.
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Nevada, United States
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Florida, United States
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Cabo, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Fy: Asclepiadaceae.Distribution: Found on the bushes in drying ponds. Found in India and Srilanka.A slender perennial creeper fond along water bodies . Normally found along with Typha. Leaves linear-lanceolate; mucronate, base truncate, sub coriaceous. Flowers pink with purple veins, axillary, solitary or few flowered racemes. Calyx 5 partite; Corolla rotate, lobes triangular; ciliate, corona processes adnate to the staminal tube, base dialated, acuminated, anthers erect, with a short membranous inflexed appendage, pollen masses waxy, pendulous; ovary of 2 many ovuled carpels, fruits a pair of follicles, rounded at the base and winged.
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Taxonomy Family: Asclepiadaceae Order: Gentianales Series: Bicarpellatae Sub class; Gamopetalae Class: DicotyledonaeDistribution: Found in rocky areas of tropical southern India. It is small cactoid herb. Latex milky, Flowers in terminal racemes. A pair of follicles formed from each flower. The shoots are sour to taste.
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Hlei or Kauai yellowwoodApocynaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Kauai only)RareKauai (Cultivated)Flowers smell like a mild plumeria or frangipani. The nuts were eaten by early Hawaiians and the leaves & stems were used in steam baths. The bark of the stems and roots produced a yellow dye for kapa (tapa).
nativeplants.hawaii.edu
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HleiApocynaceae (Dogbane family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Oahu, Molokai, Maui)RareUpper Waimea Valley, OahuFlowers smell like a mild plumeria or frangipani. The early Hawaiians used the nuts as a wild food source.
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/4831991187/Medicinally, an infusion of bark and leaves were for steam in a sweat bath. The nuts with other plants were chewed and given to infants for general debility.Early Hawaiians used the wood for gunwales on canoes. The bark of the stems and roots produced a yellow dye for kapa (tapa).
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Ochrosia_compta
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Fy; AsclepiadaceaeOrder: GentianalesSeries: BicarpellataeSub class: GamopetalaeClass: DicotyledonsDistribution: t is common on hedges and bushes in jungles of AsiaIt is a woody twiner. with watery sap.Perennial, Leaves in opposite decussate phyllotaxy.Leaves ovate and cordate at the base. Flowers pale green in dense drooping axillary umbels. Corolla lobes overlapping to the right in the bud.corona -processes5, hard, adnate at the base to the staminal column, staminal column arising from the base of the corolla tube, pollen masses erect. Follicles brown woody, blunt at the apex, 10 cm long.Tender twigs are emetic. The plant also contains some anti cancer principles. See the beautiful green bloom.
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Bishop, California, United States