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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, USA.
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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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Jason Sharp;Fort De Soto, Pinellas County, Florida
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Rose Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, July 18, 2012
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Chelonanthus viridiflorus (Mart.) Gilg(Sin. hom. Irlbachia alata subsp. viridiflora (Mart.) J.G.M.Pers. & MaasGENTIANACEAELocal: SMPW, APA Gama Cabea de VeadoRef.: a) Medeiros, J.D. Guia de campo: vegetao do Cerrado 500 espcies. MMA, 2011; b) Cordeiro, I. e Hoch, A.M. Gentianaceae. In. Wanderley, M.G.L. et. al. Flora Fanerogmica do Estado de So Paulo.Vol. 4, 2005.
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Bishop, California, United States
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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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Bocas del Toro, Panama
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Mandevilla pohliana (Stadelm.) A.H.GentryAPOCYNACEAELocal: Jardim Botnico, Braslia, Brasil.Ref.: Monguilhott, L. Apocynaceae do Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brasil. USP, 2006.
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Pilo or Woodland mirrorplantRubiaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island only)Kpukapuala, Hawaii IslandPistillate (female) flowers and unripe fruitBerries of pilo were used as a laxative. As in early Hawaiian use, the berries are occasionally used as a laxative today.Pilo of many species provide fruit for native birds, such as mao or Hawaiian thrush (Myadestes obscurus) and so favored in some areas that they have been observed guarding and chasing off other birds from fruit-laden trees.
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Coprosma_rhynchocarpa
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Jenolan Caves, New South Wales -- on rocky ridge above caves south of Lucas Rocks.A common small herb or subshrub on poor soils in south-eastern Australia. Flowers are small and greenish, but reddish-brown fruiting calyces are more conspicuous.CORRECTION -- they are not fruiting calyces but involucral bracts.
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image of Gentiana flavida YELLOWISH GENTIAN at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - a lone specimen at bloom
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West Virginia, United States
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A member of the Asclepiadaceae family. Here in a boggy grassland in Mecufi District of Mozambique, close to sea-level. I think it is Stathmostelma pedunculatum (first record in Mozambique?)..
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Singapore, South East, Singapore
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