Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant
Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. They compri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Flowering Plant - Classification
The flowering plants are usually treated as a division. As this is a group above the rank of family there is a free choice of name: Art 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Flowering Plant - History
The botanical term "Angiosperm" (Greek: αγγειον, receptacle, and σπερμα, seed) was coined in the form Angiospermae by Paul H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Flowering Plant - Origins
The trend of the evolution of the plant kingdom has been in the direction of the establishment of a vegetation of fixed habit and adapted...   » Read the article

Article - Flower Essences: Emotional Healing With Flower Essences
Flower essences are an alternative healing remedy that is used specifically for emotional healing. Flower essences, also called flower re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Flowering Plant - The Flower Fruit And Seed
The characteristic feature of angiosperms is the flower, which shows remarkable variation in form and elaboration, and provides the most ...   » Read the article

Article - Bud Sport
A bud sport is a part of a plant or tree, for example, a leaf, shoot or flower, which due to a genetic mutation clearly differs from the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Flowering Plant - The Flower, Fruit, And Seed
The characteristic feature of angiosperms is the flower, which shows remarkable variation in form and elaboration, and provides the most ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae
Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. Orchids (Orchidaceae family) are among the largest and most diverse of the flowering plant (angi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant: Encyclopedia - Plant
Plants are a major group of living things (about 300,000 species), including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, and ferns....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Flowering Plant - Vegetative Organs
As in Gymnosperms, branching is monopodial; dichotomy or the forking of the growing point into two equivalent branches which replace the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cucumber: Encyclopedia - Cucumber
Ref: ITIS 22364 The cucumber is the edible fruit of the cucumber plant Cucumis sativus, which belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree: Encyclopedia - Tree
A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term generally ap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borage: Encyclopedia - Borage
Borage (Borago officinalis), also known as "starflower", is an annual herb native to central and eastern Europe. It grows to a height of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acanthus Genus: Encyclopedia - Acanthus Genus
See text Acanthus is both a common name and a genus of flowering plant in the Family Acanthaceae. In Europe an Acanthus is a plant (also ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flower: Encyclopedia - Flower
A flower (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flowering Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Flowering Plant - Economic Importance
Flowering plants provide a very high percentage of the base food for human use, whether directly or through livestock feed. Of all the fa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achillea: Encyclopedia - Achillea
many, see text Achillea is a genus of about 85 flowering plants, in the family Asteraceae, commonly referred to as yarrow. They occur in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cottage Garden: Encyclopedia - Cottage Garden
Cottage gardens are attributed to English origin and are typically random and carefree in form. Originally, these gardens were created by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angiospermae: Encyclopedia - Angiospermae
Angiospermae is one of several botanical names allowed (see Art 16 of the ICBN) for the most important group of plants on land, i.e. the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inflorescence: Encyclopedia - Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. In botany, the term refers to the way individual flowers are ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carrion Flower: Encyclopedia - Carrion Flower
Stinking flowers or Carrion flowers are remarkably known because they have showy blossoms with the stench of rotting flesh. A typical flo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cronquist System: Encyclopedia - Cronquist System
The Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronqui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Botany: Encyclopedia - Botany
Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s) or plant biolo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ylang-ylang: Encyclopedia - Ylang-ylang
Ylang-ylang is the flower of the cananga tree. The tree attains and average height of 12 meters, grows in full or partial sun, and prefer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nectar: Encyclopedia - Nectar
Nectar may mean: Nectar source — in botany, the sugar-rich liquid produced by the flowers of plants in order to attract pollinating an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Petal: Encyclopedia - Petal
A petal is one member or part of the corolla of a flower. It is the inner part of the perianth that comprises the sterile parts of a fl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - White Garden: Encyclopedia - White Garden
A White Garden is a feature garden comprising plants that produce white flowers and spathes, and plants with a white or silvery cast to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bud Sport: Encyclopedia - Bud Sport
A bud sport is a part of a plant or tree, for example, a leaf, shoot or flower, which due to a genetic mutation clearly differs from the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Annual Plant: Encyclopedia - Annual Plant
An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Annuals are often used in gardens to provide splashes o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Windowbox: Encyclopedia - Windowbox
A windowbox is a box for growing plants. These boxes are placed in a window, usually on the outside of the window. This allows plants and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hop Plant: Encyclopedia - Hop Plant
Humulus lupulus L. Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. Humulus yunnanensis Hu The hop (Humulus) is a small genus of flowering plants, n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flax: Encyclopedia - Flax
Common flax (also known as linseed) is a member of the Linaceae family, which includes about 150 plant species widely distributed around ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abscission: Encyclopedia - Abscission
Abscission (from ab- away from, and scission cutting or severing) is the shedding of a body part. It most commonly refers to the process ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Saffron: Encyclopedia - Saffron
Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), a species of crocus in the family Iridaceae. The flowe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aster Flower: Encyclopedia - Aster Flower
Many, see text. The genus Aster includes some 600 species of widely distributed flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Aster comes fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant Sexuality: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant Sexuality - Morphological Mechanisms
Plant sexuality - Flower morphology. A species, such as the ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.), demonstrates the possible range of variation i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - General Description
These monocotyledonous plants are cosmopolitan in distribution, occurring in every habitat, except Antarctica and deserts. The great majo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - General Description
These monocotyledonous plants are cosmopolitan in distribution, occurring in every habitat, except Antarctica and deserts. The great majo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Orchid Flowers
Orchids are truly flowers of superlatives. Even a complete layman in botany is awed by the beauty of orchids. No plant family has as many...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Orchid Flowers
Orchids are truly flowers of superlatives. Even a complete layman in botany is awed by the beauty of orchids. No plant family has as many...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant Sexuality: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant Sexuality - Evolution
Plant sexuality - Angiosperms. It is thought that flowering plants evolved from a common hermaphrodite ancestor, and that dioecy evolve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Fruits And Seeds
The orchid ovary is always inferior (located behind the flower), three-carpelate and 1 or 3-partitioned, with parietal placentation (but ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Private Life Of Plants: Encyclopedia Ii - The Private Life Of Plants - Episodes
The Private Life of Plants - Travelling. This episode shows how plants travel from place to place: as seeds, by growing or by being car...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Fruits And Seeds
The orchid ovary is always inferior (located behind the flower), three-carpelate and 1 or 3-partitioned, with parietal placentation (but ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Private Life Of Plants: Encyclopedia Ii - The Private Life Of Plants - Background Information
The series makes extensive use of time-lapse sequences in order to grant insights that would otherwise be almost impossible. As Attenboro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cucumber: Encyclopedia Ii - Cucumber - Flowering And Pollination
A few varieties of cucumber are parthenocarpic, the blossoms creating seedless fruit without pollination. Pollination for these varieties...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Leaves
They have simple leaves with parallel veins. Their shape is very variable between species, ovate, lanceolate, or orbiculate. Their size a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bladderwort: Encyclopedia Ii - Bladderwort - Physical Description
The main part of a Bladderwort plant always lies below the surface of its substrate. Terrestrial species sometimes produce a few photosyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Leaves
They have simple leaves with parallel veins. Their shape is very variable between species, ovate, lanceolate, or orbiculate. Their size a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Plant Thallus And Roots
All orchids are perennial herbs, lacking any permanent woody structure. Some orchids are terrestrial, growing rooted in the soil. Terres...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bladderwort: Encyclopedia Ii - Bladderwort - Species
Utricularia is the largest genus of carnivorous plants. It is one of the three genera that make up the Bladderwort family (Lentibulariace...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Reproduction
It is in the variety and the very refinement of their reproductive methods that orchids truly amaze. Each time, the lip serves as landing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bladderwort: Encyclopedia Ii - Bladderwort - Distribution And Habitat
Utricularia can survive almost anywhere where there is fresh water for at least part of the year: only Antarctica and the oceanic islands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Orchids In Commerce
One orchid genus, Vanilla, is commercially important, used as a foodstuff flavoring, the source of Vanilla. The underground tubers of ter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bladderwort: Encyclopedia Ii - Bladderwort - Trapping Mechanism
Bladderwort - Physical description of the trap. Authorities agree that the vacuum-driven bladders of Utricularia are the most sophistic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Taxonomy
The taxonomy of this family is in constant flux, as DNA studies give new information. An in-depth treatment of the taxonomy is given in T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dna Barcoding: Encyclopedia Ii - Dna Barcoding - Case Studies
DNA barcoding - Identification of Birds. In an effort to find a correspondence between traditional species boundaries established by ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Reproduction
It is in the variety and the very refinement of their reproductive methods that orchids truly amaze. Each time, the lip serves as landing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Orchids In Commerce
One orchid genus, Vanilla, is commercially important, used as a foodstuff flavoring, the source of Vanilla. The underground tubers of ter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree: Encyclopedia Ii - Tree - Classifications
A tree is a plant form and trees occur in many different orders and families of plants. Trees thus show a wide variety of growth form, le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Taxonomy
The taxonomy of this family is in constant flux, as DNA studies give new information. An in-depth treatment of the taxonomy is given in T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Plant Thallus And Roots
All orchids are perennial herbs, lacking any permanent woody structure. Some orchids are terrestrial, growing rooted in the soil. Terres...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree: Encyclopedia Ii - Tree - Major Tree Genera
Tree - Flowering plants Magnoliophyta; angiosperms. Anacardiaceae (Cashew family) Cashew, Anacardium occidentale Mango, Mangifera in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orchidaceae: Encyclopedia Ii - Orchidaceae - Plant Thallus And Roots
All orchids are perennial herbs, lacking any permanent woody structure. Some orchids are terrestrial, growing rooted in the soil. Terres...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexual Reproduction: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexual Reproduction - Reproduction In Mammals
In placental mammals, offspring are born as juveniles: complete animals with the sex organs present although non-functional. After severa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree: Encyclopedia Ii - Tree - Morphology
The basic parts of a tree are the roots, trunk(s), branches, twigs and leaves. Tree stems consist mainly of support and transport tissues...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree: Encyclopedia Ii - Tree - Champion Trees
The world's champion trees can be considered on several factors; height, trunk diameter or girth, total size, and age. It is significant ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree: Encyclopedia Ii - Tree - Life Stages
The life cycles of trees, especially conifers, are divided into the following stages in forestry for survey and documentation purposes: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Wild Foods: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Wild Foods - Wild Plants
List of wild foods - Flowers. elderflower violet List of wild foods - Fruits. Wild-gathered fruit may find its way into commerce. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Wild Foods: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Wild Foods - Wild Meats
List of wild foods - Mammals and birds --- game. Wild animals taken in hunting are often eaten. Their meat is collectively called game....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant - Algae And Fungi
The algae comprise several different groups of organisms that produce energy through photosynthesis. However, they are not classified wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant - Importance
The photosynthesis and carbon fixation conducted by land plants and algae are the ultimate source of energy and organic material in nearl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant - Growth
It is a common misconception that most of the solid material in a plant is taken from the soil, when in fact almost all of it is actually...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant - Fossils
Plant fossils include roots, wood, leaves, seeds, fruit, pollen, spores, phytoliths, and amber (the fossilized resin produced by some pla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Plant - Embryophytes
Most familiar are the multicellular land plants, called embryophytes. They include the vascular plants, plants with full systems of leave...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Endangered Species In The British Isles: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Endangered Species In The British Isles - Plants
List of endangered species in the British Isles - Flowering plants. Creeping marshwort Apium repens Early gentian Gentianella anglica ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Endangered Species In The British Isles: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Endangered Species In The British Isles - Insects
List of endangered species in the British Isles - Ants. Black-backed meadow ant Formica pratensis (possibly extinct) Black bog ant For...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flower: Encyclopedia Ii - Flower - Flower Anatomy
Flowering plants are heterosporangiate (producing two types of reproductive spores) and the pollen (male spores) and ovules (female spore...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Flower: Encyclopedia Ii - Flower - Flowers In Everyday Life
In modern times, people have sought ways to cultivate, buy, wear, or just be around flowers and blooming plants, partly because of their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carnivorous Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Carnivorous Plant - Classification
The classification of all flowering plants is currently in a state of flux. In the Cronquist system, the Droseraceae and Nepenthaceae wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sunflower: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunflower - Description
The term "sunflower" is also used to refer to all plants of the genus Helianthus, many of which are perennial plants. What is called the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Botany: Encyclopedia Ii - Botany - History
Botany - Early botany before 1945. Among the earliest of botanical works, written around 300 B.C., are two large treatises by Theophras...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Botany: Encyclopedia Ii - Botany - Scope And Importance Of Botany
As with other life forms in biology, plant life can be studied from different perspectives, from the molecular, genetic and biochemical l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Plants From Star Wars Universe: Encyclopedia Ii - Plants From Star Wars Universe - K
Kavam and Alazhi, from the planet Thyferra are used to create bacta. Kewafi Flowers These blue flowers, which evolved on the jungle pla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Plants: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Plants - Plants From Fiction
List of fictional plants - Plants from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth. Alfirin - bell-shaped golden flower. Athelas - healing plant ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mirabilis Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Mirabilis Plant - Mirabilis Jalapa
The four o'clock flower or marvel of Peru is the most commonly grown ornamental species of Mirabilis. It is from tropical South America, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roselle Plant: Encyclopedia Ii - Roselle Plant - Uses
Primarily, the plant is cultivated for the production for bast fibre from the stem of the plant. The fibre may be used as a substitute fo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Flower Essence Therapy: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Flower Essence Therapy
FLOWER ESSENCE THERAPY - the use of extracts from flowering plants as a healing method. (NAD)   (See also: FLOWER ESSENCE THER...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Flower Essence Therapy: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Flower Essence Therapy
flower essence therapy The use of extracts from flowering plants as a healing method   (See also: Flower essence therapy , Bo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Power Plant: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Power Plant
POWER PLANT - plant or flower with psycholiopic qualities or energies. (NAD)   (See also: POWER PLANT , Wiccan Pagan, Paganism...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Flower Essences: Health And Healing Dictionary On Flower Essences
Flower Essences: A modality that uses extracts from flowering plants in homeopathic proportions as catalysts for healing. Each liquid ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Flower Remedies: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Flower Remedies
Flower Remedies: The use of flower essences to release emotional blockages and activate one’s higher abilities and soul purpose....   » Read the article

Dictionary - Atasi Flower: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Atasi Flower
atasi flower linum usitatissimum, flax, a plant with lance-shaped leaves that produces pretty sky blue or violet-blue flowers each spr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Naturopathy: Holistic Treatment Dictionary On Naturopathy
Naturopathy: Natural healing treatments using plants and flowers.   (See also: Naturopathy , Alternative Health, Body Mind and...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Flower Essences: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Flower Essences
Flower Essences A modality that uses extracts from flowering plants in homeopathic proportions as catalysts for healing. Each liquid p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Flower Essences: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Flower Essences
Flower Essences A modality that uses extracts from flowering plants in homeopathic proportions as catalysts for healing. Each liquid p...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Essential Oil: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Essential Oil
ESSENTIAL OIL: the fragrant 'blood' or liquid of a plant, usually flower.   (See also: ESSENTIAL OIL , Witchcraft, Wicca, Paga...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Doctrine Of Signatrues: Pagan Wicca Dictionary On Doctrine Of Signatrues
Doctrine of Signatrues - The theory that flowers, herbs, plants and other living things have a unique quality or vibration.   ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Malati: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Malati
Malati - a kind of jasmine flower or its plant.   (See also: Malati , Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and S...   » Read the article