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unisexual flower
unisexual flower A flower that possesses either stamens or carpels but not both. A plant may be unisexual (dioecious), possessing only male flowers or female flowers; or it may be monoecious with male and female reproductive organs borne in the same flower or in different unisexual flowers but on... Read more |
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Flowers
FLOWERS FLOWERS. Throughout history, flowers, like seeds, leaves, and stems, have contributed to human cookery. But edible flowers, when added to food, provide more than sustenance and flavoring. They add form and color. They are an exception to the rule, a spark of interest, and a spectacle that... Read more |
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Photoperiodism
Photoperiodism The term "photoperiodism" was coined to describe a plant's ability to flower in response to changes in the photoperiod: the relative lengths of day and night. Because flowers produce seeds, flowering is crucially important for the plant to complete its life... Read more |
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Flower Remedies
Flower remedies Definition Flower remedies are specially prepared flower essences, containing the healing energy of plants. They are prescribed according to a patient's emotional disposition, as ascertained by the therapist, doctor, or patients themselves. Origins Perhaps the most famous and... Read more |
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capitulum
capitulum A type of flowering shoot (see racemose inflorescence) characteristic of plants of the family Compositae (Asteraceae), e.g. daisy and dandelion. The tip of the shoot is flattened and bears many small stalkless flowers (florets) surrounded by an involucre (ring) of bracts. This arrangement... Read more |
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Inflorescence
Inflorescence An inflorescence is a collection of flowers in a particular branching pattern that does not contain full-size leaves among the flowers. While there are many kinds of inflorescences to be found in flowering plants (angiosperms), each species has its own form of ... Read more |
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catkin
catkin A type of flowering shoot (see racemose inflorescence) in which the axis, which is often long, bears many small stalkless unisexual flowers. Usually the male catkins hang down from the stem; the female catkins are shorter and often erect. Examples include birch and hazel. Most plants with... Read more |
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heterostyly
heterostyly The condition of flowering plants in which flowers of the same species have styles of different lengths, so that the stigma is positioned below the anthers in some flowers and above them in others. This ensures that pollinating insects are more likely to transfer pollen from the anther... Read more |
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columbine
columbine , any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone perennials of the family Ranunculaceae ( buttercup family), popular both as wildflowers and as garden flowers. Columbines have delicate and attractive foliage and flower petals with long spurs that secrete nectar. The common Eastern... Read more |
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fruit
...ananas apple apricot atemoya avocado azarole bael banana banana flower baobab Barbados cherry barberry beach plum bearberry bergamot...jackfruit jujube kiwi fruit kumquat langsat lemon lime longan loquat lychee mamey mameyito mandarin mango mangosteen medlar melon... |
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The ubiquitous loquat tree produces a bounty of fruit
...deflect the birds. A mature loquat tree, given equal light on...apricot trees, both of them loquat relatives, loquats tend to bear in alternate...no fruit may grow. Bronze loquat (Eriobotrya deflexa) is...gives little shade and its flowers, ... |
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Loquats make great, fragrant fruit trees.
...fruiting ornamental. Loquats originated in the cooler...Most of the world's loquat crop is grown in Japan...commercial crops as well. Loquats are small, evergreen...clusters of fragrant white flowers that produce yellow...through early summer. ... |
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Research from Y.P. Hong and co-researchers in the area of diet and nutrition...
...loquat, Obovate loquat, Big flower loquat, and common loquat, the last species include two...these species, 'Zaozhong 6' loquat is a cultivar. The leaf extracts...Bengal' and 'Hengchun' loquats exhibited ... |
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Italians eat more honey than last year
...Montalcino, Tuscany, between September 11-13. This year, the festival features such rarities as the Japanese loquat flower honey produced in Italy, and the strawberry tree honey from southern Tuscany and Sardinia, which can cost up to 30... |
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Researchers from Sichuan Agricultural University Describe Findings in...
...affect the efficiency of fertilisation in loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.). Flowers of the loquat cultivar, 'Dawuxing', growing in the...adhesion of pollen grains to the stigmas in loquat was rapid and strong, and that the simulated... |
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Reports Outline Botany Study Results from Y.P. Hong et al.(Report)
...leaf', 'Hengchun', 'Guangxi' and 'Big flower' loquats, the second group the common loquat, and 'Tibet', 'Zaozhong 6' and 'Daduhe' loquats, and the third group 'Fragrant' loquat. The differences in contents of phytol, squalene... |
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Flowers of the forest.(Life)
...of beautiful yellow flowers. The leaves are large...leaves are large and the flower is described as an inflorescence...that it has a number of flowers on a flowering shoot...axillare (small false loquat): This small shrub...scented, creamy-white ... |
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The language of flowers: Pick up some conversational tips
...and receive red and white flowers for Valentine's Day? The language of flowers became popular in the 17th...centuries. Virtually every flower, even its color, had special...significance during this period. Flowers even formed secret correspondence...include ... |
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Gardener's World ; Green gardening and more foliage than flowers are two...
Visiting the Chelsea Flower Show does strange things to a person. It turns you into a...bowl of grape hyacinth. Massed plantings of the rib-leaved loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) made curious, textured shrubberies...won a silver-gilt with its gothic cloister windows, blue flowers ... |
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Gardening: Scary monsters Declan Buckley favours foliage over flowers. The...
...jungle of exotic plants: thick, fleshy leaves of loquat, waving stems of the giant grass Arundo donax...frondy hearts and beyond to the weird, bobbly flowers of Eryngium horridum. Flowers are afterthoughts in this garden, though. Leaves... |
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