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The fruit is a hard, woody seedpod 2–15 cm (0.79–5.91 in) long, containing one to six oval, bright red seeds 1–1.5 cm (0.39–0.59 in) long and 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter. All parts of the mescalbeans are very poisonous , containing the alkaloid cytisine ( not mescaline , as suggested by the name).
Kalmia latifolia, the mountain laurel, [3] calico-bush, [3] or spoonwood, [3] is a flowering plant and one of the 10 species in the genus of Kalmia belonging to the heath(er) family Ericaceae. It is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana.
A specimen of Dermatophyllum secundiflorum in its fruiting stage.. Dermatophyllum secundiflorum is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae [2] that is native to the Southwestern United States (Texas, New Mexico) and Mexico (Chihuahua and Coahuila south to Hidalgo, Puebla, and Querétaro). [3]
Mountain laurel blooms showing the conjoined petals. The leaves are 2–12 cm long and simple lanceolate. The flowers are white, pink or purple, in corymbs of 10–50, reminiscent of Rhododendron flowers but flatter, with a star-like calyx of five conjoined petals; each flower is 1–3 cm diameter.
Its seeds ripen in September. [1] These seeds are five-parted, round, and woody. [9] Kalmia polifolia can grow to be two feet tall. Its leaves are arranged oppositely upon its branch and grow to be an inch to an inch and a half in length and tend to be waxy with an entire and revolute margin. [9]
Viable seeds produced by a mature tree undergo Stratification. [2] This process imitates the period of dormancy that occurs during the winter. [2] In the commercial Christmas Tree nurseries of the northern United States, seeds are sown directly into seed beds in the late fall to allow the seeds to stratify naturally over the winter.
Prunus laurocerasus, also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry , native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran.
Anopterus glandulosus, commonly known as native laurel or Tasmanian laurel, is a species of shrub or small tree in the family Escalloniaceae.Endemic to south and southwestern Tasmania, A. glandulosus is widespread in the moist understoreys of Tasmanian temperate rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests from sea level to mountainous regions below 1,200 metres (3,937 ft) above sea level.