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Malpighia emarginata is a tropical fruit-bearing shrub or small tree in the family Malpighiaceae.. Common names include acerola (from Arabic: الزُّعرُورَة, romanized: az-zuʿrūra "azarole" for a similar looking old-world fruit [4]), Guarani cherry, Barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, [5] and wild crepe myrtle. [6]
Amorpha nana (dwarf indigo, dwarf indigobush, [3] dwarf false indigo, fragrant indigo-bush, fragrant false indigo, dwarf wild indigo) is a 1–3-foot (30–91 cm) tall perennial shrub in the Pea family which is native to North America. It has vibrant green pinnate leaves and clusters of purple flowers. The fruits are small pods.
Most species are evergreen, but deciduous species also occur. The small apple-shaped fruit has a size of 4 to 12 mm and forms in large quantities. They ripen in the fall and often remain hanging on the bush until well into the winter. The fruits are used as food by birds, which excrete the seeds with their droppings and thereby distribute the ...
Amorpha fruticosa is a perennial shrub. [4] It grows as a glandular, thornless shrub which can reach 5 or 6 m (16 or 20 ft) in height and spread to twice that in width. It is somewhat variable in morphology.
Asian bush honeysuckle can choke out native plants and destroy natural food sources for birds and wildlife.
Ficus microcarpa, also known as Chinese banyan, small-fruited fig, Malayan banyan, Indian laurel, or curtain fig, [6] is a species of banyan tree in the family Moraceae.Its native range is from India to China and Japan, through Southeast Asia and the western Pacific to the state of Queensland in Australia, and it has been introduced to parts of the Americas and the Mediterranean.
According to M.J.E. Coode, Elaeocarpus angustifolius is a tree that typically grows to a height of 40 m (130 ft) and usually has buttress roots at the base of the trunk. . The leaves are about 60–180 mm (2.4–7.1 in) long, 40–60 mm (1.6–2.4 in) wide with wavy serrations on the edges and tapering to a petiole 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) long, but lacking a pulvin
Prunus emarginata is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 1–15 metres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 –49 feet) tall; [3] west of the Cascade Range, it commonly reaches 24–30 m (80–100 ft) tall. It has a slender oval trunk and smooth gray to reddish-brown bark with horizontal lenticels .