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The capsule of kōhūhū, showing the black seeds encased in a sticky substance. Most of the plants in the genus Pittosporum are easily propagated from seed, but germination may be slow. [3] In horticultural production, the sticky substance coating the seeds is removed before sowing, as it acts as a germination inhibitor.
Schefflera / ˈ ʃ ɛ f l ər ə / [1] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with 13 species native to New Zealand and some Pacific islands. [2]The genus is named in honor of Johann Peter Ernst von Scheffler [], physician and botanist of Gdańsk, and later of Warsaw, who contributed plants to Gottfried Reyger [] for Reyger's book, Tentamen Florae Gedanensis.
The leaves are up to a few centimeters long and may be thin and thread-like or up to 1 cm wide and oblong. They are glandular, resinous, and sticky. The inflorescence is a bushy cluster of flower heads, each head 0.5–1 cm long. The flower head is lined with sticky yellow-green phyllaries and contains several yellowish protruding flowers.
Fruits. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8–9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees as an epiphyte.The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–9 leaflets, the leaflets 9–20 cm long and 4–10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation) with a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, and an obtuse or acute apex, sometimes emarginate.
Plants in the genus Pittosporum are shrubs or trees, occasionally spiny, with smooth-edged linear to lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, on a petiole. The flowers are borne on the ends of branches or in leaf axils, in cymes or clusters with sepals that are free from each other. The petals are linear or ...
The soft, thin leaves of patē are palmate, with from three to nine leaflets. Patē is a small, spreading tree up to 8 m (26 ft) high with stout branches. The leaves may have from three to nine leaflets. The leaflets are thin and soft to the touch with sharply serrated margins.
Leaf spots can vary in size, shape, and color depending on the age and type of the cause or pathogen. Plants, shrubs and trees are weakened by the spots on the leaves as they reduce available foliar space for photosynthesis. Other forms of leaf spot diseases include leaf rust, downy mildew and blights. [4]
Galium aparine, with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed, robin-run-the-hedge, goosegrass, and sticky willy, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae. Names [ edit ]