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The plant has a trailing, branching, and spreading habit; it is generally an epiphyte in nature and a hanging-basket plant in cultivation. The flower has fused petals. In some species, the flower has a "pouch" at the bottom. The fancied resemblance of such flowers to a goldfish gives these plants the common name goldfish plant or guppy plant.
The flowers vaguely resemble clogs or rotund goldfish in shape and color, hence the common names; some gardeners have nicknamed it the "guppy plant", as well as "garibaldi plant" or "garibaldi flower" due to its resemblance of the marine fish species Hypsypops rubicundus, the California garibaldi.
The list of organisms by chromosome count describes ploidy or numbers of chromosomes in the cells of various plants, animals, protists, and other living organisms.This number, along with the visual appearance of the chromosome, is known as the karyotype, [1] [2] [3] and can be found by looking at the chromosomes through a microscope.
Columnea gloriosa is commonly known as the goldfish plant (a name it shares with a number of other species), because of the fish shaped flowers it produces. Native to the Caribbean, Central and South American tropics, it falls into the genus Columnea. [1] Also known as a cousin to African violets. This plant is in the family Gesneriaceae.
Goldfish plant is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Columnea; Nematanthus This page was last edited on 20 March 2021, at 06:05 (UTC). Text is ...
[1] 30% of all evaluated plant species are listed as least concern. The IUCN also lists 131 subspecies and 118 varieties as least concern. No subpopulations of plants have been evaluated by the IUCN. This is a complete list of least concern plant species, subspecies and varieties evaluated by the IUCN.
In comparison to other common aquarium fish, goldfish have high oxygen needs and produce a large amount of waste due to the fact they lack a stomach; [57] therefore they require a substantial volume of well-filtered water to thrive. In addition, all goldfish varieties have the potential to reach 5 inches (130 mm) in total length, with single ...
Rafflesia arnoldii, the world largest flower in Bengkulu - Indonesia. With a flower growing up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter, 3–4 m (10–13 ft) in perimeter and 10–12 kg (22–26 lb) in weight, Rafflesia arnoldii is the world's current largest individual flower. They grow in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo islands of Indonesia.