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Detail of the flowers of Solanum dulcamara, one of the 1240 accepted taxa that make up the genus Solanum (), along with economically important species such as the potato (S. tuberosum), the tomato (S. lycopersicum) and the aubergine (S. melongena).
Maize (Zea mays, Poaceae) is the most widely cultivated C 4 plant.[1]In botany, C 4 carbon fixation is one of three known methods of photosynthesis used by plants. C 4 plants increase their photosynthetic efficiency by reducing or suppressing photorespiration, which mainly occurs under low atmospheric CO 2 concentration, high light, high temperature, drought, and salinity.
A horticulture student tending to plants in a garden in Lawrenceville, Georgia, March 2015 The Rock Garden, Leonardslee Gardens. Horticulture is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants.
The Papaveraceae, / p ə ˌ p æ v ə ˈ r eɪ s i ˌ iː / [2] informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family of about 42 genera and approximately 775 known species [3] of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales.
Mycosphaerella is a genus of ascomycota.With more than 10,000 species, it is the largest genus of plant pathogen fungi.. The following introduction about the fungal genus Mycosphaerella is copied (with permission) from the dissertation of W. Quaedvlieg (named: Re-evaluating Mycosphaerella and allied genera).
Cleistanthus collinus in Narsapur, Medak district, India.. Cleistanthus is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae, tribe Bridelieae, first described as a genus in 1848. [3] [4] It is widespread in much of the Old World Tropics in Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.
The Rutaceae (/ r uː ˈ t eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /) is a family, commonly known as the rue [3] or citrus family, [4] of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales. ...