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Harpagophytum (/ ˌ h ɑːr p ə ˈ ɡ ɒ f ɪ t ə m / HAR-pə-GOF-it-əm), also called grapple plant, wood spider, and most commonly devil's claw, is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus owe their common name "devil's claw" to the peculiar appearance of their hooked fruit.
It has also been found that many unrelated sign languages use similar handshapes for specific entities. Children master these constructions by the age of 8 or 9. [4] Two-handed classifier constructions have a figure-ground relationship. Specifically, the first classifier represents the background whereas the second one represents the entity in ...
Proboscidea parviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae known by the common names doubleclaw and red devil's-claw.It is native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in sandy, dry, and disturbed habitat and blooms during the hot summer.
Dolichandra unguis-cati, commonly known as cat's claw creeper, funnel creeper, [2] or cat's claw trumpet, [2] is a rapidly growing climbing vine belonging to the family Bignoniaceae. [3] It affects all plant layers of the forest ecosystem spreading rapidly both vertically and horizontally.
An app for smartphones (and a web version) was launched in 2013, [4] which allows to identify thousands of plant species from photographs taken by the user. It is available in several languages. As of 2019 it had been downloaded over 10 million times, in more than 180 countries worldwide. [1]
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering vine in the grape family, Vitaceae.It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States west to Manitoba and Utah, and south to eastern Mexico and Guatemala.
Melaleuca pulchella, commonly known as claw flower and claw honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is one of only two species of Melaleuca to have two kinds of stamens (the other is Melaleuca violacea). The outer stamens are longer and curved, giving the appearance of a claw ...
Calothamnus graniticus, commonly known as granite claw flower, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. There are two subspecies, both of which have been classified as "near threatened". It is an erect, rounded shrub with pine-like, dark, grey-green foliage and usually bright red flowers.