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Pisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae. It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso (1611–1678). [3] Certain species in this genus are known as catchbirdtrees, birdcatcher trees or birdlime trees because they catch birds. [4] The sticky seeds are postulated to be an adaptation ...
Description. Pisonia brunoniana is a small tree, spreading to 6 metres (20 ft) or more tall. The wood is soft and the branches are brittle. The large leaves are opposite or ternate, glabrous, and glossy, entire (simple with smooth margins), and obtuse to rounded at apex. The inflorescence is paniculate, many-flowered, and the flowers are unisexual.
American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, [3] hazel pine, [4] bilsted, [5] redgum, [3] satin-walnut, [3] star-leaved gum, [5] alligatorwood, [3] gumball tree [6], or simply sweetgum, [3] [7] is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America.
Description. This tree grows 10–25 m (33–82 ft) tall, with large heart-shaped to five-lobed leaves 15–40 cm (6–16 in) across, arranged in opposite pairs on the stem. On young growth, the leaves may be in whorls of three and be much bigger than the leaves on more mature growth. [ 13 ] The leaves can be mistaken for those of the catalpa.
Description. It is a large tree, growing to a height of 30 to 50 m (98 to 164 ft) and a trunk diameter over 2 m ( ft). It ranks 3rd in poplar species in the American Forests Champion Tree Registry. [3] It is normally fairly short-lived, but some trees may live up to 400 years. [4] A cottonwood in Willamette Mission State Park near Salem, Oregon ...
The shrub or tree an erect or spreading habit, growing up to 9 m (30 ft) high [4] and it has pendulous and slender branchlets with pubescent ribs. [3] Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves The phyllodes are up to 2 cm (0.79 in) in length [4] and 4 to 8 mm (0.16 to 0.31 in) wide.
Elephant-ear shape seedpods. Enterolobium cyclocarpum, commonly known as conacaste, guanacaste, caro caro, devil's ear tree, monkey-ear tree, or elephant-ear tree, is a species of flowering tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from central Mexico south to northern Brazil (Roraima) and Venezuela. [2]
Pisonia grandis Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Nyctaginaceae Genus: Pisonia Species: P. grandis Binomial name Pisonia grandis R.Br. Synonyms Pisonia viscosa Balf.f. Pisonia grandis growing in an urban park in Malaysia. Pisonia grandis, the grand devil's-claws, is a species of flowering tree in the ...