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Yucca whipplei is named after Amiel Weeks Whipple (1818–1863), a surveyor who oversaw the Pacific Railroad Survey to Los Angeles in 1853. [14] The name our Lord's candle is derived from its huge, flame-shaped inflorescence. Spanish bayonet refers to the needle-sharp leaf tips which can cause discomfort to the unwary passer-by.
Autoflowering cannabis or day neutral cannabis varieties automatically switch from vegetative growth to the flowering stage based on age, as opposed to the ratio of light to dark hours required with photoperiod dependent/short-day strains. Many autoflowering varieties are ready to harvest in less than 10 weeks from seed.
County health officials have identified what appears to be a strain unique to Los Angeles amid a spike in drug-resistant shigellosis cases. Doctors identify 'alarming' new strain of drug-resistant ...
The California fan palm is also known as the desert fan palm, American cotton palm, and Arizona fan palm. The fronds are up to 4 m (13 ft) long, made up of a thorned petiole up to 2 m (6.6 ft) long, bearing a fan of leaflets 1.5–2.0 m (4.9–6.6 ft) long.
Fremontodendron 'California Glory' — lemon-yellow flowers with a reddish tinge, grows 6.1 m (20 ft) in height by 6.1 m (20 ft) in width. It is the winner of the Award of Garden Merit from the California Horticultural Society in 1965, and received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1967.
The inflorescence is a usually solitary sunflower-like flower head with a base up to 6 centimeters wide lined with several ray florets, each of which are 2 to 6 centimeters long.
Nicotiana glauca is a species of flowering plant in the tobacco genus Nicotiana of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is known by the common name tree tobacco.Its leaves are attached to the stalk by petioles (many other Nicotiana species have sessile leaves), and its leaves and stems are neither pubescent nor sticky like Nicotiana tabacum.
Romneya coulteri, the Coulter's Matilija poppy [1] or California tree poppy, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae0. Native to southern California , USA, and Baja California , Mexico, it grows in dry canyons in chaparral and coastal sage scrub plant communities, sometimes in areas recently burned . [ 2 ]