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Cassytha filiformis is a twining vine with yellow or orange to pale green hollow stems with a length between 3–8 metres long. The stems attach to host plants by growing shoots from the base of its root, they have haustoria that fold inside the hosts' phloem and xylem membranes to absorb water and nutrients.
Baccharis halimifolia is a North American species of shrubs in the family Asteraceae.It is native to Nova Scotia, the eastern and southern United States (from Massachusetts south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma), [2] eastern Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Quintana Roo), [3] the Bahamas, [4] and Cuba.
Croton eluteria, known as cascarilla, is a plant species of the genus Croton that is native to the Caribbean.It has been naturalized in other tropical regions of the Americas.
Studies by Calonje, et al. published in 2019, and Lindstrom, et al. in 2024, found that Z. integrifolia from Florida is a sister taxon to the rest of the Caribbean island species, while plants in Cuba (Calonje, et al.) and the Bahamas (Lindstom, et al.) are closely related to Z. angustifolia and Z. lucayana.
The vascular bundle provides nutrients throughout the plant, with the xylem transporting water from the roots and the phloem obtaining food from the leaves. [2] Bidens alba leaves, which are simple on the opposite side and compound on the underneath, are 2–10 centimetres (1–4 in) long and 1.0–3.5 cm (3 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) wide. [3]
Black cohosh is a smooth (glabrous) herbaceous perennial plant that produces large, compound leaves from an underground rhizome, reaching a height of 25–60 cm (9.8–23.6 in). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The basal leaves are up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long and broad, forming repeated sets of three leaflets (tripinnately compound) having a coarsely toothed ...
Bush medicine comprises traditional medicines used by Indigenous Australians, being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people have been using various components of native Australian flora and some fauna as medicine for thousands of years, and a minority turn to healers in their communities for medications aimed at providing physical and spiritual healing.
Typha latifolia grows 1.5 to 3 metres (5 to 10 feet) high [6] [11] and it has leaves2–4 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) broad. It will generally grow from 0.75 to 1 m (2 to 3 ft) of water depth. [citation needed] The leaves are deciduous, appearing in spring and dying down in the autumn. [5]