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Columnea gloriosa is commonly known as the goldfish plant (a name it shares with a number of other species), because of the fish shaped flowers it produces. Native to the Caribbean, Central and South American tropics, it falls into the genus Columnea. [1] Also known as a cousin to African violets. This plant is in the family Gesneriaceae.
Plants portal; Flora of Oceania — the geographic continental region centred on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean and of Australasia. The main system used for categorizing plants is the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). Oceania is not a continent used in that system, but roughly corresponds to the ...
The following list includes plants that have an endemic range only within the Mariana Islands. "Mariana Islands" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), level 3 code "MRN," and includes the following geopolitical territories: Guam; Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI)
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This is a list of endemic vascular plants of the Galápagos Islands, which are politically part of Ecuador. The islands are home to dozens of endemic species and subspecies of plants, including endemic genera Brachycereus, Jasminocereus, Scalesia, Sicyocaulis, and Trigonopterum. [1] Plants are listed alphabetically by plant family.
It’s no fish tale. Giant goldfish have been appearing in freshwater lakes around the country. It’s a development that has surprised people.
Flora of Polynesia — on the islands in the Polynesian triangle of the Pacific Ocean, whose flora is within the Oceanian realm. The floristic Polynesian Subkingdom is in the Paleotropical Kingdom. NOTE: The region of Polynesia is not a geographical unit employed in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Its flora is ...
This is a list of the flora of South Georgia, an island in the subantarctic Atlantic Ocean, part of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are 26 native plant species, and there has been 76 species of introduced plants recorded on the island.