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Cotyledon tomentosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to South Africa. It is a succulent evergreen shrub with large chunky ovate fuzzy green leaves. Its autonymous subspecies is known as the bear's paw because of the prominent "teeth" at the tips of its leaves. It forms large orange bell-shaped flowers in spring.
In the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia, the plant is known locally as "Bear's Paw." This species was also once one of the principal clubmoss species used for collection of lycopodium powder , used as a primitive flashpowder.
The plant gets its name from the resemblance the leaves have to a bear paw. The stems of the plant are a light yellow-green color. The stems grow between 2 and 9 cm (0.8 to 3.5 in) tall and lift the flowers above the leaves of the plant. [2] Dwarf bear-poppy plants form in individual clusters. [1]
There are believed to be just 1,400 four-petal pawpaw plants left in the wild and more than half of them are in Palm Beach County's natural areas.
Arctomecon is a genus of the poppy family Papaveraceae commonly called the bear poppies or bear-paw poppies, after the distinctive appearance of the leaves. The three species occur only in the northeastern part of the Mojave Desert of North America , and are all uncommon.
Paw Paws (also known as Paw Paw Bears) is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that first aired in 1985 and 1986. [1] It debuted as part of the weekday/weekend morning programming block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera .