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Brunfelsia pauciflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae, the nightshades.It is endemic to Brazil, and it is grown in cultivation. [1] A shrubby perennial plant grown in gardens, its common names include today, tomorrow together, yesterday, today and tomorrow, morning-noon-and-night, kiss me quick, and Brazil raintree.
Worsleya is a genus of Brazilian plants in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae, cultivated as an ornamental because of its showy flowers. There is only one known species, Worsleya procera, native to eastern Brazil. [6] [7] [8] It is endemic to the marshy top of a mesa called "Mount Cuca" 30 miles (52 km) north of Rio de Janeiro. Here the sickle ...
The vegetation of the Pantanal, often referred to as the "Pantanal complex", is a mixture of plant communities typical of a variety of surrounding biome regions: these include moist tropical Amazonian rainforest plants, semiarid woodland plants typical of northeast Brazil, Brazilian cerrado savanna plants, and plants of the Chaco savannas of ...
The wildlife of Brazil comprises all naturally occurring animals, plants, and fungi in the South American country. Home to 60% of the Amazon Rainforest , which accounts for approximately one-tenth of all species in the world, [ 1 ] Brazil is considered to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on the planet.
Brazil – a region of Southern America in the WGSRPD. This category contains articles related to the Flora of Brazil.This category is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, which recommends that the flora of Brazil, a region within Southern America, be divided into the areas:
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday said that next week's summit of Amazon region nations will seek to draw up a common policy for the first time to protect the rainforest. The ...
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Team USA men's basketball rolled through Group C in the 2024 Paris Olympics, earning the No. 1 overall seed for the knockout round.. Led by LeBron James and Kevin Durant, Team USA defeated Puerto ...