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Schefflera / ˈ ʃ ɛ f l ər ə / [1] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araliaceae with 13 species native to New Zealand and some Pacific islands. [2]The genus is named in honor of Johann Peter Ernst von Scheffler [], physician and botanist of Gdańsk, and later of Warsaw, who contributed plants to Gottfried Reyger [] for Reyger's book, Tentamen Florae Gedanensis.
A sundew with a leaf bent around a fly trapped by mucilage. Mucilage is a thick gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms.These microorganisms include protists which use it for their locomotion, with the direction of their movement always opposite to that of the secretion of mucilage. [1]
This is a short perennial plant growing 4–15 in (100–380 mm) long. Leaves are yellowish-green with brighter yellow bracts. Upper plant has a gland that produces a sticky substance, hence both the common names Glandular and Sticky Paintbrush.
Schefflera digitata, the patē, seven-finger, or umbrella tree, [1] is a tree endemic to New Zealand belonging to the family Araliaceae. Māori names include: patē , patatē , patete , and kōtētē . [ 2 ]
[6] [7] The inflorescences are hairy and noticeably sticky to the touch. This is caused by the presence of hairs which exude a sticky substance (glandular hairs). The inflorescences are covered by leaves that have been reduced to scale-like structures known as bracts that are 2–3.5 centimeters long and 0.5–1 centimeter wide. [4]
Heptapleurum taiwanianum (syn. Schefflera taiwaniana, 台湾鹅掌柴) [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to Taiwan, where it is scattered throughout coniferous forests at 2,000–3,000 m (6,600–9,800 ft). [3] Growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall by 2.5 m (8.2 ft) broad, it is an evergreen shrub or small tree.
Schefflera pueckleri (K.Koch) Frodin (1989) Sciodaphyllum pulchellum Griff. (1843), nom. nud. ... It has palmate leaves with 7-12 leaflets growing in a whorled ...
Astropanax abyssinicus is a flowering plant in the family Araliaceae.It grows in tropical Africa, from southeastern Nigeria to Ethiopia and Zambia. [1]Schefflera abyssinica is a tree with a broad crown, which grows up to 12 metres tall as a freestanding tree.