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The extensive use of the plant for wood, food and medicine by Nyungar peoples saw it regarded as a valuable resource. The abundance of seed was made into flour. The sap was collected and administered as medicine, either immediately or prepared and stored for later use. The wood was preferred in the manufacture of kylies, a boomerang-type weapon ...
During dry seasons the plant goes drought deciduous, shedding all of its foliage, relying on the water stored in its thick stems. [4] Encelia californica is similar, but has only one flower head per stalk. [2]
The Sarcobatus plants are deciduous [1] shrubs growing to 0.5–3 metres tall with spiny branches and green succulent leaves, [3] 10–40 mm long and 1–2 mm broad. The leaves are green, in contrast to the grey-green color of most of the other shrubs within its range.
Phytolacca is a genus of perennial plants native to North America, South America and East Asia. Some members of the genus are known as pokeweeds or similar names such as pokebush, pokeberry, pokeroot or poke sallet. [2] [3] Other names for species of Phytolacca include inkberry and ombú.
There are also plants with medicinal properties, like iron-rich fenugreek, tummy-soothing peppermint and the gel produced by the aloe vera plant. And finally, there’s the integral part plants ...
The northern atoll was visited in 1941 by the British naturalist Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill, who provided the first systematic assessment of the plant communities and a description of the dominant flora. The 1980s saw the two largest surveys in 1985 by I. R. Telford, who collected 93 species from both atolls, and in 1986-1987 by D. G. Williams ...
Greenclaws, played by Nick Mercer, was a big green monster who lived in a greenhouse.Every week, Iris (Stella Goodier) would visit Greenclaws. They would put one of Greenclaws' fabulous seeds (that were once found and left by Greenclaws' Great Uncle Vasco d'Itchyclaws) in a plant pot, put the plant pot inside a secret growing place in the Riddle Tree, wait for Owlma (a mechanical owl) to alert ...
Canarium is a genus of about 120 species of tropical and subtropical trees, in the family Burseraceae.They grow naturally across tropical Africa, south and southeast Asia, Indochina, Malesia, Australia and western Pacific Islands; including from southern Nigeria east to Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka and India; from Burma, Malaysia and Thailand through the Malay Peninsula and Vietnam to ...