- Narcissus asturiensis(Jordan) Pugsley, N. bulbocodium L., N. concolor (Haw.) Link, N. jonquilla L., N. papyraceus Ker'Gawler, N. poeticus L., N. pseudonarcissus L., N. requienii M. J. Roemer, N. rupicola Dufour, N. serotinus L., Narcissus tazetta L., N. triandrus L. Nerine Pamianthe Pancratium
- Sternbergia lutea (L.) Sprengel Strumaria Tapeinanthus Tedingea Traubia Ungernia Urceolina Vagaria Vallota Worsleya Zephyranthes
Las Amaryllidaceae son una familia de plantas del orden Asparagales, clase Liliopsida. Son hierbas vivaces (es decir, que no tiene crecimiento secundario en grosor, pero retoñan), bulbosas o rizomatosas. Hojas simples de borde entero (es decir, liso), creciendo apretadas desde la base (donde conservan un meristemo activo), alargadas, paralelinervias, al modo más típico de las monocotiledóneas (Liliopsida). Flores hermafroditas, regulares (es decir, de simetría radial); perianto con seistépalos petaloideos, libres o soldados inferiormente en un tubo, el cual se prolonga a menudo en una corona o falsa corola]+; [[androceo]] con seis [[estambres (rara vez 3, en algún caso hasta 18); ovario ínfero trilocular. Inflorescencias cimosas, a veces compactadas en umbelas, o bien flores solitarias. Ovario de tres carpelos, sincárpico, cuya maduración produce cápsulas indehiscentes, o dehiscentes loculicidas, y a veces bayas (carnosas).
umbela
Existen alrededor de 1200 especies, propias de regiones sobre todo templadas y cálidas, de todos los continentes. Muchas especies son cultivadas como ornamentales, ninguna lo es como alimento.
Categoría:LiliopsidaCategoría:Amaryllidaceaeja:ヒガンバナ科
C. caulescens C. gardenii C. miniata C. mirabilis C. nobilis
La clivia es un género de planta florales monocotiledóneas oriundas del África meridional. Son perennes no leñosas, con hojas de color verde oscuro, largas y estrechas que producen racimos de flores acampanadas rojas o anaranjadas al final de un largo tallo, asemejándose a los lirios. De las 5 especies conocidas, clivia miniata y sus variedades híbridas son las más ampliamente cultivadas, con flores que oscilan entre el rojo anaranjado oscuro al amarillo pálido.
Se cultivan particularmente en Bélgica, Francia y China.
Los especímenes fueron recogidos por los exploradores británicos William Burchell y John Bowie en 1815 y 1820 respectivamente. La clivia nobilis fue la primera especie nombrada por el botánico de Kew John Lindley, en memoria de Lady Charlotte Florentine Clive, duquesa de Northumberland.
Categoría:Plantas bulbosasCategoría:Amaryllidaceae
Himalayan Pine
The Blue Pine (Pinus wallichiana) is a pine native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east to Yunnan in southwest China. It grows at high altitudes in mountain valleys at altitudes of 1800-4300 m (rarely as low as 1200 m), and is a tree from 30-50 m in height. It grows in a temperate climate with dry winters and wet summers.
This pine is also called the Himalayan White Pine. In the past it was also often known as 'Bhutan Pine', but this is now avoided to reduce confusion with the more recently-described Pinus bhutanica, a closely related species. In the past, Blue Pine was also known by the invalid Latin names "Pinus griffithii" or "Pinus excelsa".
Pinus bhutanica
The leaves ("needles") are in fascicles (bundles) of five and are 12-18 cm long, and often droop gracefully. The cones are long and slender, 16-32 cm, yellow-buff when mature, with thin scales; the seeds are 5-6 mm long with a 20-30 mm wing.
Typical habitats are mountain screes and glacier forelands, but it will also form old growth forests as the primary species or in mixed forests with Deodar Cedar, birch, spruce, and fir. In some places it reaches the tree-line.
Uses
The wood is moderately hard, durable and highly resinous. It is a good firewood but gives off a pungent resinous smoke. It is another commercial source of turpentine which is superior quality than that of Chir Pine (P. roxburghii) but is not produced so freely.
It is also a popular tree for planting in parks and large gardens, grown for its attractive foliage and large, decorative cones. It is also valued for its relatively high resistance to air pollution, tolerating this better than some other conifers.
External links
- [http://www.conifers.org/pi/pin/wallichiana.htm Gymnosperm Database: Pinus wallichiana]
- [http://www.pinetum.org/cones/PNStrobus.htm Photo of cones (scroll half-way down)]
- [http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Pinus+wallichiana&CAN=COMIND Plants for a future]
Pine, Blue
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