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Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae. It is the largest genus in the family, containing over 680 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes. Some Viola species are perennial plants, some are ...
Viola bezdelevae Vorosch. Viola bhutanica H.Hara. Viola biflora L. – yellow wood violet, twoflower violet, arctic yellow violet. Viola binayensis Okamoto & K.Ueda. Viola × bissellii House – Bissell's violet. Viola bissetii Maxim. Viola blanda Willd. – sweet white violet, Willdenow's violet. Viola blandiformis Nakai.
Viola banksii, commonly known as native violet, is sold and grown throughout garden nurseries and grown and loved in gardens around Australia, especially in the east.For many years it was known as Viola hederacea, however, the species complex was revised in 2004 by Kevin Thiele, with the name Viola banksii being published in 2003 by Kevin Thiele and Suzanne Prober.
Violet identifies various plant taxa, particularly species in the genus Viola, within which the common violet is the best known member in Eurasia and the common blue violet and common purple violet are the best known members in North America, but also: Various species of Barleria, including: Barleria cristata, Philippine violet
The leaves and acorns of oak species are poisonous in large amounts to humans and livestock, including cattle, horses, sheep and goats, but not pigs. Poisoning is caused by the toxin tannic acid, which causes gastroenteritis, heart trouble, contact dermatitis and kidney damage.
Parma violets belong to the more exotic branch of the violet family. First appearing in Italy, in the 20th century, most types of parma violets have lavender flowers of varying sizes, which have an attractive fragrance. The origins of the parma violet are unknown, though they have been shown to be derived from two different Viola alba strains ...
The fugu ( 河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo ( 복어; -魚) or bok ( 복) in Korean, and hétún ( 河豚; 河魨) in Standard Modern Chinese [ a ] is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish. Fugu possesses a potentially fatal ...
A harmful algal bloom ( HAB ), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means. HABs are sometimes defined as only those algal blooms that produce toxins, and sometimes as any algal bloom that can ...