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Ambrosia ilicifolia is a small, matted shrub under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height. Its stiff, straight branches are green, glandular, and leafy when young, and light gray and leafless when older. The holly-like leaves are leathery but brittle, oval-shaped to rounded, and edged with spine-tipped teeth. They are green, veiny and sticky with resin.
Ambrosia ambrosioides (Cav.) W.W.Payne – ambrosia-leaf bur ragweed, big bursage, ambrosia bursage; Ambrosia arborescens Mill. – marko, altamisa; Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. – common ragweed, short ragweed, Roman wormwood; Ambrosia artemisioides Meyen & Walp. Ambrosia bidentata Michx. – lanceleaf ragweed, southern ragweed; Ambrosia ...
Ambrosia is an American variety of fruit salad originating in the Southern United States. [1] Most ambrosia recipes contain canned (often sweetened) or fresh pineapple , canned mandarin orange slices or fresh orange sections, miniature marshmallows , [ 2 ] and coconut . [ 3 ]
The etymology of the word "morphology" is from the Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ), meaning "form", and λόγος (lógos), meaning "word, study, research". [2] [3]While the concept of form in biology, opposed to function, dates back to Aristotle (see Aristotle's biology), the field of morphology was developed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1790) and independently by the German anatomist ...
Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, nectar.The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; [6] though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia that Hera "cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh", [7] and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, [8] so that when she ...
Somewhat similar in appearance to Ambrosia ilicifolia, A. ilicifolia has sessile leaves with a reticulate pattern of veins, and the marginal teeth developed into short spines. [2] This ragweed can be found in sandy washes and other disturbed areas such as roadsides, and is sometimes seen growing in rock crevices. [2]
Rhamnus crocea subsp. ilicifolia, synonym Rhamnus ilicifolia, is a subspecies of flowering plant in the buckthorn family, [1] known by the common name hollyleaf redberry. [2] It is native to western North America, where it is a common plant growing in many types of habitat, including chaparral and wooded areas.
The gross anatomy of a muscle is the most important indicator of its role in the body. One particularly important aspect of gross anatomy of muscles is pennation or lack thereof. In most muscles, all the fibers are oriented in the same direction, running in a line from the origin to the insertion.