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In 1988, the Israeli botanist Daniel Zohary and the German botanist Maria Hopf formulated their founder crops hypothesis. They proposed that eight plant species were domesticated by early Neolithic farming communities in Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent) and went on to form the basis of agricultural economies across much of Eurasia, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North ...
There are about 380,000 known species of plants, of which the majority, some 260,000, produce seeds. They range in size from single cells to the tallest trees . Green plants provide a substantial proportion of the world's molecular oxygen; the sugars they create supply the energy for most of Earth's ecosystems , and other organisms , including ...
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The botanical term angiosperm, or flowering plant, comes from the Greek angeíon (ἀγγεῖον; 'bottle, vessel') and spérma (σπέρμα; 'seed'); in 1690, the term Angiospermae was coined by Paul Hermann, albeit in reference to only a small subset of the species that are known as angiosperms, today.
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names , in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
Adansonia is a genus made up of eight species of medium-to-large deciduous trees known as baobabs (/ ˈ b aʊ b æ b / or / ˈ b eɪ oʊ b æ b /) or adansonias. They are placed in the family Malvaceae, subfamily Bombacoideae. They are native to Madagascar, mainland Africa, and Australia. [2] The trees have also been introduced to other regions ...
Eight species are included in the genus Toxicoscordion, [12] which is found in western North America. The well-known poisonous species formerly placed in Zigadenus, the "deathcamas", are now included in Toxicoscordion. Plants grow from an ovoid bulb and have tepals which are narrowed at their bases to form a "claw". [4]