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Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, the Hercules' club, Hercules-club, pepperwood, or southern prickly ash, is a spiny tree or shrub native to the southeastern United States.It grows to 10–17 m tall and has distinctive spined thick, corky lumps 2–3 cm long on the bark.
Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
The flowers, which superficially resemble dandelions, bear scale-leaves on the long stems in early spring. The leaves of coltsfoot, which appear after the flowers have set seed, wither and die in the early summer. The flower heads are of yellow florets with an outer row of bracts. The plant is typically 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in) in height.
Datura stramonium, known by the common names thornapple, jimsonweed (jimson weed), or devil's trumpet, [2] is a poisonous flowering plant in the Daturae tribe of the nightshade family Solanaceae. [3]
Aromatic and slightly bitter leaves, as well as young spring shoots, can be eaten raw or cooked. The leaves and buds, best picked shortly before mugwort flowers in July to September, can be used as a bitter flavoring agent to season fat, meat and fish. [7] Mugwort was used to flavor beer before the introduction of hops. [2] [8]
Find out your birth month flower in the list ahead. January: Carnation. Kicking off the year with an array of color—the carnation is one of those flowers that's often available in a rainbow of hues.
Throatwort - A name for one or two plants of the genus Campanula. Thrumwort - Amaranthus caudatus; velvet flower or love-lies-bleeding. Toothwort - Cardamine, Lathraea squamaria, and Lathraea clandestina Towerwort - the tower mustard and some allied species of Arabis. Tree lungwort - Lobaria pulmonaria, a lichen.
The leaf lasts one growing season. The peduncle (the primary flower stalk) can be long or short. As is typical of the Arum family, these species develop an inflorescence consisting of an elongate or ovate spathe (a sheathing bract) which usually envelops the spadix (a flower spike with a fleshy axis). The spathe can have different colors, but ...