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Common names include toothache plant, Szechuan buttons, [2] paracress, jambu, [3] buzz buttons, [4] tingflowers and electric daisy. [5] Its native distribution is unclear, but it is likely derived from a Brazilian Acmella species. [6] A small, erect plant, it grows quickly and bears gold and red inflorescences. It is frost-sensitive but ...
Oxalis pes-caprae (African wood-sorrel, Bermuda buttercup, Bermuda sorrel, buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, goat's-foot, sourgrass, soursob or soursop; Afrikaans: suring; Arabic: hommayda (حميضة) [2]) is a species of tristylous yellow-flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae.
The opening to the flower is hairy. A highly variable plant, taking many forms, E. guttata is a species complex in that there is room to treat some of its forms as different species by some definitions. [9] The plant ranges from 10 to 80 centimetres (4 to 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall with disproportionately large, 2 to 4 cm long, tubular flowers. The ...
Allamanda cathartica, commonly called golden trumpet, [2] common trumpetvine, [2] and yellow allamanda, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. It does not twine, nor does it have tendrils or aerial roots.
It blooms from August to October [6] and produces pungent-smelling, golden-yellow flowers. The flower heads are 6–13 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 in) long [4] and made up of 5 small, yellow, tubular disk flowers, and occur in umbrella-shaped terminal clusters. [7] [5] The shrub reproduces from seeds and root sprouts. [5]
The stems are 20–40 cm tall, erect, branching, and slightly hairy, with a swollen corm-like base. [2]: 120 [3] There are alternate and sessile leaves on the stem. The flower forms at the apex of the stems, with 5–7 petals, [3] the sepals strongly reflexed. [2] The flowers are glossy yellow and 1.5–3 cm wide. The plant blooms from April to ...
Leontice leontopetalum, commonly known as leontice, lion's foot, lion's turnip, and lion's leaf, is a perennial geophyte having a wide distribution, and growing primarily in semi-desert regions. The name "lion's foot" is derived from the Greek λεοντοπέταλη [= "lioness"] in reference to a fancied resemblance between the shape of the ...
Cuscuta. Cuscuta (/ k ʌ s ˈ k juː t ə /), commonly known as dodder or amarbel, is a genus of over 201 species of yellow, orange, or red (rarely green) parasitic plants.Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it now is accepted as belonging in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae, on the basis of the work of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. [1]