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This water-willow is widely known as tilo in Latin America and in Cuba. In Haiti , it is called chapantye and zeb chapantyè on Dominica and Martinique . Other folk names are freshcut , [ 2 ] chambá [ 3 ] carpintero ("carpenter"), té criollo (" Criollo tea"), curia , death-angel , masha-hari , or "piri piri" .
In English landscape gardens, avenues of linden trees were fashionable, especially during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Many country houses have a surviving "lime avenue" or "lime walk", the example at Hatfield House was planted between 1700 and 1730. [ 11 ]
Tilo, TiLo, or TILO, may refer to: a local name for the herb Justicia pectoralis; a local name for the tree Ocotea foetens; the Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes (TILO) educational program in Egypt; the Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia (TiLo) regional railway operator in southern Switzerland and northern Italy
A plant which completes its life cycle (i.e. germinates, reproduces, and dies) within two years or growing seasons. Biennial plants usually form a basal rosette of leaves in the first year and then flower and fruit in the second year. bifid Forked; cut in two for about half its length. Compare trifid. bifoliate
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.
Propagated plants grow rapidly in a rich soil, but are susceptible to many pests. The American basswood is known for being one of the most difficult native North American trees to propagate from seed, as they not only have a low viability rate (approximately 30% of all seeds are viable), but quickly develop an extremely hard seed coating that ...
The common names largeleaf linden [1] and large-leaved linden are in standard use throughout the English-speaking world except in the British Isles, where it is known as large-leaved lime. [2] The name "lime", possibly a corruption of "line" originally from "lind", has been in use for centuries and also attaches to other species of Tilia. [3]
In adult plants, the leaves are leathery in texture, glossy on both sides, darker green on the upper surface, with 2(-4) small gland-like depressions on the underside near the base. The petioles are short (up to 15 mm (0.59 in) in length). [5] The flowers of both sexes are white, with splashes of green and pale yellow, releasing a slight odor.