Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Phytolacca dioica, commonly known as ombú in Spanish and umbu in Portuguese, is a massive evergreen tree in the Pokeweed Family (Phytolaccaceae) native to the Pampas of South America. As its specific epithet suggests, it is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. [1] The flowers are pollinated by the butterfly Doxocopa ...
Phytolacca dioica Afrikaans: Blom in die bloeiwyse van 'n Belhambraboom, te Elandsfontein, Waterberg, Limpopo English: Flower of an Ombú tree, one of many in the inflorescence, at Elandsfontein, Waterberg, Limpopo
A Phytolacca-like fossil has been described from the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico, it is a permineralized multiple infructescence composed of berries with six locules, each containing a single seed with a curved embryo developed in a curved ovule with pendulous placentation, a berry anatomy that ...
Image credits: soosseli The Finnish photographer also shared more about a significant experience he had while photographing wildlife: “My most memorable moment in nature happened last spring ...
Phytolaccaceae is a family of flowering plants.Though almost universally recognized by taxonomists, its circumscription has varied.It is also known as the Pokeweed family. ...
Braunton’s milkvetch, an endangered shrub that grew in Topanga Park Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. In the week of chaos that has claimed at least 24 lives, California and LA leadership have ...
Pierre C. Shadeaux. Let's give this little guy an honorable mention! If you're looking for something a little different, watch for news from Zoo of Acadiana in Louisiana.
P. dioica may refer to: . Phytolacca dioica, the ombú, a massive evergreen herb species growing as a tree native to the Pampas of South America; Pimenta dioica, the allspice, Jamaica pepper, kurundu, myrtle pepper, pimenta or newspice, a mid-canopy tree species native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico and Central America