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Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas.Common names include yellow trumpetbush, [3] yellow bells, [3] yellow elder, [3] ginger Thomas. [4]
Liatris (/ l aɪ ˈ æ t r ɪ s / [2]), commonly known as gayfeather [3] and blazing star [4] [5] is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Eupatorieae within the family Asteraceae native to North America (Canada, United States, Mexico and the Bahamas). [6] [7] [4] Some species are used as ornamental plants, sometimes in flower bouquets.
The national flower of Nicaragua is known as the sacuanjoche (plumeria rubra). The sacuanjoche flower (Plumeria) grows on a conical tree that flowers around May. Sacuanjoche flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators.
(state flower) Cornus florida: 1941 [46] Carolina lily (state wildflower) Lilium michauxii: 2003 [47] [48] North Dakota: Wild prairie rose: Rosa blanda or arkansana: 1907 [49] Northern Mariana Islands: Flores mayo: Plumeria: 1979 [4] Ohio: Scarlet carnation (state flower) Dianthus caryophyllus: 1953 [50] Large white trillium (state wild flower ...
This category contains articles related to the native flora of the Bahamas. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. This category follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions
America's Best Kept Secret [3] Song "Gi Talo Gi Halom Tasi" 1996 Bird: Mariana fruit dove: Flower: Plumeria [4] 1968 Quarter: Quarter of the Northern Mariana Islands: November 30, 2009 License Plate: License Plate of the Northern Mariana Islands: 1989 Tree: Delonix regia [4] 1979
The 1943 revision allowed a child born abroad at any time to be a British national by descent if the Secretary of State agreed to register the birth. [56] In the Bahamas, the government had also passed migration legislation, as early as 1920, but even in the 1928 Immigration Act, there was no definition of Bahamian nationality. [57]
Guaiacum sanctum, commonly known as holywood, lignum vitae [4] or holywood lignum-vitae, is a species of flowering plant in the creosote bush family, Zygophyllaceae.It is native to the Neotropical realm, from Mexico through Central America, Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, and northern South America. [5]