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The finely hairy, upright, unbranched, stems grow to 15–50 centimetres (6– 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) tall. [5] Fertile plants have a single stem with two palmately lobed leaves . [ 6 ] Flowering plants produce a single terminal flower with no petals and three sepals and 12 or more conspicuous white pistils ; flowering occurs for a short time in ...
Polygonatum odoratum (syn. P. officinale), the angular Solomon's seal or scented Solomon's seal, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East, China, Mongolia, Korea, Nepal and Japan.
The plants produce several stems from a creeping underground rhizome; some stems bear a single leaf and do not produce any flower or fruit, while flowering stems produce a pair or more leaves with 1–8 flowers in the axil between the apical leaves. The flowers are white, yellow or red, 2–6 cm (1–2 in) diameter with 6–9 petals, and mature ...
The Saimaa ringed seal is closely related to the Ladoga ringed seal, the populations likely became isolated from the Baltic ringed seal around the same time. The Saimaa ringed seal lives solely within Saimaa, a large freshwater lake in the regions of South Savo, South Karelia, and North Karelia in Finland. Current estimates place the size of ...
The fruit wall (pericarp) is membranous. The vertical seed is ellipsoid, with yellowish brown, membranous, hairy seed coat. The seed contains no perisperm (feeding tissue). [3] Like most members of the subfamily Salicornioideae, Salicornia species use the C 3 carbon fixation pathway to take in carbon dioxide from the surrounding atmosphere. [4]
Maianthemum racemosum, the treacleberry, feathery false lily of the valley, [3] false Solomon's seal, Solomon's plume [4] [5] or false spikenard, is a species of flowering plant native to North America. It is a common, widespread plant with numerous common names and synonyms, known from every US state except Hawaii, and from every Canadian ...
The fruit of Monstera deliciosa is up to 25 cm (10 in) long and 3–5 cm (1.2–2.0 in) diameter, and it looks like a green ear of maize covered with hexagonal scales. As the fruit ripens, these scales or platelets fall off the fruit, releasing a strong and sweet scent. The smell has been compared to a combination of pineapples and bananas. [17]
Glasswort salad. Young shoots of Salicornia europaea are tender and can be eaten raw as a salad: glasswort salad or samphire salad (Turkish: Deniz börülcesi salatası). This salad is a part of Turkish cuisine, also made with lemon juice, olive oil [9] and garlic. [10] [11] It is commonly served as a meze. [citation needed] The shoots can also ...