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Lophospermum erubescens is a climbing herbaceous perennial with fibrous roots. It climbs by means of twining leaf stalks rather than tendrils or twining stems.The long stems are branched, becoming woody at the base with age and developing a woody caudex – a swollen, bulb-like structure at the base of the stem.
As the Latin name repens indicates, it is a low-growing plant with a creeping habit. [2] This evergreen perennial can be found in wet-zone rain forests. Growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall and broad, it has small kidney-shaped leaves borne on red stems, and hooded yellow flowers in summer and autumn.
Guizotia jacksonii is a low, creeping, perennial plant with ovate leaves and yellow flowerheads belonging to the family Asteraceae.This species is endemic to Kenya, and grows along roads and other open places in the forest zones the central highlands of Kenya.
Lophospermum is a genus of herbaceous perennial climbers or scramblers, native to mountainous regions of Mexico and Guatemala.Those that climb use twining leaf stalks. Their flowers are tubular, in shades of red, violet and purple, the larger flowers being pollinated by hummingbirds.
It has thin, red-brown stems, with glossy squarish to roundish leaves that are less than 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter and 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) thick. Flowers are inconspicuous, yellowish-white, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) in diameter, and borne in groups of up to three in the axils.
The gloss is caused by the smooth upper surface of the petal that acts like a mirror; the gloss aids in attracting pollinating insects and thermoregulation of the flower's reproductive organs. [6] [7] The fruit is a cluster of achenes 2.5–4 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 5 ⁄ 32 in) long. Creeping buttercup has three-lobed dark green, white-spotted leaves ...
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