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Fruits. It is an evergreen shrub growing to 8–9 m tall, free-standing, or clinging to the trunks of other trees as an epiphyte.The leaves are palmately compound, with 7–9 leaflets, the leaflets 9–20 cm long and 4–10 cm broad (though often smaller in cultivation) with a wedge-shaped base, entire margin, and an obtuse or acute apex, sometimes emarginate.
A flea-beetle (Phenrica guerini), a leaf-mining moth (Epipagis cambogialis), and a stem-wilter, (Catorhintha schaffneri), feed on the leaves.[5]Although Pereskia aculeata is edible and of high nutrition quality, being an alternative to conventional food, this plant is a declared weed in South Africa where it does extensive damage to forest areas by smothering indigenous trees.
Plant health includes the protection of plants, as well as scientific and regulatory frameworks for controlling plant pests or pathogens. [1] Plant health is concerned with: Ecosystem health with a special focus on plants; Tree health; The control of plant pests; The control of plant pathology
Alocasia sanderiana is also known as the kris plant because of the resemblance of its leaf edges to the wavy blade of the kalis sword (also known as kris or keris). It is a tropical perennial, with upright leaves, usually growing to a height of 2 ft (60 cm) long. [2] It usually has a single to a few leaves, interspersed with papery cataphylls ...
Common names include: arrowhead plant, arrowhead vine, arrowhead philodendron, goosefoot, nephthytis, [3] African evergreen, [4] and American evergreen. [5] The species is native to a wide region of Latin America from Mexico through Bolivia , and naturalized in the West Indies , Florida , Texas , Hawaii , and other places.
The plant may reach heights of 4–6 metres, with leaves and roots much larger than Colocasia esculenta. The sagittate leaves are up to 6' 7" (2 meters) long by up to four feet (120 cm) in width, borne atop petioles or stalks up to 19' 6" (6 meters) in length and four inches (10 cm) wide.
Grazing on phragmites by large-bodied domestic herbivores, such as cows, horses, sheep, and goats, can effectively control the plant and provide a reciprocal positive benefit for humans by generating meat, milk, leather, and wool etc. [12]
The branches of Sterculia foetida are arranged in whorls; they spread horizontally.The tree's bark is smooth and gray. The leaves are placed at the end of branchlets; they have petioles ranging from 12.5 and 23 centimetres (4.9 and 9.1 inches) in length; the blades are palmately compound, containing 7–9 leaflets.