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Ambrosia ilicifolia is a small, matted shrub under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height. Its stiff, straight branches are green, glandular, and leafy when young, and light gray and leafless when older. The holly-like leaves are leathery but brittle, oval-shaped to rounded, and edged with spine-tipped teeth. They are green, veiny and sticky with resin. [3 ...
Ambrosia is an American variety of fruit salad originating in the Southern United States. [1] Most ambrosia recipes contain canned (often sweetened) or fresh pineapple , canned mandarin orange slices or fresh orange sections, miniature marshmallows , [ 2 ] and coconut . [ 3 ]
Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, nectar.The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; [6] though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods; it was with ambrosia that Hera "cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh", [7] and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, [8] so that when she ...
Ambrosia ambrosioides (Cav.) W.W.Payne – ambrosia-leaf bur ragweed, big bursage, ambrosia bursage; Ambrosia arborescens Mill. – marko, altamisa; Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. – common ragweed, short ragweed, Roman wormwood; Ambrosia artemisioides Meyen & Walp. Ambrosia bidentata Michx. – lanceleaf ragweed, southern ragweed; Ambrosia ...
Somewhat similar in appearance to Ambrosia ilicifolia, A. ilicifolia has sessile leaves with a reticulate pattern of veins, and the marginal teeth developed into short spines. [2] This ragweed can be found in sandy washes and other disturbed areas such as roadsides, and is sometimes seen growing in rock crevices. [2]
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Prunus ilicifolia flowers. It is an evergreen shrub [4] or small tree approaching 15 metres (49 feet) in height, [12] with dense, hard leaves [4] (sclerophyllous foliage). The leaves are 1.6–12 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) long with a 4–25 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 –1 in) petiole [12] and spiny margins, somewhat resembling those of the holly.
Rhamnus crocea subsp. ilicifolia, synonym Rhamnus ilicifolia, is a subspecies of flowering plant in the buckthorn family, [1] known by the common name hollyleaf redberry. [2] It is native to western North America, where it is a common plant growing in many types of habitat, including chaparral and wooded areas.