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It is a smooth, grey barked shrub or small tree that is capable of reaching 7 m (23 ft) in height and with a short trunk. [2] It has leaves with simple, alternate arrangement; leaf-blade is lanceolate to oblong outline with a coriaceous and glabrous upper surface, short, fine hairs beneath; it is 1.5-5 cm long and 1-1.5 cm wide, petiole is 2-7 mm long.
Boscia foetida, commonly known as the stink shepherd's tree and the smelly shepherd's bush, [1] is an evergreen shrub or tree that is native to the warmer and drier parts southern Africa. [2] It is found in semi-desert and arid bushveld , and in the west it occurs commonly in areas which are otherwise sparsely wooded. [ 3 ]
Boscia albitrunca, commonly known as the shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Afrikaans: Witgat, Sotho: Mohlôpi, Tswana: Motlôpi, Venda: Muvhombwe, Xhosa: Umgqomogqomo, Zulu: Umvithi), is a protected species of South African tree in the caper family. [1] It is known for having the deepest known root structure of any plant at: -68 metres (223 ft ...
Bidens alba, which belongs to the family Asteraceae, is most commonly known as shepherd's needles, beggarticks, Spanish needles, or butterfly needles. [1] Bidens means two- toothed, describing the two projections found at the top of the seeds, and alba refers to the white ray florets. [ 2 ]
That work saved about 200 Braunton’s milkvetch plants — almost all of which have now likely been torched in the wildfires that consumed Topanga Canyon, along with nearly 24,000 acres (37 ...
Aerial view of Shepherds Bush Green, which forms the largest part of the Shepherd's Bush Conservation Area. The Shepherd's Bush Conservation Area is a part of Shepherd's Bush, London, that has been established by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in order to promote the protection of local buildings of historic interest, and improve the character of the neighbourhood.
Teesdalia nudicaulis, the common shepherd's-cress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. [2] It is native to Madeira, Morocco, and nearly all of Europe, but has gone locally extinct in Switzerland and Hungary. [1] Additionally, it has been introduced to the east and west coasts of the United States, and to southern Chile.
The plants have rather bitter-tasting berries. The fruit are often eaten by bears, which by legend, prefer the berries to maintain fat stores during hibernation. [6] Buffaloberries are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including Ectropis crepuscularia (recorded from S. canadensis) and Coleophora elaeagnisella.