Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Linnaeus's flower clock was a garden plan hypothesized by Carl Linnaeus that would take advantage of several plants that open or close their flowers at particular times of the day to accurately indicate the time. [1] [2] According to Linnaeus's autobiographical notes, he discovered and developed the floral clock in 1748. [3]
Dendrobium kingianum, commonly known as the pink rock orchid, [3] is a flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It usually grows on rocks, rarely as an epiphyte , and has thin, spreading leaves and spikes of up to fifteen, usually pink flowers in late winter to spring.
Azure-blue Anagallis arvensis, a blue form. Anagallis arvensis (syn. Lysimachia arvensis), commonly known as the scarlet pimpernel, red pimpernel, red chickweed, poor man's barometer, poor man's weather-glass, [1] shepherd's weather glass or shepherd's clock, is a species of low-growing annual plant with brightly coloured flowers, [2] most often scarlet but also bright blue and sometimes pink.
Mirabilis jalapa, the marvel of Peru [1] or four o'clock flower, is the most commonly grown ornamental species of Mirabilis plant, and is available in a range of colors. Mirabilis in Latin means wonderful and Jalapa (or Xalapa) is the state capital of Veracruz in Mexico .
The Inland Pigface is a perennial and flowers during the southern summer and winter. [4] In a study done testing the effects of severe drought on the growth, water usage, and survival of several plants, including the Carpobrotus modestus, it was shown that high water use by C.modestus resulted in reduced survival relative to the other plants ...
Acacia purpureopetala, more commonly known as Purple flowered wattle or Cupid's wattle, is the only pink flowering wattle in Australia. [2] It grows in the Herberton district of north-east Queensland. Under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 it is listed as critically endangered. [1]
Eucalyptus albopurpurea, commonly known as the purple-flowered mallee box or Port Lincoln mallee, [3] is a mallee or sometimes a tree that is endemic to South Australia.It has loose, fibrous grey-brown bark on the lower park of the trunk and smooth grey bark that is shed in strips on its upper parts.
Melaleuca nesophila, commonly known as showy honey-myrtle, mindiyet or pink melaleuca, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to an area near Albany in Western Australia. The Noongar name for the plant is mindiyet . [ 2 ]