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The name quandong usually refers to the fruit of S. acuminatum in commercial usage. Variant spelling includes quondong and quandang. The fruit and plant are also named sweet quandong and native peach. [3] The plant was known to many different indigenous language groups, and is therefore known by many different names.
The Cuban cactus scrub is a xeric shrubland ecoregion that occupies 3,300 km 2 (1,300 sq mi) on the leeward coast of Cuba. Most of it occurs in the southeastern part of the island in the provinces of Guantánamo and Santiago de Cuba. The ecoregion receives less than 800 mm (31 in) of rainfall annually.
The Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20017-0. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum ...
Cuban pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus culminicola: Potosí piñón Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus dabeshanensis: Dabieshan white pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus dalatensis: Vietnamese white pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus densata: Sikang pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus densiflora: Japanese red pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus devoniana ...
Hendrik Goltzius, A Foxglove in Bloom, 1592, National Gallery of Art, NGA 94900 The generic epithet Digitalis is from the Latin digitus (finger). [9] Leonhart Fuchs first invented the name for this plant in his 1542 book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Notable comments on the history of plants), based upon the German vernacular name Fingerhut, [10] [11] which translates literally as ...
Prunus andersonii is a deciduous shrub approaching 2 metres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) in height, its tangling branches narrowing to spiny-tipped twigs. Serrated, lance-shaped to oval leaves occur in clusters, each leaf measuring up to 3 centimeters (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long.
Latin names of organisms are generally used in English without alteration, but some informal derivatives are used as common names. For example, the -idae ending of subclass names is changed to -ids (e.g., Rosidae produces rosids); the subfamily ending -oideae is changed to -oids (e.g., Papilionoideae produces papilionoids).