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July 11, 2024 at 4:26 PM. It's sweaty stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens. One of its rare corpse flowers is about to bloom, in all its putrescence. In ...
Phloxus St.-Lag. (1880), orth. var. Phlox ( / ˈflɒks /; Ancient Greek: φλόξ "flame"; plural "phlox" or "phloxes", Ancient Greek: φλόγες phlóges) is a genus of 68 species of perennial and annual plants in the family Polemoniaceae. They are found mostly in North America (one in Siberia) in diverse habitats from alpine tundra to open ...
Akebia quinata –commonly known as chocolate vine, five-leaf chocolate vine, [ 1] or five-leaf akebia – is a shrub that is native to Japan, China and Korea, commonly used as an ornamental / edible plant in the United States and Europe. [ 2] In its native habitat, it is often found on hills, in hedges, on trees, along forest edges and streams ...
Stephanotis floribunda syn. S. jasminoides, the Madagascar jasmine, waxflower, Hawaiian wedding flower, or bridal wreath is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Madagascar. It is a twining, sparsely branched liana that can measure up to 6 m in length. Despite its common name, the species is not a "true jasmine" and ...
Does the stench from a corpse flower live up to its namesake? A couple of Twin Cities morticians stood in line at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory to find out. Angela Woosley and Angelica Napoli ...
Crowds lined up in San Francisco on Wednesday to see — and smell — the blooming of an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years. An ...
Scaevola albida. ( Sm.) Druce [ 1] Goodenia albida Sm. Scaevola albida, commonly known as pale fan-flower[ 2] or small-fruit fan-flower, [ 3] is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a spreading perennial herb with pale blue or white fan-shaped flowers and obovate leaves. It grows in Queensland through eastern New South Wales and ...
Corymbia ficifolia, commonly known as red flowering gum, [ 2] is a species of small tree that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, egg-shaped to broadly lance-shape adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, bright red, pink or orange flowers and urn-shaped fruit.