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827 [ 1] Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California, located in Santa Cruz County, about 36 km (22 mi) northwest of Santa Cruz. The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed, which was formed by the seismic uplift of its rim, and the erosion of its center by the many streams in its bowl-shaped ...
List of California native plants. Native wildflower blazing star ( Mentzelia lindleyi) Gentiana algida in the Sierra Nevada. California native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the arrival of European explorers and colonists in the late 18th century. [ 1] California includes parts of at least three phytochoria.
Eucalyptus ( / ˌjuːkəˈlɪptəs /) [ 2] is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. Most species of Eucalyptus are trees, often mallees, and a few are shrubs. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including Corymbia and Angophora, they are commonly known as eucalypts or "gum trees".
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, [ a] is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th ...
Zurich-based industrialist ABB Ltd. has bought Los Gatos Research of Mountain View, Calif., ABB announced Friday. Nineteen-year-old LGR, as its new acquisition is referred to, produces a line of ...
Website. Open Space Preserve and County Park. Rancho San Antonio County Park and Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve are a conjoined public recreational area in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in the northwest quadrant of Santa Clara County, California. The County Park is bordered by Los Altos with some parts of the eastern part of the County Park ...
Shrub. A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height, less than 6–10 m (20–33 ft) tall. [ 1][ 2] Small shrubs, less than ...
In her four-chapter series called “The Pigment Change,” rather than developing photos on photographic paper, she prints them directly onto plants. “I just put a negative on top of the leaf ...