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Senecio candicans, commonly known as angel wings and sea cabbage, is a succulent flowering plant in the Senecio genus that is native to Argentina [2] and is grown as an ornamental plant elsewhere. [ 3 ]
Senecio / s ɪ ˈ n iː ʃ i. oʊ / [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family that includes ragworts and groundsels. Variously circumscribed taxonomically, the genus Senecio is one of the largest genera of flowering plants.
Senecio is a very large genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family . As of March 2023 [update] , almost 1,500 species were accepted by Plants of the World Online . [ 1 ]
Angel wing begonias are typically grown as houseplants, though they will do okay outdoors in part shade. They’re moderate growers, reaching heights of 2 to 3 feet and widths of about 2 feet.
In the late 1920s, a California plant breeder combined the traditional, bamboo-like cane begonia with a hybrid from Switzerland (B. coccinea ‘Lucerna’) and called the result "angel wing."
Caladium or angel wings, a genus of flowering plants; Cyrtopleura costata, the bivalve mollusc, known as the angel wing clam; Opuntia microdasys, a species of cactus; Pleurocybella porrigens, a wood-decay fungus; Senecio candicans, an ornamental plant commonly known as 'angel wings' An element in the iconography of angels "Angel's Wings", a ...
Plants in this tribe are responsible for more livestock poisonings than all other plants combined. [4] Its members usually contain liver and kidney toxic and carcinogenic unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids in Senecio [4] and furanoeremophilanes in Tetradymia. [3] A number of species are well known in horticulture. [3]
Thinking of plants as lives that serve their own purposes opens up a distinct way of understanding our connection to them. They are independent from us and yet knowable; otherworldly and yet familiar.