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Advancements in selective breeding have allowed scientists to find a strain of longan containing a "high proportion of aborted seeds" at the end of a thirty-year breeding program in 2001. [31] Studies in 2015 that aimed to aid longan breeding efforts discovered that −20 degrees Celsius is the optimal temperature for long-term storage of ...
Myrica rubra is an evergreen tree that grows to a height of up to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. Leaves are leathery, bare, elliptic-obovate to oval lanceolate in shape, wedge-shaped at the base and rounded to pointed or tapered at the apex, margin is serrated or serrated in the upper half, with a length of 5–14 cm (2.0–5. ...
The name dracaena is derived from the romanized form of the Ancient Greek δράκαινα – drakaina, "female dragon". [ 7 ] The majority of the species are native to Africa and the Canary Islands , southern Asia through to northern Australia, with two species in tropical Central America.
Pokeweeds reproduce only by their large, glossy black, lens-shaped seeds, which are contained in a fleshy, 10-celled, purple-to-near-black berry that has crimson juice. The flowers are perfect, radially symmetric, white or green, with 4–5 sepals and no petals. The flowers develop in elongated clusters termed racemes.
Dracaena cinnabari, the Socotra dragon tree or dragon blood tree, is a dragon tree native to the Socotra archipelago, part of Yemen, located in the Arabian Sea. It is named after the blood-like color of the red sap that the trees produce. [ 2 ]
Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, [4] is a subtropical tree in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and possibly introduced into the Azores. [5] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1762 as Asparagus draco. [3] [6] In 1767 he assigned it to the new genus, Dracaena ...
Schisandra chinensis, whose fruit is called magnolia berry [3] or five-flavor fruit (Chinese: 五味子; pinyin: wǔwèizǐ, in Korean: 오미자, romanized: omija, Japanese: ゴミシ, romanized: gomishi), [4] [1] [5] is a vine plant native to forests of Northern China, the Russian Far East and Korea. [6] Wild varieties are also found in Japan ...
Dracunculus vulgaris, also known as dragon arum, a flowering plant in the arum family, Araceae; Persicaria bistorta, also known as bistort, a plant in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae, once classified as Polygonum bistorta. Arisaema dracontium, also known as green dragon, a herbaceous perennial native to North America.