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Some winged bean varieties do not produce tuberous roots. [1] The winged bean is a tropical plant, and will only flower when the day length is shorter than 12 hours, although some varieties have been reported to be day-length neutral. [1] [5] All varieties of winged bean grow on a vine and must grow over a support. Some examples of support ...
Lotus purpureus, known as asparagus-pea [2] or winged pea, is an annual leguminous herb native to the countries around the Mediterranean, although introduced elsewhere. [1] It is low growing, and produces a profusion of prominent deep red flowers, followed by seed pods that are longitudinally winged.
Melyridae (common name: soft-winged flower beetles) are a family of beetles of the superfamily Cleroidea. Description ... but many are common on flowers.
This is an incomplete list of plants with trifoliate leaves. Trifoliate leaves (also known as trifoliolate or ternate leaves) are a leaf shape characterized by a leaf divided into three leaflets.
The tree blooms between August and September producing scarlet to orange-red pea flowers that are 3 to 4 cm (1.2 to 1.6 in) long are found on terminal racemes 5 to 25 cm (2.0 to 9.8 in) in length. [3] The flowers have a calyx that is 1.5 to 2.5 cm (0.59
Female flowers give way to distinctive clusters of winged seeds that somewhat resemble the hops-like seeds of ironwood. [ 6 ] The fruit is a small nut about 3–6 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, held in a leafy bract ; the bract may be either trilobed or simple oval, and is slightly asymmetrical.
Mimulus alatus is a native species to eastern North America; its range stretches from Connecticut, down south to Florida and extends as far west as Nebraska and Texas. It is most commonly found in central and lower Mississippi valley, and considered rare in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York and Ontario.
Psophocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.It includes nine species of climbing herbs or subshrubs native to tropical Africa. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and forest margins, moist wooded grassland and grassland, thicket, swamp, and secondary vegetation. [1]