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Pando (from Latin pando 'I spread') [1] is the world's largest tree, a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) located in Sevier County, Utah, United States, in the Fishlake National Forest. A male clonal organism , Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear to be individual trees, but are connected by a root system that spans 42.8 ha ...
In Minas Gerais, it flowers from May to July [6] and is in fruit from November to February. [5] Ripe fruit are about the size of large cherry, and yellowish/orange in color, but can also include a blush towards the tip. Palms cultivated around the world under the name Butia capitata are actually almost all B. odorata.
Butia odorata, also known as the South American jelly palm, [3] jelly palm, [3] [4] or pindo palm, [3] is a Butia palm native to southernmost Brazil and Uruguay. [2] This slow-growing palm grows up to 10m, although it is often less tall.
Apostolic Vicariate of Pando, of the Roman Catholic church, located in Riberalta, Bolivia; Pando (application), a proprietary peer-to-peer file-sharing computer program, based on the BitTorrent protocol; Pando Health an app used in the British NHS; Pando (tree), an aspen tree colony in Utah which is several thousand years old
Melanthiaceae, also called the bunchflower family, [2] [3] is a family of flowering herbaceous perennial plants native to the Northern Hemisphere. [4] Along with many other lilioid monocots, early authors considered members of this family to belong to the family Liliaceae, in part because both their sepals and petals closely resemble each other and are often large and showy like those of ...
Two Mexican species - C. macrosepala and C. violacea - have flowers that are cooked and used as vegetables. C. allouia or leren, from the West Indies and tropical America, is known as sweet corn root for its edible tuber. [citation needed] Schumannianthus dichotomus is used for weaving mats to use on floors and beds. [citation needed]
A tree in the median of Interstate 17 annually decorated for Christmas. International World War Peace Tree: Linden tree: Darmstadt, USA 113 [51] A tree planted by German American immigrants, it was dedicated at the end of World War I as a reminder of Germany's armistice with the United States and a sign of loyalty to America. Iluvatar
Close-up of a C. quadriloculare flower. The following description is based on the one by Yuan et alii (2010) and applies to only the monophyletic circumscription of Clerodendrum. [2] Clerodendrum is a genus of small trees, shrubs, lianas, and subherbaceous perennials. Leaves decussate or whorled, never spiny as in some close relatives.