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Eremophila is a genus of more than 270 species of plants in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae all of which are endemic to mainland Australia. Some species have common names including emu bush , poverty bush or fuchsia bush , [ 2 ] reflecting the belief that emus eat the fruit, their arid environment or a superficial resemblance to the ...
Eremophila hygrophana, also known as the blue emu bush, [2] is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with crowded, grey leaves and violet to purple flowers and is found in South Australia and Western Australia .
Eremophila longifolia, known by a range of common names including berrigan, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia.It is a shrub or small tree with weeping branches, long, narrow leaves and brick-red or pink flowers and is found in all Australian mainland states and the Northern Territory.
Eremophila maculata, also known as spotted emu bush [2] or spotted fuchsia-bush, [3] is a plant in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, and is endemic to Australia. It is the most widespread of its genus in nature and probably the most frequently cultivated Eremophila. It is a spreading, often densely branched shrub with variable leaf shape and ...
Macrozamia riedlei, commonly known as a zamia or zamia palm, is a species of cycad in the plant family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to southwest Australia and often occurs in jarrah forests . It may only attain a height of half a metre or form an above trunk up to two metres with long arching fronds of a similar length.
These physiological adaptations underscore the evolutionary significance of thigmomorphogenesis as a survival strategy. By integrating mechanical signals with growth and defense pathways, plants achieve an optimal balance between structural reinforcement, stress tolerance, and resource allocation.
Over 100 species of vascular plants use this dispersal method for their fruit. [26] Many plants have evolved with specific adaptations to maximize the distance that seeds, fruits, or propagules are dispersed in the ocean. To better protect them against sinking in the water column, some seeds have developed hair or slime on their outer seed ...
Plant ecophysiology is concerned largely with two topics: mechanisms (how plants sense and respond to environmental change) and scaling or integration (how the responses to highly variable conditions—for example, gradients from full sunlight to 95% shade within tree canopies—are coordinated with one another), and how their collective effect on plant growth and gas exchange can be ...