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Arizona, United States
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Pafuri, Limpopo, South Africa
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La Ensenada, Los Lagos Region, Chile
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Chilean Oxalis, Chilean Woodsorrel, or Silver ShamrockOxalidaceaeNative to Chile and ArgentinaOregon, USA (Cultivated)
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Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada, United States
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Hamamelis flowers from pennsyvania
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Bishop, California, United States
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Family: FabaceaeDistribution:Common and gregarious on hedges and trees in forest areas. Distributed in India, SriLanka, Bangladesh, China and N.Australia. Photographed at velugonda hills of Eastrenghats of A.P.Description: Large woody climber, Leaves imparipinnate, Leaflets 2.5-4x0.8-2cm, elliptic-oblong, retuse, base rounded or cuneate,coriaceous, shining and glabrous above, puberulous below.Flowers 1-1.5cm long white in 10-20cm long axillary drooping racemes. Bracts and bracteoles small, cauducous. Calyx tube companulate, teeth very short, purple in color. corolla much exerted, standard obovate, wings obliquely oblong. Stamens 10 monodelphous, anthers uniform, versatile. ovary sessile, few ovuled. Pod 4.5-8cm thin indehiscent , winged along the upper suture only. It is used as fish poison.Reference: Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana & A.S.Rao.Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS
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Hobe Sound, Florida, United States
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Santo Domingo, Departamento del Petn, Guatemala
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Ormosia monospermasynonyms: Sophora monosperma (basionym), Ormosia dasycarpaIn botanic garden the tree is labelled as Ormosia dasycarpaCommon Names: Necklace Tree Bead Tree, Snake wood, Caconier, Huayruro (in Spanish)Origin: Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago; West IndiesNorthern South America: VenezuelaPhotographed in Brisbane Botanic Garden (Mt. Coot-tha)
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Orinda, California, United States
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Kokio, hau hele ula or Hawaii tree cottonMalvaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Island only)EndangeredHawaii Island (Cultivated)Hawaiian name is from hau, an introduced hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus), perhaps by early Hawaiians. Hau hele ula literally means "red traveling hau."The early Hawaiians cultivated this species in Kona. The flower petals were used to make pink and lavender dyes. Sap from the bark produced a dark red waterproof dye for fishnets. The dual-purpose resinous dye would extend the life of the fishing nets and the red color underwater is nearly invisible to fish, thus the fishermen would catch more.The spectacular flowers were used for lei.Medicinally, the bark was also used to cure thrush.Kokia drynarioides and K. kauaiensis have helped to save Kokia cookei from total extinction. Because Kokia cookei currently does not produce viable seed, it now survives only by grafted scions (a shoot with a bud) on rootstock from either of its two close relatives. Efforts are being made by micropropagation to help save this species, one of the planet's rarest plants.NPH00003
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Kokia_drynarioides
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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We found a population of Gastrolobium hookeri fowering in September. What a pretty sight it was growing both sides of the track on a hill slope. It is a low shrub growing to 0.5m tall. There were few insects there, just the occasional native bee and ants. Photo: Fred
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Lower Sabie, Mpumalanga, South Africa