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Crowea
''Crowea'' is a genus of small evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae, sometimes known as waxflowers. There are three species and many subspecies and cultivars, all of which are popular as ornamentals because of their abundant, attractive flowers which often occur during autumn and winter. ''Crowea'' species are all endemic to Australia, where they occur in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. Description Croweas are evergreen shrubs to about 1.5 m tall. The leaves are simple, glabrous and, as with other members of the Rutaceae, have oil glands and are aromatic. The flowers occur singly in the axils of the leaves, are pink and star-shaped have five petals, five sepals and ten stamens in two rings around the ovary. ''Crowea'' are closely related, and the flowers similar in appearance to those of other member of the family Rutaceae, especially ''Philotheca'', '' Eriostemon'' and ''Boronia''. Taxonomy and naming The genus was described and named by James Edward Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crowea Exalata
''Crowea exalata'', commonly known as small crowea or waxflower, is a flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to the states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. It is an attractive small shrub and is a popular garden plant. It flowers mainly from late summer to mid-winter when few others are flowering but usually has some flowers at other times of the year. Description ''Crowea exalata'' is a small shrub, growing to a height of about with thin branches, often spreading to more than . Its leaves are narrow oblong to narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base and are long and wide. They have many oil glands and have a characteristic scent when crushed. The star-like flowers appear on the ends of the branches or in the axils of the leaves on a stalk long. The five petals are egg-shaped, about and usually pink, sometimes white and a range of colours in the cultivars. The stamens in the centre of the flower almost overlap. Floweri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crowea Saligna
''Crowea saligna'', commonly known as willow-leaved crowea, is a plant in the rue family, Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern New South Wales in Australia. It is a small shrub with attractive, pink, star-shaped flowers and is commonly cultivated. Description ''Crowea saligna'' is a small shrub usually growing to a height of about with conspicuously angled branches. The leaves are , wide and are narrow elliptic to lance-shaped. They are also dark green, shiny, dotted with oil glands and there is a distinct mid-vein. The flowers develop in the axils of leaves on a stalk 5-13 millimetres (<1/2 inch) long. There are 5 short, broad s and 5 overlapping s forming a "star" shape. The petals are pink, sometimes white and are 12-18 millimetres (1/2-1 inch) long. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crowea Angustifolia
''Crowea angustifolia'' is a flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub growing to high by in diameter with white or pink flowers in spring. Description ''Crowea angustifolia'' is a variable shrub growing to a height of high, either erect or spreading and diffuse. The leaves are thin, glabrous, linear to broad elliptic, or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base. They are long and less than wide. The flowers usually appear singly in the axils of the leaves on a pedicel long. There are between two and four bracteoles at the base of the flower and five separate sepals which are papery, more or less round and about long. There are five white or pink petals which are egg-shaped, thin and about long. The ten stamens and style are about long. Flowering occurs from September to December. Taxonomy ''Crowea angustifolia'' was first formally described by James Edward Smith in 1808 from a specime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Crowe (surgeon)
James Crowe (c. 1750 – 1807) was a British surgeon and twice Mayor of Norwich Crowe lived at Old Lakenham near Norwich. He was an alderman of Norwich and elected as mayor in 1774 and 1797 Crowe had an interest in botany and was noted for his collection of willow species. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1788. The Australian plant genus ''Crowea ''Crowea'' is a genus of small evergreen shrubs in the family Rutaceae, sometimes known as waxflowers. There are three species and many subspecies and cultivars, all of which are popular as ornamentals because of their abundant, attractive fl ...'' was named in his honour by botanist James Edward Smith in 1798. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Crowe, James 1807 deaths English surgeons Mayors of Norwich Year of birth uncertain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanthoxyloideae
''Zanthoxyloideae'' is a subfamily of the family Rutaceae. Its most notable member is probably Sichuan pepper. Genera The division of the subfamily into genera varied, . Genera accepted in a 2021 classification of Rutaceae into subfamilies were: * '' Acmadenia'' Bartl. & H.L.Wendl. * '' Acradenia'' Kippist * '' Acronychia'' J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. * '' Adenandra'' Willd. * '' Adiscanthus'' Ducke * '' Agathosma'' Willd. * '' Andreadoxa'' Kallunki * '' Angostura'' Roem. & Schult. * '' Apocaulon'' R.S.Cowan * '' Asterolasia'' F.Muell. * '' Balfourodendron'' Mello ex Oliv. * '' Boronia'' Sm. * '' Bosistoa'' F.Muell. ex Benth. * '' Bouchardatia'' Baill. * '' Brombya'' F.Muell. * '' Calodendrum'' Thunb. * '' Casimiroa'' La Llave * '' Choisya'' Kunth * '' Chorilaena'' Endl. * '' Coatesia'' F.Muell., syn. '' Geijera'' Schott * '' Coleonema'' Bartl. & H.L.Wendl. * '' Comptonella'' Baker f. * '' Conchocarpus'' J.C.Mikan * '' Correa'' Andrews * '' Crossosperma'' T.G.Hartley * '' Crowea'' Sm. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaf
A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the plant stem, stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, flower, and fruit collectively form the Shoot (botany), shoot system. In most leaves, the primary Photosynthesis, photosynthetic Tissue (biology), tissue is the palisade mesophyll and is located on the upper side of the blade or lamina of the leaf, but in some species, including the mature foliage of ''Eucalyptus'', palisade mesophyll is present on both sides and the leaves are said to be isobilateral. The leaf is an integral part of the stem system, and most leaves are flattened and have distinct upper (Glossary of botanical terms#adaxial, adaxial) and lower (Glossary of botanical terms#abaxial, abaxial) surfaces that differ in color, Trichome, hairiness, the number of stomata (pores that intake and output gases), the amount and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Plant Census
The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information System (IBIS – an Oracle Co. relational database management system). The Australian National Herbarium, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Biological Resources Study and the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria coordinate the system. The Australian Plant Census interface provides the currently accepted scientific names, their synonyms, illegitimate, misapplied and excluded names, as well as state distribution data. Each item of output hyperlinks to other online interfaces of the information system, including the Australian Plant Name Index The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is an online database of all published names of Australian vascular plants. It covers all names, whether current names, synonyms or invalid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salix
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions. Most species are known as willow, but some narrow-leaved shrub species are called osier, and some broader-leaved species are referred to as sallow (from Old English ''sealh'', related to the Latin word ''salix'', willow). Some willows (particularly arctic and alpine species) are low-growing or creeping shrubs; for example, the dwarf willow (''Salix herbacea'') rarely exceeds in height, though it spreads widely across the ground. Description Willows all have abundant watery bark sap, which is heavily charged with salicin, soft, usually pliant, tough wood, slender branches, and large, fibrous, often stoloniferous roots. The roots are remarkable for their toughness, size, and tenacity to live, and roots readily sprout from aerial parts of the plant. Leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider Norwich List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, built-up area had a population of 213,166 at the 2011 census. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of Norwich, the city has one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals. For much of the second millennium, from medieval to just before Industrial Revolution, industrial times, Norwich was one of the most prosperous and largest towns of England; at one point, it was List of towns and cities in England by historical population, second only to London. Today, it is the largest settlement in East Anglia. Heritage and status Norwich claims to be the most complete medie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnean Society Of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature collections, and publishes academic journals and books on plant and animal biology. The society also awards a number of prestigious medals and prizes. A product of the Age of Enlightenment, 18th-century enlightenment, the society is the oldest extant biological society in the world and is historically important as the venue for the first public presentation of the theory of evolution by natural selection on 1 July 1858. The patron of the society is Anne, Princess Royal. Honorary members include: King Charles III of the United Kingdom, Emeritus Emperor Akihito of Japan, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (both of the latter have active interests in natural history), and the eminent naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenboroug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cranke Andrews
Henry Cranke Andrews (c. 1759 – 1835, floruit, fl. 1794 – 1830), was an English botanist, botanical artist and engraver. As he always published as Henry C. Andrews, and due to difficulty finding records, the C. was often referred to as Charles, until a record of his marriage registration was found in 2017. He lived in Knightsbridge, and was married to Anne Kennedy, the daughter of Lee and Kennedy, John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated. He was an accomplished and unusual botanical artist, in that he was not only the artist but also the engraver, colourist, and publisher of his books in an era when most artists were only employed to draw plates. The ''Botanist's Repository'' was his first publication; issued serially in London in ten volumes between 1797 and 1812, the ''Repository'' at a half-crown an issue, provided affordable images of plants to the growing population of amateur gardeners in Britain. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
