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Echeveria Chilonensis
''Echeveria'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, native to semi-desert areas of Central America, Mexico and northwestern South America. Description Echeveria plants are evergreen. Flowers on short stalks (cymes) arise from compact rosettes of succulent fleshy, often brightly coloured leaves. Species are polycarpic, meaning that they may flower and set seed many times over the course of their lifetimes. Often, numerous offsets are produced, and are commonly known as "hen and chicks", which can also refer to other genera, such as ''Sempervivum'', that are significantly different from ''Echeveria''. Many species of ''Echeveria'' serve important environmental roles, such as those of host plants for butterflies. For example, the butterfly ''Callophrys xami'' uses several species of ''Echeveria'', such as ''Echeveria gibbiflora'', as suitable host plants. Even more, these plants are integral to the oviposition process of ''C. xami'' and some other butterf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echeveria Elegans
''Echeveria elegans'', the Mexican snow ball, God's Throne, Mexican gem or white Mexican rose is a species of flowering plant in the family (biology), family Crassulaceae, native plant, native to semi-desert habitats in Mexico. Description ''Echeveria elegans'' is a succulent plant, succulent evergreen perennial plant, perennial growing to tall by wide, with tight rosettes of pale green-blue fleshy leaves, bearing long slender pink stalks of pink flowers with yellow tips in winter and spring. Cultivation ''Echeveria elegans'' is cultivated as an ornamental plant for rock gardens planting, or as a potted plant. It thrives in subtropical climates, such as Southern California. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Like others of its kind, it produces multiple offsets which can be separated from the parents in spring, and grown separately - hence the common name "hen and chicks", applied to several species within the genus ''Echeveria''. Etymo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossils have been dated to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago, though molecular evidence suggests that they likely originated in the Cretaceous. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, and like other holometabolous insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, expands its wings to dry, and flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the tropics, have several generations in a year, while others have a single generation, and a few in cold locations may take sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echeveria Alata
''Echeveria'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Crassulaceae, native plant, native to semi-desert areas of Central America, Mexico and northwestern South America. Description Echeveria plants are evergreen. Flowers on short stalks (cymes) arise from compact rosettes of succulent plant, succulent fleshy, often brightly coloured leaves. Species are polycarpic, meaning that they may flower and set seed many times over the course of their lifetimes. Often, numerous offset (botany), offsets are produced, and are commonly known as "hen and chicks", which can also refer to other genera, such as ''Sempervivum'', that are significantly different from ''Echeveria''. Many species of ''Echeveria'' serve important environmental roles, such as those of host plants for butterflies. For example, the butterfly ''Callophrys xami'' uses several species of ''Echeveria'', such as ''Echeveria gibbiflora'', as suitable host plants. Even more, these plants are integra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echeveria Agavoides
''Echeveria agavoides'', or 'lipstick' echeveria, is a species of succulent flowering plant of the stonecrop (sedum) family Crassulaceae, native to the rocky canyons and arid hillsides of Central Mexico. It is primarily known from the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas, though it has been sighted as far north as Coahuila and as far south as Oaxaca. Description ''Echeveria agavoides'' is a small, stemless succulent plant, tall, with a rosette of leaves in diameter. It is often solitary, but old plants in good condition grow offsets. The leaves are green, triangular, thicker (6 mm) and more acute than the other echeverias - hence the explanation of their name ''agavoides'', "looking like an agave". Some varieties with bright light have reddish (or bronze) tips and some forms have slightly red to very red margins. The inflorescences in summer appear on slender, single-sided cymes up to long. The flowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echeveria Affinis
''Echeveria'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, native to semi-desert areas of Central America, Mexico and northwestern South America. Description Echeveria plants are evergreen. Flowers on short stalks (cymes) arise from compact rosettes of succulent fleshy, often brightly coloured leaves. Species are polycarpic, meaning that they may flower and set seed many times over the course of their lifetimes. Often, numerous offsets are produced, and are commonly known as " hen and chicks", which can also refer to other genera, such as ''Sempervivum'', that are significantly different from ''Echeveria''. Many species of ''Echeveria'' serve important environmental roles, such as those of host plants for butterflies. For example, the butterfly '' Callophrys xami'' uses several species of ''Echeveria'', such as ''Echeveria gibbiflora'', as suitable host plants. Even more, these plants are integral to the oviposition process of ''C. xami'' and some other but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedum
''Sedum'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, members of which are commonly known as stonecrops. The genus has been described as containing up to 600 species, subsequently reduced to 400–500. They are leaf succulents found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere, but extending into the southern hemisphere in Africa and South America. The plants vary from annual and creeping herbs to shrubs. The plants have water-storing leaves. The flowers usually have five petals, seldom four or six. There are typically twice as many stamens as petals. Various species formerly classified as ''Sedum'' are now in the segregate genera '' Hylotelephium'' and ''Rhodiola''. Well-known European species of ''Sedum'' are '' Sedum acre'', '' Sedum album'', '' Sedum dasyphyllum'', and '' Sedum hispanicum''. Description ''Sedum'' is a genus that includes annual, biennial, and perennial herbs. They are characterised by succulent leaves and stems. The extent of morphologic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thompsonella
''Thompsonella'' is a genus of plants in the family Crassulaceae and is a member of the ''Acre'' clade. It includes about eight species endemic to Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ....Carrillo-Reyes, Pablo; Sosa, Victoria. (2006Phylogenetic relationships and position of Thompsonella (Crassulaceae)/ref> References Crassulaceae Crassulaceae genera {{Crassulaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachyphytum
''Pachyphytum'' is a small genus of Succulent plant, succulents in the Sedum, stonecrop family, Crassulaceae, native to Mexico, where species can be found growing at elevations from above sea level. The generic name comes from the ancient Greek ''pachys'' ('thick') and ''phyton'' ('plant'), a reference of the succulent nature of the leaves. Description The member species of the genus ''Pachyphytum'' are perennial succulent plants, which grow as hairless Rosette (botany), rosettes on ever-lengthening, somewhat delicate stems. The upright plants grow up to 70 cm when young, and develop into a Prostrate shrub, prostrate growth habit over time (to over 1 meter in length, in some cases). The simple, occasionally basally-branching, shoots can reach a diameter of up to 3.5 cm. The rosettes have a diameter of 6 to 20 cm and are made up of roughly 10 leaves; larger specimens may contain 40, rarely up to 80, clearly separated leaves that are often intensely blue-, teal- or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graptopetalum
''Graptopetalum'' (leatherpetal) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae. They are perennial plant, perennial succulent plants and native to Mexico and Arizona. They grow usually in a rosette (botany), rosette. There are around 19 species in this genus.''Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them'', pp. 410–411. Könemann, 2004. Species * ''Graptopetalum amethystinum'' (Rose) E.Walther – Lavender pebbles, jewel-leaf plant * ''Graptopetalum bartramii'' Rose – Patagonia Mountain leatherpetal, Bartram'sstonecrop * ''Graptopetalum bellum'' (Moran & Meyran) D.R.Hunt * ''Graptopetalum filiferum'' (S.Watson) Whitehead * ''Graptopetalum fruticosum'' Moran * ''Graptopetalum glassii'' Acev.-Rosas & Cházaro * ''Graptopetalum grande'' Alexander * ''Graptopetalum macdougallii'' Alexander * ''Graptopetalum marginatum'' Acev.-Rosas & Cházaro * ''Graptopetalum mendozae'' Glass & M.Cházaro Basáñez * ''Graptopetalum occiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cremnophila (plant)
''Cremnophila'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Crassulaceae The Crassulaceae (, from Latin ''crassus'', thick), also known as the crassulas, the stonecrops or the orpine family, are a diverse Family (biology), family of dicotyledon angiosperms primarily characterized by succulent leaves and a form of phot .... Its native range is Central Mexico. Species Species: *'' Cremnophila linguifolia'' *'' Cremnophila nutans'' *'' Cremnophila tlahuicana'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q8351572 Crassulaceae Crassulaceae genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of organisms which meets these criteria: # the grouping contains its own most recent common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population), i.e. excludes non-descendants of that common ancestor # the grouping contains all the descendants of that common ancestor, without exception Monophyly is contrasted with paraphyly and polyphyly as shown in the second diagram. A ''paraphyletic'' grouping meets 1. but not 2., thus consisting of the descendants of a common ancestor, excepting one or more monophyletic subgroups. A ''polyphyletic'' grouping meets neither criterion, and instead serves to characterize convergent relationships of biological features rather than genetic relationships – for example, night-active primates, fruit trees, or aquatic insects. As such, these characteristic features of a polyphyletic grouping are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
