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Puschkinia Kurdistanica
''Puschkinia'' is a genus of four known species of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It is native to the Caucasus and the Middle East. ''Puschkinia scilloides'' is grown as an ornamental bulbous plant. Description The leaves are green, strap-like, and grow in pairs. The flowers are borne in early spring in racemes up to about high. The six tepals are joined at the base to form a tube to about half their length. Like members of the former genus ''Chionodoxa'' (now a section of ''Scilla''), the bases of the stamens are flattened and closely clustered in the middle of the flower; however, unlike ''Chionodoxa'', they are joined to form a cup or corona. In the related genus ''Scilla'' (squills), the stamens are not joined together. Seeds are borne in three-parted capsules. After the seed ripens in early summer, the plants become dormant until the next spring. Taxonomy The genus ''Puschkinia'' was erected by Johann Friedrich Adam in 1805. It is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puschkinia Scilloides
''Puschkinia scilloides'', commonly known as striped squill or Lebanon squill, is a bulbous perennial, native to Western Asia and the Caucasus. Description ''Puschkinia scilloides'' is a small bulbous plant, growing to about tall. It has two narrow basal leaves that widen towards the tips (oblanceolate). The inflorescence appears in early spring and is a dense raceme with up to 20 flowers. The flowers are pale blue with a darker blue line in the centre of each tepal. A characteristic of the genus ''Puschkinia'' is a small cup surrounding the stamens and style. Distribution and habitat ''Puschkinia scilloides'' is native to Western Asia (Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran) and the Caucasus (North Caucasus and the Transcaucasus). It is grows in alpine meadows near the snowline. Cultivation ''Puschkinia scilloides'' is cultivated as an ornamental bulbous plant Ornamental bulbous plants, often called ornamental bulbs or just bulbs in gardening and horticulture, are herb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dormancy
Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped. This minimizes metabolic activity and therefore helps an organism to conserve energy. Dormancy tends to be closely associated with environmental conditions. Organisms can synchronize entry to a dormant phase with their environment through predictive or consequential means. Predictive dormancy occurs when an organism enters a dormant phase ''before'' the onset of adverse conditions. For example, photoperiod and decreasing temperature are used by many plants to predict the onset of winter. Consequential dormancy occurs when organisms enter a dormant phase ''after'' adverse conditions have arisen. This is commonly found in areas with an unpredictable climate. While very sudden changes in conditions may lead to a high mortality rate among animals relying on consequential dormancy, its use can be advantageous, as organisms remain active longer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulipa Systola
''Tulipa systola'', the desert tulip, is a species of tulip native to the Middle East; Sinai, the Levant, Anatolia, Iraq and Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... A geophyte adapted to arid conditions, it can remain dormant or produce only leaves in bad years based on environmental cues. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15546672 systola Plants described in 1885 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Reticulata
''Iris reticulata'', the netted iris or golden netted iris, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is native from eastern Turkey to Iran, but cultivated widely in temperate regions. The reticulata group of irises is characterised by a fibrous net surrounding the bulb. They are small plants to , with tubular, sharply-pointed, ribbed leaves, and flowers of yellow, blue or purple with an orange blaze on the falls, appearing in early spring. They are hardy, but prefer a well-drained sunny position in soil which dries out in summer; they are therefore suitable for a rock or gravel garden. The following cultivars have received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit: *'George' (purple) *'Katharine Hodgkin' (pale blue) *'Pixie' (deep blue) There is a known variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postage Stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the face or address-side of any item of mail—an envelope or other postal cover (e.g., packet, box, mailing cylinder)—that they wish to send. The item is then processed by the postal system, where a postmark or cancellation mark—in modern usage indicating date and point of origin of mailing—is applied to the stamp and its left and right sides to prevent its reuse. The item is then delivered to its addressee. Always featuring the name of the issuing nation (with the exception of the United Kingdom), a denomination of its value, and often an illustration of persons, events, institutions, or natural realities that symbolize the nation's traditions and values, every stamp is printed on a piece of usually rectangular, but sometimes triangu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puschkinia Peshmenii
''Puschkinia peshmenii'' is a bulbous perennial from Turkey and Iran, producing flowers in shades of green in spring. Description ''Puschkinia peshmenii'' grows from a bulb about across. Each bulb produces one or two linear green leaves, up to long and wide. The flowers are produced in a fairly open raceme (spike), with usually four to nine flowers, but occasionally as few as two. At flowering time the raceme is either the same length as the leaves or less. Individual flowers are borne on short pedicels (stalks), up to long and are turned downwards. The flower has six greenish tepals, with a free part about long and wide, fused at the base into a tube about long. A characteristic of the genus ''Puschkinia'' is that the filaments of the stamens are fused to form a "cup" or "corona". ''P. peshmenii'' has been found in extreme south-eastern Turkey, in the provinces of Van and Hakkâri, where it grows on rocky hillsides, often near late melting patches of snow, at aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puschkinia Kurdistanica
''Puschkinia'' is a genus of four known species of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It is native to the Caucasus and the Middle East. ''Puschkinia scilloides'' is grown as an ornamental bulbous plant. Description The leaves are green, strap-like, and grow in pairs. The flowers are borne in early spring in racemes up to about high. The six tepals are joined at the base to form a tube to about half their length. Like members of the former genus ''Chionodoxa'' (now a section of ''Scilla''), the bases of the stamens are flattened and closely clustered in the middle of the flower; however, unlike ''Chionodoxa'', they are joined to form a cup or corona. In the related genus ''Scilla'' (squills), the stamens are not joined together. Seeds are borne in three-parted capsules. After the seed ripens in early summer, the plants become dormant until the next spring. Taxonomy The genus ''Puschkinia'' was erected by Johann Friedrich Adam in 1805. It is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Checklist Of Selected Plant Families
The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) is an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families." Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, it is available online, allowing searches for the names of families, genera and species, as well as the ability to create checklists. The project traces its history to work done in the 1990s by Kew researcher Rafaël Govaerts on a checklist of the genus '' Quercus''. Influenced by the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, the project expanded. , 173 families of seed plants were included. Coverage of monocotyledon families is complete; other families are being added. There is a complementary project called the International Plant Names Index (IPNI), in which Kew is also involved. The IPNI aims to provide details of publication and does not aim to determine which are accep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliaceae
The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair amount of morphological diversity despite genetic similarity. Common characteristics include large flowers with parts arranged in threes: with six colored or patterned petaloid tepals (undifferentiated petals and sepals) arranged in two whorls, six stamens and a superior ovary. The leaves are linear in shape, with their veins usually arranged parallel to the edges, single and arranged alternating on the stem, or in a rosette at the base. Most species are grown from bulbs, although some have rhizomes. First described in 1789, the lily family became a paraphyletic "catch-all" ( wastebasket) group of lilioid monocots that did not fit into other families and included a great number of genera now included in other families and in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilioid Monocots
Lilioid monocots (lilioids, liliid monocots, petaloid monocots, petaloid lilioid monocots) is an informal name used for a grade (grouping of taxa with common characteristics) of five monocot orders ( Petrosaviales, Dioscoreales, Pandanales, Liliales and Asparagales) in which the majority of species have flowers with relatively large, coloured tepals. This characteristic is similar to that found in lilies ("lily-like"). Petaloid monocots refers to the flowers having tepals which all resemble petals ( petaloid). The taxonomic terms Lilianae or Liliiflorae have also been applied to this assemblage at various times. From the early nineteenth century many of the species in this group of plants were put into a very broadly defined family, Liliaceae '' sensu lato'' or ''s.l.'' (lily family). These classification systems are still found in many books and other sources. Within the monocots the Liliaceae ''s.l.'' were distinguished from the Glumaceae. The development of molecular phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo Mussin-Pushkin
Count Apollos Apollosovich Musin-Pushkin (russian: Аполло́с Аполло́сович Му́син-Пу́шкин; February 17, 1760 – April 18, 1805) was a Russian chemist and plant collector. He led a botanical expedition to the Caucasus in 1802 with his friend botanist Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein. In 1797, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Russian mining board and developed several new methods of refining and processing of platinum. The genus of Puschkinia ''Puschkinia'' is a genus of four known species of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. It is native to the Caucasus and the Middle East. '' Puschkinia scilloides'' is grown as an ornamental bulbous plant. Descri ... commemorates his name. References 1760 births 1805 deaths Chemists from the Russian Empire Russian nobility 18th-century botanists from the Russian Empire Russian inventors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
