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Bauhinia
''Bauhinia'' () is a large genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Cercidoideae and tribe Bauhinieae, in the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Johann, Swiss-French botanists. Many species are widely planted in the tropics as orchid trees, particularly in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Nepal and south-eastern China. Other common names include mountain ebony and ''kachnar''. Before the family was reorganised, a number of genera including the lianas of genus '' Phanera'' were placed here (see related genera). In the United States, the trees grow in Hawaii, coastal California, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. There are native species, like '' Bauhinia lunarioides'' native to Texas and widely planted in the Southwest as a landscape plant. Parts of some species of bauhinia like ''B. purpurea'' and ''B. malabarica'' are used in Filipino cuisine (known collectively as ''alinbánba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauhinia × Blakeana
''Bauhinia'' × ''blakeana'' ( [cross] ), commonly called the Hong Kong orchid tree, is a Hybrid (biology)#In plants, hybrid legume, leguminous tree of the genus ''Bauhinia''. It has large thick leaves and striking purplish red flowers. The fragrant, orchid-like flowers are usually across, and bloom from early November to the end of March. Although now cultivated in many areas, it originated in Hong Kong in 1880 and apparently all of the cultivated trees derive from one cultivated at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Hong Kong Botanical Gardens and widely planted in Hong Kong starting in 1914. It is referred to as bauhinia in non-scientific literature though this is the name of the genus. It is sometimes called the Hong Kong orchid (). In Hong Kong, it is most commonly referred to by its Chinese name of ''(yèuhng jígīng)''. The ''Bauhinia'' double-lobed leaf is similar in shape to a heart or a butterfly, or a camel's footprint - hence the common name camel's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauhinia Divaricata . It is native to Mexico, Central America (except Panama), and the Caribbean.
''Bauhinia divaricata'', the bull hoof or Mexican orchid tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ... References divaricata Flora of Mexico Flora of Central America Flora of Cuba[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauhinieae
Cercidoideae is a subfamily in the pea family, Fabaceae. Well-known members include ''Cercis'' (redbuds), including species widely cultivated as ornamental trees in the United States and Europe, ''Bauhinia'', widely cultivated as an ornamental tree in tropical Asia, and ''Tylosema'' , a semi-woody genus of Africa. The subfamily occupies a basal position within the Fabaceae and is supported as monophyletic in many molecular phylogenies. At the 6th International Legume Conference, the Legume Phylogeny Working Group proposed elevating the tribe Cercidae to the level of subfamily within the Leguminosae (Fabaceae). The consensus agreed to the change, which was fully implemented in 2017. It has the following clade-based definition: The most inclusive crown clade containing ''Cercis canadensis'' L. and ''Bauhinia divaricata'' L. but not '' Poeppigia procera'' C.Presl, '' Duparquetia orchidacea'' Baill., or '' Bobgunnia fistuloides'' (Harms) J.H.Kirkbr. & Wiersema. Many genera show unique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phanera
''Phanera'' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume subfamily Cercidoideae and the tribe Bauhinieae. This genus differs from '' Bauhinia'' in being vines or lianas, generally with tendrils and a lobed rather than spathaceous calyx, and from '' Schnella'' in having only three fertile stamens rather than ten, and being native to the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm rather than the Americas. The subsection ''Corymbosae'' was recently segregated into a new genus, '' Cheniella''. It has been suggested that the genus ''Lasiobema'' should be reduced to a section within ''Phanera''. Species ''Phanera'' comprises the following species: # ''Phanera aherniana'' (Perkins) de Wit ## var. ''aherniana'' (Perkins) de Wit ## var. ''subglabra'' (Merr.) Bandyop., P.P. Goshal & M.K. Pathak # ''Phanera andersonii'' (K. Larsen & S.S. Larsen) Bandyop., P.P. Goshal & M.K. Pathak # ''Phanera apertilobata'' (Merr. & F.P.Metcalf) K.W.Jiang # ''Phanera argentea'' de Wit # '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Hong Kong
The Regional Flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China depicts a white stylised five-petal Hong Kong orchid tree (''Bauhinia × blakeana'') flower in the centre of a Chinese red field. Its design is enshrined in Hong Kong's Basic Law, the territory's constitutional document, and regulations regarding its use, prohibition of use, desecration, and manufacture are stated in the Regional Flag and Regional Emblem Ordinance. The original design of the flag of Hong Kong was unveiled on 4 April 1990 at the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. The current design was approved on 10 August 1996 at the Fourth Plenum of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The use of the flag is regulated by laws passed by the 58th executive meeting of the State Council held in Beijing. The flag was officially adopted and hoisted on 1 July 1997, during the handover ceremony marking the handover from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauhinia Lunarioides
''Bauhinia lunarioides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Southwestern Texas in the United States and Northern Mexico. Common names include Texasplume, Anacacho orchid tree, and pata de vaca. It is a small deciduous tree growing to 4 m tall. The leaves are 2–5 cm long and broad, rounded, and bilobed at the base and apex. The flowers are small, white or (rarely) pink, with five petals. The fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (angiosperms) that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which angiosperms disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propaga ... is a pod. Though limited in range in the wild, it has become increasingly available in nurseries. References External links * * lunarioides Plants described in 1878 Trees of Northern America {{Fabaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Airlines
Hong Kong Airlines Limited (HKA), operating as Hong Kong Airlines (), is an airline based in Hong Kong, with its headquarters in the Tung Chung district and its main hub at Hong Kong International Airport. It was established in 2006 as a member of the HNA Group and flies to 25 destinations across Asia–Pacific. History 2001–2006: Early years Robert Yip (), the chairman of China Rich Holdings, established CR Airways in Hong Kong on 28 March 2001. The airline received its air operator's certificate (AOC) from the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (CAD) in 2002, with its first aircraft a Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter, which could carry 12 passengers and fly at . It was Hong Kong's third commercial helicopter operator and the first helicopter operator to receive an AOC since Hong Kong became a special administrative region of China. On 27 June 2003, CR Airways became Hong Kong's third passenger airline after receiving a revised AOC from the director-general of Civil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabaceae
Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published: ....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill. Vicia L.; ... When the Papilionaceae are regarded as a family distinct from the remainder of the Leguminosae, the name Papilionaceae is conserved against Leguminosae." English pronunciations are as follows: , and . commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and agriculturally important family of |
Liana
A liana is a long-Plant stem, stemmed Woody plant, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the Canopy (biology), canopy in search of direct sunlight. The word ''liana'' does not refer to a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic grouping, but rather a habit of plant growth—much like ''tree'' or ''shrub''. It comes from standard French , itself from an Antilles French dialect word meaning to sheaf (agriculture), sheave. Ecology Lianas are characteristic of Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical moist broadleaf forests (especially Tropical seasonal forest, seasonal forests), but may be found in temperate rainforests and temperate deciduous forests. There are also temperate lianas, for example the members of the ''Clematis'' or ''Vitis'' (wild grape) genera. Lianas can form bridges in the forest canopy, providing Arboreal locomotion, arboreal animals—including ants and many ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Switzerland, Swiss botanist whose ''Pinax theatri botanici'' (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus. He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomy, anatomical nomenclature. Bauhin described the ileocecal valve in 1588—hence the name Bauhin's Valve or Valve of Bauhin—in the preface of his first writing,''De corporis humani partibus externis tractatus, hactenus non editus.''Linnaeus honored the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Johann Bauhin, Jean in the genus name ''Bauhinia''. Biography Jean and Gaspard were the sons of Jean Bauhin (1511–1582), a French physician who had to leave his native country on becoming a convert to Protestantism. Gaspard was born in Basel. From 1572 he studied in his hometown, Padua, Bologna, Montpelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Bauhin
Johann (or Jean) Bauhin (12 December 1541 – 26 October 1613) was a Swiss botanist, born in Basel. He was the son of physician Jean Bauhin and the brother of physician and botanist Gaspard Bauhin. Biography Bauhin studied botany at the University of Tübingen under Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). He then travelled with Conrad Gessner, after which he started a practice of medicine at Basel, where he was elected Professor of Rhetoric in 1566. Four years later he was invited to become the physician to Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg at Montbéliard, in the Franche-Comté where he remained until his death. He devoted himself chiefly to botany. His great work, ''Historia plantarum universalis'', a compilation of all that was then known about botany, remained incomplete at his death, but was published at Yverdon in 1650–1651. Bauhin nurtured several botanic gardens and also collected plants during his travels. In 1591, he published a list of plants named after saints called ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
