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Scientific name - Acacia anceps DC Synonyms - celsiana Acacia, Acacia glaucescens, Acacia megaphylla. Popular names - watt Distribution and Habitat - native to southern Australia, growing in limestone soils on coastal sand and red-brown sands. Description - evergreen shrub, 2-3 m tall. Glabra branches. Oblong elliptical to lanceolate Filodii, 3-7 x 1-3 cm, obtuse, coriacee, glauca, pale green, glabra, median rib and the edges are prominent. Inflorescence simple, spherical, 50 - 130 flowers, yellow, peduncle 1 - 2.5 cm long, glabru. Flowers pentamere SEPA together. Fruit pods, slightly restricted after each seed, 6 x 1-1.5 cm. Seeds oblong to elliptic, 4.5 - 6 mm long, brown red. Tolerances - tolerate light frosts and strong winds. Propagation - the seeds germinate in 7-15 days.
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Pinus coulteri D. Don
Monoecious tree, 15-25 m high, trunk 40-120 cm diameter, wide crown, pyramid, iregulata. Bark gray-brown, streaked andanc with solxi long iregulati. Branches ascending, stalk yearly thin, brown-purple, glauca, rugosa, become black after several years. Flourensia cernua - tarbush
Flourensia cernua is deciduous shrub, from Chihuahuan Desert. In northern Mexico, the leaves and flower heads were used historically to make a decoction for treating indigestion. Cornus sanguinea
Cornus sanguinea grows throughout Europe, rarer in the north, in the thicket, forest edges and edges of streets, from plain to 1000 m altitude. Tibouchina urvilleana
Tibouchina urvilleana - shrub, to 4 m high. Belong to the genus Tibouchina about 350 species of shrubs and undergrowth of tropical America, most of them being found across the globe species grown as ornamentals. Magnoliopsida
Ilex perado
Ilex perado - small tree, port pyramidal, evergreen. Originally from the Canary Islands, dense forests grow in the Aqua Garcia, in association with Apollonias barbujana, Arbutus canariensis, Laurus Azores, Myrsine canariensis, Ocotal foetens, Persea indica, Prunus Lusitania subsp. hixa, Visna mocanera. Viola x wittrockiana
Viola x wittrockiana - biennial species, 15 cm height. Leaves alternate, basal, simple, ovata or subcordate, needle, stalk, stipelate. Flowers solitary, basal zigomorfe; 5 free petals, 5 sepa-free, 5 stamens. Fruit capsule with 3 valves. Flowers from spring until autumn. Syringa vulgaris L.
Syringa vulgaris is a native of the mountainous regions of south-eastern Europe. Tussilago windbag - coltsfoot
From the Latin Tussilago tussis = cough on the plant's medicinal properties, windbag is the old name of poplar because of similarities between these species leaves. Windbag Tussilago Tussilago is the only species of the genus. Dioscorides, used potbal leaves as a substitute for tobacco, and to treat cough and asthma. Lonicera xylosteum
Lonicera xylosteum - shrub originating from Europe, the Caucasus and Siberia, growing at the edge of deciduous forests, from lowland to 1600 m altitude. They prefer warm places and limestone associated with Cornus sanguinela, Ligustrum vulgare, Prunus padus and Rubus idaeus.
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