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Scientific name - Schinus molle Synonyms - Popular names - arborele de piper, qundo Berber, pepper tree, pepper tree chilean, Arbol from empty, false pimienta, pimienta del Peru. Distribution and Habitat - a native of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru where it grows from 0 to 2400 m altitude. Description - evergreen tree, 3-15 m high, short trunk, bark brown, deeply fissured. Imparipenat Leaves compound rachides wing leaflets 20-40, linear-lanceolate leaflets, margins entire or toothed, 20-50 x 4-8 mm. Flowers arranged in panicule up to 30 cm long. Petals 2 mm long, pale yellow. Fruit berry, spherical, from green to red and black. Growth Rate - Tolerances - tolerate high temperatures, drought, alkaline soils, salinity, frost to -10 ° C Requirements -prefers well drained soils, sandy. Properties and Uses - cultivated soil erosion, but also as ornamental species, or bonsai. Curiosity - Schinus derived from the Greek 'Shine' name given to Pistacia lentiscus they resemble. Fruits contain seeds taste like pepper, so used as a substitute for pepper. Incas used the resin to embalmed corpses. Bark and leaves contain latex.
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African Sparmannia
African Sparmannia - shrub or small tree, native of southern Africa, as a species grown across the globe or outdoor ornamental pot. Pachira aquatica
Pachira aquatica growing naturally along rivers in Central and South America. Is cultivated in world wide like ornamental, in hedges or solitary. Resistant to drought anf flooding. The seeds of P. aquatica are delicious raw, boiled or roasted. Young leaves and flowers are also edible. The seeds are high in protein and edible oil. Morinda citrifolia
Morinda citrifolia - originally from Queensland, Australia. The fruit is edible, from seeds to obtain oil insect repellent. Acer palmatum - Japanese maple
Acer palmatum originally from China, Korea and Japan. Grown for leafy greens or red. Teline canariensis
Teline canariensis - shrub native (endemic) of Tenerife and Gran Canaria, grows at the edge of forests of Pinus radiata and Laurus canariensis novo in association with Neotinea maculata, Hypericum reflexum and Cystus sympithifolius, from 500 to 1500 m altitude. Magnoliopsida
Buxus sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens - evergreen shrub, native of northern Africa, Asia and Europe, up to 800 m altitude. Increases in rare deciduous forests on limestone substrates in sunny exhibition, in association with integerrimus Cotoneaster, Pyrus pyraster, Prunus spinosa and Amelanchier rotundifolia. Madhuca longifolia Macb.
Deciduu tree, 20 meters high, round crown. Leaves alternate, elliptic, 7.5-13 cm, margin entire, top acute, 10/12 pairs of ribs, stalks 1-2 cm long. Flowers axillary, creamy, fragrant, calyx covered with dense hairs; Corola pale yellow, 1 cm long, 6-12 petals Horminum pyrenaicum
Horminum pyrenaicum - herbaceous plant, perennial, rizomatoasa, native to Europe, alpine meadows and subalpine grows on limestone bedrock, from 1500 up to 2500 m altitude. Parnassos palustris
Parnassos palustris - the name derives from Latin genus = Parnassus Parnassus in mythology rubs is considered the seat of beauty in relation to plant appearance and habitat. Teline nervosa
Teline nervosa - endemic of the Canary Islands, rape increases from 650 to 700 m altitude, in association with Aeonium undulatum, Carlina salicifolia, Crambe pritzelii, Hypericum canariensis, Olea europaea subsp. cerasiformis, Sonchus leptocephalus. |
 
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