Amsonia Tabernaemontana

	Amsonia Tabernaemontana ''Amsonia tabernaemontana'', the eastern bluestar, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, found in central and eastern North America. Gallery File:Amsonia tabernaemontana kz01.jpg, Detail of inflorescence File:Amsonia tabernaemontana container plant in fruit (paired follicles).jpg, Container plant in fruit, showing paired follicles File:Amsonia tabernaemontana paired follicles at tip of fruiting stem.jpg, Paired follicles at the tip of fruiting stem File:Amsonia tabernaemontana single paired follicle detached from plant (pale side).jpg, Unripe, ‘V’-shaped pair of follicles detached from plant File:Amsonia tabernaemontana paired fruits ripe seeds.jpg, Ripe paired follicles with seeds removed and juxtaposed File:Amsonia tabernaemontana seeds x10 approx.jpg, Cylindrical/prismatic seeds (x10 approx) showing deeply fissured testae References tabernaemontana ''Tabernaemontana'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Walter (botanist) Thomas Walter (c. 1740 – January 17, 1789) was a British-born American botany, botanist best known for his boo''Flora Caroliniana''(1788), the first flora set in North America to utilize the Linnaean taxonomy, Linnaean system of classification.Rembert (1980) Life and career Walter was born in Hampshire, England, around 1740. Little is known of his family background or early life. He evidently received a good education but no details are available. Sometime before 1769 he arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, where he worked as a merchant. He later acquired a rice plantation on the Santee River where he lived for the rest of his life.Sterling (1997) He became interested in botany and undertook a detailed plant survey within a fifty-mile radius of his home, collecting seeds for his garden and building an extensive herbarium. Based on this effort, Walter completed a manuscript in 1787 containing a summary of all the flowering plant species found in the region. It was the first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flowering Plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the family are native to the European, Asian, African, Australian, and American tropics or subtropics, with some temperate members. The former family Asclepiadaceae (now known as Asclepiadoideae) is considered a subfamily of Apocynaceae and contains 348 genera. A list of Apocynaceae genera may be found here. Many species are tall trees found in tropical forests, but some grow in tropical dry (xeric) environments. Also perennial herbs from temperate zones occur. Many of these plants have milky latex, and many species are poisonous if ingested, the family being rich in genera containing alkaloids and cardiac glycosides, those containing the latter often finding use as arrow poisons. Some genera of Apocynaceae, such as '' Adenium'', bleed clea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]