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Ehretia
''Ehretia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains 66 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770). Species Accepted species and other notable taxa *'' Ehretia acuminata'' – Koda (East Asia, New Guinea, eastern Australia) *'' Ehretia alba'' *'' Ehretia amoena'' *'' Ehretia anacua'' – Anacua (Texas in the United States, Mexico) *'' Ehretia angolensis'' *'' Ehretia aspera'' (synonym ''Ehretia laevis'' Roxb.) *'' Ehretia asperula'' *'' Ehretia australis'' *'' Ehretia bakeri'' *'' Ehretia changjiangensis'' *'' Ehretia coerulea'' *'' Ehretia confinis'' *'' Ehretia cortesia'' *'' Ehretia corylifolia'' *'' Ehretia crebrifolia'' *'' Ehretia cymosa'' *'' Ehretia decaryi'' *'' Ehretia densiflora'' *'' Ehretia dichotoma'' *'' Ehretia dicksonii'' *'' Ehretia d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehretia Alba
''Ehretia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains 66 species native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770). Species Accepted species and other notable taxa *'' Ehretia acuminata'' – Koda (East Asia, New Guinea, eastern Australia) *'' Ehretia alba'' *'' Ehretia amoena'' *'' Ehretia anacua'' – Anacua (Texas in the United States, Mexico) *'' Ehretia angolensis'' *'' Ehretia aspera'' (synonym ''Ehretia laevis'' Roxb.) *'' Ehretia asperula'' *'' Ehretia australis'' *'' Ehretia bakeri'' *'' Ehretia changjiangensis'' *'' Ehretia coerulea'' *'' Ehretia confinis'' *'' Ehretia cortesia'' *'' Ehretia corylifolia'' *'' Ehretia crebrifolia'' *'' Ehretia cymosa'' *'' Ehretia decaryi'' *'' Ehretia densiflora'' *'' Ehretia dichotoma'' *'' Ehretia dicksonii'' *'' Ehretia doli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehretia Acuminata
''Ehretia acuminata'' is a deciduous tree found in Japan, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, New Guinea and Australia. Fossil evidence suggests an ancient Laurasian origin. This group of plants spread to Australia and South America via Africa, when these continents were still joined. Commonly known as koda in Australia, ''Ehretia acuminata'' is a common tree found from near Bega in south east New South Wales to Cape York in far north eastern Australia. The Australian habitat are different forms of rainforest, particularly near the margins or in disturbed areas. Description ''Ehretia acuminata'' is a medium to large size tree, occasionally reaching 30 metres in height and a 90 cm in trunk diameter. The bark is of a creamy grey colour, with vertical fissures. Koda is often easily identified in winter as being deciduous and of the characteristic flutings at the base of the trunk. Leaves, flowers and fruit The leaves are alternate and simple, tapering to a tip, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehretia Anacua
''Ehretia anacua'' is medium-sized tree found in eastern Mexico and southern Texas in the United States. It is a member of the borage family, Boraginaceae. One of its common names, anacua, is derived from the Mexican Spanish word ''anacahuite'', as is that of the related ''Cordia boissieri'', the ''anacahuita''. That word in turn is derived from the Nahuatl words '' āmatl'', meaning "paper," and ''cuahuitl'', meaning "tree," possibly referring to the bark. It is also known as knockaway, a corruption of anacua, and sandpaper tree. Alternate spellings are anaqua and anachua. Description Anacua reaches a height of and a diameter of , often producing suckers or multiple trunks. The bark is reddish-brown to gray with narrow furrows and peeling scales. The dark green leaves are and wide and elliptical or ovate. Their upper surfaces are remarkably rough, feeling like low-grade sandpaper. Anacua is a partial evergreen, replacing some of the leaves in early spring. Abundant white fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the Borago, borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146 to 154 genus, genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the order Boraginales within the asterids. Under the older Cronquist system, it was included in the Lamiales, but clearly is no more similar to the other families in this order than it is to families in several other asterid orders. A revision of the Boraginales, also from 2016, split the Boraginaceae into 11 distinct families: Boraginaceae ''sensu stricto'', Codonaceae, Coldeniaceae, Cordiaceae, Ehretiaceae, Heliotropiaceae, Hoplestigmataceae, Hydrophyllaceae, Lennoaceae, Namaceae, and Wellstediaceae. These plants have alternately arranged leaves, or a combination of alternate and opposite leaves. The leaf blades usually have a narrow shape; many are linear or lance-shaped. They are smooth-edged or toothed, and some have petiole (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Dionysius Ehret
Georg Dionysius Ehret (30 January 1708 – 9 September 1770) was a German botanist and entomologist known for his botanical illustrations. Life Ehret was born in Germany to Ferdinand Christian Ehret, a gardener and competent draughtsman, and Anna Maria Ehret. Beginning his working life as a gardener's apprentice near Heidelberg, he became one of the most influential European botanical artists of all time. His first illustrations were in collaboration with Carl Linnaeus and George Clifford in 1735-1736. Clifford, a wealthy Dutch banker and governor of the Dutch East India Company was a keen botanist with a large herbarium. He had the income to attract the talents of botanists such as Linnaeus and artists like Ehret. Together at the Clifford estate, Hartecamp, which is located south of Haarlem in Heemstede near Bennebroek, they produced '' Hortus Cliffortianus'' in 1738, a masterpiece of early botanical literature. As a result of exploitation by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borage
Borage ( or ; ''Borago officinalis''), also known as starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae native to the Mediterranean region. Although the plant contains small amounts of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some parts are edible and Borage seed oil, its seeds provide oil. Description ''B. officinalis'' grows to a height of , and is bristly or hairy all over the stems and leaves; the leaves are Alternate leaf, alternate, Simple leaf, simple, and long. The flowers are Complete flower, complete, Perfect flower, perfect with five narrow, triangular-pointed petals. Flowers are most often blue, although pink flowers are sometimes observed. White-flowered types are also cultivated. The blue flower is genetically dominant over the white flower. The flowers arise along scorpioid cymes to form large floral displays with multiple flowers blooming simultaneously, suggesting that borage has a high degree of geitonogamy (intraplant pollination). It has an indet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Zollinger
Heinrich Zollinger (22 March 1818 – 19 May 1859) was a Swiss botanist. Zollinger was born in Feuerthalen, Switzerland. From 1837 to 1838 he studied botany at the University of Geneva under Augustin and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, but had to interrupt his studies due to financial problems. In 1842 he moved to Java, working in a botanical garden, and on small government-financed scientific expeditions. He returned to Switzerland in 1848, but came back to Java in 1855 with his wife and two children. In 1857, he proposed recognizing Malesia as a distinct floristic region, an idea later taken up by Cornelius G.G.J. van Steenis. The species '' Clavaria zollingeri'' described scientifically by French mycologist Joseph-Henri Léveillé in 1846 was named after Heinrich Zollinger, who researched the genus '' Clavaria'', and collected the type specimen in Java. Zollinger died in Kandangan, a village located in the eastern part of Mount Bromo Tengger in East Java, Indonesia. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
