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Ruscus
''Ruscus'' is a genus of six species of flowering plants, native to western and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa, and southwestern Asia east to the Caucasus. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). Like many lilioid monocots, it was formerly classified in the family Liliaceae. The species are evergreen shrub-like perennial plants, growing to approximately tall. They have branched stems that bear numerous cladodes (flattened, leaf-like stem tissue, also known as phylloclades) long and broad. The true leaves are minute, scale-like, and non-photosynthetic. The flowers are small, white with a dark-violet centre, and situated on the middle of the cladodes. The fruit is a red berry in diameter. Some species are monoecious while others are dioecious. ''Ruscus'' is spread by seed and by means of underground rhizomes. It can colonise extensive patches of ground. Species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruscus Aculeatus
''Ruscus aculeatus'', known as butcher's-broom, is a low evergreen dioecious Eurasian shrub, with flat shoots known as cladodes that give the appearance of stiff, spine-tipped leaves. Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes. The female flowers are followed by a red berry, and the seeds are bird-distributed, but the plant also spreads vegetatively by means of rhizomes. It is native to Eurasia and some northern parts of Africa. ''Ruscus aculeatus'' occurs in woodlands and hedgerows, where it is tolerant of deep shade, and also on coastal cliffs. Likely due to its attractive winter/spring color, ''Ruscus aculeatus'' has become a fairly common landscape plant. It is also widely planted in gardens, and has spread as a garden escapee in many areas outside its native range. The plant grows well in zones 7 to 9 on the USDA hardiness zone map. The Latin specific epithet ''aculeatus'' means “prickly”. History Etymology The commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruscus Hypoglossum At The Grand Canyon Of Crimea
''Ruscus'' is a genus of six species of flowering plants, native to western and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa, and southwestern Asia east to the Caucasus. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). Like many lilioid monocots, it was formerly classified in the family Liliaceae. The species are evergreen shrub-like perennial plants, growing to approximately tall. They have branched stems that bear numerous cladodes (flattened, leaf-like stem tissue, also known as phylloclades) long and broad. The true leaves are minute, scale-like, and non-photosynthetic. The flowers are small, white with a dark-violet centre, and situated on the middle of the cladodes. The fruit is a red berry in diameter. Some species are monoecious while others are dioecious. ''Ruscus'' is spread by seed and by means of underground rhizomes. It can colonise extensive patches of ground. Species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruscus Aculeatus Bugelenn Liliacea (fragon)
''Ruscus'' is a genus of six species of flowering plants, native to western and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa, and southwestern Asia east to the Caucasus. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). Like many lilioid monocots, it was formerly classified in the family Liliaceae. The species are evergreen shrub-like perennial plants, growing to approximately tall. They have branched stems that bear numerous cladodes (flattened, leaf-like stem tissue, also known as phylloclades) long and broad. The true leaves are minute, scale-like, and non-photosynthetic. The flowers are small, white with a dark-violet centre, and situated on the middle of the cladodes. The fruit is a red berry in diameter. Some species are monoecious while others are dioecious. ''Ruscus'' is spread by seed and by means of underground rhizomes. It can colonise extensive patches of ground. Species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruscus Colchicus
''Ruscus'' is a genus of six species of flowering plants, native to western and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa, and southwestern Asia east to the Caucasus. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). Like many lilioid monocots, it was formerly classified in the family Liliaceae. The species are evergreen shrub-like perennial plants, growing to approximately tall. They have branched stems that bear numerous cladodes (flattened, leaf-like stem tissue, also known as phylloclades) long and broad. The true leaves are minute, scale-like, and non-photosynthetic. The flowers are small, white with a dark-violet centre, and situated on the middle of the cladodes. The fruit is a red berry in diameter. Some species are monoecious while others are dioecious. ''Ruscus'' is spread by seed and by means of underground rhizomes. It can colonise extensive patches of ground. Species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruscus Hypoglossum
''Ruscus hypoglossum'' is a small evergreen shrub with a native range from Italy north to Austria and Slovakia and east to Turkey and Crimea. Common names include spineless butcher's-broom, mouse thorn and horse tongue lily. The species name comes from two Greek words ὑπό (''hypo'') and γλῶσσα (''glōssa'') meaning ''under'' and ''tongue''. Description The mature plant shrub will eventually reach about in height. It has a creeping rootstock and leaf-like phylloclades or flattened stems that are about long to wide tapering at both ends. True leaves are smaller green appendages around the flowers. Small yellow flowers bloom in the axil of a leaf-like bract long on upper side of phylloclade. Plants are dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate plants. Fruit is a rarely produced red globose berry wide. Gallery Ruscus hypoglossum at BBG (50878).jpg, True leaf and flower on the phylloclade. Ruscus hypoglossum PID722-6.jpg, Flower. Ruscus hypoglossum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cladode
Phylloclades and cladodes are flattened, photosynthetic shoots, which are usually considered to be modified branches. The two terms are used either differently or interchangeably by different authors. ''Phyllocladus'', a genus of conifer, is named after these structures. Phylloclades/cladodes have been identified in fossils dating from as early as the Permian. Definition and morphology The term "phylloclade" is from the New Latin ''phyllocladium'', itself derived from Greek ''phyllo'', leaf, and ''klados'', branch. Definitions of the terms "phylloclade" and "cladode" vary. All agree that they are flattened structures that are photosynthetic and resemble leaf-like branches. In one definition, phylloclades are a subset of cladodes, namely those that greatly resemble or perform the function of leaves, as in Butcher's broom (''Ruscus aculeatus'') as well as ''Phyllanthus'' and some ''Asparagus'' species. By an alternative definition, cladodes are distinguished by their limited gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phylloclade
Phylloclades and cladodes are flattened, photosynthetic shoots, which are usually considered to be modified branches. The two terms are used either differently or interchangeably by different authors. ''Phyllocladus'', a genus of conifer, is named after these structures. Phylloclades/cladodes have been identified in fossils dating from as early as the Permian. Definition and morphology The term "phylloclade" is from the New Latin ''phyllocladium'', itself derived from Greek ''phyllo'', leaf, and ''klados'', branch. Definitions of the terms "phylloclade" and "cladode" vary. All agree that they are flattened structures that are photosynthetic and resemble leaf-like branches. In one definition, phylloclades are a subset of cladodes, namely those that greatly resemble or perform the function of leaves, as in Butcher's broom (''Ruscus aculeatus'') as well as ''Phyllanthus'' and some ''Asparagus'' species. By an alternative definition, cladodes are distinguished by their limited gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruscus Hypophyllum
''Ruscus hypophyllum'' is a species of shrub in the family Asparagaceae Asparagaceae, known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, ''Asparagus officinalis''. Those who live in the temperate c .... They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves. Individuals can grow to 0.42 m. Sources References {{Taxonbar, from=Q3648105 hypophyllum Flora of Malta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruscus Hyrcanus
''Ruscus hyrcanus'' is a perennial evergreen woody shrub-like or small compact bush plant. It is in the asparagus family. Description and habitat The species grows to approximately 30-50 centimeters tall and is very prickly. Stems always are green; ordinary woody, rigid, branched at the end in a whorl with spreading-procumbent branches. Cladodes have a length of 10–25 millimeters; they are flattened, ovate, lanceolate, leathery, rigid, and tapering to a thorn at their extremity; their both sides are shiny green. ''R. hyrcanus'' leaves are very reduced, small and bractiform. The flower is purplish or whitish, dioecious, marcescent with six spreading divisions, and solitary or geminate, arising in the axil of a lanceolate, firm bract on the median rib of the upper face of cladodes. Male flower has three stamens and sweating in a tube; female flower has an ovary with three biovulated lobes. The fruit is a red globular berry, about one centimeter in diameter. It is native to Iran, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolinoideae
Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family (biology), family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009. It used to be treated as a separate family, Ruscaceae sensu lato, s.l. The family name is derived from the Binomial nomenclature, generic name of the Biological type, type genus, ''Nolina''. The subfamily includes genera that had been placed in a range of different families, including Ruscaceae Sensu stricto, s.s., Nolinaceae, Dracaenaceae, Convallariaceae and Eriospermaceae. Like many groups of lilioid monocots, the genera included here were once included in a wide interpretation of the family Liliaceae. Genera A possibly incomplete list of the genera included in the Nolinoideae is given below. The reference is to the source which places the genus in this subfamily. The genera included here have varied widely in their limits and assignment to families and subfamilies; some former family placements other than Nolinoideae (which will be found in the literature) are given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae, known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, ''Asparagus officinalis''. Those who live in the temperate climates may be surprised to learn that this family includes both common garden plants as well as common houseplants. The garden plants include asparagus, yucca, bluebell, and hosta, and the houseplants include snake plant, corn cane, spider plant and plumosus fern. Taxonomy In earlier classification systems, the species involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae. The APG II system of 2003 allowed two options as to the circumscription of the family: either Asparagaceae ''sensu lato'' ("in the wider sense") combining seven previously recognized families, or Asparagaceae ''sensu stricto'' ("in the strict sense") consisting of very few genera (notably ''Asparagus'', also ''Hemiphylacus''), but nevertheless totalling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant Sexuality
Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the Plant morphology, morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction. Among all living organisms, flowers, which are the reproductive structures of flowering plant, angiosperms, are the most varied physically and show a correspondingly great diversity in methods of reproduction. Plants that are not flowering plants (green algae, mosses, Marchantiophyta, liverworts, hornworts, ferns and gymnosperms such as conifers) also have complex interplays between morphological adaptation and environmental factors in their sexual reproduction. The breeding system, or how the sperm from one plant fertilizes the ovum of another, depends on the reproductive morphology, and is the single most important determinant of the genetic structure of nonclonal plant populations. Christian Konrad Sprengel (1793) studied the reproduction of flowering plants and for the first time it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
