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Condalia Correllii
''Condalia correllii'', also called Correll's snakewood, is a shrub belonging to the family Rhamnaceae. The shrub has smooth gray bark, and usually grows up to tall. The fruit is generally a deep violet-black. Leaves are linear, and it belongs to what Marshall Conring Johnston terms the linear-leaved group. Distribution Correll's snakewood ranges across the Southwestern United States and into Northwestern Mexico, where it commonly occurs at higher elevations than Condalia globosa ''Condalia globosa'', also called bitter condalia, or bitter snakewood, is a Perennial plant, perennial shrub, small tree of the family Rhamnaceae. The tree or shrub is a gray, smooth barked tree, up to 4m tall. The fruit can be deep violet-blac ..., generally . Uses It has been considered as a low water native landscape plant. It provides useful cover and forage for fruit eating birds. Flowers are notably fragrant.J. Mielke. 1993. Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes References correl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Conring Johnston
Marshall Conring Johnston (born May 10, 1930) is an American botanist who made several explorations in Mexico and specialized in plants in the family Gesneriaceae. Johnston was born in San Antonio in the family of Theodore Harris Johnston and Lucile Mary Conring. He went on his first botanical expeditions to Mexico while still in high school during 1945-1947. On those trips he visited the northern Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, and Zacatecas. From 1972-1974 he made trips to Chihuahua, concentrating on desert flora. These early 1970s trips resulted in the bulk of his botanic collection. Marshal participated in the creation of the books ''Flora of Texas'', ''Flora of North America'', and ''Flora Neotropica''. Johnston was also a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Plant namesakes * '' Marshalljohnstonia'' (genus), Henrickson, 1976 * '' Colubrina johnstonii'', T.Wendt, 1983 * '' Crataegus johnstonii'', J.B.Phipps, 1997 * '' Euphorbia joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrub
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees by their multiple stems and shorter height, less than tall. Small shrubs, less than 2 m (6.6 ft) tall are sometimes termed as subshrubs. Many botanical groups have species that are shrubs, and others that are trees and herbaceous plants instead. Some definitions state that a shrub is less than and a tree is over 6 m. Others use as the cut-off point for classification. Many species of tree may not reach this mature height because of hostile less than ideal growing conditions, and resemble a shrub-sized plant. However, such species have the potential to grow taller under the ideal growing conditions for that plant. In terms of longevity, most shrubs fit in a class between perennials and trees; some may only last about five y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhamnaceae
The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are more common in the subtropical and tropical regions. The earliest fossil evidence of Rhamnaceae is from the Late Cretaceous. Fossil flowers have been collected from the Upper Cretaceous of Mexico and the Paleocene of Argentina. Leaves of family Rhamnaceae members are simple, i.e., the leaf blades are not divided into smaller leaflets.Flowering Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains, Nancy Dale, 2nd Ed. 2000, p. 166 Leaves can be either alternate or opposite. Stipules are present. These leaves are modified into spines in many genera, in some (e.g. ''Paliurus spina-christi'' and '' Colletia cruciata'') spectacularly so. ''Colletia'' stands out by having two axillary buds instead of one, one developing int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Condalia Globosa
''Condalia globosa'', also called bitter condalia, or bitter snakewood, is a Perennial plant, perennial shrub, small tree of the family Rhamnaceae. The tree or shrub is a gray, smooth barked tree, up to 4m tall. The fruit can be deep violet-black. Distribution Bitter condalia's greatest range is in Northwestern Mexico in the desert regions of Sonora and the Gulf of California, east regions of Baja California and Baja California Sur. The range extends onto the islands in the Gulf of California, and northwards into southwest Sonoran Desert Arizona and Colorado Desert southeast California; all these regions of Sonora, the Bajas, and the southeast Colorado Desert, are all regions of the Sonoran Desert, the lowest elevation, highest temperature regions. In Sonora, Mexico, the center of its range is opposite the species range in the Bajas, across the Gulf of California. The range in Sonora avoids the hottest Gran Desierto de Altar of Sonora in the northwest (about a sixth of Sonoran g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
