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Dudleya Rigida
''Dudleya rigida'' is a species of succulent perennial plant in the family Crassulaceae known commonly as the La Laguna liveforever. Characterized by a tall inflorescence with pendant yellowish-red flowers, it is a very rare plant whose existence was doubtful until botanist Reid Moran accidentally re-discovered it. It is endemic to the Sierra de la Laguna in Baja California Sur, Mexico.Britton ex Britton & Rose, 1903 In: Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, Vol 3 Description ''Dudleya rigida'' has a caudex 1 to 3.5 cm thick, obscured by dried leaves, and branching into clusters with up to 20 rosettes. Rosettes are 6 to 15 cm wide, with 10-25 leaves. Leaves are green or somewhat glaucous, and oblong to triangular-ovate, short-acuminate. The leaves are 5 to 8 cm long, 2.5 to 4 cm wide, and 6 to 10 mm thick. The inflorescence has 8-21 flowers, with a yellow corolla marked in red and a pink to red peduncle. The flowers are pendent, a trait only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Lord Britton
Nathaniel Lord Britton (January 15, 1859 – June 25, 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York (state), New York. Early life Britton was born in New Dorp, Staten Island, New Dorp in Staten Island, New York to Jasper Alexander Hamilton Britton and Harriet Lord Turner. His parents wanted him to study religion, but he was attracted to nature study at an early age. He was a graduate of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (Columbia University), Columbia University School of Mines and afterwards taught geology and botany at Columbia University. He joined the Torrey Botanical Society, Torrey Botanical Club soon after graduation and was a member his entire life. He married Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight, a Bryophyte, bryologist, on August 27, 1885. They had met when she joined the club and were lifelong collaborators in botanical research. New York Botanical Garden During their h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudleya Anthonyi
''Dudleya anthonyi'', known by the common name San Quintín liveforever, is a succulent plant endemic to the San Quintín volcanic field, located on Isla San Martín and the adjacent mainland bay of Bahia San Quintín, within Baja California. Description ''Dudleya anthonyi'' is very similar in appearance to ''Dudleya pulverulenta''. Its stem leaves are narrower, its petals are narrower and united only below the middle, its sepals are narrow above but broadened at the base, and its petals are sharply acute. ''Dudleya anthonyi'' may usually be distinguished from ''D. puverulenta'' by its narrower and more rigid leaves, which taper from the base. The form of the plants varies persistent with location. Plants found on San Martin tend to be larger and with wider leaves than their counterparts on the coast of San Quintin Bay. Further south along the coast, another form exists in Socorro Canyon, with tall, erect stems, giving a resemblance of miniature trees. The plant is unusual amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudleya Pauciflora
''Dudleya pauciflora'' is a species of succulent plant in the stonecrop family known by the common name few-flower liveforever. It is characterized by its small crowded rosettes of narrow leaves and its colorful inflorescence with red-yellow flowers. Found growing on rocky outcrops and cliffs in the high elevation mountains of the Sierra de San Pedro Martir and the Sierra de San Borja, it is endemic to the state of Baja California, Mexico. Description ''Dudleya pauciflora'' is a rosette-forming succulent plant that forms clumps by branching dichotomously. It is characterized by small, crowded rosettes, a colorful inflorescence with long pedicels, and small, red-marked yellow flowers. When compared to other congeners, the clustered rosettes resemble those of '' Dudleya abramsii'', while the reddish flowers and inflorescence resemble that of '' Dudleya nubigena.'' Both Reid Moran and Joseph Nelson Rose suggested the possibility of a relationship between ''D. pauciflora'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudleya Abramsii
''Dudleya abramsii'' is a species complex of succulent plants native to California and parts of Baja California. There are numerous subspecies, some critically endangered, with varying habits and lifestyles, but most often characterized by a smaller size, yellow flowers, and an affinity for rocky habitats. The subspecies may be polyphyletic. Description ''Dudleya abramsii'' is a fleshy perennial forming a small basal cluster of leaves around a central caudex. The habit of ''Dudleya abramsii'' is growing in either solitary rosettes or in caespitose forms. The thick, glaucous leaves are lance-oblong to lanceolate, reaching up to 11 centimeters in length, but often remaining much smaller, usually 2 to 30 mm long, and 3 to 20 mm wide. The entire rosette is generally only 0.5 to 15 cm wide. The inflorescence is a mostly erect, branching stem lined with pointed bracts and bearing up to 15 flowers. The inflorescence has a peduncle 2 to 25 cm tall, and 1 to 6 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Natural History Museum
The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and the oldest in Southern California. The present location of the museum was dedicated on January 14, 1933. A major addition to the museum was dedicated in April 2001, doubling exhibit space. History The San Diego Natural History Museum grew out of the San Diego Society of Natural History, which was founded on October 9, 1874. The Natural History Society was founded by George W. Barnes, Daniel Cleveland, Charles Coleman, E. W. Hendrick and O. N. Sanford. It is the oldest scientific institution in southern California, and the second oldest west of the Mississippi. In its initial years, the San Diego Society of Natural History was the region's primary source of scientific culture, serving a small but growing community eager for information a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrtillocactus Cochal
''Myrtillocactus cochal'', the candelabra cactus (a name it shares with other plants), is a species of flowering plant in the family Cactaceae, native to Baja California. Individuals can reach , and are hardy to USDA zone A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants. In some systems other statistics are included in the calculations. The original and most wide ... 9b. References cochal Endemic flora of Mexico Flora of Baja California Plants described in 1909 {{cactus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolina Beldingii
''Nolina beldingii'' is a species of perennial flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae known commonly as the Cape nolina or Belding's beargrass. It is an arborescent monocot growing up to high, with fissured bark on a trunk topped with leaf rosettes. The narrow leaves are up to long, and are used as thatching by local peoples. This species is endemic to Baja California Sur in Mexico, where it grows only in the highest reaches of the Sierra de la Laguna. It is found primarily in oak forests at elevations over along rocky granite outcrops. Description This is an arborescent species of ''Nolina'' that grows in height with a trunk in diameter. The bark is fissured, forming rectangular blocks long with the ridges deep. The bark is colored gray but turns maroon with age. Topping the apex of the trunk(s) are 1 to 26 rosettes of leaves, each rosette in diameter. The rosettes retain persistent old leaves along the trunks. The leaves themselves are long and narrow, linear in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agave Promontorii
''Agave'' (; ; ) is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of the Americas and the Caribbean, although some ''Agave'' species are also native to tropical areas of North America, such as Mexico. The genus is primarily known for its succulent and xerophytic species that typically form large rosettes of strong, fleshy leaves. ''Agave'' now includes species formerly placed in a number of other genera, such as ''Manfreda'', ×''Mangave'', ''Polianthes'' and ''Prochnyanthes''. Many plants in this genus may be considered perennial, because they require several to many years to mature and flower. However, most ''Agave'' species are more accurately described as monocarpic rosettes or multiannuals, since each individual rosette flowers only once and then dies; a small number of ''Agave'' species are polycarpic. Maguey flowers are considered edible in many indigenous culinary traditions of Mesoamerica. Along with plants from the closely related genera '' Yucca'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Fish And Wildlife Service
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats. The mission of the agency is "working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people." Among the responsibilities of the USFWS are enforcing federal wildlife laws; protecting endangered species; managing migratory birds; restoring nationally significant fisheries; conserving and restoring wildlife habitats, such as wetlands; helping foreign governments in international conservation efforts; and distributing money to fish and wildlife agencies of U.S. states through the Wildlife Sport Fish and Restoration Program. The vast majority of fish and wildlife habitats are on U.S. state, state or private land not controlled by the United States government. Therefore, the USFWS works closely with private g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Andrews Walpole
Frederick Andrews Walpole (17 January 1861 Port Douglas, Essex County, New York - 11 May 1904 California) was a botanical illustrator employed by the United States Department of Agriculture. Walpole's documented life is fragmentary. In 1871 his family relocated to Chicago where Frederick studied under an artist named Sloan, possibly Junius R. Sloan (1827–1900), a landscape and portrait painter of the period. In 1882 Walpole left Chicago and journeyed by rail to Southern Oregon to acquire land for a homestead. One of his journals records that on arriving at Redding, California in the Sacramento Valley on 22 March, he found the stage fare of $36.00 to Jacksonville beyond his means. He accordingly freighted his luggage ahead and walked the 177 miles remaining. After combing the area, he settled on land near the present town of Trail, Oregon, Trail in the Crater Lake region. Walpole's known journals do not cover the period 1884 to 1899, but it is known that Walpole's family settled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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