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Eupatorium Amabile
''Eupatorium amabile'' is a shrubby plant in the family Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ... native China and Taiwan. ''Eupatorium amabile'' is a shrub that grows about 1 m tall, with more or less upright stems and slender branches that are densely glandular-villous near their ends. The 9–12 cm long and 4–3.5 cm wide leaves are medium green and pale green underneath, ovate or ovate-oblong in shape. The leaves have rounded bases and the margins are mucronate-serrate, and the apex is long acuminate. Terminal corymbs with 9–15 flowers are produced with flowers that have whitish Pappus. The black achenes are 2.5 mm long and sparsely covered with villous hairs. References amabile {{Eupatorieae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae were first described in the year 1740. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger family is unclear as the quantity of extant species in each family is unknown. Most species of Asteraceae are annual, biennial, or perennial herbaceous plants, but there are also shrubs, vines, and trees. The family has a widespread distribution, from subpolar to tropical regions in a wide variety of habitats. Most occur in hot desert and cold or hot semi-desert climates, and they are found on every continent but Antarctica. The primary common characteristic is the existence of sometimes hundreds of tiny individual florets which are held together by protective involucres in flower heads, or more technicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
