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Persian Speedwell
''Veronica persica'' is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. Common names include birdeye speedwell, common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell. It is native to Eurasia and is widespread as an introduced species in the British Isles (where it was first recorded in 1825), North America, eastern Asia, including Japan and China, and Australia and New Zealand. Description ''Veronica persica'' is an annual that reproduces from seed. Its cotyledons are triangular with truncated bases. The short-stalked leaves are broadly ovate with coarsely serrated margins, and measure long. The leaves are paired on the lower stem and are alternately arranged on the upper parts. The plant has weak stems that form a dense, prostrate groundcover. The tips of stems often grow upright. The flowers are roughly wideRhoads, A. F. and T. A. Block. ''Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual'', 2nd ed. University of Pennsylvania Press ...
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Jean Louis Marie Poiret
Jean Louis Marie Poiret (11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman, botanist, and explorer. From 1785 to 1786, he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution, he became a professor of natural history at the Écoles Centrale of Aisne. The genus '' Poiretia'' of the legume family Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat. Selected publications *Coquilles fluviatiles et terrestres observées dans le département de l'Aisne et aux environs de Paris. Prodrome. – pp. i–xi –11 1–119. Paris. (Barrois, Soissons); (1801). * ''Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique'' (1819–1820); (illus. by P. J. F. Turpin). * * * * * ''Voyage en Barbarie, …, pendant les années 1785 et 1786'' (1789). * ''Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe''; (1825–1829). * with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de L ...
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Axil
A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, flower, and fruit collectively form the shoot system. In most leaves, the primary photosynthetic tissue is the palisade mesophyll and is located on the upper side of the blade or lamina of the leaf but in some species, including the mature foliage of ''Eucalyptus'', palisade mesophyll is present on both sides and the leaves are said to be isobilateral. Most leaves are flattened and have distinct upper (adaxial) and lower (abaxial) surfaces that differ in color, hairiness, the number of stomata (pores that intake and output gases), the amount and structure of epicuticular wax and other features. Leaves are mostly green in color due to the presence of a compound called chlorophyll that is essential for photosynthesis as it absorbs light e ...
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Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's ...
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Mahomet Allum
Mohamet Allum ( – 21 March 1964), also known as Muhammad Alam Khan and nicknamed "The Wonder Man", was an Afghan herbalist based in Adelaide, South Australia. He arrived as one of the Afghan cameleers brought into Australia to work on the camel trains which were being used to explore the interior of the continent in the late 19th century, and worked around the country before settling in Adelaide in 1899. Early life Allum was a Pashtun born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, around 1858. He travelled through Asia selling Arab horses and camels to the British Army, before sailing to Australia, arriving between 1884 and 1890. He was known to be in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia,Online version of 2010 ed. at Google Books
(Over half available online - includes short biographies of a large number of cameleers.)
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Herbalist
Herbal medicine (also herbalism) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. With worldwide research into pharmacology, some herbal medicines have been translated into modern remedies, such as the anti-malarial group of drugs called artemisinin isolated from ''Artemisia annua'', a herb that was known in Chinese medicine to treat fever. There is limited scientific evidence for the safety and efficacy of plants used in 21st century herbalism, which generally does not provide standards for purity or dosage. The scope of herbal medicine commonly includes fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts. Herbal medicine is also called phytomedicine or phytotherapy. Paraherbalism describes alternative and pseudoscientific practices of using unrefined plant or animal extracts as unproven medicines or health-promoting agents. Paraherbalism relies on the belief that preserving various substa ...
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Veronica Spicata
''Veronica spicata'' (spiked speedwell; syn. ''Pseudolysimachion spicatum'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is tall and bears 1 foot long spikes with blue, pink, purple and white flowers. It is the county flower of Montgomeryshire , HQ= Montgomery , Government= Montgomeryshire County Council (1889–1974)Montgomeryshire District Council (1974–1996) , Origin= , Status= , Start= , End= ... in the United Kingdom. Cultivated varieties include blue ('Royal Candles'), red ('Red Fox') and white ('Noah Williams'). It became a protected species in the UK in 1975 under the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act. References External links * Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus spicata {{Plantaginaceae-stub ...
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Veronica Perfoliata
''Veronica perfoliata'', commonly known as digger's speedwell, is a common perennial herb found at higher altitudes in south-eastern Australia. It is a low-growing multi-stemmed plant rising from a woody rootstock. It has rounded blue-grey foliage and sprays of intense violet-blue flowers at the end of arching branches. It is occasionally cultivated as a garden plant. Description ''Veronica perfoliata'' is an erect woody herb with arching decumbent branches long. The leaves are smooth and bluish green with a powdery bloom, about long and wide. Leaves are either narrow or broad egg-shaped and arranged in opposite pairs, joined to the stem either in a wedge, heart, or stem-clasping configuration. The leaf margin may be entire, finely scalloped or with approximately 10 pairs of rough or shallow sharp teeth. Plants with narrower leaves generally grow in drier situations, whereas the broad-leaf form in wetter cooler locations. Leaves have 3-9 longitudinal veins radiating from th ...
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Veronica Longifolia
''Veronica longifolia'', known as garden speedwell or longleaf speedwell, is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. Description This herbaceous perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wid ... is tall and spreads to . The flower spikes are long and bear lilac to purple blooms. References Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus longifolia {{Plantaginaceae-stub ...
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Veronica Gentianoides
''Veronica gentianoides'', the gentian speedwell, is a species of flowering perennial plant in the family Plantaginaceae found in the Middle East, from Turkey to Iran. Description ''Veronica gentianoides'' grows from spreading above-ground rhizomes, eventually forming a mat of glossy green leaves, grouped into rosettes. Individual leaves are more or less elliptical in shape and long. It flowers in early summer, producing narrow erect spikes ( racemes) up to tall, with blue flowers which are across. The species is very variable. Flowers can be from almost white to deep blue; plants growing at high altitudes are considerably shorter, possibly only tall, with smaller leaves., p. 1370 The species is found in Turkey, the Caucasus and Iran, where it grows in damp, relatively open habitats, including forests, grassland and alpine areas up to . Cultivation It is grown in temperate climates as an ornamental plant, particularly by alpine gardeners. Some cultivar A cultivar is ...
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Veronica Incana
''Veronica incana'', the silver speedwell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to parts of Eastern Europe and Russia, all of Siberia, Mongolia, and northern China, and has been introduced to Czechoslovakia. A number of authorities consider it to be a subspecies of the spiked speedwell ''Veronica spicata''; ''Veronica spicata'' subsp.''incana''. It is a parent of the hybrids ''Veronica'' ×''czemalensis'' (with '' V.porphyriana'') and ''Veronica'' ×''grisea'' (with '' V.longifolia''). References External links ''Veronica incana'' , High Plains Gardening''Veronica spicata'' subsp. ''incana'' 'Pure Silver' (Silver Speedwell) - Gardenia.net {{Taxonbar, from=Q4108050 incana The Socotra warbler (''Incana incana'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is monotypic within the genus ''Incana''. It is endemic to Socotra. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tr ... Flora of Austria ...
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Veronica Exalta
Veronica, Veronika, etc., may refer to: People * Veronica (name) * Saint Veronica * Saint Veronica of Syria Arts and media Comics and literature * ''Veronica'', an 1870 novel by Frances Eleanor Trollope * ''Veronica'', a 2005 novel by Mary Gaitskill * ''Veronica'', an Archie Comics imprint Film, radio, and television * ''Veronica'' (1972 film), a Romanian musical film directed by Elisabeta Bostan * ''Veronica'' (2017 Mexican film), a psychological thriller by Carlos Algara and Alejandro Martinez-Beltran * ''Veronica'' (2017 Spanish film), a Spanish horror film *Veronica (media), a Dutch media brand ** Radio Veronica, a Dutch offshore radio station broadcasting from 1960–1974, the origin of the brand **Radio Veronica (Sky Radio), a Dutch radio station ** Veronica TV, a Dutch television station ** Veronica, now RTL 7, a former Dutch television station ** Veronica Superguide, a Dutch television Magazine Music * Veronica (singer) (born 1974), American dance-music singer * "V ...
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Locule
A locule (plural locules) or loculus (plural loculi) (meaning "little place" in Latin) is a small cavity or compartment within an organ or part of an organism (animal, plant, or fungus). In angiosperms (flowering plants), the term ''locule'' usually refers to a chamber within an ovary (gynoecium or carpel) of the flower and fruits. Depending on the number of locules in the ovary, fruits can be classified as ''uni-locular'' (unilocular), ''bi-locular'', ''tri-locular'' or ''multi-locular''. The number of locules present in a gynoecium may be equal to or less than the number of carpels. The locules contain the ovules or seeds. The term may also refer to chambers within anthers containing pollen. In Ascomycete Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The defi ... fungi, locules are c ...
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