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Vasconcellea Goudotiana
''Vasconcellea goudotiana'' (also known as papayuelo) is a species of flowering plant in the family Caricaceae The Caricaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, found primarily in tropical regions of Central and South America and Africa. They are usually short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small to medium-sized trees growi .... It is endemic to Colombia. The plant has a chromosome count of 2n = 18. It was previously placed in genus '' Carica''. Gallery File:Vasconcellea goudotiana yellow fruits.JPG, Vasconcellea goudotiana with Yellow fruits File:Vasconcellea goudotiona with red fruits.JPG, Vasconcellea goudotiana with red fruits References goudotiana {{Brassicales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caricaceae
The Caricaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, found primarily in tropical regions of Central and South America and Africa. They are usually short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small to medium-sized trees growing to 5–10 m tall. One species, ''Vasconcellea horovitziana'' is a liana and the three species of the genus '' Jarilla'' are herbs. Some species, such as the papaya, bear edible fruit and produce papain. Based on molecular analyses, this family has been proposed to have originated in Africa in the early Cenozoic era, ~66 million years ago (mya). The dispersal from Africa to Central America occurred ~35 mya, possibly via ocean currents from the Congo delta. From Central America, the family reached South America 19-27 mya. The family comprises six genera and about 34-35 species: *''Carica'' – one species, ''Carica papaya'' ( papaya), Americas *''Cylicomorpha'' – two species, Africa *''Horovitzia'' – one species, Mexico *''Jacar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carica
''Carica'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caricaceae including the papaya (''C. papaya'' syn. ''C. peltata'', ''C. posoposa''), a widely cultivated fruit tree native to the American tropics. The genus was formerly treated as including about 20-25 species of short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small trees growing to 5–10 m tall, native to tropical Central and South America, but recent genetic evidence has resulted in all of these species other than ''C. papaya'' being reclassified into three other genera. Taxonomy The genus name comes from the botanical name of the fig, ''Ficus carica'', because of the species' leaves or fruits resemble that of it. The ''carica'' epithet comes from Caria in southwest Anatolia (Asia Minor), Turkey, where the fig was mistakenly thought to have come from. Species According to World Flora Online, the genus ''Carica'' lists 21 species. Most of the other species have since been transferred to the genus ''Vasconcellea'', with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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