Verticordia Monadelpha Var. Monadelpha
:For the clam genus, see Verticordia (bivalve), ''Verticordia'' (bivalve). ''Verticordia'' is a genus of more than 100 species of plants commonly known as featherflowers, in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae. They range in form from very small shrubs such as ''Verticordia verticordina, V. verticordina'' to trees like ''Verticordia cunninghamii, V. cunninghamii'', some spindly, others dense and bushy, but the majority are woody shrubs up to tall. The flowers are variously described as "feathery", "woolly" or "hairy" and are found in most colours except blue. They often appear to be in rounded groups or spikes but in fact are always single, each flower borne on a separate stalk in a leaf wikt:axil, axil. Each flower has five sepals and five petals all of a similar size with the sepals often having feathery or hairy wikt:lobe, lobes. There are usually ten stamens alternating with variously shaped staminodes. The Stigma (botany), style is simple, usually not extending bey ...
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Clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. They live in both freshwater and marine environments; in salt water they prefer to burrow down into the mud and the turbidity of the water required varies with species and location; the greatest diversity of these is in North America. Clams in the culinary sense do not live attached to a substrate (whereas oysters and mussels do) and do not live near the bottom (whereas scallops do). In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder. Many edible clams such as palourde clams are ovoid or triangular; however, razor clams have an elongated parallel-sided shell, suggesting an old-fashioned ...
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