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Fockea
''Fockea'' is a genus of succulent scrubs native to Africa south of the equator. They are members of the Asclepiadoideae (milkweeds), a subfamily of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Of the six accepted species, only the two most widely distributed extend north of southern Africa, with ''Fockea multiflora, F. multiflora'' reaching as far north as Tanzania and ''F. angustifolia'' reaching to southern Kenya. ''Fockea'' are known as water roots, a reference to the bulbous caudex characteristic of most species, which is also edible in at least some species. Taxonomy The genus ''Fockea'' Endl. was established in 1838 by the Austrian botanist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher through illustration and description of a specimen of ''Fockea capensis'' collected in Cape Colony circa 1786 by Franz Boos and Georg Scholl and cultivated at Schönbrunn Palace#Gardens, Schönbrunn Garden in Vienna. The genus was named after the German physician and naturalist Gustav Woldemar Focke, author of the comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fockea Angustifolia
''Fockea'' is a genus of succulent scrubs native to Africa south of the equator. They are members of the Asclepiadoideae (milkweeds), a subfamily of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Of the six accepted species, only the two most widely distributed extend north of southern Africa, with '' F. multiflora'' reaching as far north as Tanzania and ''F. angustifolia'' reaching to southern Kenya. ''Fockea'' are known as water roots, a reference to the bulbous caudex characteristic of most species, which is also edible in at least some species. Taxonomy The genus ''Fockea'' Endl. was established in 1838 by the Austrian botanist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher through illustration and description of a specimen of ''Fockea capensis'' collected in Cape Colony circa 1786 by Franz Boos and Georg Scholl and cultivated at Schönbrunn Garden in Vienna. The genus was named after the German physician and naturalist Gustav Woldemar Focke, author of the commentary ''De respiratione vegetabilium'' (' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fockea
''Fockea'' is a genus of succulent scrubs native to Africa south of the equator. They are members of the Asclepiadoideae (milkweeds), a subfamily of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Of the six accepted species, only the two most widely distributed extend north of southern Africa, with ''Fockea multiflora, F. multiflora'' reaching as far north as Tanzania and ''F. angustifolia'' reaching to southern Kenya. ''Fockea'' are known as water roots, a reference to the bulbous caudex characteristic of most species, which is also edible in at least some species. Taxonomy The genus ''Fockea'' Endl. was established in 1838 by the Austrian botanist Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher through illustration and description of a specimen of ''Fockea capensis'' collected in Cape Colony circa 1786 by Franz Boos and Georg Scholl and cultivated at Schönbrunn Palace#Gardens, Schönbrunn Garden in Vienna. The genus was named after the German physician and naturalist Gustav Woldemar Focke, author of the comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fockea Multiflora
''Fockea multiflora'', or python vine, is a plant of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, native to Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, including the Caprivi Strip, and Malawi. It is a large semisucculent liana, growing to some 15m in length and up to 60 cm in diameter, found primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. Taxonomy The genus ''Fockea'' comprises six species belonging to the Asclepiadoideae (milkweeds) subfamily of the Apocynaceae family. Massive specimens of ''F. multiflora'' are probably the largest known members of this subfamily. All six ''Fockea'' species occur south of the equator in Africa, with ''F. multiflora'' the second most widely distributed, after ''F. angustifolia''. Unlike the other five ''Fockea'' species, all of which are relatively small climbers with swollen, mostly subterranean tubers, ''F. multiflora'' is a massive, tropical liana without a tuber, It is considered a sister group, sister to the other five spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fockea Edulis
''Fockea edulis'' is a species of caudiciform plant in the family Apocynaceae that is native to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O .... Taxonomy The plant was first described as ''Pergularia edulis'' by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1794. It was renamed ''Fockea edulis'' in 1895 by Karl Moritz Schumann. A common name is Hottentot bread due to the milky, somewhat sweetish flavour of the edible root which is sometimes gathered from the wild for local use. The plant's latex is said to be poisonous. In Afrikaans the plant is called bergbaroe, bergkambroo, kambaroo, kambroo, kambro, koe or hotnotswaatlemoen. In Khoi it is called !Koo, !Ku, or !Kuu. Description A semi-deciduous perennial caudiciform with fat, twisted grey roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liana
A liana is a long-Plant stem, stemmed Woody plant, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the Canopy (biology), canopy in search of direct sunlight. The word ''liana'' does not refer to a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic grouping, but rather a habit of plant growth—much like ''tree'' or ''shrub''. It comes from standard French , itself from an Antilles French dialect word meaning to sheaf (agriculture), sheave. Ecology Lianas are characteristic of Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, tropical moist broadleaf forests (especially Tropical seasonal forest, seasonal forests), but may be found in temperate rainforests and temperate deciduous forests. There are also temperate lianas, for example the members of the ''Clematis'' or ''Vitis'' (wild grape) genera. Lianas can form bridges in the forest canopy, providing Arboreal locomotion, arboreal animals—including ants and many ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (, from '' Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison. Notable members of the family include oleander, dogbanes, milkweeds, and periwinkles. The family is native to the European, Asian, African, Australian, and American tropics or subtropics, with some temperate members as well. The former family Asclepiadaceae (now known as Asclepiadoideae) is considered a subfamily of Apocynaceae and contains 348 genera. A list of Apocynaceae genera may be found here. Many species are tall trees found in tropical forests, but some grow in tropical dry ( xeric) environments. Also perennial herbs from temperate zones occur. Many of these plants have milky latex, and many species are poisonous if ingested, the family being rich in genera containing alkaloids and cardiac glycosides, those containing the latter oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asclepiadoideae
The Asclepiadoideae are a subfamily of plants in the family Apocynaceae. Formerly, it was treated as a separate family under the name Asclepiadaceae, e.g. by APG II, and known as the milkweed family. They form a group of perennial herbs, twining shrubs, lianas or rarely trees but notably also contain a significant number of leafless stem succulents. The name comes from the type genus '' Asclepias'' (milkweeds). There are 348 genera, with about 2,900 species. They are mainly located in the tropics to subtropics, especially in Africa and South America. The florally-advanced tribe Stapelieae within this family contains several relatively familiar stem succulent genera, such as '' Orbea'', '' Huernia, Stapelia'' and '' Hoodia''. They are remarkable for the complex mechanisms which they have developed for pollination, independently parallel to the unrelated Orchidaceae, such as the grouping of their pollen into pollinia. The "fragrance" (or odor) of the flowers, often called "c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Boos
Franz Boos (23 December 1753 in Frauenalb – 9 February 1832 in Vienna) was an Austrian List of gardener-botanist explorers of the Enlightenment, gardener-botanist in the Age of Enlightenment, a voyager and collector of natural history specimens for Emperor Joseph II of Austria, who reigned from 1765 to 1790. Boos came from a gardening family that lived in the Grand Duchy of Baden, his father being head gardener in Rastatt, his son Joseph Boos (1794–1879) being an assistant gardener at the Schönbrunn Palace. Franz began his career in 1771 as a gardener to Prince Leopold of Dietrichstein in Seelowitz (Moravia). From 1774 to 1775 he worked at the famous gardens of Prince Johann I of Liechtenstein in Lednice (also in Moravia) then, in 1776, he became assistant gardener at the Imperial and Royal Court Gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. Franz Boos is best known for successful voyages to America, the Caribbean and South Africa during which he collected a wide range of natural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Woldemar Focke
Gustav Woldemar Focke (24 January 1810, Bremen – 1 June 1877, Bremen) was a German physician and naturalist. He was a nephew of naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus. He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, receiving his doctorate in 1833. Following graduation, he was engaged in scientific research during an extended trip to various locations — in Berlin, he was greatly influenced by the microscopic investigations being done by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. In 1835 he settled as a general practitioner in his hometown of Bremen. In 1869 he was named chairman of the ''Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen''.ADB:Focke, Gustav Woldemar In: |
