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Sycamore Maple, Sycamore
Sycamore is a name which has been applied to several types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms. The name derives from the Ancient Greek () meaning . Species of otherwise unrelated trees known as sycamore: * ''Acer pseudoplatanus'', a species of maple native to central Europe and southwestern Asia * ''Ficus sycomorus'', the sycamore (or sycomore) of the Bible; a species of fig, also called the sycamore fig or fig-mulberry, native to the Middle East and eastern Africa * ''Platanus orientalis'', chinar tree (Old World sycamore) * Some North American members of the genus ''Platanus'', including ** ''Platanus occidentalis'', the American sycamore ** ''Platanus racemosa'', the California sycamore or western sycamore ** ''Platanus wrightii'', the Arizona sycamore ** ''Platanus mexicana,'' the Mexican sycamore * In Australia, there are numerous trees which have the common name "sycamore": ** ''Litsea reticulata'' or ''Cryptocarya glaucescens'' (silver sycamore) ** ''Polyscias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek Dark Ages, Dark Ages (), the Archaic Greece, Archaic or Homeric Greek, Homeric period (), and the Classical Greece, Classical period (). Ancient Greek was the language of Homer and of fifth-century Athens, fifth-century Athenian historians, playwrights, and Ancient Greek philosophy, philosophers. It has contributed many words to English vocabulary and has been a standard subject of study in educational institutions of the Western world since the Renaissance. This article primarily contains information about the Homeric Greek, Epic and Classical periods of the language, which are the best-attested periods and considered most typical of Ancient Greek. From the Hellenistic period (), Ancient Greek was followed by Koine Greek, which is regar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polyscias Elegans
''Polyscias elegans'', known as the celery wood, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. It occurs in a variety of different rainforest types, from fertile basaltic soils, to sand dunes and less fertile sedimentary soils. The range of natural distribution is from Jervis Bay (35° S) in southern New South Wales to Thursday Island (10° S), north of the Australian continent. Other common names include black pencil cedar and silver basswood. ''Polyscias elegans'' is useful to bush regenerators as a nursery tree, which provides shade for longer-lived young trees underneath. ''Polyscias elegans'' is also known as Celery wood, Mowbulan whitewood, Silver basswood and White sycamore.http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Polyscias.html Sorting Polyscias names Description It is a fast-growing medium-sized tree with an attractive palm-like or umbrella-shaped crown. Up to 30 meters tall and a trunk diameter of 75 cm. The trunk is mostly straight, unbuttressed and cylindr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, also known as RFK, is an identification key giving details—including images, taxonomy, descriptions, range, habitat, and other information—of almost all species of flowering plants (i.e. trees, shrubs, vines, forbs, grasses and sedges, epiphytes, palms and pandans) found in tropical rainforests of Australia, with the exception of most orchids which are treated in a separate key called Australian Tropical Rainforest Orchids (see External links section). A key for ferns is under development. RFK is a project initiated by the Australian botanist Bernie Hyland. History The information system had its beginnings when Hyland started working for the Queensland Department of Forestry in the 1960s. It was during this time that he was tasked with the creation of an identification system for rainforest trees, but given no direction as to its format. Having little belief in single-access keys, he began work on creating a multi-access key (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceratopetalum Corymbosum
''Ceratopetalum'' is a genus of nine species of shrub and tree in the family Cunoniaceae. They are found along the eastern coast of Australia and extend north to New Guinea. Two Australian species are among the best known, one being '' C. apetalum'' or coachwood, renowned as a timber tree, and ''C. gummiferum'', the New South Wales Christmas bush. Both New South Wales Christmas bush (''C. gummiferum'') and coachwood (''C. apetalum'') are widespread from south-east Queensland to the south coast of New South Wales, whereas the other extant Australian species are largely confined to high-altitude montane habitats in north-east Australia. These restricted distributions have been hypothesised to be refugia from cycles of changing climate during the Pleistocene. Species *'' Ceratopetalum apetalum'' D.Don (Coachwood) *'' Ceratopetalum corymbosum'' C.T.White *'' Ceratopetalum gummiferum'' Sm. (NSW Christmas bush) *'' Ceratopetalum hylandii'' Rozefelds & R.W.Barnes *'' Ceratopetalum i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptocarya Hypospodia
''Cryptocarya hypospodia'', commonly known as northern laurel, white walnut, rib fruited pepperberry or north queensland purple laurel, is species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is native to northern Australia and New Guinea. It is a tree with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, pale brown and creamy-green flowers, and spherical black drupes. Description ''Cryptocarya hypospodia'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to , its stems usually buttressed and soft hairs on its twigs. Its leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in panicles longer than the leaves and are pale brown, creamy-green, and pleasantly perfumed. The perianth tube is long, wide and hairy near the tip. The outer tepals are long and wide and the inner tepals are long and wide. The outer anthers are long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering occurs from November to May, and the fruit is a spherical black drupe lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardwellia Sublimia
''Cardwellia'' is a monotypic genus (i.e. a genus that contains only one species) in the protea and macadamia family Proteaceae. The sole described species is ''Cardwellia sublimis'' − commonly known as northern silky oak or bull oak − which is endemic to the rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It was first described in 1865 and has been classified as a least concern species. Its timber has been used for house construction and furniture. Description ''Cardwellia sublimis'' is a large tree reaching up to in height and a diameter of , often becoming an emergent standing well above the canopy. The bark is thin and there is usually no buttressing. The leaves are alternate, dark green above with a silvery brown sheen below. On seedlings the leaves are simple but on mature trees they are pinnately compound, and there is a graduation of the leaf morphology as the tree grows (see gallery). Leaves on mature trees reach up to long with a petiole up to long. They h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceratopetalum Succirubrum
''Ceratopetalum succirubrum'' is a species of plant in the family Cunoniaceae. It is found in Australia, West Papua (Indonesia), and Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by habitat loss. First collected by botanists at Gadgarra on the Atherton Tableland The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the B .... ''Ceratopetalum succirubrum'' is also known as satin sycamore, blood-in-the-bark and North Queensland coachwood.http://www.woodsolutions.com.au/Wood-Species/satin-sycamore Satin sycamore, also known as Ceratopetalum succirubrum References succirubrum Oxalidales of Australia Flora of Queensland Flora of Papua New Guinea Flora of Western New Guinea Vulnerable flora of Australia Vulnerable biota of Queensland Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Oxalidales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptocarya Obovata
''Cryptocarya obovata'', commonly known as pepperberry, white walnut, long tom, she beech or purple laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a rainforest tree with oblong to egg-shaped leaves, the flowers creamy-green, tube-shaped and unpleasantly perfumed, and the fruit a spherical drupe with white or cream-coloured cotyledons. Description ''Cryptocarya obovata'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to with a dbh of , its stems sometimes buttressed. The leaves are oblong to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and usually glaucous. The hairy underside of the leaves gives the tree a rusty appearance when viewed from below. The leaf veins are brownish-orange or yellow and prominent with the midrib and lateral veins covered with brown hairs. The flowers are creamy-green and unpleasantly perfumed, arranged in panicles shorter than the leaves. The perianth tube is long and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptocarya Glaucescens
''Cryptocarya glaucescens'', commonly known as jackwood, silver sycamore, native laurel, brown beech, bolly laurel or brown laurel, is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, the flowers cream-coloured or pale green, perfumed and tube-shaped, and the fruit a black drupe. Description ''Cryptocarya glaucescens'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to with a trunk dbh of , its stem sometimes buttressed. The bark is dark brown or reddish brown and often scaly. Its leaves are arranged alternately, lance-shaped to elliptic, long, wide on a petiole long and glaucous on the lower surface. The flowers are cream-coloured to green, perfumed, arranged in panicles in leaf axils and usually shorter than the leaves. The perianth tube is long and wide, the outer tepals long and wide, the inner tepals long and wide. The ovary is long and wide and glabrous with a glabrous style. Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acer Pseudoplatanus
''Acer pseudoplatanus'', known as the sycamore in the British Isles and as the sycamore maple in the United States, is a species of maple native to Central Europe and Western Asia. It is a large deciduous, broad-leaved tree, tolerant of wind and coastal exposure. Although native to an area ranging from France eastward to Ukraine, northern Turkey and the Caucasus, and southward to the mountains of Italy and northern Iberia, the sycamore establishes itself easily from seed and was introduced to the British Isles by 1500. It is now Naturalisation (biology), naturalised there and in other parts of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, where it may become an invasive species. The sycamore can grow to a height of about and the branches form a broad, rounded Crown (botany), crown. The Bark (botany), bark is grey, smooth when young and later flaking in irregular patches. The leaves grow on long Petiole (botany), leafstalks and are large and List of botanical terms#palmate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litsea Reticulata
''Litsea reticulata'' is a common Australian tree, growing from near Milton, New South Wales to the Bunya Mountains, Queensland. Common names include bollygum, bolly wood and brown beech. The habitat of the bollygum is rainforest of most types, except the dryer forms. Taxonomy ''Litsea reticulata'' was first described by Meisner in 1864 as ''Tetranthera reticulata'', before being given its current name by von Mueller in 1882. Common names include bolly gum, bolly beech, brown beech, brown bolly beech, sycamore, brown Bollywood, soft bollygum, and brown bollygum. Description ''Litsea reticulata'' is a medium to large size tree, occasionally reaching 40 metres in height and a 150 cm in trunk diameter. The bark is a grey, brown and scaly, with numerous depressions caused by the shedding of round scales of bark, colloquially known as "bollies". Exposed bark is a paler colour, giving the trunk a patchy appearance. ''Litsea reticulata'' are slightly buttressed or flanged at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
