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Agapanthus is a genus of herbaceous perennials that mostly bloom in summer.
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Agapanthus and is
Agapanthus, native to South Africa, is the sole genus of the subfamily.
Agapanthus is widely grown as an ornamental in temperate gardens.
Agapanthus umbellatus ) is a native of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
Agapanthus () is the only genus in the subfamily Agapanthoideae of the flowering plant family Amaryllidaceae.
Agapanthus is commonly known as " Lily of the Nile " (' African lily ' in the UK ); but it is not a lily and all of the species are native to South Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Limpopo River.
The type species for the genus is Agapanthus africanus.
Agapanthaceae consisted of Agapanthus only, and Dahlgren's idea that it is close to Tulbaghia was rejected.
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences has shown that Agapanthus is sister to a clade consisting of subfamilies Allioideae and Amaryllidoideae of the family Amaryllidaceae ( sensu APG III ).
In New Zealand Agapanthus praecox is classed as an " environmental weed " and calls to have it added to the National Pest Plant Accord have encountered opposition from gardeners.
The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the sole included type genus, Agapanthus.
Agapanthus and genus
Previously the genus Agapanthus has also been included in the Alliaceae ( e. g. in the Dahlgren system ) or the Liliaceae ( e. g. in the Cronquist system, which unlike most classification systems included both Alliaceae and Amaryllidaceae in a broadly defined Liliaceae ).
The genus Agapanthus was established by L ' Heritier in 1788.
* Agapanthus – the sole genus in the subfamily
Agapanthus and .
Species are used as food and flavourings ( e. g. onion, garlic, leek, asparagus, vanilla ), as cut flowers ( e. g. freesia, gladiolus, iris, orchids ), and as garden ornamentals ( e. g. day lilies, lily of the valley, Agapanthus ).
Agapanthus africanus ( African lily ; syn.
Zonneveld & Duncan ( 2003 ) divided Agapanthus into six species ( A. africanus, A. campanulatus, A. caulescens, A. coddii, A. inapertus, A. praecox ).
* Agapanthus africanus ( syn.
Agapanthus does not have the distinctive chemistry of Alliaceae.
Four valid botanical names have Agapanthus as their basionym.
In 1985, Dahlgren, Clifford, and Yeo placed Agapanthus in Alliaceae, close to Tulbaghia.
Their version of Alliaceae differed from any that are recognized today in that it included Agapanthus and in that it included several genera that would later be transferred to Themidaceae.
is and genus
The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.
Thelymitra is an example of a genus where the lower petal is similar in appearance to the other petals.
Blandfordia is the only genus in the family Blandfordiaceae, with four species distributed in eastern Australia.
The genus Cyanastrum is sometimes placed in its own family Cyanastraceae.
The most conspicuous genus in the family is Aloe.
For example, Pyrethrum ( refers to several Old World plants of the genus Chrysanthemum ) is a natural insecticide with minimal environmental impact.
Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.
The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Allium.
Allieae contains only one genus Allium ( Milula is merged with Allium in the latest systems ).
The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".
The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.
Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.
Ardipithecus is a fossil hominoid, described by its discoverers as a very early hominin genus.
Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.
The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.
In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.
is and herbaceous
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While TMV is capable of infecting many plant families these are primarily herbaceous dicots.
The chive is a bulb-forming herbaceous perennial plant, growing to 30 – 50 cm tall.
This low-lying herbaceous flora seems to be pioneer in nature, and most of it is believed to be composed of recently introduced species.
It is an herbaceous annual plant, with a slender branched stem 20 – 30 cm tall.
Digitalis ( or ) is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and biennials commonly called foxgloves.
It is a gray-leaved herbaceous perennial plant, somewhat resembling mint in appearance, which grows to 25 – 45 cm tall.
The hop plant is a vigorous, climbing, herbaceous perennial, usually trained to grow up strings in a field called a hopfield, hop garden, or hop yard when grown commercially.
As with any herbaceous group, the fossil record of the Liliales is rather scarce.
This herbaceous dicot belonging to Brassicaceae family is a plant closely related to the mustard plant.
Garden parsley is a bright green, hairless, biennial, herbaceous plant in temperate climates, or an annual herb in subtropical and tropical areas.
It is a herbaceous rhizomatous perennial plant growing to tall, with smooth stems, square in cross section.
It is a herbaceous rhizomatous perennial plant growing 30 – 100 cm tall, with variably hairless to hairy stems and foliage, and a wide-spreading fleshy underground rhizome.
Turmeric ( Curcuma longa ) is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae.
It is the resulting turgor pressure on the cell wall that allows herbaceous plants to stand upright, and how plants regulate the aperture of their stomata.
In regions that are too cool, there is a potential for more herbaceous and green bell pepper flavours from less than ideally ripened grapes.
Polygonum cuspidatum, Reynoutria japonica ) is a large, herbaceous perennial plant, native to eastern Asia in Japan, China and Korea.
It forms thick, dense colonies that completely crowd out any other herbaceous species and is now considered one of the worst invasive exotics in parts of the eastern United States.
Galanthus ( Snowdrop ; Greek gála " milk ", ánthos " flower ") is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce.
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The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs ( and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves ) in the order Sapindales.
Asparagus is a herbaceous, perennial plant growing to tall, with stout stems with much-branched feathery foliage.
It is a perennial herbaceous plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to the cold-hardy rhizome in autumn.
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