Laurus is a genus of evergreen trees belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae.

: This article is about the Laurus genus.

Laurus is a genus of evergreen trees belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae.

The laurus genus features have named many botanical species that are having similar foliage to the Laurus due to convergent evolution.

The scientific names laurina, laurifolia, laurophylla, lauriformis, and lauroides are often used to name species of other plant families that resemble the Laurus genus and the Lauraceae family.

Although not closely related to Lauraceae family despite the similarity, Laurelia genus in southern hemisphere, in the family Atherospermataceae is equivalent to this of Laurus.

The three laurel species in the genus Laurus are dispersed by birds columbiform, mainly.

In Europe the genus is represented by a single species, the named Laurus nobilis.

* Bay Laurel, the evergreen laurel tree species Laurus nobilis

Common species chosen for topiary include cultivars of European box ( Buxus sempervirens ), arborvitae ( Thuja species ), bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis ), holly ( Ilex species ), myrtle ( Eugenia or Myrtus species ), yew ( Taxus species ), and privet ( Ligustrum species ).

The bay laurel, the " bay leaves " in common culinary use, are from a completely unrelated species, Laurus nobilis, and not the West Indian bay tree.

Most of the last remaining laurisilva forests around the Mediterranean are believed to have disappeared approximately 10, 000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, when the Mediterranean basin became drier and with a harsher climate, although some remnants of the laurel forest flora still persist in the mountains of southern Spain, north-center of Portugal and northern Morocco, and several constituent groups ( Taxus baccata, Prunus laurocerasus, Prunus lusitanica, Laurus nobilis, Ilex aquifolium and Hedera and Arbutus genera ) still remain, although sometimes only as relict species.

Most of the last remaining temperate evergreen forests around the Mediterranean are believed to have disappeared about 10, 000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, when the Mediterranean basin became warmer and drier, although some remnants of the laurel forest flora still persist in the southern mountains in Spain, north-central Portugal and northern Morocco, and three constituent species, Laurus nobilis, Ilex aquifolium, and Hedera helix, are still widespread.

Fossils dating from before the Pleistocene glaciations show that species of Laurus were formerly distributed more widely around the Mediterranean and North Africa, isolated gave rise to Laurus azorica in Azores Islands, Laurus nobilis in mainland and Laurus novocanariensis in Canary Islands.

Some relict Mediterranean laurel forest species, such as Sweet Bay ( Laurus nobilis ) and European Holly ( Ilex aquifolium ), are fairly widespread around the Mediterranean basin.

Fossils dating from before the Pleistocene glaciations show that species of Laurus were formerly distributed more widely around the Mediterranean and North Africa, when the climate was more humid and mild than at present.

Most of the last remaining laurisilva forests around the Mediterranean are believed to have disappeared approximately 10, 000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, when the Mediterranean basin became drier and with a harsher climate, although some remnants of the laurel forest flora still persist in the mountains of southern Spain, north-center of Portugal and northern Morocco, and two constituent species ( Laurus nobilis and Ilex aquifolium ) remain widespread.

The common names of some species refer to their similarity to other Lauraceae such as Sassafras ( Brazilian sassafras: O. odorifera ) or Laurus ( Cape laurel: O. bullata, Sword laurel: O. floribunda, Guaika laurel: O. puberula, etc.

The full restoration of communion with the Moscow Patriarchate was celebrated by a Divine Liturgy at which the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexius II and the First Hierarch of ROCOR, Metropolitan Laurus, concelebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first time in history.

He described it, a costly rarity, in his Natural History of Carolina, as Chamaedaphne foliis tini, that is to say " with leaves like the Laurustinus "; the botanist and plant-collector John Collinson, who had begged some of the shrub from his correspondent John Custis in Virginia, wrote, when his plants flowered, that " I Really Think it exceeds the Laurus Tinus.

In the year 2393 the crime lord Laurus rules Kariwak on Tropicana with an iron fist, jealously guarding control of the bitek trade.

In 2003 Vladimir Putin met with Metropolitan Laurus in New York.

File: Bayleafbush3800ppx. JPG | Laurus nobilis bush

File: Bayleaf3800ppx. JPG | A closeup of several Laurus nobilis leaves

According to the rendering Daphne prays for help either to the river god Peneus or to Gaia, and is transformed into a laurel ( Laurus nobilis ): " a heavy numbness seized her limbs, thin bark closed over her breasts, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, her feet so swift a moment ago stuck fast in slow-growing roots, her face was lost in the canopy.

Leaves are simple, or compound, sometimes lauroid ( resembling Laurus ) or peltate, or not peltate ; when compound, ternate, or pinnate, or palmate.

The bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis, of the plant family Lauraceae ), also known as sweet bay, bay tree ( esp.

Under the simpler name " laurel ," Laurus nobilis figures prominently in classical Greek, Roman, and Biblical culture.

Worldwide, many other kinds of plants in diverse families are also called " bay " or " laurel ," generally due to similarity of foliage or aroma to Laurus nobilis, and the full name is used for the California bay laurel ( Umbellularia ), also in the family Lauraceae.

Laurus nobilis and Ilex aquifolium are widespread relics of the laurel forests that originally covered much of the Mediterranean Basin when the climate of the region was more humid.

The chemical compound lauroside B isolated from Laurus nobilis is an inhibitor of human melanoma ( skin cancer ) cell proliferation at high concentrations.

Although the common names of P. laurocerasus refer to the similarity of foliage and appearance to bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis, the true laurel, in the Lauraceae family ), the two plants are in fact unrelated, being not only in different genera but also different families ( P. laurocerasus is in the rose family, Rosaceae ).

Saint George, Saint Blaise, and Saints Florus and Laurus all provided some manner of protection over the fields or the animals and herds of the peasants.

* Laurus azorica ( as P. azorica )

The taxonomy of the genus Mimosa has had a tortuous history, having gone through periods of splitting and lumping, ultimately accumulating over 3, 000 names, many of which have either been synonymized under other species or transferred to other genera.

But many species of moderate altitudes — for example the long-tailed pheasants of the genus Syrmaticus — also find a great deal of their daily nutritional reqirements in the tree canopies, especially during the snowy and rainy periods when foraging on the ground is dangerous and less than fruitful for a variety of reasons.

The former never left the oceans and their heyday was the late Devonian and Carboniferous, from 385 to 299 Ma, as they were more common during those periods than in any other period in the Phanerozoic ; coelacanths still live today in the oceans ( genus Latimeria ).

The genus grows in areas where there are significant periods of dry months that range from five months to ten months.

Gestation, lactation, maturation and longevity periods are all unknown but are unlikely to vary greatly from others in the Stenella genus.

The genus Compsognathus gives its name to the family Compsognathidae, a group composed mostly of small dinosaurs from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods of China, Europe and South America.

Akera is a marine genus of sea hare in the family Akeridae, known from the late Callovian ( Jurassic ) to the recent periods.

Although the term Orthoceras now only refers to a Baltic coast Ordovician genus, in prior times it was employed as a general name given to all straight-shelled nautiloids that lived from the Ordovician to the Triassic periods ( but were most common in the early Paleozoic era.

* a genus or species which occurred over several geologic periods.

They discovered that the “ Spirorbis ” fossils found in sedimentary strata, including the Joggins and other Carboniferous coal measures, deposited from the Ordovician to Triassic periods are the remains of an extinct order of lophophorates ( now called microconchids ) unrelated to modern marine tube worms ( Annelids ) to which the genus Spirorbis belongs.

Phacops is a genus of trilobite in the order Phacopida, family Phacopidae that lived in Europe and North American in the Silurian and Devonian periods.

During the Ordovician and Silurian periods, the genus Dalmanites was widespread all over the world, inhabiting a variety of climates and sea conditions.

The genus grows in areas where there are significant periods of dry months.

The genus occurs worldwide, and is known from the Silurian to the Early Triassic periods.

Like many frogs in the Rana genus, Green and Golden Bell Frogs are mostly aquatic, and only travel over land during periods of rainfall.