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| deciduous or persist, capsule, berry or drupe, trees, shrubs vines and herbs |
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| Sapotaceae-sapodilla family |
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Definition
| trees/shrubs with milky sap, alt, simple, coreacious with cross shaped hairs, evergreen or deciduous, berry with 1 to several large seeds |
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Definition
| alt, entire, veinantion is reticulate, plump berry with large, flat seeds, edible |
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| Styracaceae-Storax family |
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Definition
| shrubs/small trees, alt, simple, stellate hairs, capsule or dry fleshy drupe, bark is resinous |
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Definition
trees shrubs, vines and herbs
agriculturally $$, ornamentals
deciduous/persistent, alt, simple, unifoliate or compound, stipules often leafy, hypanthium present,fruit is a pome, drupe, capsule, follicle, achene |
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Definition
trees, shrubs, lianas and herbs
3rd largest fmaily of flowering plants
2nd only to grasses in $$ importance
clover, alfalfa, bean, peanuts, peas, ect
N fixing roots
alt, compound pinnate or bipinnate, entire or serrate margins, fruit is legume, pod, samara achenes, drupes, berries, indehiscent legumes, |
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| Elaeagnaceae-Oleaster family |
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Definition
N fixing shrubs or trees
decid or evgreen, often covered in silvery or brown stellate hairs or scales (lepidote) on leaves and twigs.
Fruit: dry achene surrounded by a fleshy calyx tube, (drupe-like) |
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Definition
| evergreen, coriaceous, punctate, alt, strongly aromatic when crushed, sometimes pollinated by bats, berry or capsule |
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Definition
| decid, alt or opp, simple, entire, estipulate, drupe or berry |
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Term
| Celastraceae-staff-tree family |
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Definition
| simple, entire to serrulate, estipulate, fruit is a capsule, often brightly colored, seeds covered with a bright aril |
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| Aquifoliaceae-Holly Family |
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Definition
trees and shrubs
usually evergreen, alt, simple, stipulate
fruit is a drupe with several stones (pyrenes)
Ilex with black, triangular stipules |
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| Euphorbiaceae-Spurge Family |
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Definition
$$ timber, rubber, castorbean oil, tung oil, tapioca, poinsettia, dyes, tallows
decid, alt, simple, leaves with 2 glands on upper petiole below blade, milky sap (sometimes poisonous), fruit is a capsule |
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| Rhamnaceae-Buckhorn family |
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Definition
timber and pharmaceuticals
trees, shrubs, lianas and herbs
toxic glycosides
fruit is a fleshy, several-seeded to 1 seeded drupe or capsule |
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Definition
woody vines/lianas, shrubs, herbs
tendrils for climbing, distichous or spiral, gland-dotted, simple or compound
fruit: fleshy, indehiscent 4 seeded berry |
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| Staphyleaceae-bladdernut family |
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Definition
ornamental or chinese medicine, trees/shrubs
opp, compound, pinnately veined, serrate or dentate,
fruit is agg or not, dehis or indehis, or an inflated, apically dehis capsule, berry or drupe |
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| Sapindaceae-Soapberry family |
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Definition
lychee
persist/decid, spiral or alt, pinn, bipinn, palm or simple, toxic saponins, some with milky sap
fruit: berry, drupe, schizocarp, capsule, nut or samara/ double samara |
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Definition
mostly shrubs
drugs, dyes, waxes and tannins, some timber, pistachios, cashews, mangos, smoke tree
decid/persist, alt, simple or comp,
fruit is drupe or nut like |
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| simaroubaceae-bitterwood family |
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Definition
insecticides and medicines
trees/shrubs
alt, pinn comp, unifoliate or simple |
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Term
| meliaceae-mahogany family |
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Definition
neem, cabinet and furniture,
trees and shrubs
decid or persist, alt, simple to pinn and bi pinn, leaflets oblique
fruit: capsule or drupe |
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Term
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Definition
bitter tasting, aromatic volatile oils
horticulturally $$$
decid/persist glandular punctate dots, aromatic with lemony odor when crushed, fruit is a drupe, follicle, samara or hesperidium
pulp is enlarged hairs |
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Term
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Definition
herbs, shrubs, woody vines, trees
ornamental/medicinal
alt, leaves often large, simple or pinn comp,
fruit is berry, drupe or schizocarp |
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Definition
trees and shrubs
ornamentals
odd pinn comp, leaflets serrate or entire, 1 seeded samara with an elongated wing, bundle scars unique |
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| scrophulariaceae-figwort family |
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Definition
mostly herbs, some shrubs and some trees
medicinal$$ bc of glycosides
ornamentals |
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Term
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Definition
princess tree
leaves large decid, opp, fruit is a dehis capsule with winged margins, brown or clear, castinet |
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Term
| Bignoniaceae-trumpet creeper |
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Definition
fish bait, decay resistant wood
decid, usually opp or whorled,
capsule or berry like, seeds winged |
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Term
| Rubiaceae- coffee/madder family |
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Definition
trees,shrubs,vines and herbs
opp and decussate, gland dotted or not, fruit is a fleshy or non fleshy dehis or indehis achene, nutlet, drupelet, capsule, berry, seeds rarely winged |
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| caprifoliaceae-honeysuckle family |
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Definition
shrubs and small trees, some herbs and wines
evgreen or decid, petiolate, lamina dissected or entire, fleshy or not, dehis or not, capsule or achene like berry or drupe |
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Definition
1 cotyledon
mostly parallel leaf veination
vascular bundles scattered through stem
3 orders |
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Definition
trees, shrubs and woody vines
unbranched trunks, subterranian,
shelter, construction,fiber, wax and oils
dense terminal rosettesmpetiole may be prickly, fruit is 1 seeded fleshy/fibrous drupe
important |
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Term
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Definition
| bamboos, hollow stems, a grain with a single seed, clumping or running important for lots of uses |
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Definition
short stemmed herbs with basal rosettes or sparsely and irreg branches trees with terminal rosettes, leaves stiff and succulent
fiber, hemp, mescal or tequila |
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Definition
shrubs, vines, perrenial rhizomatous or tuberous tendrils from petiole bases,
evergreen, leathery, rarely sheathing, fetid or not, one veined or palmately veined
fleshy 3 seeded berry |
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Definition
| rosettes of large pinn divided leaves, seeds born on modified leaves, pollinated by beetles, strong odor, |
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Term
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Definition
spirals, w or wo resin canals,
entire or partly surrounded by arils |
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Term
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Definition
| timber, pulps, turpentine, rosin, bark, orn, xmas, wildlife, eco |
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Term
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Definition
| spirally arranged, fasciles, acicular, some with spur shoots, cones or bracts |
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| cupressaceae-redwoods/cypress |
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Definition
trees/ shrubs, aromatic or resinous
alt, opp or decussate, subulate, scale leaves, subulate juvenile |
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