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Roble australiano, árbol del fuego, roble plateado, pino de oro
Australian silver oak, silky oak
Especie originaria de Australia que se encuentra en zonas urbanas de México.
Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia
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Detail of the frond skirt on a Washingtoina robusta (Mexican Fan Palm) at Agua Caliente Park in Tucson, AZ. Shot in digital infrared.
a rare and lovely Lycosid (wolf) spider from the chalk cliffs of the south coast and a few other places in the UK. Up to 20mm body length, making it one of the largest UK spiders.
A dead leaf hanging from a Washingtonia robusta palm (Mexican Fan Palm). Dead leaves persist on Washingtonias forming a "skirt" of dead leaves around the trunk, often to the ground.
L'atzavara és una planta robusta formada per grans rosetes de fulles molt gruixudes i suculentes que poden arribar a mesurar fins a 2 m de llarg i 25 cm d'ample.
Les fulles presenten el marge espinós i estan rematades per una forta espina. Les flors apareixen a l'estiu sobre una llarga tija llenyosa que pot assolir fins als 10 m d'alçada.
Les flors s'agrupen en inflorescència en forma de raïm piramidal.
Són de color verd glauc i arriben a mesurar més de 7 cm.
El fruit és una núcula d'uns 3 cm de llarg per 1 cm d'ample.
Aquesta planta és d'origen americà.
Va ser introduïda a Europa a principis del segle XVI pels conqueridors espanyols i des d'aleshores ha estat cultivada a casa nostra amb fins ornamentals.
Una atzavara en el Passeig Marítim de L'Estartit/Illes Medes (Costa Brava) CAT.
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Agave
The agave plant is made up of large robust rosettes of succulent leaves and thick that can reach up to 2 m long and 25 cm wide.
The leaves have spiny edge and are crowned by a strong spine. The flowers appear in summer on a long woody stem that can reach up to 10 meters.
The flowers are grouped in inflorescences pyramidal shaped cluster.
They are greyish green and get to measure more than 7 cm.
The fruit is a nut about 3 cm long and 1 cm wide.
This plant is of American origin.
It was introduced in Europe in the early sixteenth century by the Spanish conquerors, and since then has been cultivated in our ornamental purposes.
An agave in Estartit Promenade / Illes Medes (Costa Brava) CAT.
Street tree,
San Luis Obispo, California
A tall tree native to Australia, though here dwarfed by the Eucalyptus behind it, another Australia native.
A particularly lush section of vegetation just west of the large pond. Two Mexican Fan Palms (Washingtonia robusta) frame a bare section of a eucalyptus tree. Shot in digital infrared.
Gehyra robusta. An endemic saxicoline gecko to the Selwyn Range in North-west Queensland. Lake Moondarra, Mount Isa.
I got a text from my daughter the same time I had pulled off the road to take this, telling me the storm had hit. Thunder (though they didn't see lightning) and hail, and so much rain the street was flooding onto the sidewalk in front of our house. :O
Zephyranthes robusta (Herb.) Baker, Handb. Amaryll.: 35 (1888).
Homotypic Names:
* Habranthus robustus Herb. in R.Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 4: t. 14 (1829).
Amaryllis robusta (Herb.) Sweet ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 74 (1840).
* Basionym/Replaced Synonym
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Amaryllis berteroi Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 49 (1825).
Habranthus berteroi (Spreng.) M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 4: 102 (1847).
Zephyranthes taubertiana Harms, Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 1: 81 (1895).
Zephyranthes taubertii Harms, Gartenflora 44: 386 (1895).
Atamasco taubertiana (Harms) Greene, Pittonia 3: 188 (1897).
Habranthus quilmesianus Ravenna, Onira 1: 54 (1988).
Hippeastrum berteroi (Spreng.) Christenh. & Byng, Global Fl. 4: 58 (2018).
Hippeastrum quilmesianum (Ravenna) Christenh. & Byng, Global Fl. 4: 63 (2018).
An adult Robust Dtella, Gehyra robusta, observed foraging nocturnally on a warm evening. Mount Isa, Queensland.
Las washingtonias son afortunadas en Zamora: no las pueden podar y dejar enmuñonadas, como los plátanos, los alamos, los arces y tantos otros que el llegar la primavera los despluman sistematicamente.