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Varronia truncata (Fresen.) Borhidi
BORAGINACEAE
Local: Estação Ecológica do Jardim Botânico, Brasília, Brasil.
Ref.: Salles, A.E.H. Jardim Botânico de Brasília. 2007.
P. truncata has a particularly long appendix on the bend of vein m (usually about as long as cross vein r-m), a feature also shared with P. nemorum (which lacks crossed apical scutellars, has orange rather than dark palps and three rather than four pairs of postsutural dorscocentrals).
Clusters growing amongst grasses. Flower 3.5–4.5 cm long, semi-erect, white with green and brown stripes and suffusions. Fliowering February to July.
Critically endangered in Victoria due to massive habitat loss and degradation.
Native, warm-season annual or short-lived perennial, erect, hairless, tufted C4 grass usually less than 50 cm tall and forming a dense low crown; sometimes short stolons are present. Stems are unbranched and flattened with a knee-like bend near their base. Flowerheads are digitate, usually with 6-9 branches 4-20 cm long. Mostly found along roadsides and in native pastures where groundcover and fertility are relatively low; rarely abundant. Readily colonises bare ground and areas subject to compaction or shallow soils. Native biodiversity. Of little significance for grazing, it has low to moderate quality and low productivity. Tolerant of set stocking and close grazing, it is better suited to sheep than cattle due to the low height of its foliage. Favoured by grazing systems that maintain low groundcover. It has little response to fertiliser inputs.
Cockroach Temnelytra species probably truncata, Flinders Island Bush Blitz, March 2014, Tasmania. Genus ID thanks to Matthew Connors on iNaturalist
Thanksgiving Cactus
Schlumbergera truncata cv 'White Fantasy' / Family Cactaceae
Rockledge Gardens, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
P.S.: 'White Fantasy' was the tag from the Grower.
Here's the Set of 5 images
Schlumbergera truncata, Zygocactus or more commonly Christmas Cactus. "She" is still blooming almost three months now!
A long-lived plant that keeps on giving!
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I was walking through this area just a little too early to catch the waratah in full bloom, but I still tried to capture a few photos
Day 6 of Overland Track
Australia oz2009 514
The Christmas cactus, Schlumbergera bridesii, Cactaceae, was discovered in South America is the early 1800’s and became a winter holiday plant for the Western civilizations. It is a tropical epiphyte plant from the Latin American rainforests and the cultivated ones are hybrids between Schlumbergera truncata and S. russelliana, first bred about 150 years ago in England to obtain a wide range of flower colors from white to magenta. It is called Christmas cactus since it blooms around Christmas.
Ferns include Todea barbara, Pyrrosia rupestris & Tmesipteris truncata.
The fork fern is hanging down from the ledge, centre left.
Most of the leaves here are from the Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum). The bigger stems are the Water Gum (Tristaniopsis laurina).
The soils here are poor, and do not support sub tropical rainforest plants. The nearby rainforest is depauperate "a pauper", or dry rainforest growing on shallow soils on sandstone.
The rainfall here being some 1,500 mm a year. It's wet place for a "dry rainforest". Very wet yesterday morning.
Thanksgiving Cactus
Schlumbergera truncata cv 'Lavendar' / Family Cactaceae
Rockledge Gardens, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
P.S.: 'Lavendar' was the tag from the Grower.
Thanksgiving Cactus
Schlumbergera truncata cv 'White Christmas' / Family Cactaceae
Rockledge Gardens, Rockledge, Florida, USA.
P.S.: 'White Christmas' was the tag from the Grower.
Botanischer Garten TU Dresden, April 2009
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Developing seed pods on the Tasmanian waratah. Most plants we have looked at this year have failed to set seed. This plant with a few pods for each inflorescence was doing very well.
This could be the start of a new hobby, I went to a talk last night on Cacti and Succulents at the gardening club, it was an interesting talk and I decided to buy this plant, could be the start of a collection!
The whole plant is 3inches (7.5 cm) in length.
Collected from peat blocks washed ashore in the winter of 2001 following a large storm.
Dauphin Island, AL
Mostra-mercato 2009. Esposizione di piante rare, cactus e succulente, Cagliari Parco di Monte Claro.
Narrandera. Native, warm-season annual or short-lived perennial, erect, hairless, tufted grass usually less than 50 cm tall and forming a dense low crown; sometimes short stolons are present. Stems are unbranched and flattened with a knee-like bend near their base. Flowerheads are digitate, usually with 6-9 branches 4-20 cm long. Mostly found along roadsides and in native pastures where groundcover and fertility are relatively low; rarely abundant. Readily colonises bare ground and areas subject to compaction or shallow soils. Native biodiversity. Of little significance for grazing, it has low to moderate quality and low productivity. Tolerant of set stocking and close grazing, it is better suited to sheep than cattle due to the low height of its foliage. Favoured by grazing systems that maintain low groundcover. It has little response to fertiliser inputs.
East Thailand: Pang Sida National Park, north of Sa Kaeo. In rainforest along stream banks, on track from road to waterfalls.
Uploaded as "Homalomena sp." but I now have an expert identification by Peter & Sin Yeng (see comment below) as H. truncata.
Botanischer Garten TU Dresden, April 2009
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