#Rubiaceae

[faguscarolinensis]

Serissa japonica / Snowrose at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

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sweet-scented gallium.

[drhoz]

#2411 - Coprosma robusta - Karamu 

Bonus Tetragnatha spider I only just noticed.

Originally described as Pelaphia lata.

Endemic to New Zealand coastal and lowland areas, but an increasingly serious weed in Victoria and Tasmania. The fruit is spread by birds and the plant grows readily from seed in infertile soils, and in poorly drained and exposed lands. It can also grow in a large range of altitude varying from sea level to 1,200 meters, under full sun to shady, windy and frostprone habitats.

Introduced mammals such as goats (Capra hircus) and deer (Cervus elaphus) have a severe impact on karamū, and hares (Lepus timidus) and rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) eat the seedlings.

The berries are edible and leaves can be brewed into a medicinal tea. The leaves are believed by Maori to have the ability to deal with kidney troubles and the bark to treat stomachache and vomiting. Karamū is rich in dyes including alizarin and purpurin. Sometimes leaves of the plant were put on stones to dye the food and preserve them after a hangi.

Lake Mangamahoe, Taranaki Ringplain, New Zealand

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Argostemma spp. are very eye-catching small plants in Sumatra's high-altitude montane cloud forests. They are either epiphytic or terrestrial and obviously love the conditions of being heavily shaded with permanent high humidity and cool temperatures.

[francescointoppa]

C - Cynanchica pyrenaica (L.) P.Caputo & Del Guacchio (= Asperula cynanchica L.) - Stellina comune (Rubiaceae)

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Some bluet from a hike yesterday in search of wildflowers.

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Partridgeberry earrings custom commission, 2023

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[alexanderrogge]

Xinhua - New plant species discovered in SW China:

LeptomischusBracteosus #Leptomischus #Rubiaceae #YunnanProvince #Botany #PlantBiology #Biology

[faguscarolinensis]

Ixora x 'Nora Giant' / 'Nora Giant' West Indian Jasmine at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

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Autor: Olga Guedes

[drhoz]

#2482 - Coprosma rigida

One of many NZ plants evolved to unpalatable to Moa. Presumably that's why they planted the gardens outside the Museum with them. After all if the Moa skeletons inside mysteriously reanimate they don't want the gardens immeadiately trashed.

Found in damp shady forest areas on both islands.

Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand

[thebotanicalarcade]

n32_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Dissertatio botanica de Gardenia Upsaliµ :Typis Johan. Edman ...,[1780] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48680808

[francescointoppa]

Crocettona comune (Cruciata laevipes Opiz, Rubiaceae)

[whatnext10]

Roundleaf Bluet is a Beautiful, but Often Overlooked Flower

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