#Rubiaceae

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Grand Rising

Flaming Beauty (Paracarphalea kirondron) hybrid beginning to flower in the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

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

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sweet-scented gallium.

[drhoz]

#2686 - Galium aparine - Cleavers

AKA clivers, catchweed, robin-run-the-hedge, sweetheart, hitchhikers, bedstraw, small goosegrass, sticky willy, stickyweed, sticky bob, stickybud, stickyback, sticky molly, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, sticky grass, grip grass, bobby buttons, whippysticks, and velcro plant. As you might guess the fruit are spread when they attach to a passing animals fur.

Galium was Ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides’ name for the plant, derived from the Greek for ‘milk’, because the flowers of Galium verum were used in cheese making. Aparine was used by Ancient Greek naturalist Theophrastus, and means means 'clinging'.

Native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and a noxious weed everywhere else. Naturalised in NZ since at least 1870.

In the same family as coffee, and the fruit has been used as a substitute. The leaves are also edible, but the hooked hairs make the raw leaves unpalatable. It was also used as mattress stuffing, and the roots for a permanent red dye.

Queenstown, Aotearoa 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.

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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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The native gardenia (Larsenaikia ochreata) - a delight of the Australian tropical savanna

🌼 The Native Gardenia: A Star of the Australian Savanna 🌞 Meet Larsenaikia ochreata, the member of the Rubiaceae family that thrives under the sweltering sun! Discover its beauty, fragrance, and charm in my latest post, complete with a haiku tribute

There is no doubt that the “Rubes” (a term some botanists might use for members of the Rubiaceae) favor the rainforest. But even when they get out of the shade of the rainforest into the tropical savannas of North Queensland they manage to “steal the show” with their showiness and fragrance. The not-so-imaginatively-named Native Gardenia (Larsenaikia ochreata) stands proud and unapologetic in…

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[alexanderrogge]

Xinhua - New plant species discovered in SW China:

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

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

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#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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Autor: Olga Guedes

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Crocettona comune (Cruciata laevipes Opiz, Rubiaceae)