#deciduous shrub

[margocooper]

Жостер (лат. Rhámnus).Сентябрь 24. Buckthorn. September 24.

[heavenly-garden]

Shooting Star Hydrangea

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 29 March 2024

The flowers of Stachyurus praecox are looking smart this year as the display is often damaged by frost. This spreading, deciduous shrub produces bell-shaped, pale yellow-green flowers on purple stems before the leaves emerge.

Jill Raggett

[stopandlook]

Scientific Name: Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii or Sapindus drummondii Common Name(s): Western soapberry Family: Sapindaceae (soapberry) Life Cycle: Perennial Leaf Retention: Deciduous Habit: Tree, shrub USDA L48 Native Status: Native Location: Allen, Texas Season(s): Winter

It’s called soapberry because you can make soap from it!

Soapberries are also offered commercially “soap nuts,” though the ones I’ve seen for sale are Sapindus mukorossi, which is a species native to Asia.

Speaking of species, the genus Sapindus comprises about 12 species. I’m guessing the exact number isn’t settled because, as in the case here, whether this plant is a subspecies or its own species depends on whom you ask. The USDA Plants Database shows that S. saponaria is native to the southern U.S., from the Atlantic coast to Arizona, whereas var. drummondii only exists west of the Mississippi River. This difference is apparently enough for iNaturalist and its taxon authority POWO to elevate it to the full species level.

The fruits are about ½″ (12 mm) in diameter and form in the summer; they are pale green and opaque when young before maturing to a translucent amber in the fall.

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[zegalba]

Stachyurus

the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before the leaves.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n106_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Flowering trees & shrubs. LondonA.L. Humphreys1905 biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20798959

[candont]

Thinking about: the act of writing in its raw, uncut form, as a kind of religious experience—as a kind of transport—is such a strange thing to have encompassed and upheld by routine and ritual, by faith’s grind, like you were walking uphill to temple every day, and of course you bring your saman pichcha and light the little clay lamps, coconut oil on your fingers; you sit cross-legged in the hot, grainy sand to say the dead words, during which you think of your dead, and theirs, and theirs, multiplying overhead like a great bone tree rising into the sky. No, that’s all a bit grim, isn’t it? Let’s say instead you’re like a mime practicing a bit. First you elaborately draw a door in the air, marking out hinge and latch and doorknob, finding an imaginary key in your pocket, feigning surprise—you insert and turn it in the lock which does not exist, and it goes click and you push it open and walk through. Some days there is nothing through the door, though you have to open it anyway to find out. And some days you walk through into an altered landscape. Everything looks the same, and in fact everything is the same, because after all this was only mime and it was an imaginary door, except now the room is redder in your eyes and there is music in the air.

https://vajra.me/2018/08/28/jasminum-grandiflorum/

[aimsterskitz0rz]

🌸🍃 #Azaleas at #walterjonespark #Rhododendron #Tsutsusi #Pentanthera #Ericaceae #Deciduous or #evergreen #shrub (at Walter Jones Historical Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAz_Uhul3Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[spooninabowl]

My wife planted this Japanese Snowball tree in the backyard many years ago and we enjoy the beautiful flowers every year. I took this photo in my home in Quebec during the month of June 2022.

Prints available: https://bit.ly/3ZRNF4h

[margocooper]

Жимолость лесная, или волчья ягода (лат. Lonicera xylosteum). Август 24. Forest honeysuckle (lat. Lonicera xylosteum). August 24.

[heavenly-garden]

Hydrangea Paniculata Diamond Rouge

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 15 September 2024

The red berries of Cotoneaster horizontalis (wall cotoneaster, herringbone cotoneaster, rock spray, wall spray) stood out against this black barn wall. This spreading, deciduous shrub will also have attractive autumn colour as the small glossy dark green leaves turn orange and red. The berries and flowers are valuable for wildlife.

Jill Raggett

[stopandlook]

Scientific Name: Ilex decidua Common Name(s): Possumhaw Family: Aquifoliaceae (holly) Life Cycle: Perennial Leaf Retention: Deciduous Habit: Tree, shrub USDA L48 Native Status: Native Location: Plano, Texas Season(s): Fall

[growingstoriesandgardens]

10/20/2022- Pomegranate Seedlings Update!

Don't know if it shows or not but since my last post, these HAVE put on a few more sets of leaves and still seem to be trying to grow! They have most certainly have begun slowing cause it's getting so cold at night even inside...but they really like the light they get here. So they are continuing to slowly grow. They are are getting a more woody stem at the base and are officially on my list of things to get into new pots in the spring.

The other new thing is, sort of yellowy leaf tips? They aren't burnt, and I am actually super confident these aren't being over or under watered (roots are peaking out the bottom holes, nice and healthy looking). No sign of bugs, though I plan tomorrow to go through and check them thoroughly for any sign of pests. My guess is that these plants do go yellow before dropping leaves in the winter naturally, so this might be that starting.

Regardless they STILL are putting out new sets of leaves so, whatever it is much not be that detrimental.

Wish me luck!

[i-reea]

Fall painted by nature 🍂🍂🍂🍂 . . . . . #plant #naturallandscape #twig #trunk #sunlight #wood #deciduous #tree #grass #terrestrialplant #shrub #tintsandshades #landscape #forest #water #shade #temperatebroadleafandmixedforest #woodland #jungle #grove #roadsurface #road #northernhardwoodforest #old-growthforest #tropicalandsubtropicalconiferousforests #streetlight #plantstem #valdiviantemperaterainforest #riparianforest #rainforest (Source @anadianadody ) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkD224ts-bu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=