Cork

Genus of about 20 species of usually rhizomatous, evergreen perennials from tropical forest in Asia. The leaf blades are borbe on long, sheathing leaf stalks from a central ...

amorphophallus

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Genus of 90-100 species of perennials, with corm-like rhizomes, from moist, shaded habitats in tropical Africa and Asia. An unusual, fast growing plant. When the bulb starts to ...

datura

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Genus of 5 species of evergreen shrubs and trees found in scrub and along streamsides from S. US to South America. Angel's Trumpet is so named because it produces large, ...

adenium

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Genus of about 5 species of perennial succulent from semi-arid regions of the Arabian Peninsula and E. to S.W. Africa. The true species forms a caudex at an early age, tends to ...

bark

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The outer covering of the trunk, branches and the root of the trees. Bark protects the trees from heat, cold, and insects.

dicotyledon

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Flowering plant in which the seed has two cotyledons and leaves have a network of veins.

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Frozen waves

Large blue ice structures in the Antarctic that appear like tall waves that have been instantly frozen as they break. These freezing blue waves were ...