"when young but smooth and orange when ripe. The species is vegetatively similar to ""V. anceps"" and artificially resembles the Asian species ""V. dichotomum"". Male inflorescences and fruit are required to separate it from ""V. shirense"" and ""V. cylindricum"". Viscum combreticola Viscum combreticola, the Combretum mistletoe, is a leafless, dioecious mistletoe shrub, occurring from southern to tropical Africa, in a broad zone following the Rift Valleys. Though it is typically a hemiparasite of ""Combretum"" species, it may also be found on ""Terminalia"" (Combretaceae), ""Acacia"", ""Croton"", ""Diplorhynchus"", ""Dombeya"", ""Heteropyxis"", ""Maytenus"", ""Melia"", ""Strychnos"" or ""Vangueria"". The much-branched twigs are flattened, ribbed and"
"Veratrum album Veratrum album (commonly known as false helleborine, white hellebore, European white hellebore, or white veratrum; syn. ""Veratrum lobelianum"" ""Bernh"") is a poisonous medicinal plant of the Liliaceae or Melanthiaceae. It is native to Europe and parts of western Asia (western Siberia, Turkey, Caucasus). In Persian and Arabic, its name in traditional medicine is خربق ابیض. ""Veratrum album"" is a tall perennial herb with alternate, pleated leaves. The flowers are white, marked with green on the top portion of the stalk. The fruit is a small pod containing winged seeds. The stout, simple stems are 50 to 175 cm"
"Sedum album Sedum album or white stonecrop, is a flowering plant of the genus ""Sedum"" in the family Crassulaceae. It is found in the northern temperate regions of the world, often growing in crevices or free-draining rocky soil. As a long-day plant it grows vegetatively for most of the year and flowers in summer. Three subspecies ""album"", ""micranthum"" (Bastard ex DC.) Syme and ""teretifolium"" Syme have been described. White stonecrop is a tufted perennial herb that forms mat-like stands. Much of the year the stems are short, semi prostrate and densely clad in leaves. At the flowering time in July"
"Ripogonum album Ripogonum album, known as the white supplejack, is a common rainforest vine, found in eastern Australia. The leaves are identified by the longitudinal venation. A stout climber, with stems up to 15 metres long. Flowers are greenish white, and the fruit is a round red berry. Indigenous Australians used the stems for making traps for catching crayfish. The specific epithet ""album"" is from the Latin, referring to the white flowers. This species first appeared in scientific literature in 1810 in the ""Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae"". Authored by the prolific Scottish botanist, Robert Brown. The species occurs in the"
"album"". The plant also contains the iridoid glycosides lamalbid, alboside A and B, and caryoptoside as well as the hemiterpene glucoside hemialboside. ""L.album"" was a favorite source of chlorophyll and other plant pigments for Mikhail Tsvet, the inventor of adsorption chromatography. A distillation of the flowers is reputed ""to make the heart merry, to make a good colour in the face, and to make the vital spirits more fresh and lively."" Lamium album Lamium album, commonly called white nettle or white dead-nettle, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native throughout Europe and Asia, growing in a"
"Galium album Galium album, the white bedstraw or hedge bedstraw, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae. The stems can grow to at least 150 cm and are more or less erect with ascending branches. The stem is square in section with slight flanges. The plant is relatively hairless with shiny leaves and stem. Flowers are white or yellowish. The fruit are hairless. ""Galium album"" is widespread over much of Europe, being native to a large region from Britain to Morocco, east to Turkey and Western Siberia. It is naturalized in Ireland, Scandinavia, Greenland and South Australia. It"
"Verbascum Verbascum (), common name mullein (sg. ) (also known as velvet plant), is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae. They are native to Europe and Asia, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean. Mullein or ""mullein leaf"" often refers to the leaves of ""Verbascum thapsus"", the great or common mullein, which is frequently used in herbal medicine. They are biennial or perennial plants, rarely annuals or subshrubs, growing to tall. The plants first form a dense rosette of leaves at ground level, subsequently sending up a tall flowering stem. Biennial"
"Chenopodium album Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus ""Chenopodium"". Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot, manure weed, and fat-hen, though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus ""Chenopodium"", for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot. It is sometimes also called pigweed. However, pigweed is also a name for a few weeds in the family Amaranthaceae; it is for example used for the redroot pigweed (""Amaranthus retroflexus""). ""Chenopodium album"" is extensively cultivated and consumed in"
"states of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Ripogonum album Ripogonum album, known as the white supplejack, is a common rainforest vine, found in eastern Australia. The leaves are identified by the longitudinal venation. A stout climber, with stems up to 15 metres long. Flowers are greenish white, and the fruit is a round red berry. Indigenous Australians used the stems for making traps for catching crayfish. The specific epithet ""album"" is from the Latin, referring to the white flowers. This species first appeared in scientific literature in 1810 in the ""Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae"". Authored by the prolific Scottish"
"Solanum vescum Solanum vescum, commonly known as green kangaroo apple or gunyang, is a small fruiting shrub in the family Solanaceae, native to eastern and southeastern Australia. ""Solanum vescum"" was first described by Victorian government botanist, Ferdinand von Mueller, in 1855 after being collected near the mouth of the Snowy River. The specific epithet is the neuter of the Latin adjective ""vescus"", meaning ""edible"". ""Solanum vescum"" is a soft green shrub which grows to high. It lacks the spines of many other species of ""Solanum"". Its juvenile leaves are ovate with three or four deep lobes, and measure long and"
"Viburnum nudum Viburnum nudum is a plant in the genus ""Viburnum"" within the muskroot family, Adoxaceae. (It was formerly part of Caprifoliaceae, the honeysuckle family). One variety of the species is Viburnum nudum"" var. ""cassinoides; synonyms for this variety Viburnum nitidum Aiton, Viburnum cassinoides, Viburnum cassinoides"" var. ""harbisonii, Viburnum cassinoides"" var. ""nitidum, and Viburnum nitidum. Common names for the plant include withe-rod, witherod viburnum, possumhaw, and wild raisin. ""Viburnum nudum"" is a shrub with opposite, simple leaves, on slender stems. The flowers are white, borne in late spring. It is native to North America from southern Ontario and Quebec to"
"Viburnum Viburnum is a genus of about 150–175 species of shrubs or (in a few species) small trees in the moschatel family, Adoxaceae. Its current classification is based on molecular phylogeny. It was previously included in the family Caprifoliaceae. The member species are native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with a few species extending into tropical montane regions in South America, Ukraine, Russia, and southeast Asia. In Africa, the genus is confined to the Atlas Mountains. The generic name originated in Latin, where it referred to ""V. lantana"". The leaves are opposite, simple, and entire, toothed or lobed; cool temperate"
"Pelargonium album Pelargonium album is a species of flowering plant of the genus ""Pelargonium"". This species is native to South Africa. It is an apple/mint scented pelargonium which is very closely related to ""Pelargonium odoratissimum"". It is in the subgenus ""reniforme"" along with ""Pelargonium sidoides"" and ""P. exstipulatum"". Pelargonium comes from the Greek; Pelargos which means stork. Another name for pelargoniums is storksbills due the shape of their fruit. Album refers to the white flowers. ""Pelargonium album"" is a small, semi-succulent plant that grows in slightly shaded areas in the Pilgrim's Rest area of South Africa. It grows to about"
"Vascular plant Vascular plants (from Latin ""vasculum"": duct), also known as tracheophytes (from the equivalent Greek term ""trachea"") and also as higher plants, form a large group of plants ( 308,312 accepted known species) that are defined as those land plants that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They also have a specialized non-lignified tissue (the phloem) to conduct products of photosynthesis. Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants). Scientific names for the group include Tracheophyta, Tracheobionta and Equisetopsida sensu lato Vascular plants are defined by"
"is found in pastures, grassy banks, etc., especially on dry calcareous soils. In Britain ""G. album"" is local in lowland England, rare in the north and very rare in Scotland. Four subspecies are currently (May 2014) recognized: Galium album Galium album, the white bedstraw or hedge bedstraw, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae. The stems can grow to at least 150 cm and are more or less erect with ascending branches. The stem is square in section with slight flanges. The plant is relatively hairless with shiny leaves and stem. Flowers are white or yellowish. The fruit"
"Arum maculatum Arum maculatum is a common woodland plant species of the family Araceae. It is widespread across most of Europe, as well as Turkey and the Caucasus. It is known by an abundance of common names including snakeshead, adder's root, arum, wild arum, arum lily, lords-and-ladies, devils and angels, cows and bulls, cuckoo-pint, soldiers diddies, priest's pintle, Adam and Eve, bobbins, naked girls, naked boys, starch-root, wake robin, friar's cowl, sonsie-give-us-your-hand, jack in the pulpit and cheese and toast. The name ""lords-and-ladies"" and other gender-related names refer to the plant's likeness to male and female genitalia symbolising copulation. The"
"for a sore tongue. Viburnum nudum Viburnum nudum is a plant in the genus ""Viburnum"" within the muskroot family, Adoxaceae. (It was formerly part of Caprifoliaceae, the honeysuckle family). One variety of the species is Viburnum nudum"" var. ""cassinoides; synonyms for this variety Viburnum nitidum Aiton, Viburnum cassinoides, Viburnum cassinoides"" var. ""harbisonii, Viburnum cassinoides"" var. ""nitidum, and Viburnum nitidum. Common names for the plant include withe-rod, witherod viburnum, possumhaw, and wild raisin. ""Viburnum nudum"" is a shrub with opposite, simple leaves, on slender stems. The flowers are white, borne in late spring. It is native to North America from southern"
"Lamium album Lamium album, commonly called white nettle or white dead-nettle, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native throughout Europe and Asia, growing in a variety of habitats from open grassland to woodland, generally on moist, fertile soils. ""L. album"" is an herbaceous perennial plant growing to tall, with green, four-angled stems. The leaves are long and broad, triangular with a rounded base, softly hairy, and with a serrated margin and a petiole up to long; like many other members of the Lamiaceae, they appear superficially similar to those of the Stinging nettle (""Urtica dioica"") but"
"nudum""), but with the plant drawing its mineral and water needs from the host tree. Different species of ""Viscum"" tend to use different host species; most species are able to use several different host species. The flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, diameter. The fruit is a berry, white, yellow, orange, or red when mature, containing one or more seeds embedded in very sticky juice; the seeds are dispersed when birds (notably the mistle thrush) eat the fruit, and remove the sticky seeds from the bill by wiping them on tree branches where they can germinate. ""Viscum"" species are poisonous to humans;"
"Tricholoma album Tricholoma album, commonly known as the white knight, is an all-white mushroom of the large genus ""Tricholoma"". It is found in Europe, India, and possibly North America. The cap and gills are white. The whitish stipe has no ring. The species was originally described as ""Agaricus albus"" by Jacob Christian Schäffer in 1774, and reclassified as ""Gyrophila alba"" by mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1886. It was given its current binomial name by German Paul Kummer in 1871. The British Mycological Society has listed ""white knight"" as its common name. The generic name derives from the Greek ""trichos""/τριχος 'hair'"
"alpha taxonomy and new species often collected in far-away places, field botany and the vascula with it went into decline. Aluminium vascula are still made and in use, though zipper bags and clear plastic folders are today cheaper and more common in use. The newsletter of the Society of Herbarium Curators is named ""The Vasculum"". Vasculum A vasculum or a botanical box is a stiff container used by botanists to keep field samples viable for transportation. The main purpose of the vasculum is to transport plants without crushing them and by maintaining a cool, humid environment. Vascula are cylinders typically"
"Typhonium venosum Typhonium venosum (Voodoo-lily or Arum cornutum (traders' name)), is an ornamental plant in the Araceae. This is species is an aroid, not a true lily. ""Typhonium venosum"", probably better known under its synonym ""Sauromatum venosum"", is a common shade-loving house or garden plant from temperate and tropical Africa and Asia. It grows to around 20 inches tall from an underground corm. A large ""T. venosum corm"" can spawn multiple new corms. Inflorescences emerge before their leaves. This plant is also known as the Voodoo bulb because of its ability to flower from a corm without soil and water."
"Plantarum"" in 1753. The species epithet, ""pudica"", is Latin for ""bashful"" or ""shrinking"", alluding to its shrinking reaction to contact. The species is known by numerous common names including sensitive plant, humble plant, shameplant, and touch-me-not. The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age. It can hang very low and become floppy. The stem is slender, branching, and sparsely to densely prickly, growing to a length of 1.5 m (5 ft). The leaves are bipinnately compound, with one or two pinnae pairs, and 10–26 leaflets per pinna. The petioles are also prickly. Pedunculate (stalked)"
"15 cm high and 40 cm wide and has small white flowers. Pelargonium album Pelargonium album is a species of flowering plant of the genus ""Pelargonium"". This species is native to South Africa. It is an apple/mint scented pelargonium which is very closely related to ""Pelargonium odoratissimum"". It is in the subgenus ""reniforme"" along with ""Pelargonium sidoides"" and ""P. exstipulatum"". Pelargonium comes from the Greek; Pelargos which means stork. Another name for pelargoniums is storksbills due the shape of their fruit. Album refers to the white flowers. ""Pelargonium album"" is a small, semi-succulent plant that grows in slightly shaded areas"
"Eupatorium album Eupatorium album, or white thoroughwort, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the sunflower family native from the eastern and southern United States, from eastern Texas to Connecticut, inland as far as Indiana. As with other members of the genus ""Eupatorium"", ""Eupatorium album"" flowers with large numbers of small white heads. The flower heads have 4-5 disc florets each, but no ray florets. The plant grows tall, making it one of the shorter ""Eupatorium"" species. ""Eupatorium album"" is capable of hybridizing with other ""Eupatorium"" species including ""Eupatorium sessilifolium"" and ""Eupatorium serotinum"". Its appearance is similar to ""Eupatorium altissimum"", but"
"from Latin ""vasculum"" - small container and ""dilletanum"", referring to J.J. Dillenius, Linnaeus' friend and colleague at Oxford Botanic Garden. With rise of botany as a scientific field the mid 18th century, the vasculum became an indispensable part of the botanist's equipment. Together with the screw-down plant press, the vasculum was popularized in Britain by naturalist William Withering around 1770. The shortened term ""vasculum"" appear to have become the common name applied to them around 1830. Being a hallmark of field botany, the vascula were in common use until World War II . With post-war emphasis on systematics rather than"
"Anthoxanthum Anthoxanthum, commonly known as hornwort, vernal grasses, or vernalgrasses (Latinised Greek for ""yellow blossom""), is a genus of plants in the grass family.Jepson Manual Treatment The members of ""Anthoxanthum"" are widespread in temperate and subtropical parts of Africa and Eurasia, with a few species in tropical mountains. Some species have become naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, and the Americas. ""Anthoxanthum odoratum"" is a common species of acidic grassland and bogs in northern Europe. All the species reportedly contain the compound coumarin, used medicinally in many countries. The genus ""Hierochloe"" is included in ""Anthoxanthum"" by some recent authors. Others, however,"
"from the Norse ""lyngr"", or heather. The genus name ""Vaccinium"" is a classical Latin name for a plant, possibly the bilberry or hyacinth, and may be derived from the Latin ""bacca"", berry. The specific name is derived from Latin ""vitis"" (""vine"") and ""idaea"", the feminine form of ""idaeus"" (literally ""from Mount Ida"", used in reference to raspberries ""Rubus idaeus""). There are at least 25 other common English names of ""Vaccinium vitis-idaea"" worldwide, including: ""Vaccinium vitis-idaea"" spreads by underground stems to form dense clonal colonies. Slender and brittle roots grow from the underground stems. The stems are rounded in cross-section and"
"Santalum Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the best known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian sandalwood tree, ""S. album"". Members of the genus are trees or shrubs. Most are root parasites which photosynthesize their own food, but tap the roots of other species for water and inorganic nutrients. Several species, most notably ""S. album"", produce highly aromatic wood, used for scents and perfumes and for herbal medicine. About 25 known species range across the Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania ecozones, from India through Malesia to the Pacific Islands, as far as Hawaii and the Juan Fernández"
"Cycnium tubulosum Cycnium tubulosum, the vlei ink-flower, is a slender hemiparasitic perennial plant of the broomrape family. Its range includes much of southern and eastern Africa, from South Africa to Ethiopia, including Madagascar. It has creeping, straggling or upright stems, with few narrow, entire leaves and erect, white or pinkish, slightly zygomorph flowers on a long tube, with five lobes, reminiscent of a ""Phlox""-flower. It may not always be fully dependent on the supply of minerals by other plants, but usually makes connections with the roots of grasses. It can be found in moist, short grasslands, reaching altitudes of about"
"Vexillum is longer than the wings, with an obtuse keel longer or rarely shorter than the wings. Stamens are diadelphous, 9+1, and anthers uniform. Ovary is 2-8-ovuled. Fruit is a lomentum, with segments that are glabrous, pubescent, bristly, or spiny. ""Hedysarum"" species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (moth and butterfly) species including ""Coleophora accordella"". Some species, such as ""Hedysarum alpinum"" also known as Alpine sweetvetch or wild potato, were eaten by the Inuit to help ward off the effects of scurvy due to it being rich in vitamin C, containing about 21 mg/100g. Charles"
"as well as Morocco (North Africa). Over the centuries, the term has been broadened to include many other species of parasitic plants with similar habits, found in other parts of the world, that are classified in different genera and even families—such as the Misodendraceae and the Loranthaceae. In particular, the eastern mistletoe native to North America, ""Phoradendron leucarpum"", belongs to a distinct genus of the family Santalaceae. The genus ""Viscum"" is not native to North America, but ""Viscum album"" has been introduced to California. European mistletoe has smooth-edged, oval, evergreen leaves borne in pairs along the woody stem, and waxy,"
"Geranium viscosissimum Geranium viscosissimum, commonly known as the sticky purple geranium, is a perennial in the Geraniaceae family of flowering plants. It is thought to be a protocarnivorous plant. This herbaceous perennial plant is native to the Northwestern United States, California, and Nevada, including in the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains regions; and to Western Canada, including in the Canadian Rockies. Habitats it is found in include yellow pine forest, northern juniper woodland, lowland to higher elevation meadows, and wetland-riparian zones; from in elevation. ""Geranium viscosissimum"" is a large, clumped tall perennial wild geranium. The stem, leaves, and flower stalks"