a mucilaginous plant

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• Byblis (plant) — Taxobox name = Byblis image width = 250px image caption = Byblis liniflora regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Lamiales familia = Byblidaceae familia authority = Domin (1922) genus = Byblis genus authority =… …   Wikipedia

• reproductive system, plant — Introduction       any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative …   Universalium

• burn plant — noun very short stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants • Syn: ↑Aloe vera • Hypernyms: ↑aloe …   Useful english dictionary

• okra plant — noun tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus • Syn: ↑okra, ↑gumbo, ↑lady s… …   Useful english dictionary

• Herbario — Ejemplar de herbario de Vitellaria paradoxa adecuadamente montado en una hoja de papel, con su etiqueta de identificación. En Botánica, un herbario (del latín herbarium) es una colección de plantas o partes de plantas, desecadas, preservadas,… …   Wikipedia Español

• Borage — Bor age, n. [OE. borage (cf. F. bourrache, It. borraggine, borrace, LL. borago, borrago, LGr. ?), fr. LL. borra, F. bourre, hair of beasts, flock; so called from its hairy leaves.] (Bot.) A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis) …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Ericales — ▪ plant order Introduction   rhododendron order of flowering plants, containing 25 families, 346 genera, and more than 11,000 species.       The relationships of the order are unclear. It belongs to neither of the two major asterid groups… …   Universalium

• Malpighiales — ▪ plant order Introduction   large order of flowering plants that includes 40 families, more than 700 genera, and almost 16,000 species. Many of the families are tropical and poorly known, but well known members of the order include Salicaceae (… …   Universalium

• Caryophyllales — ▪ plant order Introduction   pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 33 families, which contain more than 11,000 species in 692 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, with less than a dozen… …   Universalium

• Cucurbitales — ▪ plant order Introduction  small order of flowering plants containing seven families, 129 genera, and 2,295 species. It includes Begoniaceae, or the begonia family, with 60 percent of the species in the order, and Cucurbitaceae, or the squash,… …   Universalium

• Brassicaceae — ▪ plant family also called  Cruciferae,         the mustard family, of the order Brassicales, a large assemblage of 338 genera and some 3,710 species of mostly herbaceous plants with peppery flavoured leaves. The family includes many plants of… …   Universalium