Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose

General Information
Common Name Desert Rose
Scientific Name Adenium obesum
Sun Tolerance Full Sun
Height 1 - 3 m (3. - 10 ft)
Spread 0.3 - 1 m (3 - 3.3 ft)
Growth Rate Slow
Bloom Time Summer
Color Green,
Flower Color Multi-Color
Type Shrubs
Native Africa, Asia
Classification
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering Plants
Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae
Order Gentianales
Family Apocynaceae – Dogbane Family
Genus Adenium  –  Desert Rose
Species A. obesum

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose
Adenium obesum commonly known as Desert Rose also known as Sabi Star, others name are Kudu, Mock Azalea, or Impala Lily. It is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara and tropical and subtropical eastern and Southern Africa and Arabia.
It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub but lose the leaves during cold spells. The leaves are spirally arranged on gray-green to brown branches, clustered toward the tips of the shoots, simple entire leathery in texture, ovate, gray-green,  5-15 cm (2-3 in) long and 1-8 cm (.5-3 in) broad.  It is a small tree grown 1 – 3 m (3.3 – 10 ft) in height and it can grow 1 m {3.3 ft) or more in diameter. The plant sometimes has a fleshy taproot.
In the wild, flowers bloom in summer with some irregular continued bloom throughout the year. The flowers are Multi-Color in color, tubular, 2-5 cm (.8-2 in) long, with the outer portion 4-6 cm (1.5-2.5 in) diameter with five petals.
It is very famous as ornamental plant. People like to plant it in their garden or park. Also it has a great value as bonsai plant. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use, mainly as a medicine. The root sap or sometimes the wood or stem latex contains a powerful heart toxin and is used to prepare arrow poison.



Adenium obesum – Desert Rose

Leaves of Desert Rose

Adenium obesum Leaves
Young Plant of Desert Rose

Flowers of Desert Rose, Pink

Adenium obesum Flowers, Red

Seeds of Desert Rose

Bark of Desert Rose

Ornamental Plant Desert Rose

Adenium obesum Ornamental Plant

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose Ornamental Plant

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose Ornamental Plant

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose


Adenium obesum – Desert Rose

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose

Adenium obesum – Desert Rose
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Sunday, June 10, 2018

Sequoia sempervirens - Redwood

General Information
Common Name Red Wood
Scientific Name Sequoia sempervirens
Sun Tolerance Full Sun
Height 116 m (380 ft)
Spread 10 - 15 m (33 - 50 ft)
Growth Rate Fast
Bloom Time Spring
Color Green,
Flower Color Yellow
Type Tree
Native USA, Asia, Europe.
Classification
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
SuperdivisionSpermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Coniferophyta – Conifers
Class Pinopsida
Subclass 
Order Pinales
Family Cupressaceae – Cypress family
Genus Sequoia Endl. –  Red Wood
Species S. sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood
Sequoia sempervirens commonly known as Redwood is provides the tallest tree and possibly the most majestic tree in the world – about 367 feet in California where the species lives for upwards of two thousand years. In Europe at the comparatively young age of about one hundred and ten years, and in Britain it provides their greatest volume of timber per acre – over 20,000 cubic feet (some 600 tons) in the famous ‘Charles Ackers Redwood Grove’ at Leighton near Welshpool in Montgomeryshire – the property of the Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The native habitat of the tree is a strip, averaging some thirty-five miles wide, of the Pacific coastal regions of North America, stretching from about one hundred miles south of San Francisco up to south-west Oregon. The land ranges from sea level to some three thousand feet. Sequoia honors a famous half-bred Cherokee chief, Sequoyah. The tree was introduced to Europe via Russia in 1843.
The shoots are green at first, becoming brown. The buds are solitary, and surrounded by green scales which later turn brown. The secondary shoots bear flattened rigid needles spirally arranged, but with a twist at their base which brings them into two ranks. The needles produced early and late in the season are shorter than those when growth is at its height. All are slightly ribbed, and are bright green on the upper surface, and have nearly white stomatal lines underneath. Sometimes the color of the needles is more bronze or copper than green, especially after being scorched in a cold winter. The best appearance of tree is when the new pale green needles fringe each branch in June.
Both sexes of flowers are on the same tree, the small yellow males arising at the tips of the shoots, and the small green females well behind them. The brown elliptical cones are about 2 – 3 cm long, and ripen in the first season; after opening and shedding small winged seeds the cones persist on the tree for many years.
Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood
The bark is rust or foxy-red, fibrous, soft and spongy, becoming very thick and deeply fissured with age. Underneath the bark is a hard inner layer that is bright cinnamon-red. Where side branches have fallen away, distinct cavities are left in the bark. The trunk broadens at the base and is irregularly buttressed.
The wood has a thin zone of pale yellow sapwood, and a red-brown heartwood. It is soft, strong and naturally durable – useful for interlaced fencing, garden furniture and general purposes. The tree is one of the few conifers to produce suckers. Coppice shoots arise from the stump when a tree is felled – one of the few conifers besides Yew, with this property. Blown trees left lying in the forest hve been known to throw vertical shoots from the upper side of the horizontal trunk, which themselves develop into large trees, as is evident at Leighton.
Visitors to the Redwood grove at Leighton will long remember its massive pillars of warm red, with the forest floor a dull red color. There as also in the extensive reserved stands of the species in and near California, one cannot fail to experience a feeling of awe or indeed profound dignity and respect for this splendid tree.


Redwood Young Plants

Sequoia sempervirens growing Seeds

Leaves of  Redwood

 Redwood Leaves

Sequoia sempervirens Leaves

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood Leaves

Flowers of  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood Flowers

 Redwood Female Cone

Flowers of Redwood

Bark of Redwood

Log of Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood Log

Trunk of Redwood

Redwood Trunk

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood Logs

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood as ornamental Plant

Redwood ornamental plant

Sequoia sempervirens as ornamental plant

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood

Sequoia sempervirens -  Redwood
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