Archive for November 2011
BETULACEAE Alnus glutinosa Appearance There are 3 well-known alder plants with a few differing characteristics: Alder (Alnus glutinosa) A deciduous shrub or medium-sized tree with darkish-brown, fissured bark and glabrous twigs with yellowish lenticels (wart-like components) on the bark. Alder is monoecious; the flowers are borne on the old wood and emerge before the leaves, [...] Read the rest of this entry »
ORCHIDACEAE Orchis morio Appearance The violet-red flowers are borne in a loose, terminal spike. The leaves are lanceolate, broadest at the center and unspotted; the ones at the bottom level are structured in a rosette, those at the summit are sheathed and upright. A perennial herb with spherical tubers and an erect leafy stem. The [...] Read the rest of this entry »
LILIACEAE Allium sativum Appearance Garlic is a perennial herb with a bulb which is split into segments (Known as cloves), basal linear leaves and an erect stalk terminated by an umbel with numerous small bulbils between the purplish-white flowers. The flower cluster is encircled by a sheath (spathe) of papery bracts. The fruit is a [...] Read the rest of this entry »