Importance

Importance

Unknown Flowers Blue Vanda {draw:rect} Yellow Cordia {draw:rect} Yellow Cordia is an ever-blooming small tree, growing up to 15 ft tall, or as a spreading shrub. The tree has elliptic leaves with rough upper surface. Flowers are bright canary-yellow in clusters. The tree has a free-branching habit. The plant requires regular watering until established. Yellow Cordia is native to South America, and has been introduced as an ornamental plant. Red Cedar {draw:frame} {draw:rect} Red Cedar is a small tree with dark brown, thick, rough bark. Leaves are wedge-shaped, 1-2 inches long, dull, not shining, glaucous, brown beneath when dry. Flowers arise in leaf axils, generally in fascicles of 1-4. Flowers are small, white or pink, bisexual, 5-parted. Petals have an erect double scale on the inner face. Stamens are 10 - filaments united into a short tube. Drupe is bright scarlet, 1 celled, 1 seeded, generally supported by the persistent sepal cup and staminal tube. Red Cedar is common in the forests along the Godavari river. The wood is used as a substitute for Sandal. The Brahmins of Manthani on the Godavari, make use of it in their religious ceremonies. Wood is very hard, takes beautiful polish. Burma Mangrove {draw:frame} Burma Mangrove is an evergreen tree, 8–25 m tall, with a straight trunk 40–90 cm in diameter, buttressed at base, and with many upright air-filled roots rising to 45 cm from long horizontal roots. Bark is gray to blackish, smooth to roughly fissured, thick. Inner bark is reddish. Oppositely arranged elliptical leaves, 9–20 cm long, 5–7 cm wide, are narrow at both ends, thick, leathery, and hairless. Leaf stalks are 2–4.5 cm long. Flowers arise solitary in leaf axils, 3–4 cm long, usually drooping on a stalk of 1–2.5 cm, red to yellowish or cream-colored, with red to pink-red bell-shaped sepal cup. Flowers have 10–14 very narrow, leathery sepals. Petals are 10–14, 1.3–1.5 cm long, white, turning brown, each with 2 narrow lobes ending in 3–4...

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