Nt1310 Unit 2 Project Work

Stems are long and weak, square in cross section, prickly (spiny) with glands on young parts. Leaves are matt, mid-green, deeply veined and sometimes hairy. The lamina is pear or oval shaped, pointed to broadly-rounded apex, rounded base, round or regular toothed margins with wrinkled and strigose (sharp oppressed rigid bristly hairs) upper surface. When the leaves are crushed, a strong and distinctive odour is exuded. Flower heads have many smaller flowers. Each flower is tubular-shaped and have 4 spreading lobes (petals), changing colour with age. The colours would be a various combinations of white, yellow, orange, red or pink. Fruit is a berry or drupe arranged in clusters. The fruit is green and becomes purple-black when mature. This plant takes over huge areas usually in moist gullies, along drainage lines and around wetlands. It can be found scrambling high into tree tops. The intense growth of the weed restricts any plant to grow beneath it or around it. This results in plant growth being restricted and not allowing plantation to develop.

Each medium-green leaf is deeply cut with five-pointed lobes. As the trade name suggests, the foliage turns into an autumn blaze of orange-red to scarlet-red fall color. Flowers and fruit for this hybrid are very sparse.

Identifying Characteristics- Typically 65 feet in height. Narrow, lanced-shaped green-grey leaves. Small, white, bottlebrush flowers. Broadly cylindrical fruit. Trunk covered by a white, thick paper-like bark.

Foliage is thick and heart-shaped with coarse ridges lining the edges, averaging 2- to 6-inches long. During the growing season their color is green, changing to yellow during the fall before the foliage drops during the winter months. The several inch long and flattened petiole allow the leaves to flap from side to side in windy conditions.

The flower on the bottlebrush is dense and cylindrical flower spike, made up of individual flowers. The pistils, sepals and the five petals on the plant are hardly visible. The prominent feature of the bottlebrush is the stamen, which protrudes out of individual capsules on the stem. The Stamen of the Weeping Bottlebrush is all red, which is seen in image B, but the Prickly Bottlebrush has yellow anthers and red filaments, which is evident in image C. The Alpine Bottlebrush has a completely yellow flower, as seen in image A.

The greenish white to all white, lined fruit forms midsummer to mid-autumn and is technically called a "drupe." Most people call it a berry. They grow to be about 6 mm wide and stand upright on the stem, instead of

They have a pointed tip and flat base to the leaf. Knotweed also has numerous, small, off-white flowers. They grow in clusters near the end of the plant’s arching stems. They bloom in August and September. They are usually pollinated by insect but most are infertile unless they have been cross bred. The Japanese knotweed stems are round, hollow, and mottled, with a whitish coating. (MDNR.2012)

Pringsheimii Urb.), and a shrubby Lobelia measuring one or two meters, the Lobelia assurgens L., which is found but rarely in Cuba and in Jamaica were blooming. The plant in Haiti closely resembles the Cuban’s (var. santa-clarae McVaugh) than the Jamaican’s (var. jamaicensis Urb.). Their stem leaves are large and membranous… The flowers are dark red and flat (fig. 10).

They have the ability to stand high-temperature levels, thus they will stay outdoors throughout the year. More so, they are burrowing animals and they love to feed.

The fruit of this water-borne plant consists of a cylindrical capsule filled with many seeds. Aquatic birds and ducks love munching on this seed.

Type of habitat: It inhabits on rocky shores, and is always found in the low intertidal zone.

The Japanese Knotweed, scientifically known as the Polygonum cuspidatum, is a quickly-reproducing plant that forms dense thickets which causes the plant to easily exclude other vegetation in the same landscape

White mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa): Two glands found at the petioles (leaf stem), these glands excrete salt and deposit sugar. Propagules looks like a sunflower seed. Usually grows the furthest inland, although it may be found throughout the mangrove community. Both excretes and excludes saltwater. The bark is light in color, almost white.

They typically grow 6 to 12 feet tall. Bottlebrush buckeye has flowers that grow 3-4 cm.

Canadian Thistle are perennials that reproduce from their short spread out root system and seeds, they have a single stalk that branches out at the top where the purple/pink flowers at the top of the bulbs, with spiky leaves going up the plant. Can grow to be 1 to 3 feet tall