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Blossom. In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring . Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach blossoms (including nectarine), most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are ...
A tall evergreen tree, it bears small fleshy sweet fruits. The outside of the fruit is a pink-red, rough-textured soft shell. Lychee seeds contain methylene cyclopropyl glycine which has caused hypoglycemia associated with outbreaks of encephalopathy in undernourished Indian and Vietnamese children who consumed lychee fruit. [6] [7]
Plumeria trees flower from early summer to fall. Their blossoms grow in clusters on ends of the stems, they are made of tubular corolla with a length of 2–4 inches (5.1–10.2 cm) that split sharply into five rounded and waxy petals that overlap each other. These flowers come in many colours including pink, red, white and yellow, orange, or ...
Jackfruit trees are monoecious, having both female and male flowers on a tree. [7] [8] The inflorescences are pedunculated, cylindrical to ellipsoidal or pear-shaped, to about 10–12 cm (3 + 15 ⁄ 16 – 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) long and 5–7 cm (2–3 inches) wide. Inflorescences are initially completely enveloped in egg-shaped cover sheets ...
Kumquat. Kumquats ( / ˈkʌmkwɒt / KUM-kwot ), [ 1] or cumquats in Australian English, are a group of small, angiosperm, fruit -bearing trees in the family Rutaceae. Their taxonomy is disputed. They were previously classified as forming the now-historical genus Fortunella or placed within Citrus, sensu lato.
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Magnolia grandiflora is a medium to large evergreen tree which may grow 120 ft (37 m) tall. [ 6] It typically has a single stem (or trunk) and a pyramidal shape. [ 7] The leaves are simple and broadly ovate, 12–20 cm ( – in) long and 6–12 cm ( – in) broad, [ 7] with smooth margins. They are dark green, stiff, and leathery, and often ...
Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) high, often wider than it is tall when mature, with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm (1 ft). A 10-year-old tree will stand about 5 m (16 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, simple, ovate, 6–13 cm (2.4–5.1 in) long and 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) broad, with an apparently entire ...