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Dodonaea viscosa is a species in the family Sapindaceae with a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of Flowering plants in the order Sapindales. In Biogeography, a Biological category of living things is said to have cosmopolitan distribution if this category can be found almost anywhere around the world The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World, consisting of the Continents of North America and South America Australasia is a Region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring Islands in the Pacific Common names include Hopseed, Hopbush, Akeake (New Zealand) and Aalii (Hawaii). New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the
It is a shrub growing to 1-3 m tall, rarely a small tree to 10 m tall. A shrub or Bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody plant, distinguished from a Tree A tree is a perennial Woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or The leaves are simple elliptical, 6-13 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, and secrete a resinous substance. In Botany, a leaf is an above-ground Plant organ specialized for Photosynthesis. The flowers are yellow to orange-red, produced in short racemes. A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also A raceme is a type of Inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate Flowers &mdash flowers having short The fruit is a capsule 2 cm broad, red ripening brown, with three wings. The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context and the term is not synonymous in Food preparation and Biology. In Botany a capsule is a type of simple dry Fruit produced by many species of Flowering plants A capsule is a dehiscent structure composed of two
The wood is extremely tough and durable, and New Zealand's Māori have used akeake to fashion clubs and other weapons. Wood is hard fibrous lignified structural tissue produced as secondary Xylem in the stems of Woody plants notably trees but also shrubs This article discusses the Māori people of New Zealand For their language see Māori language, and for other meanings see Māori (disambiguation. The Māori name for the shrub, akeake, means "forever and ever". The cultivar 'Purpurea', with purple foliage, is widely grown as a garden shrub. A cultivar is a cultivated Plant that has been selected and given a unique name because of its decorative or useful characteristics it is usually distinct from similar
External links
- Germplasm Resources Information Network: Dodonaea viscosa
- USDA Plants Profile: Dodonaea viscosa
- Plants of Hawaii: Dodonaea viscosa (numerous photos)
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