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Name some of the common features shared by plants in the MALVACEAE family

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  • Funnel-shaped
  • Campanulate (bell-shaped) as in Chinese Lantern
  • Often pendant (hanging)
  • Staminal column where the stamens are fused into a tube surrounding the pistil.
  • Leaves are usually alternate and often have palmate venation with lobed or toothed margins.
  • Genera includes Hibiscus
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Name common features shared by plants in the ASTERACEAE family

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  • Any plant with a ‘Daisy flower’
  • These are not single flowers but dense heads containing many tiny flowers (Botanically they are an infloresence called a ‘capitulum’
  • There are two types of these tiny flowers (disc foret in centre & ray florets)
    *usually female or pistilate
    *Genera includes Argyranthemum and Cosmos
  • annuals, biennials, soft wooded and hard wooded perennials
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Name common features shared by plants in the APOCYNACEAE family

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  • Trees, shrubs and climbers with most plants containing clear or milky sap
  • Floweirng plants divided into monocotyledon and dicotyledon
  • All members of this family poisonous to some degree
  • Leaves simple, opposite or whorled
  • Flowers in 5’s (calyx, corolia, stamens) with a superior ovary
  • The flowers are often colourful and perfumed
  • Genera includes Plumeria & Nerium
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Name common features shared by plants in the CUPRESSACEAE family

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  • Display heteroblasty- Leaves are awl shaped on young wood, while mature wood usually has scale leaves.
  • Plants that do not flower
  • Evergreen coniferous trees and shrubs
  • Cones are globose
  • Intermediate leaves occur on wood that is changing from juvenile to adult wood
  • Genera includes Cupressus and Chamaecyparis
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Name common features shared by plants in FABACEAE sf. FABOIDEAE

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  • Pea shaped flowers (papillionate) eg Wisteria
  • All plants in this family have fruits that are a legume (pod)
  • Plants modified for climbing
  • Many have nitrogen fixing nodules on their roots
  • Leaves often compound, many have stipules
  • Genera includes Wisteria
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Name common features shared by plants in the RUTACEAE family

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  • add something about flowers
  • Many species are scented, due to the presence of oil glands in their leaves and flowers
  • Most members of the Rutaceae family suffer root rot and collar rot in poorly drained soils.
  • Flowers are usually actinomorphic and bisexual, the calyx has 4 or 5 free or united sepals and the corolla has 4 or 5 petals usually free but sometimes united
  • Genus include Coleonema and Murraya
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MALVACEAE
Abutilon x hybridum

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Chinese Lantern

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MALVACEAE
Hibiscus rosa-sinesis

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Chinese Hibiscus

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MALVACEAE
Hibiscus syriacus

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Syrian Rose

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MALVACEAE
Hibiscus tiliaceus

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Cottonwood

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Lagerstroemia indica

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Crepe Myrtle

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ASTERACEAE
Argyranthemum frutescens

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Marguerite Daisy

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ASTERACEAE
Cosmos bipinnatus

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Cosmos/Mexican Aster

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14
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ASTERACEAE
Dahlia cvs

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Dahlia

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Agapanthus spp

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Agapanthus

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Clivia spp

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Clivia

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Petroselinium crispum

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Parsley

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Petunia x hybrida

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Petunia

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APOCYNACEAE
Mandevilla sanderi

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Brazilian Jasmine

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APOCYNACEAE
Nerium oleander

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Oleander

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21
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APOCYNACEAE
Plumeria rubra

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Frangipani

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Cordyline australis

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Cabbae tree

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Cordyline fruticosa

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Cordyline, Ti Plant

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Hydrangea macrophylla

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Nandina domestica

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Sacred Bamboo

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CUPRESSACEAE
Chamaecyparis obtusa

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Hinoki Cyprus / Japanese Cyprus

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CUPRESSACEAE
X Cupressocyparis leylandii

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Leyland Cyprus

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Adiantum spp

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Maindenhair Fern

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Asplenium australasicum

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Birds Nest Fern

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Cycas revoluta

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Japanese Sago Palm

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Cyathea australis

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Rough Tree Fern

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Cyathea cooperi

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Coin Spot Tree Fern / Straw Tree Fern

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Dicksonia antartica

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Soft Tree Fern

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APOCYNACEAE
Trachelospermum jasminoides

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Star Jasmine

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FABACEAE sf FABOIDEAE
Wisteria spp

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Bougainvillea cvs

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Bougainvillea

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Ficus Pumila

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Creeping Fig

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Hedera spp.

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Jasminum spp./Jasminum polyanthum

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Spring Jasmine

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Parthenocissus tricuspidata

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Boston Ivy

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Pyrostegia venusta

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Orange Trumpet Vine

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Vitis vinifera

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Ornamental Grape

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Jasminum polyanthum

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Spring Jasmine

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RUTACEAE
Coleonema pulchellum

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RUTACEAE
Murraya paniculata

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Murraya, Orange Jessamine

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Camellia japonica

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Japonica Camellia

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Camellia sasanqua

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Sasanqua Camellia

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Euphorbia milii

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Crown of Thorns

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Euphorbia pulcherrima

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Poinsettia

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Gardenia augusta ‘Florida’

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Gardenia augusta ‘Radicans’

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Rock Gardenia

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Plumbago auriculata

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Tibouchina spp

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Tibouchina, Lasiandra

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