Describe the following plants Answer the following habit hab

Describe the following plants:

Answer the following: habit, habitat, life span, throns, spines or prickles, infloresences, leaves (complexity, attachment to stem, arrangement, blade shape, margin, apex, base, venation and trichomes). Other interesting facts.

1. Paradisaeidae (Birds of Paradise)

2. Vitis californica (California wild grape)

3. Dudleya pulverulenta (Chalk lettuce)

4. Marah fabaceus (Wild cucumber-manroot)

5. Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)

6. Eriogonum fasciculatum (Buckwheats)

7. Yucca brevifolia (Joshua tree)

8. Yucca schidigera (Mojave yucca)

9. Vaccinium ovatum (Huckleberry)

10. Platanus racemosa (California sycamore)

Solution

1. Bird-of-paradise: The centre of bird-of-paradise diversity is the large island of New Guinea; all but two genera are found in New Guinea. The two that are not are the monotypic genera Lycocorax and Semioptera, both of which are endemic to the Maluku Islands, to the west of New Guinea. Of the riflebirds in the genus Ptiloris, two are endemic to the coastal forests of eastern Australia, one occurs in both Australia and New Guinea, and one is only found in New Guinea.

2. Vitis californica is a deciduous vine which can grow to over 10 m (33 ft) in length. It climbs on other plants or covers the ground with twisted, woody ropes of vine covered in green leaves. In the fall the leaves turn many shades of orange and yellow.