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Gardenia Thunbergia
The Gardenia Thunbergia is a species of flowering plants belonging to the family Rubiaceae. Linnaeus named in tribute to the Swedish botanist Carl Thunberg Peter (one of the 250 species that are engaged!). It is naturally in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Transkei, and some elsewhere in the African savannah.

Description
It grows in forests or forest edges, and shaped shrub or small tree (up to 5 feet tall) with many branches rigid crust soft light gray color. The leaves are smooth, bright and whole, grouped at the ends of the stems. The flowers, abundant, are white, large, very fragrant, about 70 mm fan. diameter and shaped long tubes. The fruits are hard and fibrous, 80 mm. long and 40 mm. diameter, pale gray with small white dots, and the plant may remain for several years if they are eaten by elephants or antelopes.

Source: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardenia_thunbergia

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Buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula syn. Alnus frangula) is a plant of the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). In the Netherlands, the plant mainly in the east and south and in the dunes.

The plant looks a bit like the buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica). Buckthorn is in many parts of Europe, in moist forests and peat bogs. The plant prefers an acidic soil.

It grows as a shrub or small tree to about five meters high. The bark is black and has brown pores. Buckthorn has no thorns. The leaves look almost the same as that of the buckthorn, but are elliptical and smooth edges.

The flowers are bisexual and have five sepals and five petals. The flowers are single or in bundles in the axils. The flowering period is from April to July. Buckthorn bears red berries that later turn black.

Buckthorn is host plant for butterflies and brimstone tree blue.

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporkehout

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Garden Spurge (Euphorbia peplus) is an annual plant of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). The plant is native to central Europe and the Mediterranean and from there spread throughout the world. It is found both cultivated and fallow land. It is pale green plant with a taproot and a height of 10-30 cm. The scattered leaves are inversely ovate, petiolate and have a cool edge.

Garden Spurge blooms from July until autumn. Inflorescence a cyathium. Garden Spurge thrives in screens with three rays. Each beam is further divided into two branches. The oval bracts under the flowers look like normal leaves. The unisexual flower has a crescent-shaped glands with glandular two slender horns.

Garden Spurge is 3 mm wide safe fruits with narrow wings on each segment. The seeds are pale gray rows of dark pits and ants have a sandwich.

In other languages:

•    German: Wolf-Garten Milch

•    English: Petty Spurge

•    French: Euphorbe omblette

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuinwolfsmelk

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