[giostrugglies]

Life list

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Domains (aka. dominion, superkingdom, realm, or empire)

Archaea (prokaryotic unicellular organisms)

Bacteria

Eukaryota: Protista, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia

Book studies

Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers

Book study - part 1

Trees (WIP)

[giostrugglies]

Gleditsia triacanthos 'Sunburst'

Cultivar of honey locust with no thorns that grows up to 15m (smaller than the species), has golden yellow foliage in spring which goes to a bright lemon green color in summer. Flowers in late spring and has great adaptability. Gleditsa is named after the German botanist Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, and triacanthos means 'three thorns' in Greek

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fabales > family: Fabaceae > genus: Gleditsia> species: Gleditsia triacanthos

[giostrugglies]

Gleditsia triacanthos

aka. honey locust, thorny locust, thorny honeylocust, honey shucks locust, sweet bean tree, sweet locust, thorny locust, green locust tree

Native to central North America, growing in river valleys with moist soil, introduced worldwide for its adaptability, but can be an invasive damaging species outside of its natural range. Grows extremely fast, up to 20-30m and flowers in spring. Fruits are a type of legume with edible pulp (used as food and medicinal plant by Native Americans, also used to make tea) that matures in early autumn.

Has cultivars like 'Beatrice', 'Continental', 'Elegantissima', 'Emerald Kascade', 'Imperial', 'Shademaster', 'Skyline' and 'Sunburst'. Gleditsa is named after the German botanist Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, and triacanthos means 'three thorns' in Greek

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fabales > family: Fabaceae > genus: Gleditsia > species

[giostrugglies]

Gledtisia

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fabales > family: Fabaceae > genus > species

Honey locust genus, named after Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Director of the Botanical Garden at Berlin

Gleditsia amorphoides 

Gleditsia aquatica – water locust/swamp locust

Gleditsia assamica

Gleditsia australis 

Gleditsia caspica – Caspian locust/Persian honeylocust

Gleditsia fera

Gleditsia japonica – Japanese honey locust

Gleditsia medogensis 

Gleditsia microphylla 

Gleditsia rolfei 

Gleditsia sinensis – Chinese honey locust

Gleditsia triacanthos - honey locust/thorny locust

[giostrugglies]

Fabaceae/Leguminosae - legume/pea/bean family

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fabales > family > genus > species

Includes legumes, beans and peas. Fabaceae comes from Latin faba, which means 'bean'; Leguminosae is an older name, seems to refer to legumes

Cercidoideae

TBA

Detarioideae

TBA

Duparquetioideae

TBA

Dialioideae

TBA

Caesalpinioideae

WIP

Acrocarpus 

Arcoa 

Ceratonia 

Gleditsia 

Gymnocladus 

Tetrapterocarpon 

Umtiza 

Faboideae

TBA

[giostrugglies]

Fabales

domain: Eukayota > kingdom: Plantae > phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order > family > genus > species

Fabales comes from an obsolete sense of Faba, latin for 'broad bean'

Fabaceae (legumes)

Quillajaceae

Polygalaceae (milkwort family)

Surianaceae

[giostrugglies]

Quercus rubra 'Aurea'

aka. golden American oak, red oak 'gold'

Yellow leaved cultivar of the Northern red oak, growing up to 15m (much shorter than the species), leaves are 12-22cm long, in specific conditions it turns orange-red to scarlet in autumn. When young, the leaves are bright yellow but turns green in midsummer. Flowering happens in May and is resistant to frost and wind. In Latin, Quercus means 'oak', rubra means 'red' and aurea means 'golden'

domain: Eukayota > kingdom: Plantae > phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fagales > family: Fagaceae > genus: Quercus > species: Quercus rubra

[giostrugglies]

Quercus rubra

aka. northern red oak, red oak, champion oak

Native to North America, introduced to Western Europe. Grows up to 28m tall and has ridges on its bark, grows fast and tolerates various situations - prefers glacial drifts and steam borders. Acorns are edible. Quercus means 'oak' in Latin and rubra means 'red'. Has a cultivar 'Aurea'

domain: Eukayota > kingdom: Plantae > phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fagales > family: Fagaceae > genus: Quercus > species

[giostrugglies]

Quercus

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fagales > family: Fagaceae > genus > species

The oak genus; Quercus means 'oak' in Latin

Section Quercus

TBA

Section Ponticae

TBA

Section Protobalanus

TBA

Section Lobatae

TBA

Quercus radiata 

Quercus robusta 

Quercus rubra – northern red oak

Quercus rubramenta 

Quercus runcinatifolia 

Quercus rysophylla 

TBA

Section Virentes

TBA

[giostrugglies]

Fagaceae - birch family

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fagales > family > genus > species

Name from Latin fagus 'beech', includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks

Castanea

Castanopsis

Chrysolepis

Fagus

Lithocarpus

Notholithocarpus

Quercus

Trigonobalanus 

[giostrugglies]

Fagales

domain: Eukayota > kingdom: Plantae > phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order > family > genus > species

Name from Latin fagus 'beech'

Betulaceae – birch family

Casuarinaceae – she-oak family

Fagaceae – beech family

Juglandaceae – walnut family

Myricaceae – bayberry family

Nothofagaceae – southern beech family

Ticodendraceae – ticodendron family

[giostrugglies]

Paulownia tomentosa

aka. princess tree, empress tree. foxglove-tree

Native to central + eastern China and Korean peninsula, grows extremely fast and is invasive in North America and Europe, also growing in South Africa, New Zealand and Japan. Grows up to 25m tall, flowers are violet-blue and appear in early spring. In Japan, its common to plant this tree when a couple has a daughter, at the age of the child's adulthood the tree will also reach maturity, and its then felled to a tansu dresser as a wedding gift. The name Paulownia is in honour of Queen Anna Pavlovna (which is where 'princess / empress tree came from), and tomentosa means 'covered in hairs'.

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Lamiales > family: Paulowniaceae > genus: Paulownia > species

[giostrugglies]

Paulownia

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Lamiales > family: Paulowniaceae > genus > species

Named in honour of Anna Pavlovna, queen consort of The Netherlands. Genus of the princess trees

Paulownia catalpifolia

Paulownia elongata

Paulownia fargesii

Paulownia fortunei

Paulownia kawakamii

Paulownia taiwaniana

Paulownia tomentosa

[giostrugglies]

Paulowniaceae

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Lamiales > family > genus > species

Named in honour of Anna Pavlovna, queen consort of The Netherlands.

Paulownia

Shiuyinghua

[giostrugglies]

Aesculus × neglecta 'Erythroblastos'

aka. painted buckeye, Caroline horse chestnut

Cultivar of Aesculus × neglecta, leaves are shrimp-pink and unfold(?) at the end of April, originated in Germany (according to IDS), grows up to 15m. Flowers in May with creamy-flushed pink upright panicles, but are rarely followed by fruits. The name Aesculus is theorized to come from the Proto-Indo-European word for 'oak', and neglecta probably means "neglected", the 'erythro-' on 'Erythroblastos' means "red", and 'blastos' probably comes from '-blast', "cell"

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Sapindales > family: Sapindaceae > genus: Aesculus > species: Aesculus × neglecta

[giostrugglies]

Aesculus × neglecta

Hybrid between A. flava and A. neglecta (or A. sylvatica - disputed, according to IDS), has a clone (/cultivar?) 'Erytroblastos', its also toxic. Native range is said to be the Southeast of United States (according to POWO). Aesculus comes probably from the Proto-Indo-European word for 'oak', and neglecta (strangely) means "neglected"

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Sapindales > family: Sapindaceae > genus: Aesculus > species

[giostrugglies]

Prunus padus 'Colorata'

aka. Colorata Mayday

A purple-leaved cultivar of Prunus padus and is toxic just like it. Has dark-green leaves with purple veining, deep pink flowers, and purple twigs/shoots. The name Prunus means "plum" in Latin and padus is the name of a "wild cherry" in Greek, colorata means "colored"

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Rosales > family: Rosaceae > genus: Prunus > species: Prunus padus