Madder

Madder
Related Category: Plants
common name for the Rubiaceae, a family of chiefly tropical and subtropical trees, shrubs, and herbs, especially abundant in N South America. The family is important economically for several tropical crops, e.g.

See Madder.
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"Rose Madder" Hellebore
This hybrid Hellebore is named Heronswood Rose Madder, developed at Heronswood nursery which is nationally famous for introducing new varieties.

There are more
Madder Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.
Check out Botany in a Day ...

Madderlake (1980) Flowers Rediscovered, NY: Chang Publishers.
World Biomes
Plants ...

wild madder
Galium mollugo
white flowers, page 3
Images ©1986-2005 Eleanor S. Saulys, Arieh Tal, Virginia Magee, Janet Novak, Carol Levine, Carol Gracie.

Family: Madder (Rubiaceae)
Flowering: April-June
Field Marks: Partridge-berry is recognized by its creeping stems with round, opposite, evergreen leaves, small white flowers in the axils of the leaves, and bright red fruits.

Rubiaceae: The Madder Family
Caffea - Coffee Trees
Caffea arabica - Coffee; Ethiopian Coffee
Casasia - Casasia Trees
Casasia clusiifolia - Sever-year Apple ...

Flowers: striped; 15-20 cm (4-6 in); eight sepals; rose-madder sepals with brilliant carmine bar and golden stamens. Flowers freely late spring and early autumn. The leaves are solitary and ternate. Pruning -light.

false baby's breath; wild madder, white bedstraw Galium mollugo
false banyan, council tree Ficus altissima
false daisy Eclipta prostrata
False jagged-chickweed Lepyrodiclis holosteoides
false maidenfern Macrothelypteris torresiana ...

Family: Rubiaceae, Madder
Genus: Galium
Description
General: perennial, mostly 20-80 cm tall, with numerous
erect stems from well-developed, creeping rhizomes, the
stems commonly short-bearded just beneath the nodes, ...

Rubiaceae / Madders Cleavers or Bedstraw (Galium aparine)
Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a annual which can reach 90cm in height (36inches). The plant is covered in tiny hooked bristles that cling to almost anything.

Pondweed, Fenugreek, Fern Grass, Feverfew, Few-flowered Sedge, Few-flowered Spike-rush, Fibrous Tussock Sedge, Fiddle Dock, Field Bindweed, Field Cow-wheat, Field Eryngo, Field Fleawort, Field Forget-me-not, Field Garlic, Field Gentian, Field Madder, ...

Only the aster, orchid, pea, madder, and grass families have more species. Many of the euphorbs are succulents, and quite a few of them resemble cacti. Most have a poisonous milky latex sap.

Family Rubiaceae, the Madders , including coffee, quinine, and dozens of ornamental plants
Genus Galium, the Bedstraws
Taxonomic Serial Number: 34933
Also known as Galium brachiatum, Galium pennsylvanicum ...

Butterfly Pentas (Pentas lanceolata) is a member of the subtropical madder family to which coffee and quinine belong.

Cleavers - Galium aparine (in the Rubiaceae or Madder family)
Parts used: Fresh succulent aerial parts in flowering or seed-forming stage.
Taste/Smell: Fresh, pleasant taste.

The red dye galiosin is similar to the dye in Galium's relative, Rubia tinctoria (madder); ...

Indigo, cotton, madder, sugar cane, the mulberry tree, the date, the olive, the pomegranate, the almond, the Madeira vine, the coffee tree, beyond the twenty seventh degree; the lemon, and above all, the orange trees, thrive well, ...

niú xÄ« cÇŽo xÄ« (xi1)   茜   (1. madder, rubia cordifolia 2. reeds)
芫茜
yìhn sài ...

Obsolete calyx (c) of Madder (Rubia) adherent to the pistil, in the form of a rim.

Common name: jungle geranium, flame of the forest, scarlet jungle flame, ixora, faja lobi.
Family: Rubiaceae (Madder family).

See also: Green, May, Medic, Orange, Grass