Torreya californica. CALIFORNIA NUTMEG. California
TAXACEAE (Yew family) ...
Florida torreya Taxaceae Torreya taxifolia Arn. symbol: TOTA
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Torreya can be either monoecious or dioecious; when monoecious, the male and female cones are often on different branches. The male (pollen) cones are 5-8 mm long, grouped in lines along the underside of a shoot.
#1114 Torreya taxifolia
Common Names: Florida torreya, gopherwood, stinking cedar
Family: Taxaceae (yew Family)
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Tetraneuris torreyana was first collected by Thomas Nuttall near the upper North Platte in the mid-1830s and he named the plant Actinella torreyana. Edward Greene renamed it Tetraneuris torreyana in 1898.
Pinus Torreyana Parry ex Carr.
PINACEÆ; Pine Family
Torrey Pine is extremely rare in the wild: one of earth's rarest pines. It grows in coastal southern California, north of San Diego, near the mouth of the Soledad River.
Torreya californica ( California Nutmeg )
Torreya nucifera ( Kaya )
Townsendia formosa ( Townsendia ) ...
Silver Beard Grass [English]: Bothriochloa laguroides torreyana var. lanceolatum
Silver Beardgrass [English]: Bothriochloa saccharoides
Silver Beardgrass [English]: Bothriochloa laguroides laguroides ...
In Taxus, Torreya (California and the Far East) and Cephalotaxus the absence of resin-canals and the presence of spiral thickeningbands on the tracheids constitute well-marked characteristics.
of a leaf) with sides gradually concave and tapering to a point acute an apex with straight sides that taper to a point alternate parts (as leaves) situated one at a node aril tissue that forms a fleshy covering of the seed, as in Taxum and Torreya, ...
(2002) in a broad survey of Pinales found that Cephalotaxus, Torreya and relatives, and Taxus and relatives formed a polytomy in their unweighted rbcL and matK analysis; ...
California Nutmeg (Torreya californica)
California Nutmeg-Yew (Torreya californica)
California Pepper Tree (Schinus molle)
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica 'Purple Gleam') ...
Fraser Fir, southern balsam (Abies fraseri)
Florida Torreya, stinking cedar (Torreya taxifolia)
Japanese Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus harringtonia)
Juniper (Juniperus)
Pine (Pinus)
Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Yew (Taxus x media) ...
Taxus brevifolia, Pacific Yew
Thuja plicata Western Red Cedar
Torreya californica, California Torreya
Tsuga heterophylla, Western Hemlock
Tsuga mertensiana, Mountain Hemlock
Umbellularia californica, California Laurel ...
* The full scientific name is Ipomoea cordatotriloba var. torreyana
** The full scientific name is Ipomoea hederacea var. integriuscula ...
Blue Palo Verde
Scientific Name: Parkinsonia florida (Benth. ex Gray) S. Wats.
Synonym: Cercidium floridum, Cercidium torreyanum
Family: Fabaceae ...
nutmeg derived from Monodora myristica; the Brazilian nutmeg from Cryptocarya moschata; the Peruvian nutmeg from Laurelia aromatica; the Madagaskar, or clove, nutmeg from Ravensara aromatica; and the California, or stinking, nutmeg from Torreya ...
 See also: Green, Yew, Evergreen, Pinus, Pine
  
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