Tresses

Lady's-tresses are orchids with spikes of small white flowers. Nodding lady's-tresses is the most common of Connecticut's seven species of lady's-tresses.

Lady's Tresses
Botanical: Spiranthes autumnalis (ORICH.)
Family: N.O. Spiranthideoe ...

Ladies'-tresses
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Fragrant Lady's Tresses
By whatever name, a hardy native orchid that is adaptable for garden and landscape use in most of the eastern US. Silvery-green ground-hugging rosettes slowly form colonies in moist soils, bogs or swamps.

Hooded Ladies' Tresses
Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham.
Family: Orchidaceae, Orchids
Genus: Spiranthes ...

Orchidaceae / Orchid Great Plains Ladies'-tresses (Spiranthes magnicamporum)
Plant Type: This is a herbaceous plant, it is a perennial which can reach 38cm in height (15inches).

A lawn here in Fayetteville is populated with Ladies' Tresses Orchids. Every fall, just as the flowers attain full bloom, the lawn is mowed to remove these spiky "weeds" that suddenly spring from the ground in late summer.

There are many similar- looking relatives, and Slender Ladies Tresses is differentiated from others of its family by the green blotch in its throat. It blooms in mid-late summer. (Photographed in PA) ...

BUTTRESSES
Buttresses are tree trunk supports that help hold up tall trees in rainforests. They are needed to stabilize the tree because the soil is shallow (only a few inches deep) and the tree roots do not penetrate very deeply into the earth.

Widely spreading buttresses (woody fins acting as supports) of Parkia bicolor (Image: Xander van der Burgt) ...

Lacelip Ladies'-Tresses [English]: Spiranthes laciniata
Lacelip Ladiestresses [English]: Spiranthes laciniata
Lacelip Lady's Tresses [English]: Spiranthes laciniata
Lacepod [English]: Thysanocarpus curvipes ...

Spiranthes (Lady's Tresses)
The genus Spiranthes is commonly called Lady's Tresses, which refers to its braid-like spiral of small flowers. It is a genus of around 30 species that has a worldwide distribution in the northern hemisphere.

Their root system is very shallow, and to support their size they grow buttresses that can spread out to a distance of 30 feet.

The branches have many uses, including in thatching, as a bedding or a stuffing for mattresses, for insulation, basketry, rope making and for making brooms[6, 7, 11, 46, 61, 66, 100, 254]. The dried branches are a good fuel[6, 66].

For stability, it also develops buttresses. A specimen, now gone, grew on the east side of the Angel of Grief (northeast of the Mausoleum) but it did not have knees or buttresses, which of course would be unnecessary to it in that situation.

In general Eucalyptus Dalrympleana is a large tree, its trunk whitish and smooth, inviting a caressing touch; its foliage willowy in heavy tresses. The twigs are usually reddish. The young leaves of early summer are attractively bronze-red colored.

Butresses are tension elements, being larger on the side away from the stress of asymmetrical canopies.[1] The roots may interwind with buttress roots from other trees and create an intricate mesh, which may help support trees surrounding it.

Large individuals have straight trunks, without buttresses, but swollen at the base. The bark is very smooth, except for rings that wrap around the trunk every few meters. The trunk is unbranched for most of its length.

Meliaceae are recognisable by their usually spiral and odd-compound leaves with well-developed leaf buttresses, i.e. the leaf bases are swollen and more or less elongated vertically.

The leaves had many uses from lining baking pits to making mattresses. Berries were dried on leaves spread out on drying racks because the berries would not stick to them.

lacera, Northern Slender Ladies' Tresses
romanzoffiana, Hooded Ladies' Tresses
Stachys palustris, Common Woundwort
Streptopus roseus, Rose Twisted Stalk
Taraxacum officinale, Common Dandelion
Thalictrum spp, Meadowrues ...

It was said to make the coolest mattresses, an important consideration in the days before air conditioning.

Spiranthes cernua 'Chadds Ford'
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Hardiness Zones:
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John's Wort, Intermediate Bladderwort, Intermediate Water Starwort, Intermediate Wintergreen, Irish Eyebright, Irish Fleabane, Irish Heath, Irish Lady's Tresses, Irish Saxifrage, Irish Spurge, Irish St.

Some manufacturers even market beds made of teak with weatherproof mattresses for creating an exotic, outdoor bedroom.Materials are weatherproof, quick drying and made with UV protection to prevent fading.

Species and varieties
Strophanthus gratus (Climbing Oleander)
Strophanthus preussii (Corkscrew Flower, Spider Tresses)
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Large, needle-leaf, aquatic, deciduous tree often with cone-shaped "knees" projecting from submerged roots, with trunks enlarged at base and spreading into ridges or buttresses, and with a crown of widely spreading branches, flattened at top.

finally found the clove producing islands, they took enormous interest in securing a constant spice supply: The few tourists visiting the small island of Ternate (9 km diameter) will be surprised to find crumbling remnants of about 10 fortresses, ...

conical, uniform habit
deciduous needles and stems
opposite buds on persistent stems separate it from Taxodium distichum (Common Baldcypress)
buttresses trunk with braided character and shredded red-brown bark ...

(Helleborine), Cephalanthera, Neottia (bird's-nest orchis), one of the few saprophytic genera, which have no green leaves, but derive their nourishment from decaying organic matter in the soil, Listens (Tway blade), Spiranthes (lady's tresses), ...

Planting the bulbs to four inches instead of two or three, & fertilizing the area with bloodmeal which distresses squirrels, might be all one needs to do to insure the survival of sufficient numbers of tommies.

it in West Africa in the 15th century and took it to the Canary Islands. They introduced it to Haiti in the Caribbean in 1516. The first bunch of bananas displayed in London in 1633 came from Bermuda. Locally, banana leaves once stuffed mattresses.

A large, lovely tree native to the East Indies, it has buttresses and aerial roots and is cold tender. It bears triangular, spindle-like hard-shelled nuts with an almond flavor. The rich oily seeds are eaten both raw and roasted.

See also: Green, May, Orchid, Medic, Evergreen