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Buxus sempervirens (Common Box or European Box; also as Boxwood) is a flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey. Download high resolution version (960x720, 253 KB)Buxus sempervirens from French Wikipedia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ...
Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ...
Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ...
Families Buxaceae Didymelaceae The Buxales are an order of dicotyledons, comprising the families Buxaceae and Didymelaceae. ...
This article is about the box tree. ...
Species About 70 species; see text Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. ...
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Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ...
Species About 70 species; see text Buxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. ...
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It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 1-9 m tall, with a trunk up to 20 cm diameter, exceptionally to 10 m tall and 45 cm diameter (Tree Register of the British Isles). The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, green to yellow-green, oval, 15-30 mm long and 5-13 mm broad. The flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, with no petals; the fruit is a three-lobed capsule containing 3-6 seeds. ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ...
A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ...
The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ...
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Flowers and fruit (capsules) of the ground orchid, Spathoglottis plicata. ...
The species typically grows on soils derived from chalk, limestone, usually as an understorey in forests of larger trees, most commonly associated with Fagus sylvatica forests, but also sometimes in open dry montane scrub, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Box Hill, Surrey is named after its notable box population, which comprises the largest area of native box woodland in England. The Needles,situated on the Isle Of Wight, are part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ...
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Binomial name Fagus sylvatica L. The European Beech or Common Beech (Fagus sylvatica) is a deciduous tree belonging to the beech family Fagaceae. ...
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Cultivation and uses It is a very popular ornamental plant in gardens, being particularly valued for topiary and hedges because of its tolerance of close shearing, small leaves, and scented foliage. Several cultivars have been selected, including some with variegated foliage. Gunston Hall is an 18th century Georgian mansion and was the home of George Mason, a Virginia politician and participant in the Constitutional Convention. ...
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A topiary dinosaur at Epcot Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of shrubbery, after the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, toparius. ...
In gardening a hedge is a row of woody plants, generally of one species, used to demarcate spaces. ...
This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ...
Variegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves, and sometimes the stems, of plants. ...
The wood ("boxwood") is very hard and heavy, used for engraving, marquetry, woodturning, and mallet heads. The noted English engraver Thomas Bewick pioneered the use of boxwood blocks for engraving. Trunks A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood is a solid material derived from woody plants, notably trees but also shrubs. ...
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ...
The image on the cover of this box was made using the technique of marquetry. ...
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Thomas Bewick (August 1753 - November 8, 1828) was an English wood engraver and ornithologist. ...
The species is locally naturalised in parts of North America.[2] In biology, naturalisation is the process when foreign or cultivated plants have spread into the wild, where they multiply by natural regeneration. ...
North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...
References
- ^ Plan of Garden and Grounds near Gunston Hall. Gunston Hall Drawings. Historic American Buildings Survey (part of the US National Park Service). Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
- ^ PLANTS Profile. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
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