Decaisnea
Young leaves in spring
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Lardizabalaceae Genus: Decaisnea Hook.f. & Thomson
Species
Decaisnea fargesii Decaisnea insignis For other uses, see Scientific classification (disambiguation). ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Pteridophyta - ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... It has been suggested that Angiospermae, and Anthophyta be merged into this article or section. ... 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 See text The Ranunculales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicots. ... Genera Akebia Boquila Decaisnea Holboellia Lardizabala Sargentodoxa Sinofranchetia Stauntonia Lardizabalaceae is a family of flowering plants, within the order Ranunculales. ... Joseph Dalton Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, GCSI, OM, FRS, MD (June 30, 1817 – December 10, 1911) was an English botanist and traveller. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ...

Decaisnea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lardizabalaceae, native to eastern Asia, from China west to Nepal and south to Myanmar. See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... It has been suggested that Angiospermae, and Anthophyta be merged into this article or section. ... Genera Akebia Boquila Decaisnea Holboellia Lardizabala Sargentodoxa Sinofranchetia Stauntonia Lardizabalaceae is a family of flowering plants, within the order Ranunculales. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ...

The genus comprises one or two species, depending on taxonomic opinion. Decaisnea insignis (Griffith) Hook.f. & Thomson was described from Nepal, and is sometimes restricted to the plants occurring in the Himalaya, with Chinese plants distinguished as Decaisnea fargesii Franchet. The only cited distinction (e.g. Bean 1973, Rushforth 1999) between the plants from the two regions is the fruit colour, yellow-green in D. insignis and bluish in D. fargesii. This is of little significance and the two are now combined under the older name D. insignis by some authors (e.g. Flora of China). Look up taxonomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ...

They are deciduous shrubs or small trees growing to 5-8 m tall with trunks up to 20 cm diameter. The leaves are pinnate, 60-90 cm long, with 13-25 leaflets, each leaflet 7-15 cm long and 5-10 cm broad. The flowers are produced in drooping panicles 25-50 cm long, each flower greenish-yellow, 3-6 cm diameter, with six sepals and no petals. The fruit is a soft greenish-yellow to bluish pod-like follicle 7-10 cm long and 2-3 cm diameter, filled with an edible transparent glutinous jelly-like pulp containing numerous flat black seeds 1 cm diameter. Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... hiii, This article is on plants. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ... The leaves of a Beech tree A leaf with laminar structure and pinnate venation In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... A Phalaenopsis flower A flower, (<Old French flo(u)r<Latin florem<flos), also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). ... White-fruited Rowan (Sorbus glabrescens) corymb; note the branched structures holding the fruits. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... In botany, a follicle is a type of simple dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants. ... A ripe red jalapeño cut open to show the seeds For other uses, see Seed (disambiguation). ...

Cultivation and uses

Decaisnea is grown as an ornamental plant for its bold foliage and decorative fruit, bright blue many in cultivated plants, which are sometimes nicknamed "dead man's fingers". Most plants in cultivation derive from Chinese seed and are commonly grown under the name D. fargesii. An ornamental plant is a plant that is grown for its ornamental qualities, rather than for its commercial or other value. ...

References

• Flora of China: Decaisnea
• Bean, W. J. (1973). Trees and Shrubs hardy in the British Isles. John Murray.
• Rushforth, K. D. Trees of Britain and Europe. HarperCollins.
• Botany Photo of the Day: Decaisnea