Thymelaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, with about 700-750 species in 50 genera. The family is has a cosmopolitan distribution but with concentrations in tropical Africa, southeast Asia and Australasia. The species include mostly trees and shrubs, with a few vines and herbaceous plants. Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the Earths surface. ... World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... Australasia is the area that includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the many smaller islands in the vicinity, most of which are the eastern part of Indonesia. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... A willow shrub 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 term vine was originally a term for the plant on which grapes grew, from the word for wine (Greek oinos), for which grapes were grown. ... This article is about the plants used in cooking and medicine. ...

Several genera are of economic importance, notably Gonystylus (Ramin), valued for its hard, white wood, and Daphne, grown for its sweetly scented flowers. Many of the species are poisonous if eaten. Species About 30, including: Gonystylus affinis Gonystylus bancanus Gonystylus confusus Gonystylus forbesii Gonystylus macrophyllus Gonystylus maingayi Gonystylus miquelianus Gonystylus velutinus Ramin (Gonystylus) is a genus of about 30 species of hardwood trees native to southeast Asia, in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea, with the highest... Daphne is a genus of about 50 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... The skull and crossbones symbol traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ...