School Science Lessons
2024-09-27
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Genus names, F, (Fagopyrum to Funtumia)
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Buckwheat, (Fagopyrum esculentum), "pseudo-cereal", gluten-free, hulled seeds used to make mild tasting buckwheat groats, used for Japanese soba noodles and pancakes, source of glucoside rutin, herbal medicine, southeast Asia, Polygonaceae
Beech tree, (Fagus sylvatica), common beech, European beech tree, England, Fagaceae
Weeping beech, (Fagus pendula), pendulous tree, up to 25 m, France, Fagaceae
Copper beech, (Fagus purpurea), purple beech, anthocyanins in leaves, England, Fagaceae
Ana tree, (Faidherbia albida), apple ring acacia, winter thorn, very fast growing, up to 30 m, deciduous, white-grey colour stems, conspicuous gland at the base of each pair of pinnae (leaflets), orang-brown curves twisted pod, deep taproot, sheds leaves in rainy season so important for maize interplanting in African agroforesty, protected tree in South Africa, Fabaceae
Fatsia japonica, Japanese aralia, false castor oil, deeply-lobed glossy dark green leaves, (houseplant), Araliaceae
Fatsia papyrifera, fatsia, "rice paper", Araliaceae
Faucaria tigrina, tiger jaws, succulent, deeply toothed jaw-like leaves, (houseplant), South Africa, Aizoaceae
Feijoa, (Feijoa sellowiana, Acca sellowiana), pineapple guava, Brazil, shrub, red, white and yellow flowers, edible fruit, Myrtaceae
Feijoa, Daley's Fruit Trees.
Acca sellowiana, Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Ferns Pteridophyta Division
Devil's tongue, (Ferocactus latispinus), fishhook cactus, slow-growing spherical, prominent ribs with large hooked spines, (houseplant), Cactaceae
Wood apple species, (Feronia limonia), monkey fruit, curd fruit, kath bel, pomme de bois, citron des mois, large tree, long leaves, hard berry fruit, inner sticky brown pulp, need hammer to crack fruit rind, eat raw or used to make syrups, drinks, jelly, jams, chutneys, herbal medicine, Indonesia, Thailand, India. Rutaceae
See diagram Wood apple.
Other species are called "wood apple".
Asafoetida, (Ferula assafoetida), (Latin foetidus smelling fetid), gum asafetida, devil's dung, food of the gods, giant fennel, monoecious perennial, up to 2 m, dried oleoresin latex from ducts in cortex of wounded rhizome and thick taproot, used in Indian cooking, gives onion and garlic taste lentil curries, strong offensive taste, is sold in sealable airtight containers as
a brown powder with gum arabic and wheat starch to be dusted over roasting food, antimicrobial, possibly antiviral taste from | Umbelliferone | di-tri-tetra-Sulfides | essential oil
contains | Butylpropenyldisulfide, (often adulterated)
| Isopimpinellin | Umbelliferone
| Visnadine | folk medicine, digestive disorders, used to treat many disorders, used as a bait and in magic spells, Iran, Apiaceae
Tall fescue, (Festuca arundinacea), grass, forage grass, but alkaloid fescue toxicity with horse and cattle, Poaceae
Ferula species, Apiaceae
Festuca arundinacea, tall fescue grass, forage grass, but alkaloid fescue toxity with horse and cattle, Poaceae
Lesser celandine, (Ficaria verna), fig buttercup, cuckoo bud, pilewort, crowfoot, noxious weed, poisonous to grazing animals, herbal medicine, Ranunculaceae
Ficaria species, Ranunculaceae
Knobby club rush, (Ficinia nodosa), hardy, fast growing, spreading tufting grass, upright dark green foliage, up to 500 mm, brownish flower heads are produced on spikes, grow in ponds, Cyperaceae
Fig, (Ficus carica), common fig, edible fig tree, table fig | Safranal | Turkey, Western Asia, Moraceae
Ficus carica, 'Black genoa', Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Ficus species, fig trees, include the banyan fig that starts as an epiphyte, e.g. Indian banyan tree, (Ficus benghalensis), national tree of India, propagating roots downwards as aerial roots to grow into woody trunks to produce largest canopy cover in the world, Moraceae
Dwarf Pingo De Mel, Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Weeping fig, (Ficus benjamina), benjamin fig, 'ficus', up to 30 m, the tree of Bangkok, in Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Moraceae
Sandpaper fig, (Ficus coronata), creek sandpaper fig, rough leaves, sweet fruit, ornamental, Australian native food, rainforest plant, Moraceae
Ficus coronata, Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Ficus coronata, Tucker Bush
Mistletoe fig, (Ficus deltoidea), up to 2 m, dark green leathery leaves, (houseplant), widely naturalized, Southeast Asia, Moraceae
Rubber plant, (Ficus elastica), India rubber tree, up to 30 m, young leaves sheathed in red stipules | polyterpenes in milky latex sap | Moraceae
Cedar fig, (Ficus henneana), deciduous fig, up to 35 m, ornamental park tree, Japan, Southeast Asia, Moraceae
Fiddle-leaf fig, (Ficus lyrata), banjo fig, tropical Africa, violin-shaped leaves, (houseplant), Moraceae
Moreton Bay fig, (Ficus macrophylla), Australian banyan, strangler fig germinating in a host tree, ornamental in public parks, Australia, Moraceae
Chinese banyan, (Ficus microcarpa), small-leaved fig, in Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, ornamental street plant, bonsai plant, Queensland, tropical Asia, Moraceae
Hill's weeping fig, Ficus microcarpa var. hillii, Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Small-leaved fig, (Ficus obliqua), up to 30 m, edible fruit, strangler fig, sub-tropical rainforest, Australia, Moraceae
Ficus obliqua, Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Sandpaper fig, (Ficus opposita), sweet fig, up to 3 m, open forest tree, milky exudate from petioles, Australian native food, (houseplant), Moraceae
Ficus opposita, Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Desert fig, (Ficus platypoda), rock fig, up to 10 m, on rocky outcrops, branchlets are covered in fine hairs, oval / round figs yellow to purple, 2.5 cm diameter, eaten fresh when ripe, plant can be used for bonsai, Australian native food, Moraceae
Creeping fig, (Ficus pumila), trailing plant, thin wiry stem, heart-shaped leaves, climbs with adhesive aerial rootlets, (houseplant), herbal medicine, East Asia, Moraceae
Cluster fig, (Ficus racemosa), red river fig, goolar fig, gular fig, cauliflory figs grow on tree trunk, Hindu religion tree, Australian native food, Indo-China, India, Moraceae
Variegated rooting fig, (Ficus radicans, F. saginata), trailing wiry stems pointed leaves, climbs by rooting at leaf joints, (houseplant), Asia, Moraceae
Malayan banyan, (Ficus refusa), banyan, up to 10 m, popular bonsai tree, herbal medicine, Malaysia, Moraceae
Sacred fig, (Ficus religiosa), bo-tree, peepul tree, pipal tree, long-lived tree sacred to Buddha, prop roots from branches, Indis, Moraceae
Ficus religiosa, Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery
Rusty fig, (Ficus rubiginosa), Port Jackson fig, up to 30 m, Australia, park shade tree, bonsai tree, rocky sites, margins of rainforests, yellow to red warty fruit, Australia, Moraceae
Sea fig, (Ficus superba), cedar fig, deciduous fig, up to 30 m, strangler fig, deciduous, ornamental foliage, bonsai tree, Australia, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Japan, Moraceae
Sycamore fig, Ficus sycamoris, fig-mulberry, up to 20 m, African sycamore fig, ancient Egypt cultivation, (many reference in the bible, e.g. climbed by Zacchaeus to see Jesus in Bible, Luke19:4), Africa, Lebanon, Moraceae
White fig, (Ficus virens), up to 27 m, strangler fig, edible fruit and leaves eaten as vegetable, attractive red-pink new leaves, huge crown, Australia, Pakistan India Southeast Asia, Moraceae
Green-leaved Moreton Bay fig, (Ficus watkinsiana), strangler fig, edible globular fruit, low altitude rainforests, Australia, Moraceae
Filaginella uliginosa, (Gnaphalium uliginosum), cud weed, cotton weed, herbal medicine, Asteraceae
Filipendula species, Rosaceae
Fittonia species, Acanthaceae
Fitzroya cupressoides, Patagonian cypress, Cupressaceae
Governor's plum, (Flacourtia indica), ramontchi, batoko plum, Madagascar plum, Indian plum, tree with spiny trunk, dispersed by birds, Australia, Africa, Asia, Salicaceae
Governor's plum Daley's Fruit Trees.
Whip plant, (Flagellaria indica), bush cane, vine, strong climber, Australian native food, fruit eaten raw, stems used as rope or cords, folk medicine, forest plant, India, Australia, Flagellariaceae
Cudgerie, (Flindersia schottiana), bumpy ash, silver ash, up to 50 m, sparsely-branched open crown, white flowers, woody fruit with rough points of "bumps", New Guinea and eastern Australia, Rutaceae
Flindersia species, Cudgerie, Yellow wood, (Australian) Teak, Queensland maple, Daley's Fruit Trees.
Bennett's ask, (Flindersia bennettii), up to 43 m, used for joinery work and carving, Australia, Rutaceae
Queensland maple, (Flindersia brayleyana), up to 40 m, stem up to 2.5 m diameter, Australia, decorative uses, Rutaceae
Queensland silver ash, (Flindersia bourjotiana), northern silver ash, cudgerie, bumpy ash, because swellings on the bole covering overgrown circles of broken-off limbs, decorative uses, Australia, Rutaceae
Broad-leaved leopard tree, (Flindersia collina), bastard crow's ash, up to 40 m, many small white flowers, uniquely-shaped seed pods, shade tree, Australia, Rutaceae
Hickory ash, (Flindersia iffliana), up to 35 m, Cains hickory, Australia, Rutaceae
Rose silkwood, (Flindersia pimenteliana), up to 40 m, long straight cylindrical bole, valuable timber, shade tree, timber can cause dermatitis, Australia, Rutaceae
Yellow wood, (Flindersia xanthoxyla), steam-bending qualities, uswd for boxes, shade tree, Australia, Rutaceae
White currant, (Flueggea virosa), many alkaloids, white globular fruits eaten raw if fully ripe, Native Australian food, widespreas folk medicine, northern Australia, Africa, Southeast Asia, Phyllanthaceae, (Euphorbiaceae)
Foeniculum species, Apiaceae
Forsythia species, Oleaceae
Fortunella species, Rutaceae
Ocotillo, (Fouquieria splendens), coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, appears like spiny dead sticks until rainfall then has small ovate leaves, up to 10 m, blunt spines, native American herbal medicine, USA, only one genus in family, Fouquieriaceae
Fragaria species, Rosaceae
Franklin tree, (Franklinia alatamaha, Gordonia alatamaha), named after Benjamin Franklin, showy shrub, North America, Theaceae
Frasera speciosa, elkweed, deer's ears, monument plant, North America, Gentianaceae
White ash tree, (Fraxinus americana), American ash tree, "Yggdrasil", "tree of the Universe", herbal medicine, | Aesculin Esculin | North America, Oleaceae
Claret ash tree, (Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa 'Raywood'), abundant colourful ornamental, England, Oleaceae
Ash tree, (Fraxinus excelsior), common ash tree, affected by fungus chalara fraxinea, timber for tool handles, green timber burns, Europe, Oleaceae
Himalayan ash, (Fraxinus griffithii), evergreen ash, street or garden tree, low-growing habit, invasive, Asia, Oleaceae
Freesia, (Freesia refracta), ornamental, fragrant tubular flowers, southern Africa, Iridaceae
Climbing pandanus, (Freycinetia scandens), slender vine, rainforest plant, dark green leaves, large edible strawberry-like fruit, numerous seed in each fruit, Australia, Pandanaceae
Fuchsia magellanica, hybrid cultivars decorative in hanging baskets, deep pink, attach manometer to stem to show root pressure, hydathodes, modified hairs on lower surface of leaf, raphides, Mexico, South American Andes mountains, Onagraceae
Fucus vesiculosus, kelp, seaweed, bladderwrack, (buoyancy bladders), (chlorophyll and yellow fucoxanthin), herbal medicine, Fucaceae
Common fumitoryFumaria officinalis, , herbal medicine, E297, fumaric acid, food acid, antioxidant], Fumariaceae
Furcraea longaeva, supposed to remain vegetative for hundreds of years then flowers then dies, Asparagaceae
Funtumia elastica, funtumia, Lagos silk rubber, low yielding rubber tree, Apocynaceae