Zauschneria

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Zau`schne´ri`a


n. 1. (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Notes on the organization of a Neotropical high-altitude hummingbird flower community.
The community of hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae) and the assemblage of flowers in a caatinga vegetation/A comunidade de beija-flores (Aves: Trochilidae) e a assembleia de flores em uma area de caatinga
Special healing plants include Arnica Montana, Creosote bush, Cat's Claw, Aloe Vera, Elderberry, Century Plant/Maguey, Eucalyptus leaves, Mullein flowers, Mexican Thistle, Linden tea, whole Cloves, Porter's Lovage, Rue, Aztec Marigold and Hummingbird Flowers. Each remedy is prescribed for a specific complaint, and the preparation and treatment are also explained.
My Tata's Remedies / Los remedios de mi tata
However, can bees contribute substantially to maternal fitness (e.g., seed production) by any of these archetypal hummingbird flowers?
Generalist bees pollinate red-flowered Penstemon eatonii: duality in the hummingbird pollination syndrome
Foraging ability of rufous hummingbirds on hummingbird flowers and hawkmoth flowers.
Mechanisms of hummingbird-mediated selection for flower width in Ipomopsis aggregata
Hummingbird flowers have nectar sugar types and concentrations different from bee-pollinated ones; it would be interesting to compare this in Castilleja species to see if the reward is of intermediate type.
Some Acanthaceae pollinated by hummingbirds with strongly curved beaks exhibit strongly curved long-tubed flowers which probably evolved from straight-tubed hummingbird flowers (McDade, 1992).
Classic hummingbird flowers have mostly red, odorless, trumpet-shaped blossoms that limit competition from insects.
Aviaries listed here are planted with hummingbird flowers you can grow in your garden; the birds breed in both places, so you might see nests.

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