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Hercules'-club, common name for several small, thorny trees, chiefly the devil's-walking-stick of the family Aralaceae (ginseng ginseng (jĭn`sĕng), common name for the Araliaceae, a family of tropical herbs, shrubs, and trees that are often prickly and ..... Click the link for more information. family) and the prickly ash of the family Rutaceae (orange orange, name for a tree of the family Rutaceae ( rue , or orange, family), native to China and Indochina, and for its fruit, the most important fresh fruit of international commerce. ..... Click the link for more information. family). The families are classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta (măg'nōlēŏf`ətə) ..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, orders Apiales and Sapindales, respectively. |
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For example, the sand live oak and Texas Hercules-club "champions" were actually just regular varieties of live oak and Hercules-club. The "champions" of the pondcypress, cockspur hawthorn, and Texas hercules-club were found unfit to rule based on their true identities as a regular variety common baldcypress, a green hawthorn, and a non-Texas hercules-club, respectively. |
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