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encelia

Yellow daisy-like flowers, mild painkiller, used for toothaches, arthritic pain, mild analgesic. Common desert shrub with brittle stems. (sometimes called Brittlebush). up to 3 ft (1m). Yellow brown resin collected from the base of the plant can be heated and used as glue. A different, more fragrant, gummy sort of clear yellow resin is collected from the upper stems, used as chewing gum or to seal pottery vessels. Smells similar to frankenscense. Branch can be used as a toothbrush by peeling off the bitter bark, no need for toothpaste. Leaves triangular, simple, alternate; silvery, gray or whitish.

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Otras especies frecuentes fueron los arbustos Dalea carthagenensis y Encelia canescens, ademas del cacto Melocactus peruvianus.

Vegetation characterization along an altitudinal gradient in the Cochahuayco community, middle basin of the Lurin River, Lima/Caracterizacion de la vegetacion a lo largo de una gradiente altitudinal en la Comunidad de Cochahuayco, cuenca media del rio Lurin, Lima

Variation in leaf carbon isotope discrimination in Encelia farinose: Implications for growth, competition and drought survival.

Gas exchange and leaf ultrastructure of tinnevelly senna, Cassia angustifolia, under drought and nitrogen stress

Likewise, Ehleringer (1984) found for the shrub Encelia farinosa that the leaf water potential of plants from which neighbors had been removed was significantly and appreciably higher than in the leaves of control plants three months after the last rain.

IMPACTS OF ROOT COMPETITION IN FORESTS AND WOODLANDS: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTS

There are clumps of the yellow-flowered Encelia farinosa (Asteraceae), with specimens of the spiny ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens, see also photos 57 and 145) and the extremely prickly teddy bear cholla (Opuntia bigelovii), easily recognized by its abundant bright cream spines that embed themselves in passing animals.

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Photosynthetic responses to slowly decreasing leaf water potentials in Encelia frutescens.

Photosynthetic acclimation to temperature and drought in the endemic chelan rockmat, Petrophytum cinerascens (Rosaceae)

Abunda Cordia lutea, Encelia canescens y Capparis avicenniifolia.

Evaluacion de cambios en la cobertura y uso de la tierra con imagenes de satelite en Piura - Peru

arborea shrubs grows along a hillside with other coastal sage scrub species (e.g., Artemisia californica, Eriogonum fasciculatum, and Encelia californica).

The effect of floral herbivory on male and female reproductive success in Isomeris arborea

Relative importance values of plants associated with antelope jackrabbit sign and observations in the Central Gulf Coast subdivision of Sonoran Desertscrub (xeric microphyll shrub) were: brittlebush Encelia farinosa (55.3%), creosote L.

Ecology of the antelope jackrabbit (Lepus alleni)

Uroleucon ambrosiae (Thomas, 1878) Essig (1953): Macrosiphum ambrosiae Chrysanthemum sp.: Essig (1953); Encelia sp.: Essig (1953); Gerbera jamesonii: Essig (1953); Nicotiana sp.: Essig (1953); Picris sp.?: Essig (1953).

Inventario de las asociaciones afido-planta en el Peru

Both sites consist of coastal sage scrub with the Motte Reserve dominated by California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), brittle bush (Encelia farinosa), and black sage (Salvia mellifera).

Preferential Burrow entrance placement in the Dulzura kangaroo rat, Dipodomys simulans

hookeri 'Cream Delight' with a cream- and green-striped agave and brittle-bush (Encelia farinosa).

Fall planting

Photosynthesis in Encelia farinosa Gray in response to decreasing water potential.