Encelia farinosa


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Noun1.Encelia farinosa - fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
brittle bush, brittlebush, incienso
wild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plant
Encelia, genus Encelia - genus of shrubs of southwestern United States and Mexico: brittlebush
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In a nod to high-desert style, the brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) on the far left keeps its dried seed heads for sculptural structure.
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Physiological differentiation within an Encelia farinosa population along a short topographic gradient in the Sonoran Desert.
Overland water flow contributes little to survival, growth, reproduction, and ecophysiology of Olneya tesota (desert ironwood) trees
Photosynthetic characteristics of sun versus shade plants of Encelia farinosa as affected by photosynthetic photon flux density, intercellular C[O.sub.2] concentration, leaf water potential, and leaf temperature.
Evidence of higher photosynthetic plasticity in the early successional Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. compared to the late successional Hymenaea courbaril L. grown in contrasting light environments/Evidencias de maior plasticidade fotossintetica na pioneira Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. comparada a secundaria Hymenaea courbaril L. crescidas em ambientes luminosos contrastantes
In much of the area, a mixed shrub plant community prevails, including species like the foothills palo verde (Cercidium microphjyllum), triangle-leaf bursage, and bush (Encelia farinosa).
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Sus valores de PST son relativamente altos al ser comparados con las especies Encelia farinosa y E.
Water relations, photosynthesis, and leaf anatomy in two species of Calotropis genus/Relaciones hidricas, fotosintesis, y anatomia foliar de dos especies del genero Calotropis/Relacoes hidricas, fotossintese, e anatomia foliar de duas especies do genero Calotropis

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