Golden Guinea
by Lisa Wooten
Title
Golden Guinea
Artist
Lisa Wooten
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Photograph - Photographs
Description
Featured: Global Flowers Photography 10/6/2017
Hibbertia scandens (also known as snake vine, climbing Guinea flower or golden Guinea vine) is a vine which is native to Australia.
The yellow flowers have been reported as having an unpleasant odour[1] variously described as similar to mothballs[2] or animal urine[3] or sweet but with "a pronounced faecel element".[3] The leaves are elliptic or obovate and average 6 cm in length.
The species was first formally described in 1799 by German botanist Carl Willdenow who gave it the name Dillenia scandens. The specific epithet scandens is derived from Latin, and means "to climb". In 1805, Swedish botanist Jonas Dryander transferred the species into the genus Hibbertia.
Hibbertia scandens occurs in an area that extends from south-eastern New South Wales upwards to north-east Queensland.
Hibbertia scandens appeared on an Australian postage stamp in 1999.
This species is commonly cultivated, and adapts to a wide range of growing conditions. Although it readily grows in semi-shaded areas, it flowers best in full sun.
The flowering plants (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae[5][6] or Magnoliophyta,[7] are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approx. 13,164 known genera and a total of c. 295,383 known species.[8] Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants; they are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within the seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. Etymologically, angiosperm means a plant that produces seeds within an enclosure, in other words, a fruiting plant. The term "angiosperm" comes from the Greek composite word (angeion, "case" or "casing", and sperma, "seed") meaning "enclosed seeds", after the enclosed condition of the seeds.
The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from gymnosperms in the Triassic Period, during the range 245 to 202 million years ago (mya), and the first flowering plants are known from 160 mya. They diversified extensively during the Lower Cretaceous, became widespread by 120 mya, and replaced conifers as the dominant trees from 100 to 60 mya.
Angiosperms differ from other seed plants in several ways, described in the table. These distinguishing characteristics taken together have made the angiosperms the most diverse and numerous land plants and the most commercially important group to humans. Wikipedia
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