List of articles in "Species" category - Page 1516

Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy) is a perennial flowering plant native to the Caucasus northeastern Turkey and northern Iran.Oriental poppies throw up a mound of finely cut hairy foliage in spring. […]

The spotted cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus) is a kind of cleaner shrimp common to the Caribbean Sea. These shrimp live among the tentacles of several species of sea anemones. They […]

Cyathea is a genus of tree ferns the type genus of the fern order Cyatheales. They are mostly terrestrial ferns usually with a single tall stem. Rarely the trunk may […]

Stenopus hispidus is a shrimp-like decapod crustacean belonging to the infraorder Stenopodidea. Common names include banded coral shrimp and banded cleaner shrimp.

Torreya nucifera is a slow-growing coniferous tree native to southern Japan and to South Korea’s Jeju Island. It is also called kaya (榧) or Japanese nutmeg-yew.

The bamboo orchid (Arundina graminifolia; syn. Arundina bambusifolia Lindl. Arundina speciosa Blume Bletia graminifolia D.Don) is a species of orchid and the sole of the genus Arundina. This tropical Asiatic […]

See bird’s-nest fern for other plants with this common name.Asplenium nidus is an epiphytic species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae native to tropical southeastern Asia eastern Australia Hawaii[citation needed] […]

Funaria is a genus of approximately 200 species of moss. Funaria hygrometrica is the most common species. Funaria hygrometrica is called “cord moss” because of the twisted seta which is […]

Psilotaceae is a family of fern-like plants (in order Psilotales) consisting of two genera Psilotum and Tmesipteris. The two genera are very different and in the past Tmesipteris has been […]

Ouija Board (foaled 2001) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse (named after the ouija board spiritualism device) owned by Edward Stanley 19th Earl of Derby and trained by Ed Dunlop. In […]