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  Oxalis - LoveToKnow 1911
OXALIS, in botany, a large genus of small herbaceous plants, comprising, with a few small allied genera, the natural order Oxalidaceae.
The leaves, as in the other species of the genus, show a "sleep-movement," becoming pendulous at night.
Oxalis crenata, Oca of the South Americans, is a tuberous-rooted half-hardy perennial, native of Peru.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Oxalis   (393 words)

  
 Royal Horticultural Society - Advice: Oxalis Control
Many oxalis are valuable ornamental plants with their clover-like foliage and pink or yellow flowers, but a few can become serious weeds in the garden.
Oxalis corniculata is a yellow-flowered species which often grows as an annual, regenerating each year from seed.
Oxalis debilis: Forking out is best done in the spring when the tiny developing bulbils are firmly attached to the parent plant.
www.rhs.org.uk /advice/profiles1005/oxaliscontrol.asp   (338 words)

  
 Oxalis - Clover Lookalike Bulb - Bulb Gardening
When I began doing research on the Oxalis bulb, I knew it as the yellow "sour grass" that is pretty, but a pest that grows in my lawn and garden, and as a potted plant that can be found in stores, usually during the winter, to brighten up your windowsill.
Violet Wood Sorrel (Oxalis violacea) is native to the eastern two-thirds of Kansas and is also known as violet oxalis or sheep sorrel.
Oxalis 'Regnelli' is the popular species that is sold as potted shamrocks in March.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art21706.asp   (523 words)

  
 Oxalis deppei - Plants For A Future
Hi, I used to munch on oxalis as a child, and I have some odd health symptoms now that seem to be associated with calcium and oxalate consumption.
It's a problem here in the CA SF Bay area; right now my back yard (and much of the whole town) is covered with a pretty carpet of shamrocks with yellow flowers, but soon they will die back leaving nothing but bare dirt blowing around the house all summer and fall.
Oxalis deppei is fairly easy to obtain in Britain, usualy under the name of "Iron Cross Plant".
www.pfaf.org /leaflets/oxalis.php   (1192 words)

  
  PBSWiki - South African Oxalis
Oxalis ambigua is described as having 3 hairy leaflets and white, yellow, or cream flowers with a yellow tube and blooming in winter.
Oxalis compressa is found in the Northwest to Southwest Cape and has more than one flower in the peduncle (2-6), trifoliate leaves and compressed leaf stalks and is often confused with Oxalis pes-caprae.
Oxalis flava is a South African species-complex found on sandy flats from Namaqualand southwards to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to Riverdale.
www.pacificbulbsociety.org /pbswiki/index.php/SouthAfricanOxalis   (955 words)

  
 Oxalis
Members of the genus Oxalis, with their delicate, brightly coloured flowers, clover-like leaves and corolla lobes twisted in the bud, are mainly native to southern Africa and South America.
Oxalis, established by Linnaeus in 1753, is characterized by stemless (acaulescent) or stemmed (caulescent) herbs or subshrubs with corms.
Oxalis is also characterized by obovate (inversely ovate), broadly obovate or suborbicular (almost with a ± circular outline), clawed corolla lobes.
www.plantzafrica.com /plantnop/oxalis.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Wild Plants of Malta & Gozo - Plant: Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda Buttercup)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Oxalis is the largest genus in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae.
In former times, oxalis acetosella was used in the Black Forest to produce out of a weight of 75 kg leaves and amount of 500 g oxalic acid for technical purposes.
The underground movement of Oxalis pes-caprae L. is a combination of shoot elongation and root contraction.
www.marz-kreations.com /WildPlants/OXIL/Oxalis_pescarpes.html   (3720 words)

  
 Oxalis A-F
Oxalis is an enormous genus, with the majority coming from South America and South Africa.
7007 Oxalis annae ----- 3 for $ 6.00
7085 Oxalis ecklonii var sonterii ---- 5 for $ 6.00 / 10 for $ 10.00
www.telosrarebulbs.com /OxalisA.html   (480 words)

  
 PLANTS Profile for Oxalis incarnata (crimson woodsorrel) | USDA PLANTS
Oxalis incarnata L. View 2 genera in Oxalidaceae, 38 species in Oxalis
Oxalis incarnata L. Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.
Oxalis incarnata L. This plant is introduced to the United States from another country or countries.
plants.usda.gov /java/profile?symbol=OXIN   (141 words)

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