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8 legs and 1 sting
leggy shrub 4 to 5 feet tall; spiny fruit ripening to red
Found this at the Botanical Gardens @ Zilker Park in Austin, TX.
De esta planta se obtiene el aceite de ricino. También se usa ornamentalmente
Photo take near home on ajungle path this are common plants in this area they ...
Mostly I find it on my dogs ... or on myself
The leaves of some varieties are green practically from the start, whereas in ...
Large bush with deeply lobed leaves and green seed pods on a tall spike that ...
Large colorful leaves with small coral colored flowers and green round growth.
It is the one that can spread Lyme borreliose to people by biting and sucking ...
Colourful with an almost-banded pattern of blue and yellow. Red head. Bristly.
Pumped up with it's host's blood and satisfied. This year ('11) there are ...
Flowers occur most of the year in dense terminal clusters (inflorescences), ...
Plants of these species around the area are usually taller than 2 meters but ...
reddish-purple) capsule containing large, oval, shiny,
. There is a subspecies, S. cynthia ricini in India that feeds upon the leaves ...
his two front legs. I'm thinking male Ixodes ricinus, the
In common with other species of Ixodes, I. ricinus has no eyes and is not ...