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Launaea remotiflora (lilac tasselflower)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Launaea remotiflora

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Buenavista Wetland Reserve 778949 Cuba    
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Pico Mogote Ecological Reserve II 3698 Cuba  
Santa Rosa National Park II 95780 Costa Rica
Tuabaquey - Limones Ecological Reserve II 4859 Cuba  

Predators

Dysmicoccus brevipes (pineapple mealybug)[3]
Insignorthezia insignis (croton bug)[3]
Planococcus minor (Pacific mealybug)[3]
Protortonia navesi[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0