Called “Bougainvillea family” in GBIF
Nyctaginaceae, the four o'clock family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. The family has a distinctive fruit type called an accessory fruit or anthocarp, and many genera have extremely large pollen grains.
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Mirabilis jalapa
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Mirabilis longiflora
1 articleAlso here, with one plant each: Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea), Pisonia (Pisonia).
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Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this family, newest first.
A citizen scientist spotted the sweet four o'clock, a wildflower with long white trumpet-shaped blooms, growing at 5,100 feet in the Dragoon Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona. Sightings like this help track where native desert and mountain plants actually live.
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When conservation teams replant tropical island forests, they often fail because they forget to bring the fungi — this...