What is acanthaceae?
Acanthaceae is a family of plants, which is also called the Acanthus family. This group consists of flowering plants. Most of them are tropical or subtropical, although some are mild. The group is well known to the gardeners; Many family species are popular garden plants. As a result of these long -term arguments, literature on this topic often applies to the core or narrow and wide versions of the family. The first is limited to members who are widely accepted by the scientific community, while the latter includes some other plants closely related to the main plants, but scientists have traditionally placed in various families. One example of a member of Broad Acanthaceae, who is excluded from the narrow version, is the black mangrove, which is sometimes placed in the family itself and sometimes considered part of the family that includes Verbena.
Members of the Acanthaceae family have several unified characteristics. Everyone flower and carrying fruit. Inside the fruit, the seeds are held by structures called retinacula that look like aso hooks. When the fruit ripens, it bursts and spreads the seeds around the parent plant. Their flowers have petals connected together and two or four sticks.
Perhaps the best characteristic of this family is its diversity. It has more than 4,000 species and are divided into more than 200 genera. In addition to their distinctive fruit, they have different differences. Their pollen grains have different shapes and textures. They grow in forms of shrubs, trees, shrubs and typical garden flowers. Their leaves can be green or colored and often have live flowers.
Most species that form the Acanthaceae Gřádek family in tropical climate, but sometimes they are also in mild zones. For example, Bear's pants are common garden plants that grow in a slight climate. A plant known as the tail of squirrels or shrimp often occurs in gardens in Hawaii. Both are part of the family.
Members of the Acanthaceae family areoften decoratively grown. This is the case of African violets, for example, along with Bear's pants and a shrimp plant. The mint plant is also part of the family and is used to create a mint in the diet.