devil in the bush

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Nigella damascena (Devil In The Bush) is a species of annual herb in the family Ranunculaceae. They are associated with freshwater habitat. They have capsule fruit. Flowers are visited by Dock Bug, drone fly, Trichodes leucopsideus, and Danaus plexippus plexippus.

• URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0980071
• Definition: Of plant duration, a plant whose life span ends within one year after germination, e.g. a winter annual germinating in the autumn and flowering in the spring (esp. in Mediterranean climates), approximately synonymous to therophyte, c.f. biennial, ephemeral, perennial, c.f. also of flowering with respect to architecture, hapaxanthic, monocarpic, pleonanthic.
• Attribution: <Stevens, P. F. %282001 onwards%29. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary, http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossarya%5Fh.html#annual>

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• URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0030091
• Definition: a fruit which develops from a gynoecium and at maturity comprises a dry exocarp, dry mesocarp, and dry endocarp that usually dehisce

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