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Lepidoptera Database
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Description
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Interesting notes:
Anything that doesn’t
come under another
heading.
References (note any
sources)
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Animalia
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Lepidoptera
(geographic and landscape)
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Predator Database
Common Name(s)
Scientific classification
Photographs
Description
Migration
Reproduction
Male/Female
Host plant(s)
Regions found
Metamorphosis
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Interesting notes:
(anything that doesn’t
come under another
heading.)
References (sources)
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Parasite Database
Common Name(s)
Scientific classification
Photographs
Description
Migration
Reproduction
Male/Female
Host plant(s)
Regions found
Metamorphosis
Threats
Interesting notes:
(anything that doesn’t
come under another
heading.)
References (sources)
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Host Plant Database – will only do non-natives, but link to natives in www.nzpcn.org.nz
Common Name(s)
Scientific classification
Host Plant for
Photographs
Distribution
Habitat
Features:
Flowering:
Fruiting:
To collect seed:
Propagation Technique:
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Where to buy:
Information from:
Tropical Milkweed, Silky Scarlet, Bloodflower
Kingdom
Plantae
Division
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Gentianales
Family
Asclepiadaceae
Subfamily
Asclepiadoideae
Genus
Asclepias
Species
A. curassavica
Varieties
‘Silky Red’ (bloodflower) and ‘Silky Gold’
Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
(links)
A species of evergreen perennial plant native from tropical America and
now naturalised in many parts of the world. It is grown as an ornamental
garden plant and a cut flower, and as a source of food for Monarch
caterpillars.
Plants grow up to 1 metre tall with pale grey stems. The plants have a
milky sap which is poisonous.
The leaves are arranged oppositely on the stems and are lanceolate or
oblong-lanceolate, ending in acuminate or acute tips.
The flowers are in cymes, each with 10-20 flowers. They have red to
purple corollas, and the lobes of the corona are yellow-orange – or in
the case of ‘Silky Gold’ the corollas are also bright yellow.
The fruits are 5-10cm long, fusiform-shaped (or cigar-shaped). These
are called ‘follicles’, and each one contains many tan-brown seeds ovate
in shape and 6-7mm long.
Plants can flower nearly all year round. The flat seeds have silky hairs
which allow them to float on air currents when the pod-like follicles
split open.
www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200018502
www.floridat.com/ref/A/asci_cur.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_curassavica
Nectar Plant Database
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Scientific classification
Host Plant for
Photographs
Description
Cultivation
Collecting seed
Sources
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Order
Family
Subfamily
Genus
Species
(links)
Plantae