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Chamaeleon
Chamaeleon Cass. is a small Asteraceae genus of spiny carline-thistle-like plants published by Cassini in 1827, native from the Mediterranean to Pakistan, with five accepted species including C. gummifer; some authorities merge it into Carlina.
Chamaenerion angustifolium
Chamaenerion angustifolium, fireweed or rosebay willowherb (syn. Epilobium angustifolium, Chamerion angustifolium), a perennial Onagraceae herb of the temperate Northern Hemisphere that colonizes burned ground, produces about 80,000 wind-dispersed seeds yearly, and is used in traditional herbal medicine.
Chamaerops humilis
Chamaerops humilis, European fan palm or Mediterranean dwarf palm, the sole species of the palm genus Chamaerops; a clustering fan palm native to the western and central Mediterranean, IUCN Least Concern.
Chamomile
Chamomile, chiefly German chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla) and Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile), is a medicinal herb used in teas and extracts since antiquity; evidence is strongest but still preliminary for generalized anxiety disorder, and it is likely safe in tea amounts.
Chandelier Tree
Chandelier Tree, or Chandelier Drive-Thru Tree, is a coast redwood in Leggett, California, with a 1937 tunnel cut through its base; one of three remaining drive-through redwoods, family-owned in Underwood Park since 1922.
Char kway teow
Char kway teow (炒粿条) is a stir-fried flat rice noodle street dish of Singapore and Malaysia, especially Penang, made with cockles, prawns, egg, and lard, flavored by dark soy sauce and wok hei.
Char magaz
Char magaz (चार मगज) is a blend of watermelon, melon, cucumber, and pumpkin seed kernels used in Indian and Pakistani cuisines, especially Rajasthani and Mughlai gravies like korma.
Charas
Charas, also known as gardaa, is the resin of the cannabis plant, collected as it exudes naturally and historically produced, sold, and taxed across northern South Asia.
Cheirolepidiaceae
Cheirolepidiaceae, an extinct worldwide conifer family of the Triassic to latest Cretaceous or early Paleocene, diagnosed by Classopollis pollen, with Frenelopsis and Pseudofrenelopsis foliage and sister-to-crown-group conifer affinities.
Chelidonium
Chelidonium (greater celandine, bai qu cai 白屈菜) is a Papaveraceae genus of five species, best known for Chelidonium majus, an alkaloid-rich medicinal herb whose oral use carries documented idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity risk.
Chelidonium majus
Chelidonium majus (greater celandine, Bai Qu Cai), a Papaveraceae perennial of Europe to West Siberia, contains 94 isoquinoline alkaloids with antimicrobial and antitumor activity but documented hepatotoxicity and negative oral benefit-risk.
Chelone
Chelone (turtlehead) is a genus of six perennial wetland herbs in Plantaginaceae, native from southeastern Canada to the eastern and central United States, with two-lipped white to purple flowers pollinated by bumblebees.
Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album, called fat hen or common lamb's-quarters, is an annual Eurasian herb eaten as a leaf vegetable and ranked among North America's worst crop weeds.
Cherimoya
Cherimoya (Annona cherimola), also called custard apple, is an Annonaceae fruit tree from tropical America with sweet creamy syncarp fruit; grown mainly in Spain, Peru, and Chile, hand-pollinated, with toxic annonacin-bearing seeds.
Chervil
Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium), also called French parsley, is an annual Apiaceae herb native from eastern Central Europe to Iran, grown for delicate parsley-anise leaves used fresh in French fines herbes; drying or heat destroys its flavor.
Chestnut
Chestnut, genus Castanea: nut trees of Asia, Europe, and North America. Covers the four main species, nutrition, cultivation, the 1904 chestnut blight that killed 3-4 billion American chestnuts, and restoration breeding.
Chia seed
Chia seed, the edible seed of Salvia hispanica, a Mesoamerican mint-family crop rich in omega-3 ALA, fiber, and calcium; mucilage-forming functional food with mixed clinical-trial evidence for cardiometabolic benefits.
Chicory
Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.), a perennial Asteraceae herb native to Europe to Central Asia, cultivated since about 300 BC; its inulin-rich root (40–60%) is used as a coffee substitute, prebiotic fiber source, and traditional digestive remedy.
Chigua
Chigua: a cycad genus named by Dennis W. Stevenson in 1990 (type Chigua restrepoi) and synonymized with Zamia by Lindstrom in 2009; also the indigenous-derived epithet of the fern-like species Zamia chigua Seem. (1854) from Colombia's Chocó.
Chili pepper
Chili pepper (Capsicum): American-native Solanaceae fruit whose capsaicin activates TRPV1, causing pungency. Domesticated in Mexico ~6,000 years ago; five domesticated species; capsaicin is an approved topical pain treatment.
China rose
China rose: common name for the tropical hibiscus Hibiscus (×) rosa-sinensis (Chinese hibiscus, shoeblack plant), a Malvaceae cultigen unknown in the wild, and also for Rosa chinensis, the repeat-flowering Chinese rose ancestor of hybrid tea roses.
Chinese bamboo weaving
Chinese bamboo weaving (竹编, zhú biān) is a traditional Chinese craft that splits bamboo into fine strips and weaves them into baskets, mats, furniture, and decorative objects, added to China's intangible cultural heritage list in 2008.
Chinmay Saha
Chinmay Saha is an Indian plant–microbe researcher at HHMI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for bacterial colonization of plants and rice nitrogen nutrition.
Chives
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) are a bulbous perennial Amaryllidaceae herb of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, grown for mild onion-flavored tubular leaves, with purple spring flowers and isoalliin-dominated flavor chemistry.
Chloris gayana
Chloris gayana, Rhodes grass, is a stoloniferous C4 perennial forage grass native to Africa, Macaronesia and Arabia, cultivated worldwide for pasture and hay, valued for drought and salt tolerance and erosion control.
Chlorophytum comosum
Chlorophytum comosum, the spider plant (also ribbon plant, spider ivy), is an African Asparagaceae perennial houseplant known for arching leaves and plantlets on hanging flower stems, with cultivars like 'Variegatum' and studied indoor air phytoremediation.
Chondrilla
Chondrilla is a genus of about 25-31 Asteraceae herbs native from the Canary Islands and North Africa to Mongolia and the Himalaya; its species C. juncea, rush skeletonweed, is a major apomictic invasive weed controlled biologically in Australia.
Chondrilla juncea
Chondrilla juncea, rush skeletonweed or skeleton weed, is an apomictic perennial Asteraceae native from Europe to Central Asia and an invasive wheat and rangeland weed in Australia and North America, spreading by seed and root buds.
Choristoneura fumiferana
Choristoneura fumiferana, the spruce budworm, is a tortricid moth whose larvae defoliate balsam fir and spruce in North American boreal forests, causing recurring outbreaks at roughly 35-year intervals that can exceed 50 million hectares.
Christia
Christia (island pea; 蝙蝠草属) is a Fabaceae genus of herbs established by Moench in 1802, native from tropical Asia to northern Australia, with about 11 species including the ornamental butterfly-leaf C. vespertilionis.