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Teff (ጤፍ)
Teff (ጤፍ; Eragrostis tef), also tef or Williams lovegrass, is a tiny-seeded Ethiopian highland cereal and injera staple, gluten-free, allotetraploid, with Eragrostis pilosa as wild progenitor.
Telfairia
Telfairia Hook. is a genus of three accepted Cucurbitaceae climbing vines native to tropical Africa, Comoros, and Madagascar; its best-known species is the fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis), a West African leafy vegetable and oilseed crop.
Telfairia occidentalis
Telfairia occidentalis, commonly called fluted pumpkin, fluted gourd, or ugu, is a dioecious climbing vine of the gourd family grown in West Africa for its edible leaves and seeds.
Telmatoblechnum
Telmatoblechnum is a genus of two swamp ferns in Blechnaceae, subfamily Stenochlaenoideae, split from Blechnum in 2014 by Perrie et al. Species: T. indicum (Asia to SW Pacific) and T. serrulatum (tropical and subtropical America).
Telopea speciosissima
Telopea speciosissima, the New South Wales waratah, is a Proteaceae shrub native to eastern NSW with red flower heads; NSW floral emblem since 1962, IUCN Least Concern, grown as a cut flower.
Temperate coniferous forest
Temperate coniferous forest: a mid-latitude, often montane forest biome dominated by evergreen conifers such as pines, spruces, and firs, with 300 to 900 mm annual precipitation (up to 2,000 mm), cold snowy winters, and dominance on cold, infertile, or fire-prone sites.
Temperate rainforest
Temperate rainforest: rare cool, moist coastal forest biome (under 1% of land, 2.5% of forest cover) formed where mountains trap ocean moisture; found in the Pacific Northwest, Chile, New Zealand, and Australia; world's most carbon-dense forests.
Tender and indoor fern cultivation
Tender and indoor fern cultivation covers growing tropical ferns such as Boston ferns and maidenhairs in homes and glasshouses, where humidity around 40–50% matters most, with ferns second only among foliage plants in US sales.
Tephrosia
Tephrosia (hoarypea) is a conserved genus of about 350-400 pantropical legumes in Fabaceae, tribe Millettieae, richest in Africa-Madagascar; many species produce rotenone and are used as fish poisons, green manure, and medicine.
Terminalia
Terminalia L. is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs in Combretaceae, first published in 1767, with roughly 200-278 accepted species. Known for Terminalia-type branching, winged fruits, valuable timber, and medicinal species such as T. chebula and T. catappa.
Terminalia arjuna
Terminalia arjuna (arjuna, arjun tree), a Combretaceae tree native to the Indian subcontinent to Myanmar; its bark is an Ayurvedic cardiotonic studied in heart failure and angina trials.
Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa (tropical almond, Indian almond, ketapang) is a coastal Combretaceae tree native to the Indo-Pacific, grown for shade and edible seeds, with buoyant salt-tolerant seeds that make it invasive in Florida and the Caribbean.
Terminalia chebula
Terminalia chebula (haritaki, chebulic myrobalan), Combretaceae tree of South Asia; dried fruit Chebulae Fructus used in Ayurveda, TCM, and Triphala; rich in hydrolyzable tannins like chebulagic acid.
Terminalia ivorensis
Terminalia ivorensis (framire, idigbo, black afara) is a Vulnerable West African Combretaceae timber tree from Guinea to Cameroon, grown in plantations for oak-like wood, shade, medicine, and dye.
Terminalia superba
Terminalia superba (limba, fraké) is a large West and Central African Combretaceae timber tree, a light-demanding pioneer traded as one of Africa's major timbers and used in traditional medicine.
Terrarium
Terrarium: a sealed or partly sealed glass container growing plants as a miniature ecosystem, also called a Wardian case after inventor Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1829); recycles water, needs watering only every 3-6 months.
Tetraclinis articulata
Tetraclinis articulata, the sandarac tree, also known as the arar tree or Barbary thuja, is the sole species of its conifer genus, a Mediterranean evergreen that is the source of sandarac resin.
Tetradium ruticarpum
Tetradium ruticarpum (吳茱萸, Wu Zhu Yu, evodia; formerly Euodia ruticarpa) is a Rutaceae tree of the Himalaya to China and Taiwan whose dried fruit is a traditional East Asian medicine for headache and gastrointestinal disorders.
Tetraxylopteris
Tetraxylopteris is an extinct genus of Devonian progymnosperm that combined fern-like sporing reproduction with wood-producing anatomy, established by Charles Beck in 1957 from New York.
Teucrium
Teucrium (germander), Lamiaceae genus published by Linnaeus in 1753; about 250–300 species, cosmopolitan with Mediterranean center of diversity, 1-lipped corolla, neo-clerodane diterpenoids, paraphyletic without Teucridium, Spartothamnella, Oncinocalyx.
Teucrium chamaedrys
Teucrium chamaedrys (wall germander), Lamiaceae subshrub native to Europe to Iran, used in folk medicine and as a slimming remedy; its diterpenoid teucrin A causes documented hepatitis.
Teucrium polium
Teucrium polium (mountain germander), Lamiaceae medicinal plant of the Mediterranean and Middle East, used for diabetes and lipids; documented cause of hepatitis, liver failure, and kidney toxicity.
Teucrium scorodonia
Teucrium scorodonia, known as wood sage or woodland germander, is a perennial subshrub in the mint family native to Europe, Madeira, and Tunisia, despite not being a true sage.
Thai basil
Thai basil (Ocimum basilicum var. thyrsiflora; Thai horapha, Vietnamese hung que) is an anise-flavored Southeast Asian basil with purple stems, heat-stable leaves, and estragole-dominated aroma, used in pho, curries, and stir-fries.
Thalictrum
Thalictrum, meadow-rue, is a genus of about 200–217 perennial Ranunculaceae herbs with petal-less flowers, worldwide mainly temperate distribution, repeated wind-pollination evolution, and medicinal benzylisoquinoline alkaloids.
Thapsia
Thapsia (deadly carrots) is a western Mediterranean Apiaceae genus of toxic perennial herbs; Thapsia garganica yields thapsigargin, a subnanomolar SERCA inhibitor used in calcium signaling research and prodrug anticancer development.
The Fern Bulletin
The Fern Bulletin, also known as The Linnaean Fern Bulletin, was an American quarterly periodical on ferns edited by Willard Nelson Clute from 1892 to 1912.
The Great Banyan
The Great Banyan, a 270-year-old Ficus benghalensis in the AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, near Kolkata, lives without its main trunk (removed 1925) and spreads a roughly 4-acre canopy on over 4,000 prop roots.
The moss garden
Moss garden: a landscape where mosses form the main ground cover, from Japanese koke-dera tradition and Kyoto's Saiho-ji to botanic gardens in Berlin and Tartu; shade, dampness, rootless water uptake, and decades-long mat formation distinguish it.
The national herbarium
The National Herbarium of Ethiopia (ETH), founded 1959 by H. F. Mooney at Addis Ababa University, holds about 100,000 specimens and anchored the Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea project.