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  • Although limestone forest has little commercially valuable timber, herbs such as Balsaminaceae, Begoniaceae, and Gesneriaceae (which are well represented in this ecoregion) have horticultural potential.

    Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

  • There are 29 other orders, each with 2 genera, and these 58 genera have on an average 15.07 species: this great number being owing to the 10 genera in the Smilaceae, Salicaceae (with 220 species), Begoniaceae, Balsaminaceae, Grossulariaceae, without which the remaining 48 genera have on an average only 5.91 species.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Balsaminaceae family, only a handful are readily available commercially.

    Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories 2009

  • Impatiens are in the Balsaminaceae or touch-me-not family, and familiar members are the garden balsam that your mother and grandmother grew in their gardens and the hybrid bedding impatiens. seeds are viable for only one spring and require light (so cannot be covered with soil) and

    unknown title 2009

  • Balsaminaceae) whose fruits explosively dehisce and squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium, Cucurbitaceae) that discharge their seeds in a mucilaginous stream of liquid.

    Seed dispersal Wikipedia 2009

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