Matthiola is a genus of flowering plant in the mustard family Brassicaceae. It is named after Italian naturalist Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501–1577). The genus contains about 50 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants and subshrubs. Many are cultivated for their heavily scented, colorful flowers.
Osmanthus fragrans, variously known as sweet osmanthus, sweet olive, tea olive, and fragrant olive, is a species native to Asia from the Himalayas through the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan in Mainland China, Taiwan, southern Japan and Southeast Asia as far south as Cambodia and Thailand.
The Myristicaceae are a family of flowering plants native to Africa, Asia, Pacific islands, and the Americas and has been recognized by most taxonomists. It is sometimes called the "nutmeg family", after its most famous member, Myristica fragrans, the source of the spices nutmeg and mace. The best known genera are Myristica in Asia and Virola in the Neotropics.
Matthiola longipetala, known as night-scented stock or evening stock, is a species of ornamental plant.
Matthiola incana is a species of flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. Common names include Brompton stock, common stock, hoary stock, ten-week stock, and gilly-flower. The common name stock usually refers to this species, though it may also be applied to the whole genus Matthiola. The common name "night-scented stock" or "evening-scented stock" is applied to Matthiola longipetala.
Dracaena fragrans, is a flowering plant species that is native throughout tropical Africa, from Sudan south to Mozambique, west to Côte d'Ivoire and southwest to Angola, growing in upland regions at 600–2,250 m (1,970–7,380 ft) altitude. It is also known as striped dracaena, compact dracaena, and corn plant.
Primula fragrans, synonym Dodecatheon redolens, has the common name scented shooting star. It is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family.
Myristica fragrans is an evergreen tree indigenous to the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It is important as the main source of the spices nutmeg and mace. It is widely grown across the tropics including Guangdong and Yunnan in China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Grenada in the Caribbean, Kerala in India, Sri Lanka and South America.
Leucoanthocyanidin (flavan-3,4-diols) are colorless chemical compounds related to anthocyanidins and anthocyanins. Leucoanthocyanins can be found in Anadenanthera peregrina and in several species of Nepenthes including N. burbidgeae, N. muluensis, N. rajah, N. tentaculata, and N. × alisaputrana.
Matthiola maderensis is a flowering plant species of the family Brassicaceae. It is endemic to the Madeira Archipelago.
Callisia fragrans, is a plant species of the genus Callisia, in the family Commelinaceae.
Kalmiopsis fragrans is a rare species of flowering plant in the heath family known by the common name North Umpqua kalmiopsis. It is endemic to Oregon in the United States, where there are just a few known populations, all within Douglas County.
Dvorichanskyi National Park is a national park in Ukraine, on the right bank of the Oskil river, in Eastern Ukraine. It was created in 2009, as a result of a presidential decree. The park is located in Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, near the Russian border. It covers 3,131 hectares of state-owned land.
The Veydelevka steppe is an area of remnant steppe vegetation in Veydelevsky District, Belgorod Oblast in Russia. Together with a small tract of adjacent forest, it forms part of the Gniloye conservation area.
Matthiola sinuata, commonly known as sea stock, is a coastal plant in the family Brassicaceae.
Margaret Campbell Mann Lesley (1891-1988) was an American cytologist and geneticist who specialized in plant breeding cytogenetics. Her primary work focused on cytological analyses of tomatoes and citrus. She was an active research assistant to Howard B. Frost (1881-1969), an Associate Plant Breeder at the Citrus Experiment Station, and to James W. Lesley (1888-1982), her husband, whom she extensively collaborated and conducted research on tomato breeding.
Matthiola tricuspidata, the three-horned stock, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the shores of the Mediterranean. A halophyte, it is found in coastal stable dune grassland and coastal dune scrub, but not on shifting coastal dunes.
Matthiola parviflora, the smallflower stock, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Israel and Jordan. It has been discovered invading the Sonoran Desert, beginning around Tucson, Arizona.
Matthiola fruticulosa, the sad stock or dark-flowered stock, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean region. It is adapted to clay and marl soil types.
Matthiola lunata is a species of plant in the family Brassicaceae.
