Leaf in Lucite Block Collection Set (11 pieces)

  -- BK2 size block: 7 Pieces Set

  -- DD1 size block: 4 pieces

Real Maple Leaf (Mono Maple - Acer mono) &  Chinese Creepingfern- Odontosoria chinensis & Rose Leaf (Rugosa Rose - Rosa rugosa) & Asiatic Pennywort - Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes & Chinese Red Pine - Pinus massoniana & Golden Bamboo - Phyllostachys aurea &  Snowbellleaf Tickclover Herb - Desmodii Styracifolii & Ginkgo - Ginkgo biloba &  Indonesian Cinnamon - Cinnamomum burmannii & Purple Orchid - Bauhinia purpurea &  Oriental Arborvitae –Platycladus orientalis leaf specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimens are crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real leaves right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the leaves from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Size of each BK2 block is 73x40x21 mm (2.9x1.6x0.8 inch).

Weight of each block is 75 gram.

Size of each DD1 block is 75x75x21 mm (3.0x3.0x0.8 inch).

Weight of each block is 140 gram.

These are handmade real specimen crafts. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body.

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Mono Maple - Acer mono

Order: Sapindales Family: Aceraceae Genus: Acer Species: Acer mono

Handsome ,medium-sized Maple from Japan & China forming a shrubby, round-headed tree with unusual 5 or 7 lobed bright green leaves which turn luminous yellow in autumn.  On mature trees, clusters of yellow flowers appear in spring as the first leaves unfurl.  As with most Maples, can be pruned to any size  and would be happy in a container.

Easy to grow from seed (although germination can take up to a year)and fully hardy when mature. Will need frost protection for the first couple of winters.

• Hardy Tree
• Flowers: April/May
• Height: to 9m if not pruned
• Position: Sun or semi-shade

Acer mono (Mono maple, Painted maple) is a bushy fully hardy perennial deciduous tree. It grows well in semi-shade and direct sun, and prefers medium levels of water. It has low drought tolerance.

Soil

Acer mono grows in soils ranging from a pH of 5.5 (very acidic ranges from 5.2 to 5.5) to 7 (neutral ranges from 6.6 to 7.5).

Growth

This is a tree has a fast rate of growth has an ultimate height of 12m / 39.4ft and spread of 12m / 39.4ft.

Leaves

They are palmate in shape.

Uses

Architectural, attractive foliage, low maintenance and waterside.

Bark

Acer mono has green bark with a rough texture.

Progagation

Propagation techniques include cuttings, grafting and seed.

Chinese Creepingfern- Odontosoria chinensis

Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Division Pteridophyta – Ferns Class Filicopsida Order Polypodiales Family Dennstaedtiaceae – Bracken Fern family Genus Odontosoria Fée – creepingfern Species Odontosoria chinensis (L.) J. Sm. – Chinese creepingfern

The Chinese creepingfern (Odontosoria chinensis) is generally described as a Perennial Forb or herb.

Description
The hairless fronds of the fern are glossy light green on burnt-orange stalks and are finely divided (divided 3 times). They can grow from 2 to 5 feet tall and clumps can reach several feet in diameter. Spores are formed at the tips of the smallest segments.

Habitat and Geographic Range
Odontosoria chinensis  is indigenous to Hawai'i, other parts of Polynesia, and east Asia. It is commonly found in forest openings and other disturbed areas such as along trails or roads, or on landslides when there is adequate moisture. This fern grows from sea level to an elevation of at least 4,000 feet.

Propagation by Cuttings
Sphenomeris chinensis is most easily propagated from rhizome cuttings. Cuttings should have a minimum of 3 or 4 mature fronds and some new growth.

Propagation by Division
Sphenomeris chinensis clumps can be easily dug up and divided. Divisions should not be smaller than 4 to 6 inches in diameter.

Asiatic Pennywort - Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes

Common name : Asiatic Pennywort

Scientific name : Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes

Family : Carrot or Hemlock Family (Umbelliferae)

Description : This creeping plant is smaller than the Indian Pennywort.
Leaves are kidney-shaped or round, and have lobed margins.
Flowers are small and are packed in little heads (much modified umbels). An umbel has all its flowers which have stalks, emerging from a single point. Petals are absent. Sepals are white or yellow.
Fruits are small and flattened.

Habitat : This creeper is common in damp places.

Pennywort leaves has the tendency to improve memory power. Since the leave resembles the right and left hemisphere of the brains, it is regarded as god creation and gift to human kind.

This is a small, annual, slender, creeping herb. It has long-stalked, green reniform leaves with rounded apices that have smooth texture with palmately netted veins. The stems are creeping in nature, green to reddish green in colour, interconnecting one plant to another. The flowers are pinkish to red in colour, born in small, rounded bunches near the surface of the soil. Each flower is partly enclosed in 2 green bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size (less than 3 mm), with 5-6 corolla lobes per flower. Each flower bears 5 stamens and 2 styles. Pennywort's rootstock consists of rhizomes, growing vertically down. They are creamish in colour and covered with root hairs. Fruits are small and flattened.
Medicinal Uses : It has been used for wound healing, better circulation, memory enhancement, cancer, vitality, general tonic, respiratory ailments, detoxifying the body, treatment of skin disorders (such as psoriasis and eczema), revitalizing connective tissue, burns and scars treatment, clearing up skin infections, slimming and edema, arthritis, rheumatism, treatment of liver and kidneys, periodontal disease, strengthening of veins (varicose veins), blood purifier, high blood pressure, sedative, anti-stress, anti-anxiety, an aphrodisiac, immune booster, anabolic and adaptogen etc.

Rugosa Rose - Rosa rugosa

Order: Rosales     Family: Rosaceae     Genus: Rosa     Species: R. rugosa

Rosa rugosa (rugosa rose, Japanese rose, or Ramanas rose) is a species of rose native to eastern Asia, in northeastern China, Japan, Korea and southeastern Siberia, where it grows on the coast, often on sand dunes.

It is a suckering shrub which develops new plants from the roots and forms dense thickets 1–1.50 m tall with stems densely covered in numerous short, straight prickles 3–10 mm long. The leaves are 8–15 cm long, pinnate with 5–9 leaflets, most often 7, each leaflet 3–4 cm long, with a distinctly corrugated (rugose, hence the species' name) surface. The flowers are pleasantly scented, dark pink to white, 6–9 cm across, with somewhat wrinkled petals; flowering occurs in spring.

The hips are large, 2–3 cm diameter, and often shorter than their diameter, not elongated; in late summer and early autumn the plants often bear fruit and flowers at the same time. The leaves typically turn bright yellow before falling in autumn.

Rugosa rose is widely used as an ornamental plant. It has been introduced to numerous areas of Europe and North America. It has many common names, several of which refer to the fruit's resemblance to a tomato, including beach tomato or sea tomato; saltspray rose, beach rose, and beach plum (not to be confused with the beach plum) are others.

The sweetly scented flowers are used to make pot-pourri in Japan and China, where it has been cultivated for about a thousand years.

This species hybridises readily with many other roses, and is valued by rose breeders for its considerable resistance to the diseases rose rust and rose black spot. It is also extremely tolerant of seaside salt spray and storms, commonly being the first shrub in from the coast. It is widely used in landscaping, being relatively tough and trouble-free. Needing little maintenance, it is suitable for planting in large numbers; its salt-tolerance makes it useful for planting beside roads which need deicing with salt regularly.

Numerous cultivars have been selected for garden use, with flower colour varying from white to dark red-purple, and with semi-double to double flowers where some or all of the stamens are replaced by extra petals. Popular examples include 'Fru Dagmar Hastrup' (pink, single), 'Pink Grootendorst' (pink, semi-double), 'Blanc Double de Coubert' (white, double) and the more common 'Roseraie de L’Haÿ' (pink, double), which is often used for its very successful rootstock and its ornamental rose hips.

Chinese Red Pine - Pinus massoniana

Order: Pinales   Family: Pinaceae   Genus: Pinus   Subgenus: Pinus   Species: P. massoniana

Pinus massoniana (English: Masson's Pine, Chinese Red Pine, Horsetail Pine) is a species of pine, native to a wide area of central and southern China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and northern Vietnam, growing at low to moderate altitudes, mostly below 1,500 m but rarely up to 2,000 m altitude.

It is an evergreen tree reaching 25-45 m in height, with a broad, rounded crown of long branches. The bark is thick, greyish-brown, and scaly plated at the base of the trunk, and orange-red, thin, and flaking higher on the trunk. The leaves are needle-like, dark green, with two per fascicle, 12-20 cm long and 0.8-1 mm wide, the persistent fascicle sheath 1.5-2 cm long. The cones are ovoid, 4-7 cm long, chestnut-brown, opening when mature in late winter to 4-6 cm broad. The seeds are winged, 4-6 mm long with a 10-15 mm wing. Pollination is in mid spring, with the cones maturing 18–20 months after.

The Pinewood Nematode from North America and Pine-needle Scale Insect from Taiwan, have together virtually eliminated the native Pinus massoniana in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 80s.

The species is a common trees in plantation forestry for replacing or compensating of the loss of the natural forest in southern China. Chinese rosin is obtained mainly from the turpentine of this Pine (Pinus massoniana) and Slash Pine (P. elliottii).

Logs are mainly used to make pulp for paper industry.

Leaves are used to give special smoke flavor to a local black tea, such as Lapsang souchong of Fujian province.

Golden Bamboo - Phyllostachys aurea

Order: Poales    Family: Poaceae   Subf amily: Bambusoideae    Supertribe: Bambusodae    Tribe: Bambuseae

Subtribe: Shibataeinae   Genus: Phyllostachys    Species: P. aurea

Phyllostachys aurea, Golden bamboo, is a bamboo species in the genus Phyllostachys native to China. It is a 'running bamboo' type.

Phyllostachys aurea is cultivated as an ornamental plant for gardens. It is the most commonly cultivated bamboo in the United States, where it can grow very aggressively in the warm climates of the southeastern U.S. and California.

This bamboo is great for making bamboo pipes.

This bamboo can be difficult to identify as it has varied growth characteristics depending on location. In full shade the culms are apt to remain green. In partial or full sun the culms slowly turn yellow over the first year or two, then deeper gold and orange as they mature. The best way to identify this species is the compressed internodes that occur on random culms, usually (but not always) at the base. These compressed internode growths are called 'tortoise shell'. The leaves tend to grow all the way to the ground on this species, and the type form leaves are green and lack any stripes or streaks. They can grow short, dense and shrubby in poor conditions, or tall and upright. In ideal conditions they can grow to 30 feet tall and 3 inches in diameter. They can be rampant runners and grow aggressively if left unchecked in gardens. Golden bamboo is listed as an invasive plant species in several states.

Snowbellleaf Tickclover Herb - Desmodii Styracifolii

The whole plant of Desmodium styracifolium (Osbeck) Merr., family Leguminosae.

Characteristics
A herb. Stem diffuse, covered by yellow hair. Leaflets 1-3 in number, nearly rounded with retuse apex, lateral veins pinnate and regular, dorsal surface covered by white down. Raceme terminal and axillary. Corolla papillionaceous, small and purple. Legume with 3-6 wavy nodes on one side, covered by hooked hairs. Sweet and bland in taste and slightly cold in nature.

Purple Orchid - Bauhinia purpurea

A native species also found in S. China and S.E.Asia. The tree is of medium size with alternate large heart shaped leaves with 2 lobes and veins (9-11) radiating from the base of the leaf. The margin is entire and the surfaces smooth and hairless. Size ranges from 8 - 15 cm in diameter, petiole to 4cm long.

Flowering, from October to December. Flowers pink to nearly white, corolla of 5 narrow petals , stamens 3 or 4. Ovary superior.

Fruit, dark pod to 30cm long, 2cm wide containing 12 to 16 seeds 15mm in diameter 1 - 2mm thick. Seed forms very rapidly and trees in flower may already show numerous green pods. While most pods will open in the drier winter weather some may persist through to the next flowering season.

Common name(s): [more details]

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Small tree to 4 m tall; petioles 2.5-3.5 cm long; leaf blades 4.5-11 cm long, 4.5-10 cm wide; inflorescence paniculate; flowers numerous, the buds clavate, ca 2 cm long prior to anthesis; petals very slender, the banner purple-striate, ca 7 mm wide, fertile stamens 3, the anthers ca 6 mm long, versatile"  (Welsh, 1998; p. 139).

 "A shrub or small tree 5-7 m high, commonly cultivated near sea level, or possibly sparingly naturalized along roadsides.  Its fragrant flowers, with three fertile stamens, have pale purple petals paler at base; its fruits may be as large as 30 x 2.5 cm"  (Smith, 1985; p. 121).

"A medium-sized...tree.  Leaves shallow-cordate and 9- or 11-nerved at base, the lobes rounded or obtuse to subacute.  Inflorescence a few-flowered corymb.  Flowers purple or at least purple-marked; calyx split into 2 valves with 5 teeth; petals oblanceolate, long-clawed; fertile stamens 3 or 4.  Pods 15-30 cm long, up to 2.5 cm wide, 12- 15-seeded"  (Walker, 1976; p. 543).

Key to some Bauhinia species:

Fertile stamen 1; staminodes 5, small; petals long-clawed, 4-5.5 x 2-3 cm, white to pink, with red blotches or dots, the uppermost one splotched with deeper red, yellow or yellow-margined; leaf blades ovate-oblong, 7-20 cm long and broad, cordate to rounded at base, pubescent beneath when young, lobed about 1/5-1/2 their length, the lobes obtuse to subacuminate. B. monandra.

Fertile stamens 3-10.

Petals crimson to deep red, yellow-dotted without, 2.5-4 cm long, the claw nearly as long as the lamina; fertile stamens 3; leaf blades crescent-shaped, 2-5 cm long and broad, cordate to rounded at base, shallowly lobed to about 1/3 their length, the lobes rounded. B. galpinii.

Petals white or yellow to purple, not clawed or with a claw much shorter than the lamina.

Fertile stamens 10; corolla campanulate, the petals yellow, 1-3 of them sometimes purple-blotched within, 2.5-5.5 cm long, overlapping at margins; leaf blades variable but subcircular, up to 10 x 11 cm long and broad, sometimes pilose beneath, truncate to subcordate at base, usually lobed to about 1/3 their length, the lobes rounded. B. tomentosa.

Fertile stamens 3 or 5.

Flower buds 4- or 5-angled or -winged; petals pale purple, shading to pinkish proximally, oblanceolate, 3-6 cm long, not more than 2 cm broad; fertile stamens 3; staminodes 7; leaf blades elliptic to suborbicular, 6-19 cm long and broad, rounded to cordate at base, lobed 1/2-1/4 their length, the lobes rounded to acute. B. purpurea.

Flower buds not angled or winged; petals pale purple or rose or white or yellow, obovate 4-6 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, the uppermost one broader; fertile stamens 5; staminodes 5, about half as long as stamens; leaf blades broadly ovate to suborbicular, 5-14 cm long and broad, cordate to truncate at base, lobed about 1/3 their length or less, the lobes rounded. B. variegata.

From: Smith, A. C. 1985. Flora Vitiensis nova: A new flora of Fiji. Lawai, Kauai, Hawai‘i. National Tropical Botanical Garden. Vol. 3, p 119.

Habitat/ecology:  Occurs at lower elevations in its native habitat.  In Fiji, "commonly cultivated near sea level, or possibly sparingly naturalized along roadsides" (Smith, 1985; p. 121). In New Caledonia, "cultivé, et assez commun en fourrés secondaires sur la côte Ouest" (MacKee, 1994; p. 72).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  "Southeastern Asia, now widely cultivated throughout the tropics" 

Oriental Arborvitae Leafytwigs  (Cacumen Platycladus)

Oriental Arborvitae –Platycladus orientalis

Class: Pinopsida  Order: Pinales   Family: Cupressaceae   Genus: Platycladus   Species: P. orientalis

Platycladus is a distinct genus of evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Platycladus orientalis, also known as Chinese Arborvitae or Biota. It is endemic to Northwestern China. It is also now naturalised as an introduced species elsewhere in Asia: eastward to Korea and Japan; southward to northern India; and westward to northern Iran.

Although generally accepted as only member of its genus, it has been suggested that the closely related species Microbiota decussata could be included in Platycladus, but this is not widely followed. Other fairly close relatives are the genera Juniperus and Cupressus, both of these genera being graft-compatible with Platycladus. In older texts, Platycladus was often included in Thuja, but it is only distantly related to that genus. Differences from Thuja include its distinct cones, wingless seeds, and its almost scentless foliage.

It is a small, slow-growing tree, to 15-20 m tall and 0.5 m trunk diameter (exceptionally to 30 m tall and 2 m diameter in very old trees). The foliage forms in flat sprays with scale-like leaves 2-4 mm long. The cones are 15-25 mm long, green ripening brown in about 8 months from pollination, and have 6-12 thick scales arranged in opposite pairs. The seeds are 4-6 mm long, with no wing.

The common name 'arborvitae' is from Latin, 'tree of life', and is based on its association with long life and vitality in Buddhist thought in China. This is probably based on the tree's unchanging evergreen nature in the cold dry climate of northwest China, and its longevity; some of the larger specimens planted around Buddhist temples in China are said to be in excess of 1,000 years old.

It is very widely used as an ornamental tree, both in its homeland, where it is associated with long life and vitality, and very widely elsewhere in temperate climates. Several cultivars have been selected, of which 'Aurea nana' and 'Elegantissima' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The wood is used in Buddhist temples, both for construction work, and chipped, for incense burning.

Ginkgo - Ginkgo biloba

Division: Ginkgophyta Class: Ginkgoopsida Order: Ginkgoales Family: Ginkgoaceae Genus: Ginkgo

Ginkgo, also spelled gingko and known as the Maidenhair Tree, is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives. The tree is widely cultivated and introduced, since an early period in human history, and has various uses as a food and traditional medicine.

Indonesian Cinnamon - Cinnamomum burmannii

Order: Laurales   Family: Lauraceae  Genus: Cinnamomum

Cinnamomum burmannii (or Cinnamomum burmanni), also known as Indonesian cinnamon, Indonesian cassia, Padang cassia, Batavia cassia, or korintje, is one of several plants in the genus Cinnamomum whose bark is sold as the spice cinnamon. The most common and cheapest type of cinnamon in the US is made from powdered C. burmannii. C. burmannii oil contains no eugenol, but higher amounts of coumarin than C. cassia and Ceylon cinnamon with 2.1 g/kg in an authenticated sample, and a mean of 5.0 g/kg in 8 samples tested. It is also sold as quills of one layer.

Cinnamomum burmannii is an evergreen tree growing up to 7 m in height with aromatic bark and smooth, angular branches. The leaves are glossy green, oval, and about 10 cm (3.9 in) long and 3–4 cm (1.2–1.6 in) wide. Small yellow flowers bloom in early summer, and produce a dark drupe.

Cinnamomum burmanii is native to Southeast Asia and Indonesia. It is normally found in West Sumatra and western Jambi province, with the Kerinci region being especially known as the center of production of quality, high essential-oil crops. C. burmanii grows in wet, tropical climates, and is an introduced species in parts of the subtropical world, particularly in Hawaiʻi, where it is naturalized and invasive.[4][5] It was introduced to Hawaiʻi from Asia in 1934 as a crop plant.