Collection Set of 4 different Laminated Leaf Specimen

Real leaf of Asiatic Pennywort - Hydrocotyle sibthorpiodes, Paper Mulberry - Broussonetia papyrifera, Chinese Tallow - Triadica sebifera and Spanish Needle - Bidens pilosa specimens laminated in square plastic sheet. The specimens are clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe,authentic and completely unbreakable specimen put the leaves right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the leaves from both sides.

Size of the lamination sheet is 75x75 mm (3x3 inch).

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. 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 the 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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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.

Paper Mulberry - Broussonetia papyrifera

Order: Rosales Family: Moraceae Tribe: Moreae Genus: Broussonetia Species: B. papyrifera

The Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera, syn. Morus papyrifera L.) is a tree in the family Moraceae, native to eastern Asia. Other names include Dak, Halibun, Kalivon, Kozo, and Tapacloth tree.

It is a deciduous tree growing to 15 metres (49 ft) tall. The leaves are variable in shape (even on the same branch), unlobed ovate cordate to deeply lobed, with lobed leaves more frequent on fast-growing young plants; they are 7–20 centimetres (2.8–7.9 in) long, with a rough surface above, fuzzy-downy below and a finely serrated margin. The male (staminate) flowers are produced in an oblong inflorescence, and the female (pistillate) flowers in a globular inflorescence. In summer, the pistillate flower matures into a red to orange, sweet, juicy fruit 3–4 centimetres (1.2–1.6 in) diameter, which is an important food for wild animals. The fruit is edible and very sweet, but too fragile to be commercialised.

The bark is composed of very strong fibres, and can be used for making high-quality paper. (See: Japanese tissue, Japanese paper and Hanji.) The tender leaves and twigs can be used to feed deer, and the tree is sometimes nicknamed the "Deer's Tree".

The paper mulberry tree was brought to the Pacific during the Polynesian migrations, and its bark is widely used to make tapa cloth.

Chinese Tallow - Triadica sebifera

Triadica sebifera, also known as Sapium sebiferum, is commonly known as the Chinese tallow tree, Florida aspen, chicken tree, gray popcorn tree, and candleberry tree. The tree is native to eastern Asia, and is most commonly associated with eastern China, Taiwan, and Japan. In these regions, the waxy coating of the seeds is used for candle and soap making, and the leaves are used as herbal medicine to treat boils. The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species of plant. The specific epithets sebifera and sebiferum mean "wax-bearing" and refer to the vegetable tallow that coats the seeds.

It is useful in the production of biodiesel because it is the third most productive vegetable oil producing crop in the world, after algae and oil palm. This species is considered to be a noxious invader in parts of the southern U.S.

The simple, deciduous leaves of this tree are alternate, broad rhombic to ovate in shape and have smooth edges, heart shaped and sometimes with an extended tail often resembling the bo tree, Ficus religiosa. The leaves are bright green in color and slightly paler underneath. They become bright yellows, oranges, purples and reds in the autumn. The tree is monoecious, producing male and female flowers on the same plant.

The waxy green leaves set off the clusters of greenish-yellow and white flowers at bloom time. The flowers occur in terminal spike-like inflorescences up to 20 cm long. Light green in color, these flowers are very conspicuous in the spring. Each pistillate (female) flower is solitary and has a three-lobed ovary, three styles, and no petals. They are located on short branches at the base of the spike. The staminate (male) flowers occur in clusters at the upper nodes of the inflorescence.

Fruits are three-lobed, three-valved capsules. As the capsules mature, their color changes from green to a brown-black. The capsule walls fall away and release three globose seeds with a white, tallow-containing covering. Seeds usually hang on the plants for several weeks. In North America, the flowers typically mature from April to June and the fruit ripens from September to October.

The seed's white waxy aril is used in soap making. The seed's inner oil is toxic but has industrial applications.

The nectar is non-toxic, and it has become a major honey plant for beekeepers. The honey is of high quality, and is produced copiously during the month of June, on the Gulf Coast. In the Gulf coast states, beekeepers migrate with their honey bees to good tallow locations near the sea.

The tree is highly ornamental, fast growing and a good shade tree. It is especially noteworthy if grown in areas that have strong seasonal temperature ranges with the leaves becoming a multitude of colours rivaling maples in the autumn.

Spanish Needle - Bidens pilosa

Kingdom Plantae – Plants

Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants

Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants

Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants

Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons

Subclass Asteridae

Order Asterales

Family Asteraceae – Aster family

Genus Bidens L. – beggarticks

Species Bidens pilosa L. – hairy beggarticks

 
Bidens pilosa is a cosmopolitan weed, originating from South America and common in all tropical and subtropical areas of the world. It often becomes dominant after the eradication of perennial grasses, and displays allelopathic effects on a number of crops.

It is an annual that grows up to 1 meter in height. This plant is considered a weed in some tropical habitats. However, in some parts of the world it is a source of food or medicine. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, the tender shoots and young leaves are used fresh or dried as a leaf vegetable, particularly in times of scarcity.

This plant sprouts individual flowers which are small and yellow and which usually contain 4 to 5 white petals. The seeds are black and contain 4-5 black burrs which cling to livestock and humans.

In traditional Chinese medicine, this plant is considered a medicinal herb, called xian feng cao. Roots, leaves and seed have been reported to possess antibacterial, antidysenteric, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antimalarial, diuretic, hepato-protective and hypotensive activities. Spanish needles are been used in traditional medicine systems for infections of all kinds: from such upper respiratory tract infections as colds and flu to urinary tract infections and venereal diseases-and even infected wounds on the skin. Research has begun to confirm these uses in several in vitro microbial studies.