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apocynaceae's Usage Examples:

The non-articulate tissue which occurs in Euphorbiaceae, Apocynaceae, Urticaceae, Asclepiadaceae, consists of long tubes, equivalent to single multinucleate cells, which ramify in all directions throughout the plant.

The union is usually most complete at the base; but in Labiatae the styles are united throughout their length, and in Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae the stigmas only.

When the flower expands, the traces of twisting often disappear, but sometimes, as in Apocynaceae, they remain.

This arrangement is characteristic of the flower-buds of Malvaceae and Apocynaceae, and it is also seen in Convolvulaceae and Caryophyllaceae.

Of the Apocynaceae the rubber plants are the most important.

Forsteronia gracilis of Guiana is a climbing plant which also belongs to the Apocynaceae.

African (Ire or Irai or Lagos) rubber tree, which belongs to the Apocynaceae, a natural order which includes the Landolphia vines as well as other rubber producers.

The trees and plants whose latices furnish caoutchouc in considerable quantity chiefly belong to the natural orders Euphorbiaceae, Urticaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae.

apocynaceae's Meaning':

chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs