Adoxa
Adoxa moschatellina (five-faces) is the sole member o the genus Adoxa.
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Dipsacales |
| Faimily: | Adoxaceae |
| Genus: | Adoxa |
| Species: | A. moschatellina |
| Binomial name | |
| Adoxa moschatellina | |
It grows throughoot Europe, Asie, an North Americae, in hedgerows, cuil forests, at law altitudes in the far north, tae heich altitudes in muntains in the sooth o its range. The plant an its flouers hae a musk-lik scent, which it emits taewards evening when the dew falls. If the plant is bruised this scent disappears. In Europe, it flouers in Aprile an Mey.
The names "five-faced bishop" an "tounhaw clock" allude tae the structur o its inflorescence. This consists o five flouers: ane fower-petalled flouer facin upwards, an fower five-petalled flouers facin horizontally, as seen in the picturs.
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