Talk:Viola langsdorffii

Viola Langsdorfii, better known as the African Violet, is found in Alaska and Western parts of America. Its habitats are bogs, fens, moist places, talus, scree, at low to high elevation and near ponds and aquatics.

Description: Basal cluster of heart-shaped leaves, white to light-green stem, with a single violet flower. The two upper petals are shorter than the two white-bearded side petals. The lower petal has a small yellow patch at the base and the three lowest petals have purple veins. It grows from under 15-30 cm, bloom colour is purple and bloom time is late Spring/early Summer.

Kingdom: The Viola Langsdorfii is part of the Kingdom Plantae. Kingdom Plantae contains nearly 300,000 different kinds of plants, although, this does not make it the largest kingdom, many say it is the most important. The body type is multicellular, with cell walls made of cellulose. Have Eukaryotic cells, which can be easily distinguished through a membrane bound nucleus. Food consumption is through photosynthesis. Reproductive organs are both sexual and asexual. Are autotrophs because they are capable of synthesising its own food from inorganic substances.

Phylum: The Viola Langsdorfii phylum is Magnoliophyta (flowering plants). Magnoliophyta, division of the plant kingdom, consisting of the organisms called the angiosperms or better known as flowering plants. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, roots and vascular tissue. This group is the most diverse, ecologically dominant and economically important of all the living plant phyla. The flowering plants are traditionally divided into two groups: Class Magnoliopsida and Class Liliopsida.

Class: The Viola Langsdorfii class is Magnoliopsida (dicots). Plants of this class usually have two seed leaves, of cotyledon, and cambium tissue on the stems. Much the larger of the two classes of flowering plants, dicots are divided into many families.

Order: The Viola Langsdorfii order is Violales. Violales is an order of flowering plants and takes its name from the included family Violaceae. The name has been used through several systems, although some systems used the name Parietals for similar groupings. In the 1981 version of the influential croquets system, order Violales was placed in subclass Dillenidae with circumscription consisting of the families listed below. The angiosperm phylogeny group does not recognise Order Violales; Violaceae is placed in Order Malpighiales and the other families are reassigned to various order as indicated.

Family: Viola Langsdorfii family is Violaceae. Violaceae, the violet family, includes about 900 species of plant. Species in this family occur in all parts of the world but are mostly in temperate zones, and at high altitude in the tropics. The largest group in the family is the genus containing Violets and pansies, with about 500 species.

Genus: The Viola Langsdorfii genus is Viola. The genus Viola is one of 22 genera in the family Violaceae, which contains over 900 species.

Species: Langsdorfii is an evergreen tree that grows 6-12 m tall and 1 m in diameter. Leaves are 5-10 cm long. The Viola Langsdorfii grown violets on it as well.

The Viola Langsdorfii is very uncommon, but is native to America. Its life cycle is Perennial.