NATURAL SCIENCE:

HERBARIUM

1st of ESO – Virolai school

Mercè Casasa, Carlota Casals and Mireia Carbajal

1.

It has taken in the garden of Virolai school, in the 28th of May (2013)

Description:

LEAVES: The shape of the blade is lanceolate and the margin is entire. The veins are feather-shaped. With petiole and without stipules. Their

colour is green.

PLANT: It’s a tree. The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three. It has flower (they flower in June)

Nerium oleander

Spanish name: adelfa

Catalan name: baladre

2.

It has taken in the garden of Virolai school, in the 28th of May (2013)

Description:

LEAVES: The shape of the blade is spatulate and the margin is entire. The veins are feather-shaped. With petiole and without stipules.

PLANT: It’s a bush. It has flowers but not in May. The leafs are disposed forming groups of six or seven leaves.

Pittosporum tobira

Spanish name: pitosporo

Catalan name: pitospor

3.

It has taken in the garden of Virolai school, in the 28th of May (2013)

Description:

LEAVES: The shape of the blade is lanceolate, with the margin entire. The veins are feather-shaped. With petiole, without stipules.

PLANT: It’s a tree. It has flowers and fruits. The leaves are opposite.

Olea europaea

Spanish name: olivo

Catalan name: olivera

4.

It has taken in the garden of Virolai school, in the 28th of May (2013)

Description:

LEAVES: The blade is heart-shaped and the margin is serrate. The veins are hand-shaped, with petiole but without stipules.

PLANT: It’s a tree. The leaves are whorled. It has fruits.

Morus alba

Spanish name: morera

Catalan name: morera

5.

It has taken in the garden of Virolai school, in the 28th of May (2013)

Description:

LEAVES: The shape of the blade is linear (with the margin entire). The veins are in parallel. With neither petiole nor stipules.

PLANT: It’s a bush. It has flower and fruit. Their leaves prick.

chamaerops humilis

Spanish name: palmito

Catalan name: margalló

6.

It has taken in the garden of Virolai school, in the 28th of May (2013)

Description:

LEAVES: The shape of the blade is deltoid, with the margin lobate. The veins are hand-shaped. With petiole, without stipules.

PLANT: It’s a bush. It has flower but I don’t know if they have fruit.

geranium

Spanish name: geranio

Catalan name: gerani

7.

It has taken in the garden of Virolai school, in the 28th of May (2013)

Description:

LEAVES: The shape of the blade is needle, with the margin entire. The veins are parallels. With neither petiole nor stipules.

PLANT: It’s a bush. Their leaves prick. It has flower and fruits, but we eat the stem (asparagus).

Asparagus officinalis

Spanish name: esparraguera

Catalan name: esparraguera