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Panda (plant)
Encyclopedia
Panda is a genus
of plant
of the family
Pandaceae
. Chimpanzee
s are observed to hammer on the nut
s of Panda oleosa, which are particularly hard to open.
The genus includes Porphyranthus Engl.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of plant
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Pandaceae
Pandaceae
The family Pandaceae consists of three genera that were formerly recognized in the Euphorbiaceae. Those are:*Galearia...
. Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
s are observed to hammer on the nut
Nut (fruit)
A nut is a hard-shelled fruit of some plants having an indehiscent seed. While a wide variety of dried seeds and fruits are called nuts in English, only a certain number of them are considered by biologists to be true nuts...
s of Panda oleosa, which are particularly hard to open.
The genus includes Porphyranthus Engl.