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Textor’s touch-me-not

Impatiens textorii

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25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Korea.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 2, May 3, June 1, July 11, August 47, September 128, October 36, November 5, December 0.
South Korea233
Japan223
Tokyo70
South Chungcheong63
Gangwon52
Nagano48
Gyeonggi43
Kanagawa18
South Gyeongsang18
North Gyeongsang13

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderHeathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Familybalsam family · Balsaminaceae
Genusbalsams · Impatiens

Sources

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Practise Textor’s touch-me-not with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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