AUCUBA japonica 'Picturata'. Aucuba japonica 'Picturata' (formerly 'Aureo-maculata') - Picturata Gold Dust Plant, Japanese Aucuba. 1  Much like Aucuba japonica 'Variegata' in growth habit and culture, except leaves are centered with yellow and dark green edges are spotted with yellow.2  All plants of this variety are female.UCUBA japonica 'Picturata'. Aucuba japonica 'Picturata' (formerly 'Aureo-maculata') - Picturata Gold Dust Plant, Japanese Aucuba. 1  Much like Aucuba japonica 'Variegata' in growth habit and culture, except leaves are centered with yellow and dark green edges are spotted with yellow.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The vertebrate brain is the main part of the central nervous system. In vertebrates (and most other animals) the brain is at the front, in the head. It is protected by the skull and close to the main senses of vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell.
Vertebrates /ËvÉrtÉ¨brÉts/ comprise any species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata /-ÉË/ (chordates with backbones). Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, with currently about 64,000 species described.he central nervous system of vertebrates is based on a hollow nerve cord running along the length of the animal. Of particular importance and unique to vertebrates is the presence of neural crest cells. These are progenitors of stem cells, and critical to coordinating the functions of cellular components.