• Common name : Water Lettuce • Scientific name : Pistiastratiotes • Family : Araceae • Native land : Lake Victoria in Africa Water lettuce is a free-floating, frost-tender aquatic perennial. It produces rosettes of wedge-shaped, overlapping, fluted, velvety, soft green leaves. The leaves are covered with waterrepellant hair. The plant resembles the small open […]
• Common name : Fishbone Water Fern, Forest Fern • Scientific name : Blechnumnudum • Family : Blechnaceae • Native land : Australia Fishbone water fern is a terrestrial, tufted fern of wet habitats. Blechnum species are commonly referred to as water ferns, as they are usually found in wet areas, growing in a variety
• Common name : Cook’s Cabbage, New Zealand Spinach • Scientific name : Tetragoniatetragonioides • Family : Aizoaceae • Native land : New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Chile and Argentina It is a tender annual. The stems and the leaves of this spreading herb are covered with small, glistening, liquidfilled blisters. It is a sprawling plant
• Common name : Heart’s Ease Johnny Jump Up • Scientific name : Viola tricolor • Family : Violaceae • Native land : Temperate Northern Hemisphere Most violas are small perennial plants, but a few are annual plants and some are small shrubs. The flower, variable in colour, but not red, usually grows singly on
• Common name : Boston Ivy, Grape Ivy • Scientific name : Parthenocissustricuspidata • Family : Vitaceae Native land : China, Japan Boston ivy is a rapid-growing, deciduous, woody perennial vine. It is a vigorous tendril climber that needs no support. It clings to surfaces (e.g., brick, stone or wood walls) by adhesive holdfasts (also
Indian Pipe, also known as the Ghost Plant or Corpse Plant, is native to Russia, Asia, North America and South America. It is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Sometimes it has black flecks and a pale pink colouration. It is parasitic. Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in
• Common name : Turnip • Scientific name : Brassica rapa subsp. rapa • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : Europe It is a biennial that is grown as an annual. The plant can be harvested when mature or young. It can be cooked or eaten raw, and the young tops can be used
• Common name : Tulip ‘Barcelona’ • Scientific name : Tulipa • Family : Liliaceae • Native land : Eurasia from Austria and Italy eastward to Japan It is a bulbous herb. The plants are generally found in a hilly country with extremely cold winters and hot dry summers. The stems are sturdy, making them
Nepenthes Rajah is found in Mount Kinabalu and Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. It is a carnivorous plant that grows in areas of seeping ground water where the soil is permanently moist. Nepenthes Rajah is the largest pitcher and the largest carnivorous plant in the world. It is a trap filled with water and
The Gympie-Gympie is one of the four species of stinging tree in Australia. It is common in rainforest areas. It is best known for stinging hair that covers the whole plant. The hair causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for long. Fruits are juicy, mulberry-like, and are bright pink to purple. Each
Dorstenia Gigas is a succulent plant found on the island of Socotra in Yemen. It is hung on top of the rocky cliffs of the island. It has disappeared from other parts of the island because it was consumed by goats. It can reach 1.20 mewers in diameter for 4 metres in height. Dorstenia Gigas
Pando is also known as the Trembling Giant. It is a clonal colony of a single aspen trees spread over more than a 100 acres in Utah. Pando is among the largest and oldest organisms on the Earth. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kilograms; it is the heaviest known organism. The root
‘Smog’ is the mixture of smoke and fog. It forms in areas that are highly polluted. It is a mixture of industrial gases emitted into the air, dust particles and water vapours present in the atmosphere. Smog is denser in dusty areas. The finer particles and fumes in smog, the more dangerous it becomes. Dust-like
• Common name : Tree Tobacco, Mexican Tobacco • Scientific name : Nicotianaglauca • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : North America It is an evergreen perennial. The plant is an erect, slender, sparsely-branched perennial, soft-woody shrub to small tree, flowering throughout the year. The plant bears yellow flowers if given a long enough
• Common name : Tomato, Wolf Peach • Scientific name : Solanumlycopersicum • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : South America It is a short-lived perennial plant, grown as an annual plant. The plant has a weak woody stem that usually scrambles over other plants. The fruit is an edible, brightly coloured (usually red,