• Common name : Garden Thyme • Scientific name : Thymus vulgaris • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Southern Europe, the Mediterranean region, Asia Minor, and Central Asia The plant is a small, low-growing shrub with curled branches. It is a perennial with a woody, fibrous root. There are three varieties usually grown […]
• Common name : Colocasia • Scientific name : Colocasiaesculenta • Family : Araceae • Native land : Wetlands of Malaysia Taro is a herbaceous plant. It became a staple crop, cultivated for its large, starchy, spherical underground tubers, which are consumed as cooked vegetables. Young taro leaves are commonly used in the cooking of
• Common name : American Larch/Black Larch/Hackmatack • Scientific name : Larixlaricina • Family : Pinaceae • Native land : Eastern North America This plant is a small-to-medium-sized deciduous conifer. It is a forest tree of bogs/ swamps. The tree has a straight, slender trunk and a narrow, open, pyramidal crown. The leaves are deciduous,
• Common name : Wuderove, Wood-rova • Scientific name : Galiumodoratum • Family : Rubiaceae • Native land : Europe, Northern Africa, Northern Asia Sweet woodruff is a flowering perennial plant. It has star-shaped fragrant leaves and small decorative white flowers. Bloom time is from April to June. It will spread naturally into an attractive
The Eucalyptus Deglupta is commonly known as the Rainbow Eucalyptus and the Mindanao Gum, or the Rainbow Gum. The multi-coloured streaks on its trunk come from patches of outer bark that are shed at different times of the year. This darkens and matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon colour. The Eucalyptus Deglupta
• Common name : Sweet Pea • Scientific name : Lathyrusodoratus • Family : Fabaceae • Native land : Sicily, Southern Italy and the Aegean Islands It is a popular annual flower whose flowering time ranges from late spring to summer. The flowers grow in a cluster of 5 to 15 on stems arising from
• Common name : British Myrrh, Garden Myrrh, Great Chervil, Myrrh • Scientific name : Myrrhisodorata • Family : Apiaceae • Native land : Southern Europe It is a tall, hardy perennial herb. The plant has bright green, 2- to 3-pinnate leaves and white flowers in umbels, followed by spindle-shaped fruits. The leaves are very
• Common name : Summer Savory • Scientific name : Saturejahortensis • Family : Labiatae • Native land : Mediterranean region, South- Eastern Europe Summer savory is a hardy, pubescent annual, with slender erect stems. The plant blooms in spring to summer. It bears very small, pale lilac-pink flowers borne in widely spaced axillary whorls
• Common name : Zucchini, Yellow Squash, Scalloped Squash, Patty Pan Squash • Scientific name : Cucurbitapepo • Family : Cucurbitaceae • Native land : North, Central and South America It is a tender easy-to-grow short-season annual. Most summer squash grow on compact vines, in contrast to the sprawling vines of most winter squash and
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines are the oldest trees in the world. Some of the Bristlecone Pines are nearly 5,000 years old. They grow on the White Mountains of the Inyo National Forest. The oldest trees can be seen from either the Methuselah Trail or the Discovery Trail. Over the years the wind has turned
• Common name : Cushion Spurge • Scientific name : Euphorbia epithymoides • Family : Euphorbiaceae • Native land : Central and Southern Europe and to Asia Minor It is a long-lived, drought-tolerant and non-spreading plant. It is a mounded clump-forming plant that is one of the best for borders. The plant bears dense, flattened
• Common name : Spinach, Winter spinach • Scientific name : Spinaciaoleracea • Family : Chenopodiaceae • Native land : Asia, especially Afghanistan and Tajikistan Spinach is an annual plant, long cultivated for the sake of its succulent leaves. It is an easy-to-grow, nutritious, cool-season crop. The leaves are somewhat triangular and may be flat
• Common name : Cow Lily, Yellow Pond Lily, Yellow Water Lily • Scientific name : Nupharadvena • Family : Nymphaeaceae • Native land : North America It is a perennial, herbaceous, emergent aquatic plant. The plant grows to the surface of the water from a thick horizontal root-stock. The stem is absent. The flowers
The Sandbox Tree is a fast-growing, semi-deciduous tree. It is native to tropical parts of South America and the Amazonian Rainforest. It is considered to be one of the most dangerous plants in the world. The tree has grey bark covered with cone-shaped spikes. It has different male and female flowers. Once fertilized, the female
• Common name : Garden Sorrel, Common Sorrel, Sour Dock • Scientific name : Rumexacetosa • Family : Polygonaceae • Native land : North Temperate Arctic Regions It is an erect perennial with edible, sour-tasting oblong leaves. The leaves are arrow-shaped at the base. Small reddish flowers appear in a narrow panicle or raceme. Plants