• Common name : Small Duckweed • Scientific name : Lemna minor • Family : Araceae • Native land : Africa, Asia, Europe and North America Duckweeds are small, free-floating aquatic perennials that combine to form a green ‘carpet’ on the surface of the water. Each plant consists of a single, rounded, leaf-like body. It […]
• Common name : French Sorrel, Buckler Sorrel • Scientific name : Rumexscutatus • Family : Polygonaceae • Native land : South of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Barbary It is a mat-forming perennial. The whole plant is intensely glaucous. In areas of very mild winters, it produces leaves year‑round. Red-green flowers appear in loose.
• Common name : Variable-leaved Sea Holly • Scientific name : Eryngiumvariifolium • Family : Apiaceae • Native land : North Africa It is an evergreen perennial that forms a clump of rounded basal leaves with white veins. The stem is branched and leafy. It bears silvery-blue flower-heads with narrow, spiny silver bracts. The foliage
• Common name : Sea Kale, Sea Cabbage • Scientific name : Crambemaritima • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : Europe, North Africa, South-West Asia It is a robust herbaceous perennial that forms a clump of large, lobed, wavy-edged blue-green leaves. It grows mainly on seaside shingle and sandy beaches above the high tide
Aspirin is the most widely used medicine in the world. It is used for relieving pain, reducing inflammation and fever. Aspirin is derived by boiling the bark of the white willow tree. The main ingredient in the medicine made from willow bark is called Salicin. Some people use willow bark as an alternative to aspirin.
• Common name : Rye • Scientific name : Secalecereale • Family : Poaceae • Native land : Mediterranean region and Western Asia Rye is one of the world’s most important cultivated grains. It is sometimes a weed of grain crops such as wheat. It is also widely planted as a cover crop, and is
• Common name : Rutabaga, Oilseed Rape, Rapaseed • Scientific name : Brassica napus • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : Europe Rutabaga is an annual plant. It has a long, usually thin taproot. Its leaves are smooth, bluish green, and deeply scalloped, and the bases of the upper leaves clasp the stem. It
• Common name : Red rose • Scientific name : Rosa kordesii • Family : Rosaceae • Native land : Europe, North America, and North-West Africa Rosa kordesii is a deciduous shrub. It is also known as a climbing or pillar rose. It grows up to 8-10 feet tall. It can also be grown as
• Common name : Rosemary • Scientific name : Rosmarinusofficinalis • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Mediterranean region Rosemary is a woody, perennial herb. It is a generally erect, rounded, evergreen shrub with aromatic, needle-like, grey-green leaves and tiny, two-lipped, pale blue to white flowers. It grows up to 4-6 feet tall in
• Common name : Alpine Rose • Scientific name : Rhododendron ferrugineum • Family : Ericaceae • Native land : Himalayas, from Kashmir eastwards to Nagaland Rhododendron is either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia. It also grows on the slopes of the Alps, so it is also called Alpine rose. It has
• Common name : Red Goosefoot, Coastblite Goosefoot • Scientific name : Oxybasisrubra • Family : Chenopodiaceae • Native land : North America and Eurasia Red goosefoot is an annual flowering plant. The plant grows up to 3 feet tall. It is often tinged with red all over. Besides the stem, even the vegetative leaves
Epiphytes are the plants that live on other plants. They are also called Air Plants. They don’t have roots in the ground. Many Epiphytes grow on a single tree. They even grow on other Epiphytes. Epiphytes are found in rainforests. Their way of life gives them an advantage in the rainforest. They get access to
• Common name : Red Dead Nettle • Scientific name : Lamiumpurpureum • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Europe Red deadnettle may grow as an annual or a biennial. It is a hairy plant that branches from the base. The leaves often have a purple-grey tinge to them. The upper-most leaves can become
Different plants store their food at different places. Some plants store food in their roots. Often, plants store food very close to their seeds. This food storage is called a fruit. Some kinds of plants also store water. For example, cactus grows in a desert where there is not much water. There is sand everywhere.
When leaves fall from trees, they are reused and recycled by fungi, bacteria and invertebrates. These fungi, bacteria and invertebrates act as decomposers and break down dead plant and animal matter back into nutrients for the soil. So, decomposers help to make forests healthier. The whole decomposition process takes many years and during this time,
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