221 plants Encyclopedia

• 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,

• Common name : Husk Tomato, Mexican Husk Tomato • Scientific name : Physalisphiladelphica • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : Mexico It is a small herb. All parts of the tomatillo plant are poisonous except the fruit, for which the plant is cultivated. This particular genus is characterised by the presence of pendant

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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