221 plants Encyclopedia

• Common name : Potato • Scientific name : Solanumtuberosum • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : South America The potato is a starchy, tuberous perennial crop. It is widely cultivated for its edible tubers, which are used to produce a variety of products including chips, crisps and vodka. It is considered to be […]

• Common name : Opium Poppy • Scientific name : Papaversomniferum • Family : Papaveraceae • Native land : Mediterranean Basin, South-Eastern Europe, and Western Asia Poppies are herbaceous annual, biennial or short-lived perennial plants. They have brilliant white or red flowers, growing on central bulbous pods. When scratched, the pod produces milky latex called

• Common name : Herb Bennet, Poison Hemlock, Poison Parsley • Scientific name : Conium maculatum • Family : Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) • Native land : Europe and the Mediterranean region Poison hemlock is a highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plant. It has hairless hollow stalks with purple blotches. The leaves are triangular in shape. It

• Common name : Pointleaf Manzanita, Mexican Manzanita • Scientific name : Arctostaphylospungens • Family : Ericaceae • Native land : Mexico It is a perennial, evergreen plant. The leaves are green, stiff, leathery, held vertically, and have sharply pointed tips. The branches have beautiful, smooth, reddish-brown bark. The flowers are shaped like inverted vases

• Common name : Pineapple Sage • Scientific name : Salvia elegans • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Mexico, Guatemala Pineapple sage is a perennial shrub. It has opposite, ovate, soft-hairy, light green leaves on square stems. The plant has pineapple aroma and flavour in its foliage when crushed. It produces slender trumpet-shaped

• Common name : Lacy Phacelia or Purple Tansy • Scientific name : Phaceliatanacetifolia • Family : Boraginaceae • Native land : South-Western United States and Northern Mexico Phacelia is a herbaceous, non-leguminous flowering plant. The foliage appears ferny, and the flowers are in flat-topped clusters in the shades of purple or occasionally white. Spring

• Common name : Asian Persimmon, Japanese Persimmon • Scientific name : Diospyros kaki • Family : Ebenaceae • Native land : Asia (China, Japan) Asian persimmon is a deciduous tree. This is an excellent fruit tree for ornamental use and makes an excellent specimen. The tree looks attractive when leaves have fallen in autumn,

• Common name : Madagascar Periwinkle, Periwinkle • Scientific name : Catharanthusroseus • Family : Apocynaceae • Native land : Madagascar Periwinkle is an evergreen subshrub or herbaceous plant. It produces attractive bushy foliage that is covered by an often profuse bloom of phlox-like flowers from summer to frost. Much softwood branches from the ground

• Common name : Bell Pepper, Capsicum, Sweet Pepper • Scientific name : Capsicum annuum • Family : Solanaceae • Native land : Tropical North and South America Capsicum or bell pepper is a herbaceous perennial plant. Plants of this species grow in shrubby mounds. The flowers are white or yellow and the leaves are

• Common name : Peony • Scientific name : Paeoniacaucasica • Family : Paeoniaceae • Native land : Caucasus Peony is a deciduous, woody shrub. It is a taprooted plant with thick horizontal rhizome and leafy stems. The leaves have elong-ateovate or elongate-elliptical lobes with greyish wax and short sparse hair beneath. Its flowers are

• Common name : Garden Pea • Scientific name : Pisumsativum • Family : Fabaceae • Native land : South-West Asia, Southern Europe and North-East Africa Garden pea is a glabrous, hardy, annual, climbing leguminous plant. It has a non-edible fibrous pod that bore edible round seeds. The seeds are a highly nutritious food, having

• Common name : Cabbage Palm, Cabbage Tree, New Zealand Cabbage Palm, Red Grass Palm • Scientific name : Cordylineaustralis • Family : Asparagaceae • Native land : New Zealand (Australasia), Morocco This is a palm-like, sub-tropical tree. The plant has several stout branches arising from a single trunk. The leaves are long, sword-shaped, in

• Common name : Oregano • Scientific name : Origanumvulgare subsp. gracile • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Kyrgyzstan Oregano is a perennial herb. It is a bushy, semi-woody, sub-shrub with upright or spreading stems and branches. The aromatic leaves are oval-shaped. The leaves may be clipped fresh as needed or dried for

• Common name : Onion • Scientific name : Allium cepa • Family : Amaryllidaceae/Alliaceae • Native land : South-Western Asia An onion is a herbaceous biennial plant. It is grown throughout the world, chiefly in the temperate zones. Most members of this family have an underground storage system, such as a bulb or tuber.

• Common name : Nodding Onion, Lady’s Leek • Scientific name : Allium cernuum • Family : Amaryllidaceae • Native land : Canada to Mexico Nodding onion is a perennial plant. It consists of a tuft of basal leaves from which one or more flowering stalks emerge. The leaves are grass-like, wide, keeled along the