221 plants Encyclopedia

• Common name : Lavender • Scientific name : Lavandulaangustifolia • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Western Mediterranean Lavender is a herbaceous perennial. This is a semi-woody plant that typically grows to 1.5-3.0 feet. It has narrow, grey-green leaves on square stems. Purple flowers appear in terminal spikes in late spring to early […]

• Common name : Bay • Scientific name : Laurusnobilis • Family : Lauraceae • Native land : Mediterranean Bay is an evergreen tree. It may grow to 40 feet in its native regions. The tree or woody potted shrub bears dense, pointed, elliptical leaves, rather leathery in texture. The leaves are bright green when

• Common name : Lamb’s Ears • Scientific name : Stachysbyzantina • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Central-Eastern Turkey, Northern Iran, Caucasus Lamb’s ear is a hardy herbaceous perennial. The shape of the leaf and texture resemble a lamb’s ear. It is popular for its thick, soft, velvety, silver-grey leaves. The leaves are

• Common name : Konjac • Scientific name : Amorphophalluskonjac • Family : Araceae • Native land : Warm sub-tropical to tropical Eastern Asia Konjac is a perennial plant. It grows from a large corm up to 25 cm in diameter. It has a single leaf of about 1.3 metres in length, across, bipinnate, and

• Common name : German Turnip, Turnip Cabbage • Scientific name : Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes • Family : Brassicaceae/Cruciferae • Native land : Europe and North Africa Kohlrabi is an annual vegetable. It is a low, stout cultivar of cabbage. Kohlrabi is a strange looking vegetable, very different from other family members (cabbage, broccoli,

• Common name : Kiwi, Chinese Gooseberry • Scientific name : Actinidiadeliciosa • Family : Actinideaceae • Native land : Southern China Kiwi is a woody deciduous vine. It can grow up to 10 metres tall. The flowers are white to cream-coloured. The russet-brown fruit is an oval berry densely covered with short, stiff, brown

• Common name : Brindleberry, Malabar Tamarind • Scientific name : Garciniagummi-gutta • Family : Clusiaceae • Native land : Indonesia This plant is an evergreen, dioecious, understorey tree. Its branching is usually horizontal or drooping with thick, glossy, dark green leaves. It is mainly grown for its fruit that looks like a small pumpkin

• Common name : Jerusalem Sage • Scientific name : Phlomisfruticosa • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Mediterranean region This plant can be herbaceous perennials or evergreen shrubs, with sage-like leaves and whorls of tubular, hooded flowers. They bloom around the months of March and June. The erect shoots bear grey-green ovate leaves.

• Common name : Wineberry, Wine Raspberry, Japanese Wineberry • Scientific name : Rubusphoenicolasius • Family : Rosaceae • Native land : Japan, Korea and China It is a perennial shrub with long arching stems up to 9 feet in length. Upright stems have red gland tipped hair and small spines. The leaves are alternate,

• Common name : Dragon Root, Wild Turnip • Scientific name : Arisaematriphyllum • Family : Araceae • Native land : Eastern and Mid-Western North America It is a herbaceous perennial flower, spring-flowering bulb. It produces one to two 3-lobed leaves 12 to 18 inches high. The flowers have two distinct parts: a spathe, and

• Common name : Ivy, Canarian Ivy, Algerian Ivy • Scientific name : Hederacanariensis • Family : Araliacea • Native land : Canary Islands, Portugal, the Azores, and North Africa Ivy is an evergreen perennial climbing or trailing woody shrub or bush. Its beautiful thick, leathery foliage seems a little shinier than English ivy. The

• Common name : Hyssop • Scientific name : Hyssopusofficinalis • Family : Lamiaceae • Native land : Southern Europe eastward to Central Asia Hyssop is a small herbaceous or semi-woody perennial plant. It grows up to 1.5 feet tall. It has slim, woody quadrangular stems and narrow, elliptical, dotted leaves that grow in pairs

• Common name : Aaron’s Beard, St. John’s Wort • Scientific name : Hypericumcalycinum • Family : Hypericaceae • Native land : Southern Europe, South-Western Asia Hypericum is an evergreen shrub. It is a stoloniferous subshrub. It grows up to 1 feet tall. It is a fast growing plant. It has large, rose-like, five-petaled, yellow

• Common name : Bigleaf Hydrangea • Scientific name : Hydrangea macrophylla • Family : Hydrangeaceae • Native land : China, Japan and parts of Russia Bigleaf hydrangea is a deciduous shrub. It is a very popular flowering shrub. The flowers are mostly produced in June and July but newer cultivars (that flower on new

• Common name : Hyacinth, Garden Hyacinth, Dutch Hyacinth • Scientific name : Hyacinthusorientalis • Family : Asparagaceae • Native land : Central and Southern Turkey, North-Western Syria, Lebanon Hyacinth is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant. It is a spring flowering bulb that produces the spikes of flowers noted for their intense, often overpowering, fragrance.