221 plants Encyclopedia

• Common name : Hosta, Blue Angle, Devil’s Advocate • Scientific name : Hostabressingham blue • Family : Asparagaceae • Native land : North-East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East) Hosta is a herbaceous perennial plant. It grows from rhizomes or stolons with broad lanceolate or ovate leaves. The leaves have wide […]

• Common name : Horseradish • Scientific name : Armoraciarusticana • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia Horseradish is a herbaceous perennial plant. It is a somewhat coarse vegetable that is grown for its pungent, fleshy roots. It has large, variably sized, dock-like, toothed, shiny, dark green leaves. It

• Common name : Pink Honeysuckle, California Honeysuckle • Scientific name : Lonicerahispidula • Family : Caprifoliaceae • Native land : California west coast of the United States Pink honeysuckle is a perennial vine shrub. It is a low-elevation woodlands shrub. It has distinctive leaves growing opposite on the stems, the uppermost pairs fuses at

• Common name : Angel Wings, Elephant Ear • Scientific name : Caladium bicolor • Family : Araceae • Native land : Northern South America Caladiums are tuber-rooted tropical flowering perennials. They have no stems. Arrowhead-shaped leaves are of various shades, ranging from green mottled and blotched with pink, red, white or combinations thereof often

• Common name : Poor-man’s Asparagus • Scientific name : Blitum bonus-henricus • Family : Amaranthaceae/Chenopodiaceae • Native land : Central and Southern Europe Good King Henry is an annual or perennial plant. It is a dark-green, succulent plant, which grows up to 2 feet. The leaves are broad, triangular to diamond-shaped, with a pair

• Common name : Golden Chain, Golden Rain • Scientific name : Laburnum anagyroides • Family : Fabaceae • Native land : Southern Europe from France to the Balkan Peninsula Golden chain is a large, robust, spreading deciduous flowering tree with glorious, golden-yellow spring colour every year. It grows up to 5-25 feet tall. It

• Common name : Garlic, Poor Man’s Treacle • Scientific name : Allium sativum • Family : Amaryllidaceae • Native land : Mediterranean area Garlic is typically grown as an annual herb and vegetable. Its segmented bulbs are commonly used in cooking. The foliage consists of aromatic, linear, flattened, grass-like green leaves. The bulb is

• Common name : Garland Chrysanthemum, Crown Daisy • Scientific name : Glebioniscoronaria • Family : Asteraceae • Native land : Europe and Northern Asia Garland chrysanthemum is a flowering annual plant. The plants are used as vegetables. They are about 12 inches tall. The leaves have the familiar chrysanthemum-like lobes. They are succulent with

• Common name : European Frog-bit • Scientific name : Hydrocharismorsus-ranae • Family : Hydrocharitaceae • Native land : Europe and parts of Asia and Africa European frog-bit is an annual herbaceous free-floating aquatic plant. Frog-bit is fast growing and spreads rapidly by stolons. It has no roots attached to the bed of the water

• Common name : Foxglove, Common Foxglove, Purple Foxglove • Scientific name : Digitalis purpurea • Family : Plantaginaceae • Native land : Temperate Europe It is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant. The name foxglove is derived from the shape of the flowers, which resemble the fingers of a glove. The plant grows

• Common name : Four o’clock, Marvel-of-Peru, Beauty-of-the-night • Scientific name : Mirabilis jalapa • Family : Nyctaginaceae • Native land : Tropical America Four o’clock is an ornamental perennial plant. The plant is called four o’clock because its flowers, from white and yellow to shades of pink and red, sometimes streaked and mottled, open

• Common name : Fenugreek • Scientific name : Trigonellafoenum-graecum • Family : Fabacecae • Native land : Eastern Mediterranean Fenugreek is an annual herb indigenous to the countries bordering on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and largely cultivated in India, Egypt and Morocco. The plant grows up to 3 feet tall, and has

• Common name : Fennel • Scientific name : Foeniculumvulgare • Family : Apiaceae • Native land : Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region Fennel is a biennial, hardy, perennial–umbelliferous herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves. It grows to a height of up to 2.5 metres with hollow stems. The leaves are finely dissected.

• Common name : Feijoa Sellowiana, Pineapple Guava • Scientific name : Accasellowiana • Family : Myrtaceae • Native land : Highlands of Southern Brazil, Eastern Paraguay, Uruguay, Northern Argentina, and Colombia Feijoa is a grey-green multi-stemmed evergreen shrub or small tree. It can grow up to 3-6 metres tall. The plants can be pruned

• Common name : Eastern Daisy • Scientific name : Erigeron annuus • Family : Asteraceae • Native land : North America, Central Europe It is an annual/perennial plant, growing at a medium rate. The plant grows up to 8-12 inches tall. Each plant has several composite flowers that look typically daisy-like, having a yellow