The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines are the oldest trees in the world. Some of the Bristlecone Pines are nearly 5,000 years old. They grow on the White Mountains of the Inyo National Forest. The oldest trees can be seen from either the Methuselah Trail or the Discovery Trail. Over the years the wind has turned […]
• 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
The Sandbox Tree is a fast-growing, semi-deciduous tree. It is native to tropical parts of South America and the Amazonian Rainforest. It is considered to be one of the most dangerous plants in the world. The tree has grey bark covered with cone-shaped spikes. It has different male and female flowers. Once fertilized, the female
• 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
• 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