• Common name : Turnip • Scientific name : Brassica rapa subsp. rapa • Family : Brassicaceae • Native land : Europe It is a biennial that is grown as an annual. The plant can be harvested when mature or young. It can be cooked or eaten raw, and the young tops can be used […]
• Common name : Tulip ‘Barcelona’ • Scientific name : Tulipa • Family : Liliaceae • Native land : Eurasia from Austria and Italy eastward to Japan It is a bulbous herb. The plants are generally found in a hilly country with extremely cold winters and hot dry summers. The stems are sturdy, making them
Nepenthes Rajah is found in Mount Kinabalu and Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. It is a carnivorous plant that grows in areas of seeping ground water where the soil is permanently moist. Nepenthes Rajah is the largest pitcher and the largest carnivorous plant in the world. It is a trap filled with water and
The Gympie-Gympie is one of the four species of stinging tree in Australia. It is common in rainforest areas. It is best known for stinging hair that covers the whole plant. The hair causes an extremely painful stinging sensation that can last for long. Fruits are juicy, mulberry-like, and are bright pink to purple. Each
Dorstenia Gigas is a succulent plant found on the island of Socotra in Yemen. It is hung on top of the rocky cliffs of the island. It has disappeared from other parts of the island because it was consumed by goats. It can reach 1.20 mewers in diameter for 4 metres in height. Dorstenia Gigas
Pando is also known as the Trembling Giant. It is a clonal colony of a single aspen trees spread over more than a 100 acres in Utah. Pando is among the largest and oldest organisms on the Earth. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kilograms; it is the heaviest known organism. The root
‘Smog’ is the mixture of smoke and fog. It forms in areas that are highly polluted. It is a mixture of industrial gases emitted into the air, dust particles and water vapours present in the atmosphere. Smog is denser in dusty areas. The finer particles and fumes in smog, the more dangerous it becomes. Dust-like
• 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
The Eucalyptus Deglupta is commonly known as the Rainbow Eucalyptus and the Mindanao Gum, or the Rainbow Gum. The multi-coloured streaks on its trunk come from patches of outer bark that are shed at different times of the year. This darkens and matures to give blue, purple, orange and then maroon colour. The Eucalyptus Deglupta