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Aegopodium podagraria, commonly called ground elder, is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae that grows in shady places. The name "ground elder" comes from the superficial similarity of its leaves and flowers to those of elder ( Sambucus ), which is not closely related.
This list of carnivorous plants is a comprehensive listing of all known carnivorous plant species, of which more than 750 are currently recognised. [1] Unless otherwise stated it is based on Jan Schlauer's Carnivorous Plant Database Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine. Extinct taxa are denoted with a dagger (†).
Kalanchoe (/ ˌ k æ l ə ŋ ˈ k oʊ. iː / KAL-əng-KOH-ee), [2] [3] (also called "kalanchöe" or "kalanchoë"), is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa.
Individuals have been surveyed in a variety of environments, from gardens with native and introduced plants, to broadleaf and mixed forests, to moss on rocks at high altitude. [2] Common host plants of Siphanta acuta within New Zealand are Coprosma , citrus trees, various ornamental shrubs; within Australia they are found on a large variety of ...
The species was first named by the French botanist Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc in 1811. [1] Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck transferred it into Laternea in 1858, a genus intended to accommodate those Clathrus-like species with arms arranged in columns rather than a network; [2] in its current meaning, Laternea includes species that have gleba suspended below the arch of the ...
Pelargonium inquinans, the scarlet geranium, [2] is a species of plant in the genus Pelargonium (family Geraniaceae). It is a shrub endemic to South Africa, ranging from Mpumalanga to KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces. [1] It is one of the ancestors of the hybrid line of horticultural pelargoniums, referred to as the zonal group.
Ramie (pronounced: / ˈ r eɪ m i /, RAY-mee; from Malay rami), Boehmeria nivea, is a flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern Asia.It is an herbaceous perennial growing to 1.0–2.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 8 ft 2 in) tall; [1] the leaves are heart-shaped, 7–15 cm (2.8–5.9 in) long and 6–12 cm (2.4–4.7 in) broad, and white on the underside with dense, small hairs ...
Nepenthes × cincta is a rare plant and, due to the localised distribution of N. northiana, only grows at a few sites in Bau, Sarawak, usually on a substrate of limestone. The traits of N. albomarginata are very dominant in this hybrid; the wide flared peristome of its larger parent species ( N. northiana ) is almost completely lost.