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Monstera adansonii is known for its beautiful, heart-shaped leaves. The leaves have a somewhat thick, waxy texture, and contain large, oval-shaped perforations, which led to its common name of "Swiss cheese plant". It grows to be 3–5 feet tall as a houseplant, and up to 13 feet as a vine. The Adanson's monstera is an easy to care for ...
Leaves are simple, alternate, and exstipulate with long petioles up to 15 cm (6 in) long which are roundish and pulvinate, both at the base and apex with the basal one longer and twisted partially and half way around. It gets its name heart-leaved moonseed by its heart-shaped leaves and its reddish fruit. Lamina are broadly ovate or ovate ...
Vine trailing on fence with its tail-like flowers, which give rise to its alternative name, 'lamb's tail' In a woodland, showing the characteristic heart-shaped leaves. Anredera cordifolia is an evergreen climber that grows from fleshy rhizomes. It has bright green, heart-shaped, fleshy shiny leaves 4–13 centimetres (1.6–5.1 in) long.
Being one of the more visible features, leaf shape is commonly used for plant identification. Similar terms are used for other plant parts, such as petals , tepals , and bracts . Oddly pinnate, pinnatifid leaves ( Coriandrum sativum , coriander or cilantro) Partial chlorosis revealing palmate venation in simple leaves of Hibiscus mutabilis
Chorizema cordatum, commonly known as heart-leaf flame pea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Noongar people know the plant as kaly. [3] It is a woody, erect, scrambling or climbing shrub with heart-shaped leaves, the flowers usually brightly coloured in yellow ...
Antigonon leptopus is a fast-growing climbing vine that holds on via tendrils, and is able to reach over 7 metres in length. It has cordate (heart-shaped), sometimes triangular leaves 25 to 75 mm long. The flowers are borne in panicles, clustered along the rachis. Producing pink or white flowers from spring to autumn, it forms underground ...
Cynanchum laeve is a twining vine with heart-shaped leaves and commonly found in roadsides, fence rows, fields, and disturbed areas. C. laeve is easily recognized as a member of the Apocynaceae by its opposite leaves, [10] milky sap, and distinctive flowers and follicles ("milkweed pods"). The seeds are wind dispersed and can travel long ...
Sarcopetalum harveyanum, known as the pearl vine, is a common plant found mostly in coastal areas of eastern Australia. It can be found in or around rainforests, and is also seen in eucalyptus forests. The leaf stalk is attached under the surface of the leaf. The leaves are heart shaped with raised leaf veins on both surfaces of the leaf.