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Hibiscus [2] [3] is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world.
Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis is a bushy, evergreen shrub or small tree growing 2.5–5 m (8–16 ft) tall and 1.5–3 m (5–10 ft) wide. The plant has a branched taproot.Its stem is aerial, erect, green, cylindrical, and branched.
Celosia (/ s iː ˈ l oʊ ʃ i ə / see-LOH-shee-ə [2]) is a small genus of edible and ornamental plants in the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae.Its species are commonly known as woolflowers, or, if the flower heads are crested by fasciation, cockscombs. [3]
The first European to find Rafflesia was the ill-fated French explorer Louis Auguste Deschamps.He was a member of a French scientific expedition to Asia and the Pacific, detained by the Dutch for three years on the Indonesian island of Java, where, in 1797, he collected a specimen, which was probably what is now known as R. patma.
For example, Jacobsen's three volume Handbook of Succulent Plants does not include cacti. [10] Many books covering the cultivation of these plants include "cacti (cactus) and succulents" as the title or part of the title. [11] [12] [13] In botanical terminology, cacti are succulents, [5] but not the reverse, as many succulent plants are not cacti.
Jacquemontia paniculata Convolvulus cephalopodus in Behbahan. Convolvulaceae (/ k ən ˌ v ɒ l v j ə ˈ l eɪ s i. iː,-aɪ /), commonly called the bindweeds or morning glories, is a family of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species.
The name is of South American (more specifically Tupi-Guarani) origin, meaning fragrant. [3] The word jacaranda was described in A supplement to Mr. Chambers's Cyclopædia, 1st ed., (1753) as "a name given by some authors to the tree the wood of which is the log-wood, used in dyeing and medicine" and as being of Tupi-Guarani origin, [4] [5] by way of Portuguese. [6]
Lobelia erinus in an alpine border. Lobelia (/ l oʊ ˈ b iː l i ə, l ə-/ [4] [5] [6]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species, [7] with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions. [8]