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Tropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands [10] are spread over a large area of the tropics with a vegetation made up mainly of low shrubs and grasses, often including sclerophyll species. [10] Some of the most representative are the Western Zambezian grasslands in Zambia and Angola , as well as the Einasleigh upland savanna in Australia and ...
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Canna (foliage group) 'Auguste Ferrier'. The plants are large tropical and subtropical herbaceous perennials with a rhizomatous rootstock. The broad, flat, alternate leaves that are such a feature of these plants, grow out of a stem in a long, narrow roll and then unfurl. The leaves are typically solid green, but some cultivars have glaucose ...
Perennials (especially small flowering plants) that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back every autumn and winter, and then return in the spring from their rootstock or other overwintering structure, are known as herbaceous perennials. [ 5 ] However, depending on the rigours of the local climate (temperature, moisture, organic ...
Perennial crops are a perennial plant species that are cultivated and live longer than two years without the need of being replanted each year. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Naturally perennial crops include many fruit and nut crops; some herbs and vegetables also qualify as perennial. Perennial crops have been cultivated for thousands of years; their cultivation ...
Corchorus olitorius is an erect herbaceous plant, fairly branched and grows about 1.5 m high. However, if grown for fibre production, it can reach heights up to 4 m. The taproot leads to a sturdy and hairless stem, which is green with a faint red-brownish hue and sometimes turns a little woody on ground level.
Sesuvium portulacastrum is a vine up to 30 centimetres (12 in) high, with thick, smooth stems up to 1 metre (3.3 ft) long. It has smooth, fleshy, glossy green leaves that are linear or lanceolate, from 1–7 centimetres (0.39–2.76 in) long and 2–1.5 centimetres (0.79–0.59 in) wide. [7][4] Its flowers bud from the leaf axils.
It is a hardy plant that grows to zone 5, and in mild climates it is grown as a winter green. In warm conditions it tends to bolt to seed, [3] producing much-branched stems with clusters of flowers. The flowers have a bluish-white corolla of five fused petals, 1.5 to 2 mm (1 ⁄ 16 to 5 ⁄ 64 in) long and wide, and three stamens.