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Cascabela thevetia is an evergreen tropical shrub or small tree. Its leaves are willow-like, linear-lanceolate, and glossy green in color. They are covered in waxy coating to reduce water loss (typical of oleanders).
Oleander flowers are showy, profuse, and often fragrant, which makes them very attractive in many contexts. Over 400 cultivars have been named, with several additional flower colors not found in wild plants having been selected, including yellow, peach and salmon.
Why are those gorgeous orchid flowers falling off your plant too soon? Those ethereal flowers are the whole reason you have this plant, and they are dropping like dying leaves in the fall ...
The leaves of tricussate plants such as Nerium oleander form a triple helix. The leaves of some plants do not form helices. In some plants, the divergence angle changes as the plant grows. [22] In orixate phyllotaxis, named after Orixa japonica, the divergence angle is not constant. Instead, it is periodic and follows the sequence 180°, 90 ...
Dry leaves, along with dry grass, dead plants, wood chips, shredded paper, and sawdust are examples of carbon to place in the compost. Oxygen or green material includes grass clippings, produce ...
A plant will abscise a part either to discard a member that is no longer necessary, such as a leaf during autumn, or a flower following fertilisation, or for the purposes of reproduction. Most deciduous plants drop their leaves by abscission before winter, whereas evergreen plants continuously abscise their leaves. Another form of abscission is ...
The leaves become glabrous when mature. [7] It blooms in Summer and Spring, [7] although it has also been seen blooming in the Winter and Autumn. [5] The plant is monoecious, with both sexes in each flower. [6] It has its flowers arranged in a flower head, a special type of inflorescence. [citation needed] Each branch bears only one ...
The non-native oleander aphid, Aphis nerii, greatly weakens milkweed plants by removing sugars from stems and leaves. The leaves yellow and fall away. Flowering and seed production suffer as a result. The aphid often is just one of multiple insect species that weakens a milkweed plant during a season.