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Eucalyptus: repels aphids, the cabbage looper, and the Colorado potato beetle [3] Fennel: repels aphids, slugs, and snails [3] Lantana ukambensis: repels mosquitoes [1] Four o'clocks: attract and poison the Japanese beetle [2] French marigold: repels whiteflies, kills nematodes [2] Garlic: repels root maggots, [2] cabbage looper, Mexican bean ...
This semi-evergreen vining plant invades the edges of forests, streams, and roadsides, smothering vegetation, says Kandra. It blooms in both shade and sun conditions and is most noticeable in late ...
3. Catalpa. This handsome tree has pretty heart-shaped leaves and fragrant white flowers, but it drops dark brown seedpods in large numbers, which makes it a messy tree for lawns and home gardens ...
Growth: Cane-like, meaning new shoots grow straight up and unbranched from the plant’s crown. Leaves: Decompound leaves can be one to two feet long. New growth (as well as fall foliage) can ...
The copious oils produced are an important feature of the genus. Although mature Eucalyptus trees may be towering and fully leafed, their shade is characteristically patchy because the leaves usually hang downwards. [citation needed] The leaves on a mature Eucalyptus plant are commonly lanceolate, petiolate, apparently alternate and waxy or ...
Eucalyptus erythrocorys, commonly known as illyarrie, [2] red-capped gum or helmet nut gum, [3] is a species of tree or mallee from Western Australia. It has smooth bark, sickle-shaped to curved adult leaves, characteristically large flower buds in groups of three with a bright red operculum , bright yellow to yellowish green flowers and ...
Fomes fomentarius is a stem decay plant pathogen Dry rot and water damage. A wood-decay or xylophagous fungus is any species of fungus that digests moist wood, causing it to rot. Some species of wood-decay fungi attack dead wood, such as brown rot, and some, such as Armillaria (honey fungus), are parasitic and colonize living trees
Angophora is a genus of nine species of trees and shrubs in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Endemic to eastern Australia, they differ from other eucalypts in having juvenile and adult leaves arranged in opposite pairs, sepals reduced to projections on the edge of the floral cup, four or five overlapping, more or less round petals, and a papery or thin, woody, often strongly ribbed capsule.