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Hamelia patens is a large evergreen perennial shrub or small tree in the family Rubiaceae, that is native to the American subtropics and tropics.Its range extends from Florida in the southern United States to as far south as Argentina. [4]
Firebush is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Aronia arbutifolia; Croton lucidus; Embothrium coccineum (Chilean firebush) Euonymus alatus; Hamelia ...
In the Arctic, this plant provides valuable nutrition for the Inuit, who eat the leaves raw, boiled with fat, or steeped in water for tea, the flowers and fruits raw, and as a salad with meals of seal and walrus blubber. [4] [5] The leaves and shoots are edible, [6] tasting much like spinach, and is also known in the Canadian tundra as River ...
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The reddish stems of this herbaceous perennial are usually simple, erect, smooth, 0.5–2 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) high with scattered alternate leaves. [2] The leaves are spirally arranged, entire, narrowly lanceolate, and pinnately veined, the secondary leaf veins anastomosing, joining together to form a continuous marginal vein just inside the leaf margins. [3]:
The plant may grow 6 inches to 3 feet and blooms April through September. [5] The seeds are black. [9] The plant prefers full sun, dry conditions, and poor soil. [8] The plant can have a bushy appearance with a flattened top. Dwarf plants may instead, grow to than 6" tall. Croton monanthogynus provides food for wildlife.
Embothrium coccineum, Chilean firetree or Chilean firebush, commonly known in Chile and Argentina as notro, ciruelillo and fósforo is a small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Proteaceae. It grows in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina .
Portulacaria afra (known as elephant bush, porkbush, purslane tree, dwarf jade and spekboom in Afrikaans) is a small-leaved succulent plant found in South Africa. These succulents commonly have a reddish stem and green leaves, but a variegated cultivar is often seen in cultivation. They are simple to care for and make easy houseplants for a ...