Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Calotropis gigantea plant in southern part of India near Bangalore Calotropis gigantea flower in Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal. Calotropis gigantea, the crown flower, is a species of Calotropis native to Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, China, Pakistan, and Nepal.
Calotropis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810.It is native to southern Asia and North Africa. [2]They are commonly known as milkweeds because of the latex they produce.
Common names for the plant include Apple of Sodom, [2] Sodom apple, roostertree, [3] king's crown, [4] small crownflower, [3] giant milkweed, [5] rubber bush, [2] and rubber tree. [2] The names "Apple of Sodom" and "Dead Sea Apple" stem from the ancient authors Josephus and Tacitus, who described the plant growing in the area of biblical Sodom. [6]
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names, in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
List of plants known as nettle; List of plants known as oil palm; List of plants known as orange; List of plants known as rush; List of plants known as sea lettuce; List of plants known as sour cherry; List of plants known as tamarind; List of plants known as violet; Woodbine; List of wort plants; List of Māori plant common names. List of ...
Bu: listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [5] CS: listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names and William T. Stearn's Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners [6] Gl: listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [7] Qu: listed in Umberto Quattrocchi's four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names [8 ...
Green grass jelly plants include Premna trichostoma and Cyclea barbata, while black (also called janggelan) includes species like P. palustre [3] In Indonesian, grass jelly plants are called tanaman cincau. [4] In Javanese, these plants are called camcao, juju, or kepleng and in Sundanese they are called camcauh or tahulu. [5]
Calophyllum inophyllum is a large evergreen plant, commonly called tamanu, oil-nut, mastwood, beach calophyllum or beautyleaf. [2] It is native to the Old World Tropics, from Africa through Asia to Australia and Polynesia.