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Amaryllis. Whether it’s red, white, pink, or tiger-striped, the amaryllis delights with its majestic, trumpet-shaped flowers which emerge from hard bulbs within weeks of planting.
Christmas flowers are the popular flowers used during the festive season of Christmas. [1] In many nations, seasonal flowers and plants such as Poinsettia, Christmas cactus, holly, Christmas rose, ivy and mistletoe form a major part of traditional Christmas decoration. [2]
Poinsettias are popularly, though incorrectly, said to be toxic to humans and other animals. [5] This misconception was spread by a 1919 urban legend of a two-year-old child dying after consuming a poinsettia leaf. [17] In 1944, the plant was included in H. R. Arnold's book Poisonous Plants of Hawaii on this premise. Though Arnold later ...
Christmas tree is applied to a number of plants: fir, spruce, pine, balsam or other evergreen trees decorated for Christmas; Pinus pinea or the Italian Stone Pine, is another plant commonly sold in stores as a potted live plant. [9] Christmas rose can be any of the following: Helleborus ssp., especially Helleborus niger
Tahitian chestnut (Inocarpus fagifer)About 213 species of vascular plant are native to the island, with sixteen of them endemic.The rainforest on the upper slopes and central plateau consists of large evergreen trees with a canopy at 30 to 40 m (100 to 130 ft) and a scattering of emergent trees some 50 m (160 ft) high.
Two flowering male catkins from a goat willow tree (Salix caprea).Pussy willow used as Lunar New Year decoration. Easter postcard (Germany, 1902) Pussy willow is a name given to many of the smaller species of the genus Salix (willows and sallows) when their furry catkins are young in early spring.
Plants in the genus Blandfordia are tufted, perennial herbaceous monocots with fleshy, fibrous or tuber-like roots from a corm. The leaves are narrow and linear, usually crowded in two ranks from the base of the flowering stem. Up to twenty flowers are arranged near the top of the flowering stem that has small, leaf-like bracts. The flowers are ...
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