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Daphne odora, winter daphne, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, native to China, later spread to Japan and Korea. It is an evergreen shrub, grown for its very fragrant, fleshy, pale-pink, tubular flowers, each with four spreading lobes, and for its glossy foliage. It rarely fruits, producing red berries after flowering ...
Pittosporum undulatum is a fast-growing tree in the family Pittosporaceae. It is sometimes also known as sweet pittosporum, native daphne, Australian cheesewood, Victorian box or mock orange. P. undulatum has become invasive in parts of Australia where it is not indigenous. It is also highly invasive in South Africa, the Caribbean, Hawaii, the ...
Dracaena (/ drəˈsiːnə / [ 2 ]) is a genus of about 120 species of trees and succulent shrubs. [ 3 ] The formerly accepted genera Pleomele and Sansevieria are now included in Dracaena. In the APG IV classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, [ 4 ] subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). [ 5 ][ 6 ] It has ...
Flowers. Daphne mezereum, commonly known as mezereum, mezereon, [2] February daphne, spurge laurel or spurge olive, [3] is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to most of Europe and Western Asia, [4] north to northern Scandinavia and Russia. In southern Europe it is confined to medium to higher elevations and ...
Daphne (/ ˈ d æ f n i /; DAFF-nee; Greek: Δάφνη, Dáphnē, lit. ' laurel ' ), [ 1 ] a figure in Greek mythology , is a naiad , a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater.
Thymelaea odorata Bubani. Daphne cneorum, the garland flower or rose daphne, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae, commonly found in various pine forests across Europe. [2][3] It is a prostrate spreading evergreen shrub to 20 cm (8 in), grown for its dense clusters of highly fragrant pink flowers in spring. [4][5][6] All ...
Leucaena is a genus of flowering plants in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Fabaceae. It contains about 24 species of trees and shrubs, which are commonly known as leadtrees. [4] They are native to the Americas, ranging from Texas in the United States south to Peru. [5]
Sansevieria ehrenbergii in habitat. Sansevieria is a historically recognized genus of flowering plants, native to Africa, notably Madagascar, and southern Asia, now included in the genus Dracaena on the basis of molecular phylogenetic studies. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Common names for the 70 or so species formerly placed in the genus include mother-in ...