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The common names of the plant include baby sun rose, [4] heart-leaf, [5] red aptenia [4] or aptenia [5] in English, as well as rooi brakvygie [4] or brakvygie [4] [5] in Afrikaans, and umjuluka, [5] [disputed (for: source possibly mistaken, umjuluka is word for Casearia gladiiformis) – discuss] ibohlololo, [4] or uncolozi omncane [4] in isiZulu in South Africa.
[2] [3] It has many common names, including rose moss, [4] eleven o'clock, [3] Mexican rose, [3] moss rose, [3] sun rose, [5] table rose, [citation needed] rock rose, [5] and moss-rose purslane. Despite these names and the superficial resemblance of some cultivars' flowers to roses , it is not a true rose, nor even a part of the rose family or ...
Variegated plants have long been valued by gardeners, as the usually lighter-coloured variegation can 'lift' what would otherwise be blocks of solid green foliage. Many gardening societies have specialist variegated plants groups, such as the Hardy Plant Society 's Variegated Plant Special Interest Group in the UK.
Peperomia obtusifolia, also known as the baby rubberplant, American rubber plant, or pepper face, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Peperomia under the family Piperaceae, native to Tropical America. [1] [2] The specific epithet obtusifolia means "blunt-leaved". [3] The plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of ...
Helianthemum / ˌ h iː l i ˈ æ n θ ɪ m əm /, [2] known as rock rose, sunrose, rushrose, or frostweed, [3] is a genus of about 110 [4] species of flowering plants in the family Cistaceae. They are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, especially in the Mediterranean.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.
Rosa multiflora (syn. Rosa polyantha) [2] is a species of rose known commonly as multiflora rose, [3] baby rose, [3] Japanese rose, [3] many-flowered rose, [3] seven-sisters rose, [3] Eijitsu rose and rambler rose. It is native to eastern Asia, in China, Japan, and Korea.
Cistus lasianthus, the Lisbon false sun-rose or woolly rock rose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae, native to the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, western Spain and southwestern France) and Northwest Africa (Morocco). [2]