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Spanish moss ( Tillandsia usneoides) is an epiphytic flowering plant that often grows upon large trees in tropical and subtropical climates. It is native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America, the Southern United States, and West Indies. It has been naturalized in Queensland ( Australia ).
Plumeria trees are small or low shrubs. The leaves grow at tips of their branches. Various species and cultivar have various leaf shape and arrangements. [10] [3] The leaves of P. alba are narrow and corrugated, whereas leaves of P. pudica have an elongated shape and glossy, dark-green color. P. pudica is one of the everblooming types with ...
Melicoccus bijugatus. Jacq. Baj Melicocca carpopodea Juss. Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit -bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean. Its stone-bearing fruits, commonly called quenepa or guinep, are edible.
Meisn. The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear ( Persea americana) is a medium-sized, evergreen tree in the laurel family ( Lauraceae ). It is native to the Americas and was first domesticated in Mesoamerica more than 5,000 years ago. It was prized for its large and unusually oily fruit. [ 3]
Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral ( / ˌʃæpəˈræl, ˌtʃæp -/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-) [ 1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet ...
Plumeria rubra is a deciduous plant species belonging to the genus Plumeria. [ 4] Originally native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela, it has been widely cultivated in subtropical and tropical climates worldwide and is a popular garden and park plant, as well as being used in temples and cemeteries.
Santalum haleakalae, known as Haleakala sandalwood [3] or ʻIliahi in Hawaiian, is a species of flowering tree in the sandalwood family, that is endemic to the islands of Maui, Lanai, and Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands, part of the United States. [4] [5] It grows in subalpine shrublands at elevations of 1,900 to 2,700 m (6,200 to 8,900 ft ...
The leaves are 3 m long, gently recurved, on 1 m petioles with acanthophylls near the base. The leaf crown grows to 10 m wide and 7.5 to 10 m tall containing up to 100 leaves. The inflorescence grows to 1 metre with white, unisexual flowers forming to a large, pendent infructescence. The single-seeded fruit ripens to a purple-red colour. [3]