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Begonia maculata (maculata meaning "spotted"), the polka dot begonia, [2] is a species of begonia native to southeast Brazil. [3] [4] It grows naturally in the Atlantic rainforest, with occurrences confirmed in the Brazilian states of Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro. [5] It has been introduced into Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and ...
8. Herbs. Some growers may not consider herbs to be houseplants, but many types of herbs are great for indoor growing, and do well with winter propagation.
Eremophilas have not often been cultivated in the past, although some species, including Eremophila maculata are well known. Their rarity in gardens was partly because they were difficult to propagate or because they were rarely seen, even in nature. As methods of propagating and growing have improved, the popularity of eremophilas has increased.
B. maculata may refer to: Badumna maculata, an intertidal spider; Balionycteris maculata, a Southeast Asian megabat; Bambusa maculata, an evergreen plant; Barygenys maculata, a frog endemic to Papua New Guinea; Bathyraja maculata, a Pacific skate; Begonia maculata, a plant native to Brazil; Belone maculata, a marine fish; Belonogaster maculata ...
Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen, also called striped wintergreen, striped prince's pine, spotted pipsissewa, ratsbane, or rheumatism root) is a small, perennial, evergreen herb native to eastern North America and Central America, from southern Quebec west to Illinois, and south to Florida and Panama.
The name A. maculata is recognised as a synonym of A. scandens. [2] [5] Austrobaileya plants grow as woody lianas or vines. Their main growing stems loosely twine, with straight, extending, leafy branches. The leaves are leathery, veined and simple. The leaves produce essential oils in spherical ethereal oil cells.
An exception to this naming tendency is N. maculata, whose common name is fivespot. Nemophila species are mainly native to the western United States, though some species are also found in Mexico, and in the southeastern United States. They are commonly offered for sale for garden cultivation. Generally these are Nemophila menziesii.
Eremophila maculata is a low spreading shrub, which usually grows to less than 2.5 metres (8 ft) tall. Its leaves range in size from 3.8 millimetres (0.1 in) to 45 millimetres (2 in) long and 0.5–18 millimetres (0.02–0.7 in) wide, and range from almost thread-like to almost circular but are nearly always glabrous and always lack teeth or serrations on the edges.