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Eucalyptus: repels aphids, the cabbage looper, and the Colorado potato beetle [3] Fennel: repels aphids, slugs, and snails [3] Lantana ukambensis: repels mosquitoes [1] Four o'clocks: attract and poison the Japanese beetle [2] French marigold: repels whiteflies, kills nematodes [2] Garlic: repels root maggots, [2] cabbage looper, Mexican bean ...
This semi-evergreen vining plant invades the edges of forests, streams, and roadsides, smothering vegetation, says Kandra. It blooms in both shade and sun conditions and is most noticeable in late ...
The leaves on young plants are rounded, egg-shaped or triangular, green, 50–220 mm (2–9 in) long, 35–180 mm (1–7 in) and predominately held horizontal to the ground. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, broadly lance-shaped, 75–250 mm (3–10 in) long and 16–70 mm (0.6–3 in) wide on a petiole 10–30 mm (0.4–1 in) long. Side ...
3. Catalpa. This handsome tree has pretty heart-shaped leaves and fragrant white flowers, but it drops dark brown seedpods in large numbers, which makes it a messy tree for lawns and home gardens ...
The copious oils produced are an important feature of the genus. Although mature Eucalyptus trees may be towering and fully leafed, their shade is characteristically patchy because the leaves usually hang downwards. [citation needed] The leaves on a mature Eucalyptus plant are commonly lanceolate, petiolate, apparently alternate and waxy or ...
Fomes fomentarius is a stem decay plant pathogen Dry rot and water damage. A wood-decay or xylophagous fungus is any species of fungus that digests moist wood, causing it to rot. Some species of wood-decay fungi attack dead wood, such as brown rot, and some, such as Armillaria (honey fungus), are parasitic and colonize living trees
Eucalyptus ignorabilis is a tree that typically grows to a height of 20 m (66 ft) and forms a lignotuber.It has rough, fibrous, spongy bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants have sessile leaves at first, the leaves lance-shaped to oblong or curved, dull green, 28–90 mm (1.1–3.5 in) long and 5–23 mm (0.20–0.91 in) w
The adult leaves are arranged alternately on the branchlets and the same glossy green colour on both sides, with petioles that are 7–20 mm (0.28–0.79 in) long. The leaf blade is narrowly lance-shaped, usually 65–105 mm (2.6–4.1 in) long and 7–15 mm (0.28–0.59 in) wide with the base tapering to the petiole, and a pointed apex.