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Pentas is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.The genus is found in tropical and southern Africa, the Comoros, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula. [1]The plants have hairy green leaves and clusters of flowers in shades of red, white, pink, and purple.
Trees to c. 10 m, or large shrubs. Stems often tinged red, villous-tomentose. Leaves minutely stipulate; petioles 5–11 cm, densely short villous, red; blades 8.5-15.5 × 6.5-14.5 cm, chartaceous, densely villous below, glabrescent above, turning red with age, palmately veined at base with 5-7 primary veins, the secondary venation reticulate, the base broadly cordate, the margins minutely ...
Firebush has orangish-red tubular flowers, which recruit hummingbirds and butterflies for pollination. [4] The corollas vary greatly in length, making them attractive to a wide range of pollinators. [5] The fruit is a small dark red berry, turning black at maturity. [6]
Pentas lanceolata, commonly known as Egyptian starcluster, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the madder family, Rubiaceae that is native to tropical Africa from Sudan to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique, as well as Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. [2]
Unlike many ice plants, this species is hardy to −20 °F (−29 °C), successfully overwintering at locations such as Denver, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois. The leaves turn red in cold winter temperatures. Due to the low need for maintenance, it is suitable for urban environments and high temperature regions.
Fruits. Although there are around 500 species in the genus Ixora, only a handful are commonly cultivated, and the common name, Ixora, is usually used for I. coccinea. I. coccinea is used in warm climates for hedges and screens, foundation plantings, massed in flowering beds, or grown as a specimen shrub or small
Rubus pubescens (dwarf red blackberry, dwarf red raspberry, dewberry) is a herbaceous perennial widespread across much of Canada and the northern United States, from Alaska to Newfoundland, south as far as Oregon, Colorado, and West Virginia.
Grevillea banksii is an erect, bushy to spindly shrub or slender tree that typically grows to a height of 2–10 m (6 ft 7 in – 32 ft 10 in). It has mostly divided leaves with four to twelve narrowly elliptic to linear lobes 50–180 mm (2.0–7.1 in) long and 5–15 mm (0.20–0.59 in) wide with the edges turned down or rolled under.