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--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--
SET statement_timeout = 0;
SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
SET standard_conforming_strings = on;
SET check_function_bodies = false;
SET client_min_messages = warning;
--
-- Name: plpgsql; Type: EXTENSION; Schema: -; Owner: -
--
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS plpgsql WITH SCHEMA pg_catalog;
--
-- Name: EXTENSION plpgsql; Type: COMMENT; Schema: -; Owner: -
--
COMMENT ON EXTENSION plpgsql IS 'PL/pgSQL procedural language';
SET search_path = public, pg_catalog;
SET default_tablespace = '';
SET default_with_oids = false;
--
-- Name: plants; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: -; Tablespace:
--
CREATE TABLE plants (
id integer NOT NULL,
latin_name character varying(255),
common_name character varying(255),
description character varying(255),
tsv tsvector
);
--
-- Name: plants_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: public; Owner: -
--
CREATE SEQUENCE plants_id_seq
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
NO MINVALUE
NO MAXVALUE
CACHE 1;
--
-- Name: plants_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE OWNED BY; Schema: public; Owner: -
--
ALTER SEQUENCE plants_id_seq OWNED BY plants.id;
--
-- Name: plants_id_seq; Type: SEQUENCE SET; Schema: public; Owner: -
--
SELECT pg_catalog.setval('plants_id_seq', 927, true);
--
-- Name: schema_info; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: -; Tablespace:
--
CREATE TABLE schema_info (
version integer DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL
);
--
-- Name: id; Type: DEFAULT; Schema: public; Owner: -
--
ALTER TABLE ONLY plants ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT nextval('plants_id_seq'::regclass);
--
-- Data for Name: plants; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: -
--
COPY plants (id, latin_name, common_name, description, tsv) FROM stdin;
1 capsicum annuum 'acorn' Acorn Pepper Narrow fruits about an inch and a half (4cm) long ripen from cream to a brilliant red. '4cm':14 'acorn':3,4 'annuum':2 'brilliant':21 'capsicum':1 'cream':18 'fruit':7 'half':13 'inch':10 'long':15 'narrow':6 'pepper':5 'red':22 'ripen':16
2 yucca filamentosa Adam's Needle An almost stemless plant with a radiating mass of narrow stiff leaves. When a stem finally forms it carries the inflorescence of white flowers high above the leaves. 'adam':3 'almost':7 'carri':24 'filamentosa':2 'final':21 'flower':29 'form':22 'high':30 'infloresc':26 'leav':17,33 'mass':13 'narrow':15 'needl':5 'plant':9 'radiat':12 'stem':20 'stemless':8 'stiff':16 'white':28 'yucca':1
3 myrsine africana African Boxwood Shrub three to four feet (120cm) in height with small, rounded leaves. '120cm':10 'african':3 'africana':2 'boxwood':4 'feet':9 'four':8 'height':12 'leav':16 'myrsin':1 'round':15 'shrub':5 'small':14 'three':6
4 gerbera jamesonii hybrids African Daisy Clump-forming with daisy flowers in many sizes and forms depending on the strain. 'african':4 'clump':7 'clump-form':6 'daisi':5,10 'depend':17 'flower':11 'form':8,16 'gerbera':1 'hybrid':3 'jamesonii':2 'mani':13 'size':14 'strain':20
5 sparmannia African Hemp Shrubs reaching five feet (150cm) if not controlled. Leaves broad with three to five shallow pointed lobes. '150cm':8 'african':2 'broad':13 'control':11 'feet':7 'five':6,17 'hemp':3 'leav':12 'lobe':20 'point':19 'reach':5 'shallow':18 'shrub':4 'sparmannia':1 'three':15
6 hedera canariensis hybrids African Ivy, Algerian Ivy Hand-shaped leaves that may reach six inches (15cm) in width are carried on self-attaching, flexible stems that will climb or perform well cascading from a basket. '15cm':17 'african':4 'algerian':6 'attach':25 'basket':37 'canariensi':2 'carri':21 'cascad':34 'climb':30 'flexibl':26 'hand':9 'hand-shap':8 'hedera':1 'hybrid':3 'inch':16 'ivi':5,7 'leav':11 'may':13 'perform':32 'reach':14 'self':24 'self-attach':23 'shape':10 'six':15 'stem':27 'well':33 'width':19
7 alocasia sanderiana African Mask, Kris Plant Leaf stalk and blade each about two feet (60 cm) long. The triangular blade has deep, broad lobes, dark green with silvery-grey margins and main veins. '60':15 'african':3 'alocasia':1 'blade':10,20 'broad':23 'cm':16 'dark':25 'deep':22 'feet':14 'green':26 'grey':30 'kris':5 'leaf':7 'lobe':24 'long':17 'main':33 'margin':31 'mask':4 'plant':6 'sanderiana':2 'silveri':29 'silvery-grey':28 'stalk':8 'triangular':19 'two':13 'vein':34
8 synadenium grantii 'rubra' African Milk Bush Fleshy stem becoming woody and several feet (60cm) tall, with fleshy leaves in the upper sections. This variety suffused with maroon throughout. '60cm':14 'african':4 'becom':9 'bush':6 'feet':13 'fleshi':7,17 'grantii':2 'leav':18 'maroon':27 'milk':5 'rubra':3 'section':22 'sever':12 'stem':8 'suffus':25 'synadenium':1 'tall':15 'throughout':28 'upper':21 'varieti':24 'woodi':10
9 saintpaulia African Violet Stemless or short-stemmed plants with a rosette of leaves on short stalks. framing masses of star-shaped flowers on short stalks at the center. 'african':2 'center':30 'flower':24 'frame':18 'leav':14 'mass':19 'plant':9 'rosett':12 'saintpaulia':1 'shape':23 'short':7,16,26 'short-stem':6 'stalk':17,27 'star':22 'star-shap':21 'stem':8 'stemless':4 'violet':3
10 leuchtenbergia principis Agave Cactus Short egg-shaped stem covered with slender, triangular tubercles to appear almost like a cut down agave. Flowers are yellow. 'agav':3,22 'almost':17 'appear':16 'cactus':4 'cover':10 'cut':20 'egg':7 'egg-shap':6 'flower':23 'leuchtenbergia':1 'like':18 'principi':2 'shape':8 'short':5 'slender':12 'stem':9 'triangular':13 'tubercl':14 'yellow':25
11 eupatorium Ague Weed Shrubs and perennials with showy terminal clusters of flowers. 'agu':2 'cluster':10 'eupatorium':1 'flower':12 'perenni':6 'showi':8 'shrub':4 'termin':9 'weed':3
12 tillandsia Air Plant Plant form varies from tight water-holding cups to open rosettes and long strings of tiny reduced rosettes. 'air':2 'cup':12 'form':5 'hold':11 'long':17 'open':14 'plant':3,4 'reduc':21 'rosett':15,22 'string':18 'tight':8 'tillandsia':1 'tini':20 'vari':6 'water':10 'water-hold':9
13 dioscorea bulbifera Air Potato Strong vine with heart-shaped leaves, producing small tubers along its length as the season progress. Interesting in the interior but abhorrent to southern gardeners since every tuber will give sprout turning a garden into a jungle. 'abhorr':27 'air':3 'along':15 'bulbifera':2 'dioscorea':1 'everi':32 'garden':30,39 'give':35 'heart':9 'heart-shap':8 'interest':22 'interior':25 'jungl':42 'leav':11 'length':17 'potato':4 'produc':12 'progress':21 'season':20 'shape':10 'sinc':31 'small':13 'southern':29 'sprout':36 'strong':5 'tuber':14,33 'turn':37 'vine':6
14 glechoma hederacea variegata Ale Ivy, Field Balm, Ground Ivy Creeping or trailing stems rooting as they go, the leaves in this form with white variegation. 'ale':4 'balm':7 'creep':10 'field':6 'form':22 'glechoma':1 'go':17 'ground':8 'hederacea':2 'ivi':5,9 'leav':19 'root':14 'stem':13 'trail':12 'varieg':25 'variegata':3 'white':24
15 ptychosperma elegans Alexander Palm, Solitaire Palm Single trunked palm, slender for its height with an arching crown of feather like leaves. The leaflets are blunt at the tips as though trimmed off. 'alexand':3 'arch':16 'blunt':25 'crown':17 'elegan':2 'feather':19 'height':13 'leaflet':23 'leav':21 'like':20 'palm':4,6,9 'ptychosperma':1 'singl':7 'slender':10 'solitair':5 'though':30 'tip':28 'trim':31 'trunk':8
16 aloe vera Aloe Barbadensis, Barbados Aloe, Curacao Aloe Almost stemless, fleshy leaves more than a foot (30cm) long in a rosette. Flowers are orange-red on a leafless stalk. '30cm':17 'almost':9 'alo':1,3,6,8 'barbadensi':4 'barbado':5 'curacao':7 'fleshi':11 'flower':22 'foot':16 'leafless':29 'leav':12 'long':18 'orang':25 'orange-r':24 'red':26 'rosett':21 'stalk':30 'stemless':10 'vera':2
17 pilea cadieri Aluminum Plant Soft erect stems about 12-18 inches (30-45cm) tall with a few pairs of opposite, silver-striped leaves in the upper part. Inflorescence of tiny flowers. '-18':10 '-45':13 '12':9 '30':12 'aluminum':3 'cadieri':2 'cm':14 'erect':6 'flower':33 'inch':11 'infloresc':30 'leav':25 'opposit':21 'pair':19 'part':29 'pilea':1 'plant':4 'silver':23 'silver-strip':22 'soft':5 'stem':7 'stripe':24 'tall':15 'tini':32 'upper':28
18 hippeastrum Amaryllis Leaves fleshy, strap-shaped, evergreen or dying down in winter. Flowers in a group at the top of a leafless stalk, long-trumpet shaped. 'amarylli':2 'die':10 'evergreen':8 'fleshi':4 'flower':14 'group':17 'hippeastrum':1 'leafless':23 'leav':3 'long':26 'long-trumpet':25 'shape':7,28 'stalk':24 'strap':6 'strap-shap':5 'top':20 'trumpet':27 'winter':13
19 eucharis grandiflora Amazon Lily Leaves almost two feet (60cm) tall. Flowers on stalks a little taller than leaves in hanging groups of ten to twelve, pure white. '60cm':9 'almost':6 'amazon':3 'euchari':1 'feet':8 'flower':11 'grandiflora':2 'group':21 'hang':20 'leav':5,18 'lili':4 'littl':15 'pure':26 'stalk':13 'tall':10 'taller':16 'ten':23 'twelv':25 'two':7 'white':27
20 agave americana American Century Plant, Pita, Spiked Aloe Full-grown this species can be 12 feet (3.5m) wide, and when flowering may reach 25 feet (8m) in height. The leaves are grey-green, and various striped forms are known. '12':16 '25':26 '3.5':18 '8m':28 'agav':1 'alo':8 'american':3 'americana':2 'centuri':4 'feet':17,27 'flower':23 'form':40 'full':10 'full-grown':9 'green':36 'grey':35 'grey-green':34 'grown':11 'height':30 'known':42 'leav':32 'm':19 'may':24 'pita':6 'plant':5 'reach':25 'speci':13 'spike':7 'stripe':39 'various':38 'wide':20
21 agave utahensis American False Aloe A single plant has 70-80 leaves about eight to ten inches (25cm) long, with toothed edges that give a ragged appearance to the plant. The plants may grow in clumps that can become large if left undivided. '-80':11 '25cm':18 '70':10 'agav':1 'alo':5 'american':3 'appear':27 'becom':39 'clump':36 'edg':22 'eight':14 'fals':4 'give':24 'grow':34 'inch':17 'larg':40 'leav':12 'left':42 'long':19 'may':33 'plant':8,30,32 'rag':26 'singl':7 'ten':16 'tooth':21 'undivid':43 'utahensi':2
22 adiantum pedatum American Maidenhair, Five-finger Fern Foot-long (30cm) leaves divided into (usually) five branches. '30cm':12 'adiantum':1 'american':3 'branch':18 'divid':14 'fern':8 'finger':7 'five':6,17 'five-fing':5 'foot':10 'foot-long':9 'leav':13 'long':11 'maidenhair':4 'pedatum':2 'usual':16
23 tagetes erecta hybrids American Marigolds Plants typically two to three feet (60-90cm) in height with a flower head so full as to become almost spherical in a range of yellow and orange shades. '-90':13 '60':12 'almost':26 'american':4 'becom':25 'cm':14 'erecta':2 'feet':11 'flower':19 'full':22 'head':20 'height':16 'hybrid':3 'marigold':5 'orang':34 'plant':6 'rang':30 'shade':35 'spheric':27 'taget':1 'three':10 'two':8 'typic':7 'yellow':32
24 sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa American Pitcher Plant Evergreen leaves last more than a year making rather squat pitchers only a few inches (5cm) tall. The flowers stand well above the pitchers and vary in color from pink to deep red. '5cm':23 'american':5 'color':35 'deep':39 'evergreen':8 'flower':26 'inch':22 'last':10 'leav':9 'make':15 'pink':37 'pitcher':6,18,31 'plant':7 'purpurea':2 'rather':16 'red':40 'sarracenia':1 'squat':17 'ssp':3 'stand':27 'tall':24 'vari':33 'venosa':4 'well':28 'year':14
25 arisaema triphyllum American Wake Robin, Jack In The Pulpit Leaves plain green with three main divisions to the blade. Flower spathe green to purple, striped with white or green and with a hood over the flower spike. 'american':3 'arisaema':1 'blade':19 'divis':16 'flower':20,36 'green':12,22,29 'hood':33 'jack':6 'leav':10 'main':15 'plain':11 'pulpit':9 'purpl':24 'robin':5 'spath':21 'spike':37 'stripe':25 'three':14 'triphyllum':2 'wake':4 'white':27
26 billbergia nutans Angel Tears, Queen's Tears Small slender vases produce a few-flowered flower cluster held just above the leaves. 'angel':3 'billbergia':1 'cluster':17 'few-flow':13 'flower':15,16 'held':18 'leav':22 'nutan':2 'produc':11 'queen':5 'slender':9 'small':8 'tear':4,7 'vase':10
27 begonia 'anita roseanna' Angel Wing Begonia An angel-wing type with canes up to two feet (60cm) long bearing narrow bronze leaves (white spotted as they mature), and deep pink flowers in hanging clusters. '60cm':18 'angel':4,9 'angel-w':8 'anita':2 'bear':20 'begonia':1,6 'bronz':22 'cane':13 'cluster':35 'deep':30 'feet':17 'flower':32 'hang':34 'leav':23 'long':19 'matur':28 'narrow':21 'pink':31 'roseanna':3 'spot':25 'two':16 'type':11 'white':24 'wing':5,10
28 jasminum nitidum Angel Wing Jasmine Semi-twining evergreen plant easily held to a shrub form. Flowers white with narrow petals in a star shape, mostly in summer. 'angel':3 'easili':11 'evergreen':9 'flower':17 'form':16 'held':12 'jasmin':5 'jasminum':1 'most':26 'narrow':20 'nitidum':2 'petal':21 'plant':10 'semi':7 'semi-twin':6 'shape':25 'shrub':15 'star':24 'summer':28 'twine':8 'white':18 'wing':4
29 caladium Angel Wings Leaf colors range from green with white dots or splashes to vivid red/green/white combinations, giving months of color. 'angel':2 'caladium':1 'color':5,21 'combin':17 'dot':11 'give':18 'green':8 'leaf':4 'month':19 'rang':6 'red/green/white':16 'splash':13 'vivid':15 'white':10 'wing':3
30 carpobrotus glaucescens Angular Sea Fig Trailing stems have blue-green leaves along their length, flowers are light purple with paler centers. 'along':13 'angular':3 'blue':10 'blue-green':9 'carpobrotus':1 'center':22 'fig':5 'flower':16 'glaucescen':2 'green':11 'leav':12 'length':15 'light':18 'paler':21 'purpl':19 'sea':4 'stem':7 'trail':6
31 pellionia repens Anteater Scale, Fish Scales, Trailing Watermelon Vine Upper surface of leaves purple at the edges, olive-green or lighter splashed in the center. 'anteat':3 'center':26 'edg':17 'fish':5 'green':20 'leav':13 'lighter':22 'oliv':19 'olive-green':18 'pellionia':1 'purpl':14 'repen':2 'scale':4,6 'splash':23 'surfac':11 'trail':7 'upper':10 'vine':9 'watermelon':8
32 hibiscus rosa sinensis 'antique rose' Antique Rose Hibiscus Flowers blue-purple with a red flush over the central half of the flower. 'antiqu':4,6 'blue':11 'blue-purpl':10 'central':19 'flower':9,23 'flush':16 'half':20 'hibiscus':1,8 'purpl':12 'red':15 'rosa':2 'rose':5,7 'sinensi':3
33 neomarica caerulea Apostle Plant Flowers opening one or two at a time, about four inches (10cm) across, pale blue and deep blue with the base of the petals yellow banded with brown. '10cm':16 'across':17 'apostl':3 'band':30 'base':25 'blue':19,22 'brown':32 'caerulea':2 'deep':21 'flower':5 'four':14 'inch':15 'neomarica':1 'one':7 'open':6 'pale':18 'petal':28 'plant':4 'time':12 'two':9 'yellow':29
34 mentha suaveolens variegata Apple Mint Shoots slightly hairy at least a foot (30cm) long. Flowers white or pink. This form has variegated leaves, normal apple mint is plain green. '30cm':13 'appl':4,25 'flower':15 'foot':12 'form':20 'green':29 'hairi':8 'least':10 'leav':23 'long':14 'mentha':1 'mint':5,26 'normal':24 'pink':18 'plain':28 'shoot':6 'slight':7 'suaveolen':2 'varieg':22 'variegata':3 'white':16
35 jasminum sambac Arabian Jasmine, Pink Jasmine Twining plant making a sparse climber or easily trained as a more bushy shrub. Flowers are white, single or heavily double in some cultivars. 'arabian':3 'bushi':19 'climber':12 'cultivar':30 'doubl':27 'easili':14 'flower':21 'heavili':26 'jasmin':4,6 'jasminum':1 'make':9 'pink':5 'plant':8 'sambac':2 'shrub':20 'singl':24 'spars':11 'train':15 'twine':7 'white':23
36 polyscias Aralia Upright trunks on what can be very large shrubs if left unpruned. Leaves in many forms, green or variegated. 'aralia':2 'form':18 'green':19 'larg':10 'leav':15 'left':13 'mani':17 'polyscia':1 'shrub':11 'trunk':4 'unprun':14 'upright':3 'varieg':21
37 selaginella pallescens Arborvitae Fern, Sweat Fern Tufted with branches standing upright to a height of a few (5cm) inches and are yellow-green in color. '5cm':18 'arborvita':3 'branch':9 'color':26 'fern':4,6 'green':24 'height':14 'inch':19 'pallescen':2 'selaginella':1 'stand':10 'sweat':5 'tuft':7 'upright':11 'yellow':23 'yellow-green':22
38 dypsis lutescens Areca Palm, Butterfly Palm, Golden Cane Palm, Golden Feather Palm Cluster palms with trunks eventually about four inches (10cm) diameter. Usually sold as multiple plants in a pot, giving dense foliage with a golden color to the stalks of the leaves and their sheathing bases. '10cm':21 'areca':3 'base':47 'butterfli':5 'cane':8 'cluster':13 'color':37 'dens':32 'diamet':22 'dypsi':1 'eventu':17 'feather':11 'foliag':33 'four':19 'give':31 'golden':7,10,36 'inch':20 'leav':43 'lutescen':2 'multipl':26 'palm':4,6,9,12,14 'plant':27 'pot':30 'sheath':46 'sold':24 'stalk':40 'trunk':16 'usual':23
39 syngonium podophyllum hybrids Arrowhead Vine, Goosefoot Plant Herbaceous tufted plant when young, climbing by attachment roots but easily controlled for basket use. 'arrowhead':4 'attach':15 'basket':21 'climb':13 'control':19 'easili':18 'goosefoot':6 'herbac':8 'hybrid':3 'plant':7,10 'podophyllum':2 'root':16 'syngonium':1 'tuft':9 'use':22 'vine':5 'young':12
40 obregonia denegrii Artichoke Cactus The flattened top surface is covered with flat, leaf-like tubercles. Flowers are white or pale pink. 'artichok':3 'cactus':4 'cover':10 'denegrii':2 'flat':12 'flatten':6 'flower':17 'leaf':14 'leaf-lik':13 'like':15 'obregonia':1 'pale':21 'pink':22 'surfac':8 'top':7 'tubercl':16 'white':19
41 pilea microphylla Artillery Fern Soft, fleshy stems and small round leaves in untidy branched masses. In spite of the soft appearance this is an extremely tough plant. 'appear':21 'artilleri':3 'branch':14 'extrem':25 'fern':4 'fleshi':6 'leav':11 'mass':15 'microphylla':2 'pilea':1 'plant':27 'round':10 'small':9 'soft':5,20 'spite':17 'stem':7 'tough':26 'untidi':13
42 nepenthes maxima Asian Pitcher Plant Pitchers up to eight inches (20cm) long, are beautifully mottled with greenish-white on a purple-red background. '20cm':11 'asian':3 'background':25 'beauti':14 'eight':9 'greenish':18 'greenish-whit':17 'inch':10 'long':12 'maxima':2 'mottl':15 'nepenth':1 'pitcher':4,6 'plant':5 'purpl':23 'purple-r':22 'red':24 'white':19
43 trachelospermum asiaticum Asiatic Jessamine Groundcover or scrambling vine with slender stalks and leathery leaves. Forms are available with red and yellow variegation. 'asiat':3 'asiaticum':2 'avail':17 'form':15 'groundcov':5 'jessamin':4 'leatheri':13 'leav':14 'red':19 'scrambl':7 'slender':10 'stalk':11 'trachelospermum':1 'varieg':22 'vine':8 'yellow':21
44 asparagus setaceus Asparagus Fern, Lace Fern Wiry, scrambling plant with tiny cylindrical ôleavesö held in a flat plane that makes the plant great as cut foliage for bouquets. 'asparagus':1,3 'bouquet':28 'cut':25 'cylindr':12 'fern':4,6 'flat':17 'foliag':26 'great':23 'held':14 'lace':5 'make':20 'plane':18 'plant':9,22 'scrambl':8 'setaceus':2 'tini':11 'wiri':7 'ôleavesö':13
45 kalanchoe fedtschenkoi Aurora-borealis Plant Wiry stems that branch to form a loose sprawling plant with blue-green, scalloped-edge leaves. 'aurora':4 'aurora-boreali':3 'blue':19 'blue-green':18 'boreali':5 'branch':10 'edg':23 'fedtschenkoi':2 'form':12 'green':20 'kalancho':1 'leav':24 'loos':14 'plant':6,16 'scallop':22 'scalloped-edg':21 'sprawl':15 'stem':8 'wiri':7
46 hardenbergia Australian Pea Medium size vines that can be pruned to do well in pots. 'australian':2 'hardenbergia':1 'medium':4 'pea':3 'pot':15 'prune':10 'size':5 'vine':6 'well':13
47 casuarina Australian Pine, Beefwood, Ironwood, She Oak Inconspicuous leaves on grey-green branches give a pine-like appearance. These are large trees but useful as small plants for their foliage. 'appear':20 'australian':2 'beefwood':4 'branch':14 'casuarina':1 'foliag':32 'give':15 'green':13 'grey':12 'grey-green':11 'inconspicu':8 'ironwood':5 'larg':23 'leav':9 'like':19 'oak':7 'pine':3,18 'pine-lik':17 'plant':29 'small':28 'tree':24 'use':26
48 colchicum autumnale Autumn Crocus Leaves produced in spring and lost before the pink or purple flowers. 'autumn':3 'autumnal':2 'colchicum':1 'crocus':4 'flower':16 'leav':5 'lost':10 'pink':13 'produc':6 'purpl':15 'spring':8
49 persea americana Avocado Broad, dark green somewhat glossy leaves held all the way up the grey-green branches. 'americana':2 'avocado':3 'branch':19 'broad':4 'dark':5 'glossi':8 'green':6,18 'grey':17 'grey-green':16 'held':10 'leav':9 'persea':1 'somewhat':7 'way':13
50 sprekelia formosissima Aztec Lily, Jacobean Lily Flower appears before the leaves, and is shaped a little like an orchid flower with a strong lip. Bright red. 'appear':8 'aztec':3 'bright':25 'flower':7,20 'formosissima':2 'jacobean':5 'leav':11 'like':17 'lili':4,6 'lip':24 'littl':16 'orchid':19 'red':26 'shape':14 'sprekelia':1 'strong':23
86 littonia Bellflower Slender sprawling or climbing stems with tendrils at the end of their leaves. Flowers are bell-shaped. 'bell':19 'bell-shap':18 'bellflow':2 'climb':6 'end':12 'flower':16 'leav':15 'littonia':1 'shape':20 'slender':3 'sprawl':4 'stem':7 'tendril':9
51 primula malacoides Baby Primrose, Fairy Primrose Broad simple leaves in a rosette, flowers in clusters on leafless stalks, usually less than a foot (30cm) high. Flowers are in pastels and stronger colors. '30cm':24 'babi':3 'broad':7 'cluster':15 'color':32 'fairi':5 'flower':13,26 'foot':23 'high':25 'leafless':17 'leav':9 'less':20 'malacoid':2 'pastel':29 'primros':4,6 'primula':1 'rosett':12 'simpl':8 'stalk':18 'stronger':31 'usual':19
52 peperomia obtusifolia 'variegata' Baby Rubber Plant Short-stemmed, creeping plant with fleshy leaves heavily marked with yellow. A good groundcover or basket plant for low light. 'babi':4 'basket':23 'creep':10 'fleshi':13 'good':20 'groundcov':21 'heavili':15 'leav':14 'light':27 'low':26 'mark':16 'obtusifolia':2 'peperomia':1 'plant':6,11,24 'rubber':5 'short':8 'short-stem':7 'stem':9 'variegata':3 'yellow':18
53 aptenia cordifolia Baby Sun Rose, Heart Leaf Ice Plant Leaves variegated, flowers are red. 'aptenia':1 'babi':3 'cordifolia':2 'flower':12 'heart':6 'ice':8 'leaf':7 'leav':10 'plant':9 'red':14 'rose':5 'sun':4 'varieg':11
54 hypoestes Baby's Tears The genus includes shrubs but the houseplants are usually small plants with white or pink spotted leaves. 'babi':2 'genus':6 'housepl':11 'hypoest':1 'includ':7 'leav':21 'pink':19 'plant':15 'shrub':8 'small':14 'spot':20 'tear':4 'usual':13 'white':17
55 sonerila margaritacea Baby's Tears Short-trailing, red-stemmed herb with red stems. The leaves have a rough surface and are a yellowish green with dark shadows even in a healthy plant. Flowers are a deep red-purple in small clusters. 'babi':3 'cluster':44 'dark':28 'deep':38 'even':30 'flower':35 'green':26 'healthi':33 'herb':12 'leav':17 'margaritacea':2 'plant':34 'purpl':41 'red':10,14,40 'red-purpl':39 'red-stem':9 'rough':20 'shadow':29 'short':7 'short-trail':6 'small':43 'sonerila':1 'stem':11,15 'surfac':21 'tear':5 'trail':8 'yellowish':25
56 notocactus Ball Cactus Globose cacti with prominent ribs. 'ball':2 'cacti':5 'cactus':3 'globos':4 'notocactus':1 'promin':7 'rib':8
57 impatiens Balsam, Jewel Weed Soft, short-lived plants with continuous flowering for months once mature. 'balsam':2 'continu':11 'flower':12 'impatien':1 'jewel':3 'live':8 'matur':16 'month':14 'plant':9 'short':7 'short-liv':6 'soft':5 'weed':4
58 clusia rosea Balsam Apple Hard leathery leaves are very resistant in the interior. Several related species are grown, some quite small and manageable in a container. 'appl':4 'balsam':3 'clusia':1 'contain':26 'grown':18 'hard':5 'interior':13 'leatheri':6 'leav':7 'manag':23 'quit':20 'relat':15 'resist':10 'rosea':2 'sever':14 'small':21 'speci':16
59 asparagus falcatus Bamboo Fern, Lace Fern Strong scrambling vine with curving leaf-like structures on the side branches. Can be held to a reasonable size in a container. 'asparagus':1 'bamboo':3 'branch':19 'contain':29 'curv':11 'falcatus':2 'fern':4,6 'held':22 'lace':5 'leaf':13 'leaf-lik':12 'like':14 'reason':25 'scrambl':8 'side':18 'size':26 'strong':7 'structur':15 'vine':9
60 rhapis excelsa Bamboo Palm, Broad-leaved Lady Palm, Ground Rattan Clustering stems that may reach eight to ten feet (240-300cm) in height. Dark green leaves spread through the upper third of the trunk forming a dense mass. New shoots form from short spreading underground rhizomes. '-300':22 '240':21 'bamboo':3 'broad':6 'broad-leav':5 'cluster':12 'cm':23 'dark':26 'dens':39 'eight':17 'excelsa':2 'feet':20 'form':37,43 'green':27 'ground':10 'height':25 'ladi':8 'leav':7,28 'mass':40 'may':15 'new':41 'palm':4,9 'rattan':11 'reach':16 'rhapi':1 'rhizom':48 'shoot':42 'short':45 'spread':29,46 'stem':13 'ten':19 'third':33 'trunk':36 'underground':47 'upper':32
61 chamaedorea Bamboo Palm Slender palms with feather-like leaves, solitary or with trunks in clumps. 'bamboo':2 'chamaedorea':1 'clump':16 'feather':8 'feather-lik':7 'leav':10 'like':9 'palm':3,5 'slender':4 'solitari':11 'trunk':14
62 musa ornata Banana A small plant about four feet (120cm) tall with an upright inflorescence with pink bracts. '120cm':10 'banana':3 'bract':18 'feet':9 'four':8 'infloresc':15 'musa':1 'ornata':2 'pink':17 'plant':6 'small':5 'tall':11 'upright':14
63 masdevallia coccinea Banderitos, Little Flag Flowers produced singly, heart-shaped overall with a single erect tail. 'banderito':3 'coccinea':2 'erect':16 'flag':5 'flower':6 'heart':10 'heart-shap':9 'littl':4 'masdevallia':1 'overal':12 'produc':7 'shape':11 'singl':8,15 'tail':17
64 ficus microcarpa Banyan A small to medium-sized leaf species, dense and similar to benjamina but less likely to lose leaves capriciously than the unimproved forms of that species. 'banyan':3 'benjamina':16 'caprici':23 'dens':12 'ficus':1 'form':27 'leaf':10 'leav':22 'less':18 'like':19 'lose':21 'medium':8 'medium-s':7 'microcarpa':2 'similar':14 'size':9 'small':5 'speci':11,30 'unimprov':26
65 ficus retusa nitida (name has changed see ficus microcarpa) Banyan A small to medium-sized leaf species, dense and similar to benjamina but less likely to lose leaves capriciously than the unimproved forms of that species. 'banyan':10 'benjamina':23 'caprici':30 'chang':6 'dens':19 'ficus':1,8 'form':34 'leaf':17 'leav':29 'less':25 'like':26 'lose':28 'medium':15 'medium-s':14 'microcarpa':9 'name':4 'nitida':3 'retusa':2 'see':7 'similar':21 'size':16 'small':12 'speci':18,37 'unimprov':33
66 aspidistra Bar Room Plant Sword-shaped leaves from a narrow base are produced at intervals on a slowly running rhizome. 'aspidistra':1 'bar':2 'base':12 'interv':16 'leav':8 'narrow':11 'plant':4 'produc':14 'rhizom':21 'room':3 'run':20 'shape':7 'slowli':19 'sword':6 'sword-shap':5
67 malpighia glabra Barbados Cherry Bushes that will reach several feet (60cm) in height carry flat pink flowers that form large red fruits rich in vitamin C. '60cm':11 'barbado':3 'bush':5 'c':26 'carri':14 'cherri':4 'feet':10 'flat':15 'flower':17 'form':19 'fruit':22 'glabra':2 'height':13 'larg':20 'malpighia':1 'pink':16 'reach':8 'red':21 'rich':23 'sever':9 'vitamin':25
68 caesalpinia pulcherrima Barbados Pride, Mysore Thorn, Peacock Feather Flowers are bright orange-red and yellow, yellow of various shades, pink or clear red. 'barbado':3 'bright':11 'caesalpinia':1 'clear':23 'feather':8 'flower':9 'mysor':5 'orang':13 'orange-r':12 'peacock':7 'pink':21 'pride':4 'pulcherrima':2 'red':14,24 'shade':20 'thorn':6 'various':19 'yellow':16,17
69 murraya paniculata Bark Tree, Orange Jessamine Bright, shiny, dark green leaves with several leaflets clothe upright stems that can reach several feet (60cm) in height if not pruned. Clusters of white flowers are produced at the ends of the branches, followed by red fruits. '60cm':23 'bark':3 'branch':40 'bright':7 'cloth':15 'cluster':29 'dark':9 'end':37 'feet':22 'flower':32 'follow':41 'fruit':44 'green':10 'height':25 'jessamin':6 'leaflet':14 'leav':11 'murraya':1 'orang':5 'paniculata':2 'produc':34 'prune':28 'reach':20 'red':43 'sever':13,21 'shini':8 'stem':17 'tree':4 'upright':16 'white':31
70 ocimum basilicum 'opal' Basil Leaves about two inches (5cm) long, spade-shaped. Spotted or completely flushed with a rich burgundy red. Leaves are fragrant. '5cm':9 'basil':4 'basilicum':2 'burgundi':21 'complet':16 'flush':17 'fragrant':25 'inch':8 'leav':5,23 'long':10 'ocimum':1 'opal':3 'red':22 'rich':20 'shape':13 'spade':12 'spade-shap':11 'spot':14 'two':7
71 ocimum Basil Annual or short-lived perennial with small leaves in pairs opposite one another on the slender stems. Small, two-lipped flowers in open or dense spikes. Leaves of all species fragrant if crushed. 'annual':3 'anoth':16 'basil':2 'crush':37 'dens':29 'flower':25 'fragrant':35 'leav':11,31 'lip':24 'live':7 'ocimum':1 'one':15 'open':27 'opposit':14 'pair':13 'perenni':8 'short':6 'short-liv':5 'slender':19 'small':10,21 'speci':34 'spike':30 'stem':20 'two':23 'two-lip':22
72 aeschynanthus Basket Plant Trailing plants that can become woody and make good baskets. Flowers are produced in groups at the tips of the stems. 'aeschynanthus':1 'basket':2,13 'becom':8 'flower':14 'good':12 'group':18 'make':11 'plant':3,5 'produc':16 'stem':24 'tip':21 'trail':4 'woodi':9
73 euphorbia obesa Basketball Euphorbia A small spherical or mitre-shaped plant with vertical creases that have small tubercles on them. 'basketbal':3 'creas':15 'euphorbia':1,4 'mitr':10 'mitre-shap':9 'obesa':2 'plant':12 'shape':11 'small':6,18 'spheric':7 'tubercl':19 'vertic':14
74 oplismenus Basketgrass Soft grass with green or variegated leaves arching to make an attractive basket plant. 'arch':10 'attract':14 'basket':15 'basketgrass':2 'grass':4 'green':6 'leav':9 'make':12 'oplismenus':1 'plant':16 'soft':3 'varieg':8
75 tacca chantrieri Bat Flower Leaves are paddle-shaped, standing about two feet (60cm) high. The inflorescence is taller, with dark, wing-shaped bracts backing a groups of dark flowers and long filaments that hang down in a form suggesting a bat in flight. '60cm':14 'back':26 'bat':3,43 'bract':25 'chantrieri':2 'dark':21,30 'feet':13 'filament':34 'flight':45 'flower':4,31 'form':40 'group':28 'hang':36 'high':15 'infloresc':17 'leav':5 'long':33 'paddl':8 'paddle-shap':7 'shape':9,24 'stand':10 'suggest':41 'tacca':1 'taller':19 'two':12 'wing':23 'wing-shap':22
76 nertera Bead Plant Tiny leaves held in a tight mass on the surface of the soil. Flowers are small and white but followed by bright orange berries. 'bead':2 'berri':27 'bright':25 'flower':17 'follow':23 'held':6 'leav':5 'mass':10 'nertera':1 'orang':26 'plant':3 'small':19 'soil':16 'surfac':13 'tight':9 'tini':4 'white':21
77 nertera depressa Bead Plant Tiny leaves on thread-like stems that hug the ground. Covered when in fruit with tiny orange globes. 'bead':3 'cover':16 'depressa':2 'fruit':19 'globe':23 'ground':15 'hug':13 'leav':6 'like':10 'nertera':1 'orang':22 'plant':4 'stem':11 'thread':9 'thread-lik':8 'tini':5,21
78 humata tyermannii Bear's Foot Fern, White Wabbit's Foot Fern Scaly, creeping rhizome with triangular, much-divided, dark green leaves. 'bear':3 'creep':13 'dark':20 'divid':19 'fern':6,11 'foot':5,10 'green':21 'humata':1 'leav':22 'much':18 'much-divid':17 'rhizom':14 'scali':12 'triangular':16 'tyermannii':2 'wabbit':8 'white':7
79 humata Bear's Foot Ferns Basket ferns with a creeping rhizome and much-divided leaves. 'basket':6 'bear':2 'creep':10 'divid':15 'fern':5,7 'foot':4 'humata':1 'leav':16 'much':14 'much-divid':13 'rhizom':11
80 sedum morganianum Beaver's Tail, Burros Tail, Lamb's Tail A tufted plant with stems that trail or hang to about two feet (60cm) in length, covered closely with grey-green, fleshy leaves( which fall off at the slightest contact and will root). '60cm':24 'beaver':3 'burro':6 'close':28 'contact':41 'cover':27 'fall':36 'feet':23 'fleshi':33 'green':32 'grey':31 'grey-green':30 'hang':19 'lamb':8 'leav':34 'length':26 'morganianum':2 'plant':13 'root':44 'sedum':1 'slightest':40 'stem':15 'tail':5,7,10 'trail':17 'tuft':12 'two':22
81 opuntia basilaris Beavertail Cactus Broad pads six to eight inches (15-20cm) long, almost spineless. Flowers are a pale or deeper pink. '-20':12 '15':11 'almost':15 'basilari':2 'beavertail':3 'broad':5 'cactus':4 'cm':13 'deeper':22 'eight':9 'flower':17 'inch':10 'long':14 'opuntia':1 'pad':6 'pale':20 'pink':23 'six':7 'spineless':16
82 perilla frutscens 'purple' Beef Steak Plant Upright stems to two feet (60cm) in height, with frilled, purple-flushed leaves. '60cm':12 'beef':4 'feet':11 'flush':19 'frill':16 'frutscen':2 'height':14 'leav':20 'perilla':1 'plant':6 'purpl':3,18 'purple-flush':17 'steak':5 'stem':8 'two':10 'upright':7
83 acalypha wilkesiana 'godseffiana' Beefsteak Plant, Fire Dragon Plant, Lance Copper-leaf Small, bushy shrub with yellow-margined leaves. 'acalypha':1 'beefsteak':4 'bushi':14 'copper':11 'copper-leaf':10 'dragon':7 'fire':6 'godseffiana':3 'lanc':9 'leaf':12 'leav':20 'margin':19 'plant':5,8 'shrub':15 'small':13 'wilkesiana':2 'yellow':18 'yellow-margin':17
84 dracaena sanderiana Belgian Evergreen, Lucky Bamboo Leaves a glossy green with silvery-white stripes. 'bamboo':6 'belgian':3 'dracaena':1 'evergreen':4 'glossi':9 'green':10 'leav':7 'lucki':5 'sanderiana':2 'silveri':13 'silvery-whit':12 'stripe':15 'white':14
85 amaryllis belladonna Belladonna Lily, Jersey Lily Deciduous leaves up to 30'' (75cm) long, reappearing after the flowers fade. Inflorescence on a solid leafless stalk 24-30'' (60-75cm) tall, with one to four trumpet-shaped flowers about four to six inches (10-15cm) wide. '-15':45 '-30':26 '-75':28 '10':44 '24':25 '30':11 '60':27 '75cm':12 'amarylli':1 'belladonna':2,3 'cm':29,46 'decidu':7 'fade':18 'flower':17,38 'four':34,40 'inch':43 'infloresc':19 'jersey':5 'leafless':23 'leav':8 'lili':4,6 'long':13 'one':32 'reappear':14 'shape':37 'six':42 'solid':22 'stalk':24 'tall':30 'trumpet':36 'trumpet-shap':35 'wide':47
87 lilium longiflorum hybrids Bermuda Lily Leaves six to eight inches (15-20cm) long on an upright stalk that may reach three feet in height. Flowers are funnel-shaped, pure white, up to seven inches (18cm) long. '-20':12 '15':11 '18cm':37 'bermuda':4 'cm':13 'eight':9 'feet':23 'flower':26 'funnel':29 'funnel-shap':28 'height':25 'hybrid':3 'inch':10,36 'leav':6 'lili':5 'lilium':1 'long':14,38 'longiflorum':2 'may':20 'pure':31 'reach':21 'seven':35 'shape':30 'six':7 'stalk':18 'three':22 'upright':17 'white':32
88 ornithogalum umbellatum Betty Go To Bed At Noon Leaves less than a foot (30cm) long, with a silvery midrib. Flowers in a cluster at the top of a stem that grows as the leaves age and dry up. '30cm':14 'age':35 'bed':6 'betti':3 'cluster':23 'dri':37 'flower':20 'foot':13 'go':4 'grow':31 'leav':9,34 'less':10 'long':15 'midrib':19 'noon':8 'ornithogalum':1 'silveri':18 'stem':29 'top':26 'umbellatum':2
89 convolvulus Bindweed Erect or climbing herbs and shrubs. Flowers are funnel-shaped. 'bindwe':2 'climb':5 'convolvulus':1 'erect':3 'flower':9 'funnel':12 'funnel-shap':11 'herb':6 'shape':13 'shrub':8
90 strelitzia reginae Bird Of Paradise, Crane Flower Almost stemless above ground with grey-green heavy textured paddle-shaped leaves produced more or less in two ranks. In flower, a heavy horizontal spathe produces one or two flowers at a time that are orange and blue in a vary curious shape. 'almost':8 'bird':3 'blue':47 'crane':6 'curious':51 'flower':7,30,39 'green':15 'grey':14 'grey-green':13 'ground':11 'heavi':16,32 'horizont':33 'leav':21 'less':25 'one':36 'orang':45 'paddl':19 'paddle-shap':18 'paradis':5 'produc':22,35 'rank':28 'regina':2 'shape':20,52 'spath':34 'stemless':9 'strelitzia':1 'textur':17 'time':42 'two':27,38 'vari':50
91 ochna Bird's Eye Bush Open shrubs producing yellow flowers. The interest and common name comes from the fruit which has a red base carrying two shiny, black protruding seeds. 'base':24 'bird':2 'black':28 'bush':5 'carri':25 'come':16 'common':14 'eye':4 'flower':10 'fruit':19 'interest':12 'name':15 'ochna':1 'open':6 'produc':8 'protrud':29 'red':23 'seed':30 'shini':27 'shrub':7 'two':26 'yellow':9
92 asplenium nidus Bird's Nest Fern, Hawaii Bird'snest Sleenwort Broad, undivided leaves in a regular tuft, forming a basket or nest. 'asplenium':1 'basket':20 'bird':3,8 'broad':11 'fern':6 'form':18 'hawaii':7 'leav':13 'nest':5,22 'nidus':2 'regular':16 'sleenwort':10 'snest':9 'tuft':17 'undivid':12
93 aristolochia Birthwort, Dutchman's Pipe Vigorous climbers that need a strong trellis. The flowers are unusual in form and coloring, and may have distinctive and unpleasant odors. 'aristolochia':1 'birthwort':2 'climber':7 'color':20 'distinct':24 'dutchman':3 'flower':14 'form':18 'may':22 'need':9 'odor':27 'pipe':5 'strong':11 'trelli':12 'unpleas':26 'unusu':16 'vigor':6
94 astrophytum myriostigma Bishop's Cap, Bishop's Hood Globose stem with several radial grooves. Spineless.. Flowers are yellow with a red center. '..':16 'astrophytum':1 'bishop':3,6 'cap':5 'center':23 'flower':17 'globos':9 'groov':14 'hood':8 'myriostigma':2 'radial':13 'red':22 'sever':12 'spineless':15 'stem':10 'yellow':19
95 iberis amara Bitter Candytuft, Clowns Mustard, Rocket Candytuft Mounded annuals covered with flattened clusters of flowers. 'amara':2 'annual':10 'bitter':3 'candytuft':4,8 'clown':5 'cluster':14 'cover':11 'flatten':13 'flower':16 'iberi':1 'mound':9 'mustard':6 'rocket':7
96 xanthorrhoea Black Boy, Grass Tree A short dark-colored trunk carries a large fountain of hard grass-like leaves. 'black':2 'boy':3 'carri':12 'color':10 'dark':9 'dark-color':8 'fountain':15 'grass':4,19 'grass-lik':18 'hard':17 'larg':14 'leav':21 'like':20 'short':7 'tree':5 'trunk':11 'xanthorrhoea':1
97 ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens Black Dragon Very small ( about four inches (10cm) tall) and very dark in all parts. '10cm':11 'black':4 'dark':15 'dragon':5 'four':9 'inch':10 'nigrescen':3 'ophiopogon':1 'part':18 'planiscapus':2 'small':7 'tall':12
98 thunbergia alata Black-eyed Susan Slender vine with flowers ranging in color from white to yellow and orange to red. 'alata':2 'black':4 'black-ey':3 'color':13 'eye':5 'flower':10 'orang':19 'rang':11 'red':21 'slender':7 'susan':6 'thunbergia':1 'vine':8 'white':15 'yellow':17
99 philodendron melanochrysum Black Gold, Velour Philodendron A strong climber whose velvety leaves, like those of most philodendrons, get larger as the plant gets higher up the support, eventually becoming three feet in length. 'becom':29 'black':3 'climber':9 'eventu':28 'feet':31 'get':18,23 'gold':4 'higher':24 'larger':19 'leav':12 'length':33 'like':13 'melanochrysum':2 'philodendron':1,6,17 'plant':22 'strong':8 'support':27 'three':30 'velour':5 'velveti':11 'whose':10
100 piper nigrum Black Pepper Slender stems that may reach several feet (60cm) in height, carrying heart-shaped leaves along their length. Flowers in slightly fleshy spikes, followed by spherical fruits that are the black pepper of commerce (white pepper too, if shelled and ground). '60cm':12 'along':20 'black':3,35 'carri':15 'commerc':38 'feet':11 'fleshi':26 'flower':23 'follow':28 'fruit':31 'ground':45 'heart':17 'heart-shap':16 'height':14 'leav':19 'length':22 'may':8 'nigrum':2 'pepper':4,36,40 'piper':1 'reach':9 'sever':10 'shape':18 'shell':43 'slender':5 'slight':25 'spheric':30 'spike':27 'stem':6 'white':39
101 aeonium arboreum 'schwarzkopf' Black Tree Aeonium Leaves narrow, dark purple except at the green base. 'aeonium':1,6 'arboreum':2 'base':15 'black':4 'dark':9 'except':11 'green':14 'leav':7 'narrow':8 'purpl':10 'schwarzkopf':3 'tree':5
102 tritonia Blazing Star Leaves in a fan shape with a spike of flowers from its center. 'blaze':2 'center':16 'fan':7 'flower':13 'leav':4 'shape':8 'spike':11 'star':3 'tritonia':1
103 clerodendrum thomsonae Bleeding Heart Vine A woody climber that submits well to the constraint of a low trellis. The flowers are in hanging clusters and have red petals below pure white sepals. 'bleed':3 'clerodendrum':1 'climber':8 'cluster':24 'constraint':14 'flower':20 'hang':23 'heart':4 'low':17 'petal':28 'pure':30 'red':27 'sepal':32 'submit':10 'thomsona':2 'trelli':18 'vine':5 'well':11 'white':31 'woodi':7
526 lithops terricolor Living Stones Leaves pink, grey or red with darker spots. 'darker':11 'grey':7 'leav':5 'lithop':1 'live':3 'pink':6 'red':9 'spot':12 'stone':4 'terricolor':2
104 haemanthus Blood Lily Leaves two-ranked, fleshy. Inflorescence on a leafless stalk, has many tubular flowers with stamens longer than petals. 'blood':2 'fleshi':8 'flower':17 'haemanthus':1 'infloresc':9 'leafless':12 'leav':4 'lili':3 'longer':20 'mani':15 'petal':22 'rank':7 'stalk':13 'stamen':19 'tubular':16 'two':6 'two-rank':5
105 scadoxus multiflorus ssp. katherinae Blood Lily Leaves broad, 12'' (30cm) long, on a neck above the bulb about 18'' (45cm) long. Inflorescence of many scarlet flowers in a ball carried on a leafless stalk. '12':9 '18':19 '30cm':10 '45cm':20 'ball':29 'blood':5 'broad':8 'bulb':17 'carri':30 'flower':26 'infloresc':22 'katherina':4 'leafless':33 'leav':7 'lili':6 'long':11,21 'mani':24 'multiflorus':2 'neck':14 'scadoxus':1 'scarlet':25 'ssp':3 'stalk':34
106 asclepias curassavica Bloodflower Plants three to four feet (120cm) tall. Flowers are orange and yellow. '120cm':9 'asclepia':1 'bloodflow':3 'curassavica':2 'feet':8 'flower':11 'four':7 'orang':13 'plant':4 'tall':10 'three':5 'yellow':15
107 myrtillocactus geometrizans Blue Candle, Blueberry Cactus Stems blue-green, able to reach a height of several feet (60cm) but can be maintained at container size. Flowers white in small clusters. '60cm':19 'abl':11 'blue':3,9 'blue-green':8 'blueberri':5 'cactus':6 'candl':4 'cluster':31 'contain':25 'feet':18 'flower':27 'geometrizan':2 'green':10 'height':15 'maintain':23 'myrtillocactus':1 'reach':13 'sever':17 'size':26 'small':30 'stem':7 'white':28
108 ageratum houstonianum 'blue hawaii' Blue Cap, Floss Flower Compact variety with clear blue flowers. (note to viewers: these blues are notoriously hard to photograph in the true color û picture a baby blanket.) 'ageratum':1 'babi':32 'blanket':33 'blue':3,5,13,19 'cap':6 'clear':12 'color':28 'compact':9 'floss':7 'flower':8,14 'hard':22 'hawaii':4 'houstonianum':2 'note':15 'notori':21 'photograph':24 'pictur':30 'true':27 'varieti':10 'viewer':17 'û':29
109 aristea ecklonii Blue Corn Lily Tufted leaves reach about 18 inches (45cm) in height, the flowers are carried above them. '18':10 '45cm':12 'aristea':1 'blue':3 'carri':18 'corn':4 'ecklonii':2 'flower':16 'height':14 'inch':11 'leav':7 'lili':5 'reach':8 'tuft':6
110 clerodendrum inerme Blue Glory Bower A straggling shrub with leaves about six inches (15cm) long. Flowers in small groups, pure white with purple stamens. '15cm':14 'blue':3 'bower':5 'clerodendrum':1 'flower':16 'glori':4 'group':19 'inch':13 'inerm':2 'leav':10 'long':15 'pure':20 'purpl':23 'shrub':8 'six':12 'small':18 'stamen':24 'straggl':7 'white':21
111 pachyphytum Blue Haze Rosettes of regularly arranged fleshy leaves. 'arrang':7 'blue':2 'fleshi':8 'haze':3 'leav':9 'pachyphytum':1 'regular':6 'rosett':4
112 latania loddigesii Blue Latan Palm, Silver Latan Palm Massive fan-leaved palm that eventually makes a large trunk. Valued for its blue-green leaves with a white felty covering on the leaf stalks and undersides of the leaves. 'blue':3,24 'blue-green':23 'cover':31 'eventu':15 'fan':11 'fan-leav':10 'felti':30 'green':25 'larg':18 'latan':4,7 'latania':1 'leaf':34 'leav':12,26,40 'loddigesii':2 'make':16 'massiv':9 'palm':5,8,13 'silver':6 'stalk':35 'trunk':19 'undersid':37 'valu':20 'white':29
113 parochetus Blue Oxalis Trailing plants that do well in a basket. 'basket':11 'blue':2 'oxali':3 'parochetus':1 'plant':5 'trail':4 'well':8
114 passiflora caerulea Blue Passion Flower Blooms light purple with blue, white and purple elements in the central part of the flower. Egg-shaped orange fruits, firm when ripe with edible pulp around the seeds. 'around':33 'bloom':6 'blue':3,10 'caerulea':2 'central':17 'edibl':31 'egg':23 'egg-shap':22 'element':14 'firm':27 'flower':5,21 'fruit':26 'light':7 'orang':25 'part':18 'passiflora':1 'passion':4 'pulp':32 'purpl':8,13 'ripe':29 'seed':35 'shape':24 'white':11
115 eranthemum pulchellum Blue Sage The bush will grow back to about three feet (90cm) in height after a heavy cut back in spring when the clear blue flowers finish. '90cm':14 'back':9,21 'blue':3,27 'bush':6 'clear':26 'cut':20 'eranthemum':1 'feet':13 'finish':29 'flower':28 'grow':8 'heavi':19 'height':16 'pulchellum':2 'sage':4 'spring':23 'three':12
116 parochetus communis Blue Shamrock Pea Mat forming, prostrate grower, leaves with three leaflets, flowers are bright blue formed singly in the leaf axils. 'axil':23 'blue':3,17 'bright':16 'communi':2 'flower':14 'form':7,18 'grower':9 'leaf':22 'leaflet':13 'leav':10 'mat':6 'parochetus':1 'pea':5 'prostrat':8 'shamrock':4 'singl':19 'three':12
117 scilla peruviana Blue Squill, Cuban Lily Leaves about a foot (30cm) long, flowers reddish, blue-purple or white, in clusters of 50 or more. '30cm':11 '50':23 'blue':3,16 'blue-purpl':15 'cluster':21 'cuban':5 'flower':13 'foot':10 'leav':7 'lili':6 'long':12 'peruviana':2 'purpl':17 'reddish':14 'scilla':1 'squill':4 'white':19
118 trachelium caeruleum 'burgundy clown' Bluethroatwort One of the new hybrid tracheliums that are adding new shades of flower color. 'ad':14 'bluethroatwort':5 'burgundi':3 'caeruleum':2 'clown':4 'color':19 'flower':18 'hybrid':10 'new':9,15 'one':6 'shade':16 'trachelium':1,11
119 neoregelia carolinae Blushing Bromeliad Leaves in a flattened cup, variegated and red flushed in some cultivars particularly when flowering. Blue flowers produced a few at a time from the water in the cup. 'blue':20 'blush':3 'bromeliad':4 'carolina':2 'cultivar':16 'cup':9,33 'flatten':8 'flower':19,21 'flush':13 'leav':5 'neoregelia':1 'particular':17 'produc':22 'red':12 'time':27 'varieg':10 'water':30
120 nidularium fulgens Blushing Cup Leaves in a broad rosette, spotted and flushed purple. The inflorescence is produced on a very short leafy stem and stays nestled in these leaves which may flush as the flowers form. 'blush':3 'broad':8 'cup':4 'flower':35 'flush':12,32 'form':36 'fulgen':2 'infloresc':15 'leafi':22 'leav':5,29 'may':31 'nestl':26 'nidularium':1 'produc':17 'purpl':13 'rosett':9 'short':21 'spot':10 'stay':25 'stem':23
138 scirpus Bulrush, Club Rush Tufted plants with grass-like leaves or with rounded green stems and almost no leaves at all. 'almost':18 'bulrush':2 'club':3 'grass':9 'grass-lik':8 'green':15 'leav':11,20 'like':10 'plant':6 'round':14 'rush':4 'scirpus':1 'stem':16 'tuft':5
121 callisia navicularis Bolivian Jew Slightly succulent leaves on stems with long internodes or on crowded shoots near the center of the plant. Flowers are bright magenta when formed, but the plant is grown mostly for its foliage as a basket or groundcover. 'basket':40 'bolivian':3 'bright':25 'callisia':1 'center':19 'crowd':15 'flower':23 'foliag':37 'form':28 'groundcov':42 'grown':33 'internod':12 'jew':4 'leav':7 'long':11 'magenta':26 'most':34 'naviculari':2 'near':17 'plant':22,31 'shoot':16 'slight':5 'stem':9 'succul':6
122 eupatorium sordidum Boneset Plant reaching three feet (90cm) in height, flowering with dense clusters of violet-purple blooms late in the year. '90cm':8 'bloom':19 'boneset':3 'cluster':14 'dens':13 'eupatorium':1 'feet':7 'flower':11 'height':10 'late':20 'plant':4 'purpl':18 'reach':5 'sordidum':2 'three':6 'violet':17 'violet-purpl':16 'year':23
123 nephrolepis exaltata 'bostoniensis' Boston Fern Fronds form on creeping rhizomes. They are feather-like and arch or hang if grown in a basket. 'arch':17 'basket':24 'boston':4 'bostoniensi':3 'creep':9 'exaltata':2 'feather':14 'feather-lik':13 'fern':5 'form':7 'frond':6 'grown':21 'hang':19 'like':15 'nephrolepi':1 'rhizom':10
124 parthenocissus tricuspidata Boston Ivy, Japanese Creeper Strong grower with shiny leaves, for rapid cover. 'boston':3 'cover':14 'creeper':6 'grower':8 'ivi':4 'japanes':5 'leav':11 'parthenocissus':1 'rapid':13 'shini':10 'strong':7 'tricuspidata':2
125 hyophorbe lagenicaulis Bottle Palm Four or five arching leaves are carried at the top of a trunk which becomes swollen at the base. 'arch':8 'base':23 'becom':19 'bottl':3 'carri':11 'five':7 'four':5 'hyophorb':1 'lagenicauli':2 'leav':9 'palm':4 'swollen':20 'top':14 'trunk':17
126 stenocactus multicostatus Brain Cactus Globose with up to 120 very thin ribs. The spines occur in groups of about twelve only on widely spaced ribs. Flowers are white with a faint midstripe. '120':9 'brain':3 'cactus':4 'faint':31 'flower':26 'globos':5 'group':17 'midstrip':32 'multicostatus':2 'occur':15 'rib':12,25 'space':24 'spine':14 'stenocactus':1 'thin':11 'twelv':20 'white':28 'wide':23
127 pteris Brake Ferns Small to quite large ferns. The most frequently grown have five to seven pinnae in a hand shape. 'brake':2 'fern':3,8 'five':14 'frequent':11 'grown':12 'hand':20 'larg':7 'pinna':17 'pteri':1 'quit':6 'seven':16 'shape':21 'small':4
128 brosimum alicastrum Bread Nut A large tree by the time it is ready to produce the spherical fruit with large edible seeds that are often eaten roasted. 'alicastrum':2 'bread':3 'brosimum':1 'eaten':26 'edibl':21 'fruit':18 'larg':6,20 'nut':4 'often':25 'produc':15 'readi':13 'roast':27 'seed':22 'spheric':17 'time':10 'tree':7
129 francoa Bridal Wreath Evergreen perennials with a basal rosette of feather-form leaves and upright spikes of flowers 'basal':8 'bridal':2 'evergreen':4 'feather':12 'feather-form':11 'flower':19 'form':13 'francoa':1 'leav':14 'perenni':5 'rosett':9 'spike':17 'upright':16 'wreath':3
130 stephanotis Bridal Wreath, Stephanotis Small vine that is easily controlled. Leaves dark green, flowers waxy and fragrant in white clusters. 'bridal':2 'cluster':20 'control':10 'dark':12 'easili':9 'flower':14 'fragrant':17 'green':13 'leav':11 'small':5 'stephanoti':1,4 'vine':6 'waxi':15 'white':19 'wreath':3
131 sanchezia parvibracteata 'ellen' Bright Golden Herringbone A brightly colored form with veins and midribs of the green leaves standing out in bright yellow. The bush can be kept to a small size or will grow to about eight feet (240cm) if left uncut. '240cm':40 'bright':4,8,22 'bush':25 'color':9 'eight':38 'ellen':3 'feet':39 'form':10 'golden':5 'green':17 'grow':35 'herringbon':6 'kept':28 'leav':18 'left':42 'midrib':14 'parvibracteata':2 'sanchezia':1 'size':32 'small':31 'stand':19 'uncut':43 'vein':12 'yellow':23
132 polystichum polyblepharum Bristle Fern, Japanese Sword Fern, Tassel Fern Fronds in a rosette at first, then becoming clumped, feather-like to two feet (60cm) tall. '60cm':25 'becom':17 'bristl':3 'clump':18 'feather':20 'feather-lik':19 'feet':24 'fern':4,7,9 'first':15 'frond':10 'japanes':5 'like':21 'polyblepharum':2 'polystichum':1 'rosett':13 'sword':6 'tall':26 'tassel':8 'two':23
133 adiantum tenerum 'variegatum'' Brittle Maidenhair, Maidenhair Fern Leaves up to 30'' (75cm) long in a dense arching tuft. '30':11 '75cm':12 'adiantum':1 'arch':17 'brittl':4 'dens':16 'fern':7 'leav':8 'long':13 'maidenhair':5,6 'tenerum':2 'tuft':18 'variegatum':3
134 leptospermum scoparium 'helene strybing' Broom Tea Tree Small reddish leaves on the stiff, upright stems set off the waxy pink, flat flowers with a darker center. 'broom':5 'center':26 'darker':25 'flat':21 'flower':22 'helen':3 'leav':10 'leptospermum':1 'pink':20 'reddish':9 'scoparium':2 'set':16 'small':8 'stem':15 'stiff':13 'strybe':4 'tea':6 'tree':7 'upright':14 'waxi':19
135 siderasis fuscata Brown Spiderwort The brown fuzzy hairs color the appearance of the heavy-textured broad leaves, which are dark green with a broad lighter midrib. Flowers are a pale purple in small groups in the center of the plant. 'appear':11 'broad':17,25 'brown':3,6 'center':38 'color':9 'dark':21 'flower':28 'fuscata':2 'fuzzi':7 'green':22 'group':35 'hair':8 'heavi':15 'heavy-textur':14 'leav':18 'lighter':26 'midrib':27 'pale':31 'plant':41 'purpl':32 'siderasi':1 'small':34 'spiderwort':4 'textur':16
136 bambusa ventricosum Buddha's Belly Culms curiously enlarged between the nodes (ôBuddha's bellyö appearance), about ten to twelve feet (3-4m) tall in containers. Much bigger and losing the belly with a bigger root run. '-4':22 '3':21 'appear':15 'bambusa':1 'belli':5,32 'bellyö':14 'bigger':28,35 'buddha':3 'contain':26 'culm':6 'curious':7 'enlarg':8 'feet':20 'lose':30 'm':23 'much':27 'node':11 'root':36 'run':37 'tall':24 'ten':17 'twelv':19 'ventricosum':2 'ôbuddha':12
137 sclerocactus unguispinus Bullhorn Fish Hook Stem a stubby cylinder with up to 20 well-marked ribs. Spines of medium size with the radial ones interlaced. Flowers are brownish with yellow centers. '20':13 'brownish':29 'bullhorn':3 'center':32 'cylind':9 'fish':4 'flower':27 'hook':5 'interlac':26 'mark':16 'medium':20 'one':25 'radial':24 'rib':17 'sclerocactus':1 'size':21 'spine':18 'stem':6 'stubbi':8 'unguispinus':2 'well':15 'well-mark':14 'yellow':31
139 allamanda schottii Bush Allamanda Compact shrub, easily held to three feet (90cm) in height and spread. Flowers are a bright, deep yellow. '90cm':12 'allamanda':1,4 'bright':20 'bush':3 'compact':5 'deep':21 'easili':7 'feet':11 'flower':17 'height':14 'held':8 'schottii':2 'shrub':6 'spread':16 'three':10 'yellow':22
140 browallia Bush Violet Bushy growth fills a basket well. Usually grown as an annual although it will live longer than one season. 'although':15 'annual':14 'basket':8 'browallia':1 'bush':2 'bushi':4 'fill':6 'grown':11 'growth':5 'live':18 'longer':19 'one':21 'season':22 'usual':10 'violet':3 'well':9
141 impatiens walleriana holstii Busy Lizzie The familiar ôimpatiensö of gardens with upright or leaning stems and flowers in all shades of color from near blue to deep red and red-orange. Single and double flowers are constantly being introduced. 'blue':25 'busi':4 'color':22 'constant':38 'deep':27 'doubl':35 'familiar':7 'flower':17,36 'garden':10 'holstii':3 'impatien':1 'introduc':40 'lean':14 'lizzi':5 'near':24 'orang':32 'red':28,31 'red-orang':30 'shade':20 'singl':33 'stem':15 'upright':12 'walleriana':2 'ôimpatiensö':8
142 allamanda Buttercup Flower, Golden Trumpet, Yellow Bell Shrubs that may sprawl or even climb. 'allamanda':1 'bell':7 'buttercup':2 'climb':14 'even':13 'flower':3 'golden':4 'may':10 'shrub':8 'sprawl':11 'trumpet':5 'yellow':6
143 schizanthus pinnatus Butterfly Flower Upright plants two or three feet (60-90cm) tall in most û much taller in some strains. The flowers have a flat face with two lips. color range is wide both as to the round color and the decorations. '-90':12 '60':11 'butterfli':3 'cm':13 'color':32,41 'decor':44 'face':28 'feet':10 'flat':27 'flower':4,24 'lip':31 'much':18 'pinnatus':2 'plant':6 'rang':33 'round':40 'schizanthus':1 'strain':22 'tall':14 'taller':19 'three':9 'two':7,30 'upright':5 'wide':35 'û':17
144 encyclia Butterfly Orchid Pseudobulbs usually small and ovoid with one to four leaves at the apex. Flowers grow in long arching clusters. 'apex':16 'arch':21 'butterfli':2 'cluster':22 'encyclia':1 'flower':17 'four':12 'grow':18 'leav':13 'long':20 'one':10 'orchid':3 'ovoid':8 'pseudobulb':4 'small':6 'usual':5
145 oncidium papilio Butterfly Orchid Flowers have intriguing narrow sections standing above a broad lip with a large clear yellow spot free of the red-brown spots that color the rest of the flower. 'broad':13 'brown':26 'butterfli':3 'clear':18 'color':29 'flower':5,34 'free':21 'intrigu':7 'larg':17 'lip':14 'narrow':8 'oncidium':1 'orchid':4 'papilio':2 'red':25 'red-brown':24 'rest':31 'section':9 'spot':20,27 'stand':10 'yellow':19
146 pinguicula Butterwort A rosette of leaves close to the ground may produce an erect flower stalk with one or a few purple flowers. 'butterwort':2 'close':7 'erect':14 'flower':15,23 'ground':10 'leav':6 'may':11 'one':18 'pinguicula':1 'produc':12 'purpl':22 'rosett':4 'stalk':16
147 epithelantha micromeris Button Cactus Spherical with a flattened top, covered with closely packed groups of small spines. Flowers are pink or white. 'button':3 'cactus':4 'close':12 'cover':10 'epithelantha':1 'flatten':8 'flower':18 'group':14 'micromeri':2 'pack':13 'pink':20 'small':16 'spheric':5 'spine':17 'top':9 'white':22
148 pellaea rotundifolia Button Fern Small tufted fern with round leaflets spaced on arching dark colored stalks. 'arch':13 'button':3 'color':15 'dark':14 'fern':4,7 'leaflet':10 'pellaea':1 'rotundifolia':2 'round':9 'small':5 'space':11 'stalk':16 'tuft':6
149 epidendrum Buttonhole Orchid Stems long and slender or somewhat enlarged into pseudobulbs. Flowers usually formed from nodes at the upper part of the stem. 'buttonhol':2 'enlarg':10 'epidendrum':1 'flower':13 'form':15 'long':5 'node':17 'orchid':3 'part':21 'pseudobulb':12 'slender':7 'somewhat':9 'stem':4,24 'upper':20 'usual':14
150 brassica Cabbage A group that has been molded by man to give many food crops, and now a few ornamentals with brightly colored leaves. 'brassica':1 'bright':22 'cabbag':2 'color':23 'crop':15 'food':14 'give':12 'group':4 'leav':24 'man':10 'mani':13 'mold':8 'ornament':20
151 cordyline australis Cabbage Palm, Cabbage Tree Sword-shaped, grey-green leaves spiral up the stem and are held rather upright to give a columnar plant. 'australi':2 'cabbag':3,5 'columnar':26 'cordylin':1 'give':24 'green':12 'grey':11 'grey-green':10 'held':20 'leav':13 'palm':4 'plant':27 'rather':21 'shape':9 'spiral':14 'stem':17 'sword':8 'sword-shap':7 'tree':6 'upright':22
152 cussonia paniculata Cabbage Tree A dense small tree with leaves made up of a number of leaflets in a fan shape, each with deeply lobed edges. 'cabbag':3 'cussonia':1 'deepli':24 'dens':6 'edg':26 'fan':20 'leaflet':17 'leav':10 'lobe':25 'made':11 'number':15 'paniculata':2 'shape':21 'small':7 'tree':4,8
153 melaleuca leucodendra Cajeput, Paper Bark Upright branches bear silvery leaves about three inches (7.5cm) long. As bark forms on the trunks it becomes papery and multi-layered. '7.5':14 'bark':5,18 'bear':8 'becom':24 'branch':7 'cajeput':3 'cm':15 'form':19 'inch':13 'layer':29 'leav':10 'leucodendra':2 'long':16 'melaleuca':1 'multi':28 'multi-lay':27 'paper':4 'paperi':25 'silveri':9 'three':12 'trunk':22 'upright':6
154 calathea Calathea Flowers are showy in a few species, but most are grown for their richly colored leaves that may stand upright or stay close to the ground. 'calathea':1,2 'close':25 'color':17 'flower':3 'ground':28 'grown':13 'leav':18 'may':20 'rich':16 'showi':5 'speci':9 'stand':21 'stay':24 'upright':22
155 alternanthera bettzickiana Calico Plant Weak stemmed or trailing plants with olive-green leaves heavily suffused with red. 'alternanthera':1 'bettzickiana':2 'calico':3 'green':13 'heavili':15 'leav':14 'oliv':12 'olive-green':11 'plant':4,9 'red':18 'stem':6 'suffus':16 'trail':8 'weak':5
156 brodiaea California Hyacinth Narrow leaves and an open, ball-shaped inflorescence on a leafless stem. 'ball':10 'ball-shap':9 'brodiaea':1 'california':2 'hyacinth':3 'infloresc':12 'leafless':15 'leav':5 'narrow':4 'open':8 'shape':11 'stem':16
220 pellaea Cliff Brake Small ferns with glossy black leaf stalks and leaflets of various shapes. 'black':8 'brake':3 'cliff':2 'fern':5 'glossi':7 'leaf':9 'leaflet':12 'pellaea':1 'shape':15 'small':4 'stalk':10 'various':14
157 zantedeschia aethiopica Calla Lily White, funnel-shaped spathe around a yellow spadix, rising about three feet (90cm) in height, overtopping broad, arrow-shaped leaves. '90cm':18 'aethiopica':2 'around':10 'arrow':24 'arrow-shap':23 'broad':22 'calla':3 'feet':17 'funnel':7 'funnel-shap':6 'height':20 'leav':26 'lili':4 'overtop':21 'rise':14 'shape':8,25 'spadix':13 'spath':9 'three':16 'white':5 'yellow':12 'zantedeschia':1
158 phoenix canariensis Canary Island Date Palm The spiny feather leaves with golden leaf stalks form a handsome arching crown on a heavy trunk. The plant will eventually outgrow most spaces available. 'arch':18 'avail':31 'canari':3 'canariensi':2 'crown':19 'date':5 'eventu':27 'feather':9 'form':15 'golden':12 'handsom':17 'heavi':22 'island':4 'leaf':13 'leav':10 'outgrow':28 'palm':6 'phoenix':1 'plant':25 'space':30 'spini':8 'stalk':14 'trunk':23
159 aloe arborescens Candelabra Aloe, Octopus Plant, Torch Plant Upright stem eventually several feet (60cm) tall with fleshy leaves mostly in the upper parts up to 24'' (60cm) long. Flowers are a red. '24':26 '60cm':14,27 'alo':1,4 'arborescen':2 'candelabra':3 'eventu':11 'feet':13 'fleshi':17 'flower':29 'leav':18 'long':28 'most':19 'octopus':5 'part':23 'plant':6,8 'red':32 'sever':12 'stem':10 'tall':15 'torch':7 'upper':22 'upright':9
160 capsicum annuum 'candle' Candle Pepper Plants about 18 inches (45cm) tall produce long slender fruits that ripen to orange. '18':8 '45cm':10 'annuum':2 'candl':3,4 'capsicum':1 'fruit':15 'inch':9 'long':13 'orang':19 'pepper':5 'plant':6 'produc':12 'ripen':17 'slender':14 'tall':11
161 manettia luteorubra Candy Corn Plant Slender, twining, evergreen vine that does well on a small trellis or in a basket. The flowers are tubular with a swelling at the base, and bright red with a yellow tip. 'base':30 'basket':20 'bright':32 'candi':3 'corn':4 'evergreen':8 'flower':22 'luteorubra':2 'manettia':1 'plant':5 'red':33 'slender':6 'small':15 'swell':27 'tip':37 'trelli':16 'tubular':24 'twine':7 'vine':9 'well':12 'yellow':36
162 iberis Candytuft Annuals or perennials forming a small much-branched bush, covered with white flowers when in bloom. 'annual':3 'bloom':19 'branch':11 'bush':12 'candytuft':2 'cover':13 'flower':16 'form':6 'iberi':1 'much':10 'much-branch':9 'perenni':5 'small':8 'white':15
163 aloe ferox Cape Aloe, Ferocious Aloe, Red Aloe Tall single-stemmed plant that may reach ten feet (3m ) in height. Leaves up to three feet (90cm) long in the upper part of the stem, leaf bases remaining on the lower part. Flowers are a deep orange. '3m':19 '90cm':27 'alo':1,4,6,8 'base':37 'cape':3 'deep':46 'feet':18,26 'feroci':5 'ferox':2 'flower':43 'height':21 'leaf':36 'leav':22 'long':28 'lower':41 'may':15 'orang':47 'part':32,42 'plant':13 'reach':16 'red':7 'remain':38 'singl':11 'single-stem':10 'stem':12,35 'tall':9 'ten':17 'three':25 'upper':31
164 lachenalia aloides Cape Cowslip Leaves strap-shaped, about two inches (5cm) wide, often with brown spots. The hanging bell-shaped flowers are in shades of yellow and orange. '5cm':12 'aloid':2 'bell':21 'bell-shap':20 'brown':16 'cape':3 'cowslip':4 'flower':23 'hang':19 'inch':11 'lachenalia':1 'leav':5 'often':14 'orang':30 'shade':26 'shape':8,22 'spot':17 'strap':7 'strap-shap':6 'two':10 'wide':13 'yellow':28
165 tecomaria capensis Cape Honeysuckle Shrubs four to six feet (120-180cm) in height with minimal pruning. The dusty yellow to orange-yellow flowers are tubular and two-lipped, and form in profusion in the upper parts of the branches. '-180':11 '120':10 'branch':42 'cape':3 'capensi':2 'cm':12 'dusti':19 'feet':9 'flower':25 'form':33 'four':6 'height':14 'honeysuckl':4 'lip':31 'minim':16 'orang':23 'orange-yellow':22 'part':39 'profus':35 'prune':17 'shrub':5 'six':8 'tecomaria':1 'tubular':27 'two':30 'two-lip':29 'upper':38 'yellow':20,24
166 senecio macroglossus 'variegatus' Cape Ivy, Natal Ivy, Wax Vine Trailing or climbing vine with fleshy leaves. 'cape':4 'climb':12 'fleshi':15 'ivi':5,7 'leav':16 'macroglossus':2 'natal':6 'senecio':1 'trail':10 'variegatus':3 'vine':9,13 'wax':8
167 nemesia strumosa 'orange princess' Cape Jewels Densely produced stems eight to twelve inches (20-30cm) long carry a heavy load of open-faced flowers. Many colors are available in addition to this cultivar. '-30':15 '20':14 'addit':32 'avail':30 'cape':5 'carri':18 'cm':16 'color':28 'cultivar':35 'dens':7 'eight':10 'face':25 'flower':26 'heavi':20 'inch':13 'jewel':6 'load':21 'long':17 'mani':27 'nemesia':1 'open':24 'open-fac':23 'orang':3 'princess':4 'produc':8 'stem':9 'strumosa':2 'twelv':12
168 plumbago auriculata Cape Leadwort Leaves are grey-green blending with pale blue flowers on this mounding shrub, which can also be allowed to ramble through a trellis to a height of several feet (60cm). '60cm':35 'allow':23 'also':21 'auriculata':2 'blend':10 'blue':13 'cape':3 'feet':34 'flower':14 'green':9 'grey':8 'grey-green':7 'height':31 'leadwort':4 'leav':5 'mound':17 'pale':12 'plumbago':1 'rambl':25 'sever':33 'shrub':18 'trelli':28
169 crinum Cape Lily Usually evergreen from long-necked bulbs that may become two or three (60-90cm) feet tall. Leaves may reach six (240cm) feet and produce sprays of large flowers from between the leaves. '-90':18 '240cm':26 '60':17 'becom':13 'bulb':10 'cape':2 'cm':19 'crinum':1 'evergreen':5 'feet':20,27 'flower':33 'larg':32 'leav':22,37 'lili':3 'long':8 'long-neck':7 'may':12,23 'neck':9 'produc':29 'reach':24 'six':25 'spray':30 'tall':21 'three':16 'two':14 'usual':4
170 dimorphotheca Cape Marigold Annuals or perennials with short upright shoots and terminal flowers. 'annual':4 'cape':2 'dimorphotheca':1 'flower':13 'marigold':3 'perenni':6 'shoot':10 'short':8 'termin':12 'upright':9
171 streptocarpus cooperi Cape Primrose A large flowered species with many flowers up to three inches (7.5cm) long on a stalk above the single large leaf that makes up the whole leaf complement of the plant . '7.5':16 'cape':3 'cm':17 'complement':33 'cooperi':2 'flower':7,11 'inch':15 'larg':6,25 'leaf':26,32 'long':18 'make':28 'mani':10 'plant':36 'primros':4 'singl':24 'speci':8 'stalk':21 'streptocarpus':1 'three':14 'whole':31
172 streptocarpus Cape Primroses Clump forming plants, producing a short stalk with a number of flowers at the top. 'cape':2 'clump':4 'flower':15 'form':5 'number':13 'plant':6 'primros':3 'produc':7 'short':9 'stalk':10 'streptocarpus':1 'top':18
173 heliophila longifolia Cape Stock Leaves very narrow on stalks about a foot (30cm) long. Clear blue, open flowers are well spaced on the upper part of the stems. '30cm':13 'blue':16 'cape':3 'clear':15 'flower':18 'foot':12 'heliophila':1 'leav':5 'long':14 'longifolia':2 'narrow':7 'open':17 'part':25 'space':21 'stalk':9 'stem':28 'stock':4 'upper':24 'well':20
174 amomum cardamom Cardamomum Leaves with a strong pleasant odor when brushed. Plants sold under this name are rarely the true species from whose fruits the spice cardamom is obtained. 'amomum':1 'brush':11 'cardamom':2,27 'cardamomum':3 'fruit':24 'leav':4 'name':16 'obtain':29 'odor':9 'plant':12 'pleasant':8 'rare':18 'sold':13 'speci':21 'spice':26 'strong':7 'true':20 'whose':23
175 sinningia cardinalis Cardinal Flower Shoots about a foot in length from the tuber have emerald green leaves and a cluster of brilliant scarlet, tubular flowers at the tip. 'brilliant':22 'cardin':3 'cardinali':2 'cluster':20 'emerald':15 'flower':4,25 'foot':8 'green':16 'leav':17 'length':10 'scarlet':23 'shoot':5 'sinningia':1 'tip':28 'tuber':13 'tubular':24
176 lobelia cardinalis 'splendens' Cardinal Flower Narrow leaves spread outwards from a three feet (90cm) tall stem which is topped by showy scarlet flowers produced in the upper 12-15 inches (30-38cm). '-15':29 '-38':32 '12':28 '30':31 '90cm':14 'cardin':4 'cardinali':2 'cm':33 'feet':13 'flower':5,23 'inch':30 'leav':7 'lobelia':1 'narrow':6 'outward':9 'produc':24 'scarlet':22 'showi':21 'splenden':3 'spread':8 'stem':16 'tall':15 'three':12 'top':19 'upper':27
177 pachystachys coccinea Cardinal's Guard Upright shrub growing three or four feet (90-120cm) tall with soft green oval leaves. The scarlet flowers are in spikes up to six inches (15cm) long at the stem tips, and are tubular with two flared lips. '-120':14 '15cm':32 '90':13 'cardin':3 'cm':15 'coccinea':2 'feet':12 'flare':43 'flower':24 'four':11 'green':19 'grow':8 'guard':5 'inch':31 'leav':21 'lip':44 'long':33 'oval':20 'pachystachi':1 'scarlet':23 'shrub':7 'six':30 'soft':18 'spike':27 'stem':36 'tall':16 'three':9 'tip':37 'tubular':40 'two':42 'upright':6
178 graptophyllum pictum Caricature Plant Leaves boldly marked with creamy patches on a green or purplish ground. 'bold':6 'caricatur':3 'creami':9 'graptophyllum':1 'green':13 'ground':16 'leav':5 'mark':7 'patch':10 'pictum':2 'plant':4 'purplish':15
179 ascocentrum ampullaceum Carnival Orchid Flower clusters of deep pink flowers proLeaves heart-shaped, about a foot (30cm) long and on the same size stalks. Leaves dark green with pure white veins, and the whole with a shiny, crystalline appearance.duced in profusion around the base of the plant. '30cm':18 'ampullaceum':2 'appearance.duced':40 'around':43 'ascocentrum':1 'base':45 'carniv':3 'cluster':6 'crystallin':39 'dark':27 'deep':8 'flower':5,10 'foot':17 'green':28 'heart':13 'heart-shap':12 'leav':26 'long':19 'orchid':4 'pink':9 'plant':48 'profus':42 'proleav':11 'pure':30 'shape':14 'shini':38 'size':24 'stalk':25 'vein':32 'white':31 'whole':35
180 stapelia grandiflora Carrion Flower Short erect stems produce star-shaped flowers that are dark purple-brown, banded with lighter bands and wrinkled. 'band':19,22 'brown':18 'carrion':3 'dark':15 'erect':6 'flower':4,12 'grandiflora':2 'lighter':21 'produc':8 'purpl':17 'purple-brown':16 'shape':11 'short':5 'stapelia':1 'star':10 'star-shap':9 'stem':7 'wrinkl':24
181 stapelia Carrion Flowers Fleshy, angled stems, erect or trailing, that produce large, star-shaped flowers with a bad odor. 'angl':5 'bad':19 'carrion':2 'erect':7 'fleshi':4 'flower':3,16 'larg':12 'odor':20 'produc':11 'shape':15 'stapelia':1 'star':14 'star-shap':13 'stem':6 'trail':9
182 orbea Carrion Flowers Erect or sprawling ridged succulent stems form star-shaped flowers, often with an unpleasant odor. 'carrion':2 'erect':4 'flower':3,14 'form':10 'odor':19 'often':15 'orbea':1 'ridg':7 'shape':13 'sprawl':6 'star':12 'star-shap':11 'stem':9 'succul':8 'unpleas':18
183 manihot Cassava, Tapioca Tall canes that become sparse at the base. Leaves divided into several fingers, green or variegated. 'base':11 'becom':7 'cane':5 'cassava':2 'divid':13 'finger':16 'green':17 'leav':12 'manihot':1 'sever':15 'spars':8 'tall':4 'tapioca':3 'varieg':19
184 aspidistra elatior Cast Iron Plant The two feet (60cm) long leaves may be dark green or variegated with creamy-white. Flowers are about an inch (2.5cm) across are produced singly at ground level. White and spotted on the outside, red-purple within. '2.5':27 '60cm':9 'across':29 'aspidistra':1 'cast':3 'cm':28 'creami':20 'creamy-whit':19 'dark':14 'elatior':2 'feet':8 'flower':22 'green':15 'ground':34 'inch':26 'iron':4 'leav':11 'level':35 'long':10 'may':12 'outsid':41 'plant':5 'produc':31 'purpl':44 'red':43 'red-purpl':42 'singl':32 'spot':38 'two':7 'varieg':17 'white':21,36 'within':45
185 ricinus Castor Bean Large leaves shaped like a maple leaf, blue-green or flushed deep red in some. 'bean':3 'blue':12 'blue-green':11 'castor':2 'deep':16 'flush':15 'green':13 'larg':4 'leaf':10 'leav':5 'like':7 'mapl':9 'red':17 'ricinus':1 'shape':6
186 ricinus communis 'zanzibarensis' Castor Oil Plant A white midrib lends a little color to the lobed leaves. Other selections have red flushed foliage and fruits. 'castor':4 'color':13 'communi':2 'flush':22 'foliag':23 'fruit':25 'leav':17 'lend':10 'littl':12 'lobe':16 'midrib':9 'oil':5 'plant':6 'red':21 'ricinus':1 'select':19 'white':8 'zanzibarensi':3
187 nepeta cataria Cat Mint, Catnip Small herbs with woolly leaves. Fragrant when crushed and of great attraction to some cats. 'attract':17 'cat':3,20 'cataria':2 'catnip':5 'crush':13 'fragrant':11 'great':16 'herb':7 'leav':10 'mint':4 'nepeta':1 'small':6 'woolli':9
188 faucaria felina Cat's Jaws Leaves less than two inches (5cm) long in four rows from a very short stem. The leaves are grey-green with white teeth along their upper edges. Flowers large for the size of the plant, yellow. '5cm':11 'along':30 'cat':3 'edg':33 'faucaria':1 'felina':2 'flower':34 'four':14 'green':26 'grey':25 'grey-green':24 'inch':10 'jaw':5 'larg':35 'leav':6,22 'less':7 'long':12 'plant':41 'row':15 'short':19 'size':38 'stem':20 'teeth':29 'two':9 'upper':32 'white':28 'yellow':42
189 tacca Cat's Whiskers, Devil Flower Stemless plants with paddle-shaped leaves. The inflorescence is lifted above the foliage and is backed by large ôwings.ö 'back':23 'cat':2 'devil':5 'flower':6 'foliag':20 'infloresc':15 'larg':25 'leav':13 'lift':17 'paddl':11 'paddle-shap':10 'plant':8 'shape':12 'stemless':7 'tacca':1 'whisker':4 'ôwing':26 'ö':27
190 capsicum Cayenne, Ornamental Pepper Bushy plants covered with long lasting fruits in a dazzling array of forms and colors. 'array':15 'bushi':5 'capsicum':1 'cayenn':2 'color':19 'cover':7 'dazzl':14 'form':17 'fruit':11 'last':10 'long':9 'ornament':3 'pepper':4 'plant':6
191 oncidium lanceanum Cedros Bee, Leopard Orchid Erect, branched inflorescence with many, relatively large flowers. The yellow color is heavily dotted with red-brown, contrasting with a pink lip. 'bee':4 'branch':8 'brown':24 'cedro':3 'color':17 'contrast':25 'dot':20 'erect':7 'flower':14 'heavili':19 'infloresc':9 'lanceanum':2 'larg':13 'leopard':5 'lip':29 'mani':11 'oncidium':1 'orchid':6 'pink':28 'red':23 'red-brown':22 'relat':12 'yellow':16
192 piper ornatum Celebes Pepper Slender vine with heart-shaped leaves that may have whitish veins. 'celeb':3 'heart':9 'heart-shap':8 'leav':11 'may':13 'ornatum':2 'pepper':4 'piper':1 'shape':10 'slender':5 'vein':16 'vine':6 'whitish':15
193 homalocladium platycladum Centopede Plant, Ribbon Bush Flat stems, in this rambling shrub a few feet (60cm) tall, take the place of the leaves which are tiny and very soon shed. '60cm':16 'bush':6 'centoped':3 'feet':15 'flat':7 'homalocladium':1 'leav':23 'place':20 'plant':4 'platycladum':2 'rambl':11 'ribbon':5 'shed':30 'shrub':12 'soon':29 'stem':8 'take':18 'tall':17 'tini':26
194 codonanthe crassifolia Central American Bellflower Stems held flat or hanging, about one foot (30cm) long, with slightly fleshy leaves. Flowers are white with a tinted throat. '30cm':14 'american':4 'bellflow':5 'central':3 'codonanth':1 'crassifolia':2 'flat':8 'fleshi':18 'flower':20 'foot':13 'hang':10 'held':7 'leav':19 'long':15 'one':12 'slight':17 'stem':6 'throat':26 'tint':25 'white':22
195 ceropegia sandersonii Fountain Flower, Parachute Plant Climbing or trailing plant with fleshy leaves. Flowers are tubular, flaring but roofed across the mouth, green and spotted with darker color. 'across':20 'ceropegia':1 'climb':7 'color':28 'darker':27 'flare':17 'fleshi':12 'flower':4,14 'fountain':3 'green':23 'leav':13 'mouth':22 'parachut':5 'plant':6,10 'roof':19 'sandersonii':2 'spot':25 'trail':9 'tubular':16
196 ascocentrum Chain Orchid Leaves more or less in a single plane, borne on two sides of the short stem. Flowers in upright inflorescences produced between the leaves. 'ascocentrum':1 'born':12 'chain':2 'flower':20 'infloresc':23 'leav':4,27 'less':7 'orchid':3 'plane':11 'produc':24 'short':18 'side':15 'singl':10 'stem':19 'two':14 'upright':22
197 acalypha hispida Chenille Plant Upright or arching branches of large green heart-shaped leaves produce long-lasting, flowers are in long strings which may be inconspicuous or deep red and showy. 'acalypha':1 'arch':7 'branch':8 'chenill':3 'deep':30 'flower':20 'green':11 'heart':13 'heart-shap':12 'hispida':2 'inconspicu':28 'larg':10 'last':19 'leav':15 'long':18,23 'long-last':17 'may':26 'plant':4 'produc':16 'red':31 'shape':14 'showi':33 'string':24 'upright':5
198 tetrastigma voinierianum Chestnut Vine Strong evergreen vine, becoming woody as it climbs with tendrils. Leaves about 12 inches (30cm) across, with three large leaflets, dark green above, silvery on the underside. '12':17 '30cm':19 'across':20 'becom':8 'chestnut':3 'climb':12 'dark':25 'evergreen':6 'green':26 'inch':18 'larg':23 'leaflet':24 'leav':15 'silveri':28 'strong':5 'tendril':14 'tetrastigma':1 'three':22 'undersid':31 'vine':4,7 'voinierianum':2 'woodi':9
199 iresine herbstii hybrids Chicken Gizzard Upright annuals two or three feet (60-90cm) tall. The leaves show various coloring including a green form with yellow veins that is heart-shaped and has the common name ôchicken gizzard.ö '-90':13 '60':12 'annual':7 'chicken':4 'cm':14 'color':20 'common':36 'feet':11 'form':24 'gizzard':5,39 'green':23 'heart':31 'heart-shap':30 'herbstii':2 'hybrid':3 'includ':21 'iresin':1 'leav':17 'name':37 'shape':32 'show':18 'tall':15 'three':10 'two':8 'upright':6 'various':19 'vein':27 'yellow':26 'ôchicken':38 'ö':40
200 eccremocarpus scaber Chilean Glory Flower Strong climber with tendrils at the end of its leaves. Flowers are an orange-red in open clusters in late summer. 'chilean':3 'climber':7 'cluster':24 'eccremocarpus':1 'end':12 'flower':5,16 'glori':4 'late':26 'leav':15 'open':23 'orang':20 'orange-r':19 'red':21 'scaber':2 'strong':6 'summer':27 'tendril':9
201 gymnocalycium saglione Chin Cactus Globose with many broad tubercles arranged more or less spirally, spines medium length, prominent. Flowers are a pale pink. 'arrang':10 'broad':8 'cactus':4 'chin':3 'flower':19 'globos':5 'gymnocalycium':1 'length':17 'less':13 'mani':7 'medium':16 'pale':22 'pink':23 'promin':18 'saglion':2 'spine':15 'spiral':14 'tubercl':9
202 arachis China Bean, Groundnut, Monkey Nut Annual or perennial bushy plants whose flowers bury themselves in the ground to form fruits. 'annual':7 'arachi':1 'bean':3 'buri':14 'bushi':10 'china':2 'flower':13 'form':20 'fruit':21 'ground':18 'groundnut':4 'monkey':5 'nut':6 'perenni':9 'plant':11 'whose':12
203 radermachera sinica China Doll Bushy growth unless the plant is allowed to grow to tree height. Large, much-divided leaves. 'allow':11 'bushi':5 'china':3 'divid':20 'doll':4 'grow':13 'growth':6 'height':16 'larg':17 'leav':21 'much':19 'much-divid':18 'plant':9 'radermachera':1 'sinica':2 'tree':15 'unless':7
204 gardenia jasminoides China Flower, Opera Gardenia The floristÆs gardenia with double white blooms whose fragrance will fill a room. 'bloom':13 'china':3 'doubl':11 'fill':17 'floristæ':8 'flower':4 'fragranc':15 'gardenia':1,6,9 'jasminoid':2 'opera':5 'room':19 'white':12 'whose':14
221 littonia modesta Climbing Bellflower, Climbing Lily Climbing to about three feet (90cm) if given a support. Flowers are an orange-yellow. '90cm':12 'bellflow':4 'climb':3,5,7 'feet':11 'flower':17 'given':14 'lili':6 'littonia':1 'modesta':2 'orang':21 'orange-yellow':20 'support':16 'three':10 'yellow':22
205 aglaonema commutatum ‘pseudobracteatum’ Chinese Evergreen Slender leaf blades on stalks held rather upright. The leaf color is yellow-white with soft blotches of green with indistinct edges between the veins. A more white color in this same pattern is A. commutatum æWhite RajahÆ 'aglaonema':1 'blade':8 'blotch':23 'chines':4 'color':16,35 'commutatum':2,42 'edg':28 'evergreen':5 'green':25 'held':11 'indistinct':27 'leaf':7,15 'pattern':39 'pseudobracteatum':3 'rajahæ':44 'rather':12 'slender':6 'soft':22 'stalk':10 'upright':13 'vein':31 'white':20,34 'yellow':19 'yellow-whit':18 'æwhite':43
206 aglaonema modestum Chinese Evergreen Small leaf blades narrowing to a point. Often plain, dark green, or with various white or silvery markings. 'aglaonema':1 'blade':7 'chines':3 'dark':14 'evergreen':4 'green':15 'leaf':6 'mark':22 'modestum':2 'narrow':8 'often':12 'plain':13 'point':11 'silveri':21 'small':5 'various':18 'white':19
207 livistona chinesis Chinese Fan Palm, Chinese Fountain Palm Big fan leaves divided about halfway to the middle, and with these divided sections drooping. A large trunk will form eventually but small plants will give several years of service in the house before this occurs. 'big':9 'chines':3,6 'chinesi':2 'divid':12,21 'droop':23 'eventu':29 'fan':4,10 'form':28 'fountain':7 'give':34 'halfway':14 'hous':41 'larg':25 'leav':11 'livistona':1 'middl':17 'occur':44 'palm':5,8 'plant':32 'section':22 'servic':38 'sever':35 'small':31 'trunk':26 'year':36
208 ligustrum lucidum Chinese Glossy Privet A medium sized tree if left to grow, but easily held to size for a while. There are green and variegated forms available. 'avail':28 'chines':3 'easili':15 'form':27 'glossi':4 'green':24 'grow':13 'held':16 'left':11 'ligustrum':1 'lucidum':2 'medium':7 'privet':5 'size':8,18 'tree':9 'varieg':26
209 sandersonia aurantiaca Chinese Lantern Lily Upright or climbing stem a few feet (60cm) long at most. Flowers are bell-shaped, orange-yellow. '60cm':13 'aurantiaca':2 'bell':20 'bell-shap':19 'chines':3 'climb':8 'feet':12 'flower':17 'lantern':4 'lili':5 'long':14 'orang':23 'orange-yellow':22 'sandersonia':1 'shape':21 'stem':9 'upright':6 'yellow':24
210 chirita Chirita Low growing plants with a rosette of silver splashed leaves that occasionally add bluish-purple flowers in a cluster above the leaves. 'add':15 'bluish':17 'bluish-purpl':16 'chirita':1,2 'cluster':22 'flower':19 'grow':4 'leav':12,25 'low':3 'occasion':14 'plant':5 'purpl':18 'rosett':8 'silver':10 'splash':11
211 allium schoenoprasum Chives, Sedgeleek Leaves grass-like, hollow. Flowers are a deep pink on stalks just above the leaves. 'allium':1 'chive':3 'deep':13 'flower':10 'grass':7 'grass-lik':6 'hollow':9 'leav':5,20 'like':8 'pink':14 'schoenoprasum':2 'sedgeleek':4 'stalk':16
212 begonia x cheimantha Christmas Begonia, Lorraine Begonia A fibrous rooted form that produces masses of clear pink flowers that almost obscure the dark grey-green leaves. 'almost':20 'begonia':1,5,7 'cheimantha':3 'christma':4 'clear':16 'dark':23 'fibrous':9 'flower':18 'form':11 'green':26 'grey':25 'grey-green':24 'leav':27 'lorrain':6 'mass':14 'obscur':21 'pink':17 'produc':13 'root':10 'x':2
213 adonidia merrillii Christmas Palm Medium sized palm with a smooth, ringed, brownish trunk. Leaves featherlike, about four feet (120cm) long with many leaflets. The bases form a prominent crown shaft grasping the upper part of the trunk. '120cm':19 'adonidia':1 'base':25 'brownish':12 'christma':3 'crown':29 'featherlik':15 'feet':18 'form':26 'four':17 'grasp':31 'leaflet':23 'leav':14 'long':20 'mani':22 'medium':5 'merrillii':2 'palm':4,7 'part':34 'promin':28 'ring':11 'shaft':30 'size':6 'smooth':10 'trunk':13,37 'upper':33
214 ruellia macrantha Christmas Pride Upright branched stems two to three feet (60-90cm) in height, with large funnel-shaped pink-purple flowers in late fall. '-90':13 '60':12 'branch':6 'christma':3 'cm':14 'fall':28 'feet':11 'flower':25 'funnel':20 'funnel-shap':19 'height':16 'larg':18 'late':27 'macrantha':2 'pink':23 'pink-purpl':22 'pride':4 'purpl':24 'ruellia':1 'shape':21 'stem':7 'three':10 'two':8 'upright':5
215 helleborus orientalis Christmas Rose, Lenten Rose Leathery basal leaves produce an inflorescence of a few large flowers about a foot above the ground. Many color forms have been bred. 'basal':8 'bred':29 'christma':3 'color':25 'flower':17 'foot':20 'form':26 'ground':23 'helleborus':1 'infloresc':12 'larg':16 'leatheri':7 'leav':9 'lenten':5 'mani':24 'orientali':2 'produc':10 'rose':4,6
216 trachycarpus fortunei Chusan Palm, Windmill Palm Slow-growing and handsome palms which eventually form a trunk about eight inches (20cm) in diameter heavily covered by fibers from old leaf bases.. The round leaves are divided about half the distance to the center. '..':32 '20cm':21 'base':31 'center':44 'chusan':3 'cover':25 'diamet':23 'distanc':41 'divid':37 'eight':19 'eventu':14 'fiber':27 'form':15 'fortunei':2 'grow':9 'half':39 'handsom':11 'heavili':24 'inch':20 'leaf':30 'leav':35 'old':29 'palm':4,6,12 'round':34 'slow':8 'slow-grow':7 'trachycarpus':1 'trunk':17 'windmil':5
217 cuphea ignea Cigar Plant Spreading, low shrub about a foot (30cm) tall. Flowers are red tubes with a black band and yellowish-white tip. '30cm':11 'band':20 'black':19 'cigar':3 'cuphea':1 'flower':13 'foot':10 'ignea':2 'low':6 'plant':4 'red':15 'shrub':7 'spread':5 'tall':12 'tip':25 'tube':16 'white':24 'yellowish':23 'yellowish-whit':22
218 pericallis x hybrida Cineraria Plants form a mound, and will be covered with the daisy-like flowers when in full bloom. There are named hybrids and strains in an astonishing range of deep and more pastel colors. 'astonish':31 'bloom':22 'cineraria':4 'color':38 'cover':12 'daisi':16 'daisy-lik':15 'deep':34 'flower':18 'form':6 'full':21 'hybrid':26 'hybrida':3 'like':17 'mound':8 'name':25 'pastel':37 'peric':1 'plant':5 'rang':32 'strain':28 'x':2
219 myrtus communis Classic Myrtle Shrub to about six feet (180cm) with deep green shiny leaves and white flowers almost an inch (2.5cm) wide with puffy stamens. '180cm':10 '2.5':22 'almost':19 'classic':3 'cm':23 'communi':2 'deep':12 'feet':9 'flower':18 'green':13 'inch':21 'leav':15 'myrtl':4 'myrtus':1 'puffi':26 'shini':14 'shrub':5 'six':8 'stamen':27 'white':17 'wide':24
222 stenochlaena palustris Climbing Fern Strong growing climber that can be controlled in a basket or container with frequent attention. Leaves hard textured, feather-form and dark green. 'attent':19 'basket':14 'climb':3 'climber':7 'contain':16 'control':11 'dark':27 'feather':24 'feather-form':23 'fern':4 'form':25 'frequent':18 'green':28 'grow':6 'hard':21 'leav':20 'palustri':2 'stenochlaena':1 'strong':5 'textur':22
223 stenochlaena Climbing Ferns Large fern with divided leaves that can be grown in a basket but reaches its full display if able to climb a tree. 'abl':22 'basket':15 'climb':2,24 'display':20 'divid':7 'fern':3,5 'full':19 'grown':12 'larg':4 'leav':8 'reach':17 'stenochlaena':1 'tree':26
224 mikania Climbing Hempweed, Hemp Vine Strong vines with small leaves, yellowish flowers freely produced but not very showy. 'climb':2 'flower':12 'freeli':13 'hemp':4 'hempwe':3 'leav':10 'mikania':1 'produc':14 'showi':18 'small':9 'strong':6 'vine':5,7 'yellowish':11
225 bowiea volubilis Climbing Onion The fleshy white bulb sits above the soil surface. Thin almost leafless twining stems about two feet (60cm) long, are dotted with white flowers when in bloom. '60cm':22 'almost':15 'bloom':31 'bowiea':1 'bulb':8 'climb':3 'dot':25 'feet':21 'fleshi':6 'flower':28 'leafless':16 'long':23 'onion':4 'sit':9 'soil':12 'stem':18 'surfac':13 'thin':14 'twine':17 'two':20 'volubili':2 'white':7,27
226 haworthia truncata Clipped Window Plant Dark green leaves appearing to be cut off, arranged in a fan shape. 'appear':9 'arrang':14 'clip':3 'cut':12 'dark':6 'fan':17 'green':7 'haworthia':1 'leav':8 'plant':5 'shape':18 'truncata':2 'window':4
227 thunbergia battiscombei Clock Vine Strong but easily controlled vine with large dark blue-purple flowers. 'battiscombei':2 'blue':14 'blue-purpl':13 'clock':3 'control':8 'dark':12 'easili':7 'flower':16 'larg':11 'purpl':15 'strong':5 'thunbergia':1 'vine':4,9
228 ficus aspera Clown Fig Leaves four to six inches (10-15cm) across with a striking white and red variegation on a green background. '-15':11 '10':10 'across':13 'aspera':2 'background':24 'clown':3 'cm':12 'ficus':1 'fig':4 'four':6 'green':23 'inch':9 'leav':5 'red':19 'six':8 'strike':16 'varieg':20 'white':17
229 torenia Clown Flower Annuals or short-lived perennials with tubular flowers that open to show four flat lobes. 'annual':4 'clown':2 'flat':18 'flower':3,12 'four':17 'live':8 'lobe':19 'open':14 'perenni':9 'short':7 'short-liv':6 'show':16 'torenia':1 'tubular':11
230 cordyline Club Palm The erect stems clothed in colorful leaves can reach many feet (2m+) in height in nature, but the plants are easily kept to container size by removing single shoots as they become too large, leaving smaller ones to enjoy. '2m':15 'becom':35 'cloth':7 'club':2 'color':9 'contain':27 'cordylin':1 'easili':24 'enjoy':42 'erect':5 'feet':14 'height':17 'kept':25 'larg':37 'leav':10,38 'mani':13 'natur':19 'one':40 'palm':3 'plant':22 'reach':12 'remov':30 'shoot':32 'singl':31 'size':28 'smaller':39 'stem':6
231 caryota mitis Clustered Fishtail Palm Cluster of closely placed stems even in a young plant. The leaves are divided twice into wedge-shaped leaflets that give the common name ôfishtail.ö Leaf bases have blackish fibers that stay on the trunk. 'base':34 'blackish':36 'caryota':1 'close':8 'cluster':3,6 'common':29 'divid':19 'even':11 'fiber':37 'fishtail':4 'give':27 'leaf':33 'leaflet':25 'leav':17 'miti':2 'name':30 'palm':5 'place':9 'plant':15 'shape':24 'stay':39 'stem':10 'trunk':42 'twice':20 'wedg':23 'wedge-shap':22 'young':14 'ôfishtail':31 'ö':32
232 lobivia Cob Cactus Globular or cylindrical plants with evenly arranged, spine-tipped bulges over the whole surface 'arrang':10 'bulg':14 'cactus':3 'cob':2 'cylindr':6 'even':9 'globular':4 'lobivia':1 'plant':7 'spine':12 'spine-tip':11 'surfac':18 'tip':13 'whole':17
233 microsorum punctatum cristatum Cobra Fern, Elkhorn Fern Dense tufted growth of long undivided leaves, sometimes crested and recurving at the top. 'cobra':4 'crest':16 'cristatum':3 'dens':8 'elkhorn':6 'fern':5,7 'growth':10 'leav':14 'long':12 'microsorum':1 'punctatum':2 'recurv':18 'sometim':15 'top':21 'tuft':9 'undivid':13
234 arisaema sikokianum Cobra Plant Two leaves produced by each tuber, the spathe is funnel-shaped with a curl on the top, white on the inside and green-brown to purplish with light stripes on the outside. 'arisaema':1 'brown':30 'cobra':3 'curl':19 'funnel':15 'funnel-shap':14 'green':29 'green-brown':28 'insid':26 'leav':6 'light':34 'outsid':38 'plant':4 'produc':7 'purplish':32 'shape':16 'sikokianum':2 'spath':12 'stripe':35 'top':22 'tuber':10 'two':5 'white':23
235 zephyranthes Cocoa Flower, Rain Lily Grass-like slightly fleshy leaves from the top of the bulb. Single, relatively large, wide-tubular flowers on a leafless stalk slightly taller than the leaves. 'bulb':17 'cocoa':2 'fleshi':10 'flower':3,24 'grass':7 'grass-lik':6 'larg':20 'leafless':27 'leav':11,33 'like':8 'lili':5 'rain':4 'relat':19 'singl':18 'slight':9,29 'stalk':28 'taller':30 'top':14 'tubular':23 'wide':22 'wide-tubular':21 'zephyranth':1
236 maxillaria tenuifolia Coconut Pie Orchid Flowers produced singly, orange-red with a red-spotted, yellow lip. 'coconut':3 'flower':6 'lip':18 'maxillaria':1 'orang':10 'orange-r':9 'orchid':5 'pie':4 'produc':7 'red':11,15 'red-spot':14 'singl':8 'spot':16 'tenuifolia':2 'yellow':17
237 syagrus romanzoffiana Cocos Plumosus, Queen Palm Solitary trunk with a sparse crown of arching feathery leaves when young. Developing a stout trunk and a more full crown with maturity. 'arch':14 'coco':3 'crown':12,27 'develop':19 'featheri':15 'full':26 'leav':16 'matur':29 'palm':6 'plumosus':4 'queen':5 'romanzoffiana':2 'solitari':7 'spars':11 'stout':21 'syagrus':1 'trunk':8,22 'young':18
238 colocasia Cocoyam, Dasheen, Elephant Ear Stemless or short-stemmed soft plants. Leaves from the tip of the stem with blades that are arrow shaped on stalks about as long as the blade. 'arrow':24 'blade':21,33 'cocoyam':2 'colocasia':1 'dasheen':3 'ear':5 'eleph':4 'leav':13 'long':30 'plant':12 'shape':25 'short':9 'short-stem':8 'soft':11 'stalk':27 'stem':10,19 'stemless':6 'tip':16
239 codonanthe Codonanthe Creeping and climbing plants that do well in baskets or on a trellis. 'basket':11 'climb':5 'codonanth':1,2 'creep':3 'plant':6 'trelli':15 'well':9
240 coffea arabica Coffee Dark green, shiny leaves, somewhat wavy at the edges on a bush that can reach several feet (60+cm) in height. '60':21 'arabica':2 'bush':15 'cm':22 'coffe':3 'coffea':1 'dark':4 'edg':12 'feet':20 'green':5 'height':24 'leav':7 'reach':18 'sever':19 'shini':6 'somewhat':8 'wavi':9
241 solenostemon Coleus Short-lived plants with opposite leaves, often brightly colored and terminal spikes of small blue flowers. 'blue':18 'bright':11 'coleus':2 'color':12 'flower':19 'leav':9 'live':5 'often':10 'opposit':8 'plant':6 'short':4 'short-liv':3 'small':17 'solenostemon':1 'spike':15 'termin':14
242 lavandula angustifolia 'lavender lady' Common Lavender Compact plant usually less than two feet (60cm) tall, with spikes of deep blue flowers. '60cm':14 'angustifolia':2 'blue':20 'common':5 'compact':7 'deep':19 'feet':13 'flower':21 'ladi':4 'lavandula':1 'lavend':3,6 'less':10 'plant':8 'spike':17 'tall':15 'two':12 'usual':9
243 adiantum capillis-veneris Common Maidenhair, Southern Maidenhair, Venus Hair Fern Leaves narrowly triangular, about a foot (30cm) in height, leaflets small. '30cm':18 'adiantum':1 'capilli':3 'capillis-veneri':2 'common':5 'fern':11 'foot':17 'hair':10 'height':20 'leaflet':21 'leav':12 'maidenhair':6,8 'narrowli':13 'small':22 'southern':7 'triangular':14 'veneri':4 'venus':9
244 galanthus nivalis Common Snowdrop, Fair Maids Of February Leaves about four inches (10cm) long, flower stalks about six inches (15cm). Flowers are white with a green mark at the base. '10cm':13 '15cm':20 'base':30 'common':3 'fair':5 'februari':8 'flower':15,21 'four':11 'galanthus':1 'green':26 'inch':12,19 'leav':9 'long':14 'maid':6 'mark':27 'nivali':2 'six':18 'snowdrop':4 'stalk':16 'white':23
245 platycerium bifurcatum Common Staghorn The main fronds arch out two or three feet (60-90cm) from the sheathing basal leaves. They divide into narrow segments and droop at the tips. '-90':15 '60':14 'arch':8 'basal':20 'bifurcatum':2 'cm':16 'common':3 'divid':23 'droop':28 'feet':13 'frond':7 'leav':21 'main':6 'narrow':25 'platycerium':1 'segment':26 'sheath':19 'staghorn':4 'three':12 'tip':31 'two':10
246 jasminum officinale 'affine' Common White Jasmine, Poet's Jasmine, Summer Jasmine Strong, twining climber that will reach 30 feet (9m) tall in the subtropical garden. Flowers star-shaped in clusters, in late summer and fall. '30':18 '9m':20 'affin':3 'climber':14 'cluster':31 'common':4 'fall':36 'feet':19 'flower':26 'garden':25 'jasmin':6,9,11 'jasminum':1 'late':33 'officinal':2 'poet':7 'reach':17 'shape':29 'star':28 'star-shap':27 'strong':12 'subtrop':24 'summer':10,34 'tall':21 'twine':13 'white':5
247 strobilanthes Cone Head Small shrub that stands pruning well. Leaves green with purple underside and silver markings above in the best forms. 'best':21 'cone':2 'form':22 'green':11 'head':3 'leav':10 'mark':17 'prune':8 'purpl':13 'shrub':5 'silver':16 'small':4 'stand':7 'strobilanth':1 'undersid':14 'well':9
248 conophytum Cone Plant Small stemless plants with a pair of fleshy leaves, often forming a medium size clump. Flowers are produced from the shallow slit between the almost fused leaves. 'almost':28 'clump':18 'cone':2 'conophytum':1 'fleshi':11 'flower':19 'form':14 'fuse':29 'leav':12,30 'medium':16 'often':13 'pair':9 'plant':3,6 'produc':21 'shallow':24 'size':17 'slit':25 'small':4 'stemless':5
249 trachelospermum jasminoides Confederate Jessamine Strong , wiry climber with clusters of strongly fragrant, star-shaped flowers. Leaves shiny, dark green or variegated. 'climber':7 'cluster':9 'confeder':3 'dark':19 'flower':16 'fragrant':12 'green':20 'jasminoid':2 'jessamin':4 'leav':17 'shape':15 'shini':18 'star':14 'star-shap':13 'strong':5,11 'trachelospermum':1 'varieg':22 'wiri':6
250 alternanthera versicolor Copper Leaf Upright plants about a foot (30cm) tall with multicolored green, red and pink leaves. '30cm':10 'alternanthera':1 'copper':3 'foot':9 'green':14 'leaf':4 'leav':18 'multicolor':13 'pink':17 'plant':6 'red':15 'tall':11 'upright':5 'versicolor':2
251 acalypha wilkesiana macafeeana Copper-leaf Dense bushy shrub, leaves with bronze and crimson markings. 'acalypha':1 'bronz':12 'bushi':8 'copper':5 'copper-leaf':4 'crimson':14 'dens':7 'leaf':6 'leav':10 'macafeeana':3 'mark':15 'shrub':9 'wilkesiana':2
252 aloe striata Coral Aloe A stemless rosette of long slender leaves. Flowers are red. 'alo':1,4 'coral':3 'flower':12 'leav':11 'long':9 'red':14 'rosett':7 'slender':10 'stemless':6 'striata':2
253 smithiantha Coral Bells Shallow tubers have short erect shoots with broad velvety leaves and tubular flowers. 'bell':3 'broad':11 'coral':2 'erect':8 'flower':16 'leav':13 'shallow':4 'shoot':9 'short':7 'smithiantha':1 'tuber':5 'tubular':15 'velveti':12
254 ardisia crenata Coral Berry, Hen's Eyes Low growing, evergreen with dark green shiny leaves. Small flowers and bright red or white berries form in a ring just below the leaves at the ends of the branches. 'ardisia':1 'berri':4,23 'branch':37 'bright':19 'coral':3 'crenata':2 'dark':12 'end':34 'evergreen':10 'eye':7 'flower':17 'form':24 'green':13 'grow':9 'hen':5 'leav':15,31 'low':8 'red':20 'ring':27 'shini':14 'small':16 'white':22
255 bessera elegans Coral Drops Leaves one to two feet (30-60cm) in length, spreading. Flowers stems upright with about 12 hanging, bell-shaped scarlet flowers. '-60':11 '12':21 '30':10 'bell':24 'bell-shap':23 'bessera':1 'cm':12 'coral':3 'drop':4 'elegan':2 'feet':9 'flower':16,27 'hang':22 'leav':5 'length':14 'one':6 'scarlet':26 'shape':25 'spread':15 'stem':17 'two':8 'upright':18
256 lotus berthelotii Coral Gem Silver-haired leaves on trailing stems do well in a basket, to produce scarlet flowers singly or in small groups. 'basket':16 'berthelotii':2 'coral':3 'flower':20 'gem':4 'group':25 'hair':7 'leav':8 'lotus':1 'produc':18 'scarlet':19 'silver':6 'silver-hair':5 'singl':21 'small':24 'stem':11 'trail':10 'well':13
257 ixia Corn Lily Sword-shaped leaves held upright, often in two ranks, produce a slender stalk with several spreading flowers. 'corn':2 'flower':21 'held':8 'ixia':1 'leav':7 'lili':3 'often':10 'produc':14 'rank':13 'sever':19 'shape':6 'slender':16 'spread':20 'stalk':17 'sword':5 'sword-shap':4 'two':12 'upright':9
258 dracaena fragrans 'massangeana' Corn Plant Broad leaves with generous yellow stripes running along their length. 'along':13 'broad':6 'corn':4 'dracaena':1 'fragran':2 'generous':9 'leav':7 'length':15 'massangeana':3 'plant':5 'run':12 'stripe':11 'yellow':10
259 euphorbia mammillaris variegata Corncob Plant, Zigzag Cactus Small plants, usually less than a foot (30cm) tall. The surface is covered with vertical rows of swellings (tubercles) and may have a few long spines. Green and variegated forms are grown. '30cm':15 'cactus':7 'corncob':4 'cover':20 'euphorbia':1 'foot':14 'form':37 'green':34 'grown':39 'less':11 'long':32 'mammillari':2 'may':28 'plant':5,9 'row':23 'small':8 'spine':33 'surfac':18 'swell':25 'tall':16 'tubercl':26 'usual':10 'varieg':36 'variegata':3 'vertic':22 'zigzag':6
260 encyclia citrina Corsage Flower Foliage grey-green, flowers usually in pairs, opening only part way. 'citrina':2 'corsag':3 'encyclia':1 'flower':4,9 'foliag':5 'green':8 'grey':7 'grey-green':6 'open':13 'pair':12 'part':15 'usual':10 'way':16
261 ficus altissima variegata Council Tree Large, broad leaves up to six inches (15cm) long even on a small plant indoors.Various leaf colors of greens and variegations have been selected. '15cm':13 'altissima':2 'broad':7 'color':22 'council':4 'even':15 'ficus':1 'green':24 'inch':12 'indoors.various':20 'larg':6 'leaf':21 'leav':8 'long':14 'plant':19 'select':29 'six':11 'small':18 'tree':5 'varieg':26 'variegata':3
262 crocus Crocus Small bulbs with grassy leaves, often with a silver stripe down the middle. The flowers come out with the leaves, which continue to grow after the flowers fade. Bloom time is spring or fall. 'bloom':31 'bulb':4 'come':18 'continu':24 'crocus':1,2 'fade':30 'fall':36 'flower':17,29 'grassi':6 'grow':26 'leav':7,22 'middl':15 'often':8 'silver':11 'small':3 'spring':34 'stripe':12 'time':32
263 codiaeum Croton Brilliant foliage in reds, yellows and greens on bushes easily maintained to reasonable size by pruning. 'brilliant':3 'bush':11 'codiaeum':1 'croton':2 'easili':12 'foliag':4 'green':9 'maintain':13 'prune':18 'reason':15 'red':6 'size':16 'yellow':7
264 codiaeum variegatum var pictum 'gold dust' Croton 'gold' Dark green leaves heavily speckled with yellow spots on a plant that grows only a few feet (60cm) in height. '60cm':26 'codiaeum':1 'croton':7 'dark':9 'dust':6 'feet':25 'gold':5,8 'green':10 'grow':21 'heavili':12 'height':28 'leav':11 'pictum':4 'plant':19 'speckl':13 'spot':16 'var':3 'variegatum':2 'yellow':15
265 rebutia Crown Cactus Globular, small, single or clustered cacti that are usually free-flowering in a bright spot. 'bright':18 'cacti':9 'cactus':3 'cluster':8 'crown':2 'flower':15 'free':14 'free-flow':13 'globular':4 'rebutia':1 'singl':6 'small':5 'spot':19 'usual':12
266 aglaomorpha coronans Crown Fern Great basket fern creeping around the outside with a furry stem that has short, broad upright leaves and longer arching ones more like a typical fern. 'aglaomorpha':1 'arch':24 'around':9 'basket':6 'broad':19 'coronan':2 'creep':8 'crown':3 'fern':4,7,30 'furri':14 'great':5 'leav':21 'like':27 'longer':23 'one':25 'outsid':11 'short':18 'stem':15 'typic':29 'upright':20
267 aglaomorpha Crown Ferns Ferns with a strong creeping rhizome that make them good for basket use. 'aglaomorpha':1 'basket':15 'creep':8 'crown':2 'fern':3,4 'good':13 'make':11 'rhizom':9 'strong':7 'use':16
268 euphorbia milii vulcanii Crown Of Thorns Leaves less than two inches (5cm) long in four rows from a very short stem. The leaves are grey-green with white teeth along their upper edges. Flowers are large for the size of the plant, yellow. '5cm':12 'along':31 'crown':4 'edg':34 'euphorbia':1 'flower':35 'four':15 'green':27 'grey':26 'grey-green':25 'inch':11 'larg':37 'leav':7,23 'less':8 'long':13 'milii':2 'plant':43 'row':16 'short':20 'size':40 'stem':21 'teeth':30 'thorn':6 'two':10 'upper':33 'vulcanii':3 'white':29 'yellow':44
269 anthurium crystallinum Crystal Anthurium, Strap Flower Leaves heart-shaped, about a foot (30cm) long and on the same size stalks. Leaves dark green with pure white veins, and the whole with a shiny, crystalline appearance. '30cm':14 'anthurium':1,4 'appear':36 'crystal':3 'crystallin':35 'crystallinum':2 'dark':23 'flower':6 'foot':13 'green':24 'heart':9 'heart-shap':8 'leav':7,22 'long':15 'pure':26 'shape':10 'shini':34 'size':20 'stalk':21 'strap':5 'vein':28 'white':27 'whole':31
270 nierembergia Cup Flowers Perennials and small shrubs with small leaves and flowers in terminal groups. 'cup':2 'flower':3,12 'group':15 'leav':10 'nierembergia':1 'perenni':4 'shrub':7 'small':6,9 'termin':14
271 peperomia serpens variegata Cupid Peperomia Trailing to a foot or two (30-60cm) in length. Leaves variegated, leathery-fleshy. '-60':13 '30':12 'cm':14 'cupid':4 'fleshi':21 'foot':9 'leatheri':20 'leathery-fleshi':19 'leav':17 'length':16 'peperomia':1,5 'serpen':2 'trail':6 'two':11 'varieg':18 'variegata':3
272 howea belmoreana Curly Palm, Sentry Palm Solitary trunked palm with a crown of stiffly arching dark green leaves. Slow growing, giving many years service in the house. 'arch':15 'belmoreana':2 'crown':12 'cur':3 'dark':16 'give':21 'green':17 'grow':20 'hous':27 'howea':1 'leav':18 'mani':22 'palm':4,6,9 'sentri':5 'servic':24 'slow':19 'solitari':7 'stiffli':14 'trunk':8 'year':23
273 narcissus cyclamineus 'sundial' Daffodil Dainty flowers with the petals bent back in the way that they are in cyclamens. 'back':11 'bent':10 'cyclamen':19 'cyclamineus':2 'daffodil':4 'dainti':5 'flower':6 'narcissus':1 'petal':9 'sundial':3 'way':14
274 narcissus Daffodils, Daffy Down Dilly Leaves usually several per bulb. The inflorescence may have one or several flowers which are unusual in having a colorful ring at the center of the flowers as well as the petals. 'bulb':10 'center':29 'color':25 'daffi':3 'daffodil':2 'dilli':5 'flower':18,32 'infloresc':12 'leav':6 'may':13 'narcissus':1 'one':15 'per':9 'petal':37 'ring':26 'sever':8,17 'unusu':21 'usual':7 'well':34
275 oncidium splendidum Dancing Girls Orchid Upright, branching inflorescence with 30-40 deep lemon yellow and purple-brown flowers. '-40':11 '30':10 'branch':7 'brown':18 'danc':3 'deep':12 'flower':19 'girl':4 'infloresc':8 'lemon':13 'oncidium':1 'orchid':5 'purpl':17 'purple-brown':16 'splendidum':2 'upright':6 'yellow':14
276 oncidium Dancing Lady Orchid Arching sprays of flowers are formed from the base of clustered pseudobulbs. 'arch':5 'base':13 'cluster':15 'danc':2 'flower':8 'form':10 'ladi':3 'oncidium':1 'orchid':4 'pseudobulb':16 'spray':6
277 phoenix Date Palm Large trees when mature but valued for their feathery leaves in a rosette when small. 'date':2 'featheri':12 'larg':4 'leav':13 'matur':7 'palm':3 'phoenix':1 'rosett':16 'small':18 'tree':5 'valu':9
278 commelina Day Flower, Spiderwort Most species have slender leaves that tend to be fleshy, and may be lost during a resting period. Flowers are blue and white, short-lived but with new ones formed every day. 'blue':25 'commelina':1 'day':2,37 'everi':36 'fleshi':14 'flower':3,23 'form':35 'leav':9 'live':30 'lost':18 'may':16 'new':33 'one':34 'period':22 'rest':21 'short':29 'short-liv':28 'slender':8 'speci':6 'spiderwort':4 'tend':11 'white':27
279 lamium Day Nettle, Dead Nettles Clump-forming small plants, the most desirable with variegated leaves. 'clump':7 'clump-form':6 'day':2 'dead':4 'desir':13 'form':8 'lamium':1 'leav':16 'nettl':3,5 'plant':10 'small':9 'varieg':15
280 blechnum spicant Deer Fern A tuft of rather hard-textured, narrow leaves less than a foot (30cm) in height. '30cm':18 'blechnum':1 'deer':3 'fern':4 'foot':17 'hard':10 'hard-textur':9 'height':20 'leav':13 'less':14 'narrow':12 'rather':8 'spicant':2 'textur':11 'tuft':6
281 adiantum raddianum Delta Maidenhair The many cultivars of species vary in size and density of foliage, but all share black, shiny leaf stalks that set off the foliage. 'adiantum':1 'black':20 'cultivar':7 'delta':3 'densiti':14 'foliag':16,28 'leaf':22 'maidenhair':4 'mani':6 'raddianum':2 'set':25 'share':19 'shini':21 'size':12 'speci':9 'stalk':23 'vari':10
282 adenium Desert Rose Fleshy, contorted trunks grow slowly to about five feet (150cm) in height '150cm':13 'adenium':1 'contort':5 'desert':2 'feet':12 'five':11 'fleshi':4 'grow':7 'height':15 'rose':3 'slowli':8 'trunk':6
283 dasylirion wheeleri Desert Spoon A short, woody trunk develops with age, carrying a dense bushy head of long, slender leaves with small. Hooked teeth on their edges. 'age':11 'bushi':15 'carri':12 'dasylirion':1 'dens':14 'desert':3 'develop':9 'edg':27 'head':16 'hook':23 'leav':20 'long':18 'short':6 'slender':19 'small':22 'spoon':4 'teeth':24 'trunk':8 'wheeleri':2 'woodi':7
284 pedilanthus tithymaloides 'variegatus' Devils Backbone Upright or arching stems that may reach six feet (180cm) in length have leaves about two inches (5cm) long alternately up the zigzag stem. The flowers are in bright red shoe-shaped structures in groups near the stem tips. '180cm':15 '5cm':23 'altern':25 'arch':8 'backbon':5 'bright':34 'devil':4 'feet':14 'flower':31 'group':41 'inch':22 'leav':19 'length':17 'long':24 'may':11 'near':42 'pedilanthus':1 'reach':12 'red':35 'shape':38 'shoe':37 'shoe-shap':36 'six':13 'stem':9,29,44 'structur':39 'tip':45 'tithymaloid':2 'two':21 'upright':6 'variegatus':3 'zigzag':28
285 epipremnum Devils Ivy, Hunter's Robe, Money Plant, Pothos In full growth in the wild, leaves may reach over three feet (90cm) in length, but kept in a pot or basket four or five inches (10-13cm) is more likely. The best selections are heavily splashed with rich golden yellow. '-13':37 '10':36 '90cm':22 'basket':31 'best':43 'cm':38 'devil':2 'epipremnum':1 'feet':21 'five':34 'four':32 'full':11 'golden':50 'growth':12 'heavili':46 'hunter':4 'inch':35 'ivi':3 'kept':26 'leav':16 'length':24 'like':41 'may':17 'money':7 'plant':8 'pot':29 'potho':9 'reach':18 'rich':49 'robe':6 'select':44 'splash':47 'three':20 'wild':15 'yellow':51
286 epipremnum aureum Devils Ivy, Golden Pothos, Hunter's Robe, Money Plant Leaves dark green with yellow streaks and marbling. A strong climber on a totem pole (or tree or wall!), clinging by roots which grow down to the ground. Often used in a basket where the stems will hang for several feet (60+cm). '60':53 'aureum':2 'basket':44 'climber':22 'cling':31 'cm':54 'dark':13 'devil':3 'epipremnum':1 'feet':52 'golden':5 'green':14 'ground':39 'grow':35 'hang':49 'hunter':7 'ivi':4 'leav':12 'marbl':19 'money':10 'often':40 'plant':11 'pole':26 'potho':6 'robe':9 'root':33 'sever':51 'stem':47 'streak':17 'strong':21 'totem':25 'tree':28 'use':41 'wall':30 'yellow':16
287 sansevieria Devil's Tongue, Snake Plant Tall, sword-shaped leaves (or shorter and broader in some) from an underground rhizome. Slightly fleshy and very tough under most growing conditions. 'broader':15 'condit':30 'devil':2 'fleshi':23 'grow':29 'leav':11 'plant':6 'rhizom':21 'sansevieria':1 'shape':10 'shorter':13 'slight':22 'snake':5 'sword':9 'sword-shap':8 'tall':7 'tongu':4 'tough':26 'underground':20
288 diascia Diascia Small shrubs, usually less than two feet (60cm) in height, almost covered with color when in bloom. '60cm':10 'almost':13 'bloom':19 'color':16 'cover':14 'diascia':1,2 'feet':9 'height':12 'less':6 'shrub':4 'small':3 'two':8 'usual':5
289 dracaena Dracaena The range of plant height is from less than a foot (30cm) to more than thirty (9m+), but even the big ones can be controlled for container use. '30cm':14 '9m':19 'big':23 'contain':29 'control':27 'dracaena':1,2 'even':21 'foot':13 'height':7 'less':10 'one':24 'plant':6 'rang':4 'thirti':18 'use':30
290 arisaema Dragon Arum Underground tubers produce short plants with a few leaves about two feet (60cm) tall each with three leaflets. The inflorescence has a fleshy spike of flowers wrapped by a leaf-like spathe that may have extraordinary coloring. '60cm':16 'arisaema':1 'arum':3 'color':41 'dragon':2 'extraordinari':40 'feet':15 'fleshi':26 'flower':29 'infloresc':23 'leaf':34 'leaf-lik':33 'leaflet':21 'leav':12 'like':35 'may':38 'plant':8 'produc':6 'short':7 'spath':36 'spike':27 'tall':17 'three':20 'tuber':5 'two':14 'underground':4 'wrap':30
291 dracunculus vulgaris Dragon Arum Leaf about three feet (90cm) tall with a blade cut into finger-like segments, mottled. The inflorescence had a sheathing spathe inside which the fleshy spike of tiny flowers (spadix) develops. The odor is bad for a few days. '90cm':9 'arum':4 'bad':40 'blade':13 'cut':14 'day':44 'develop':36 'dracunculus':1 'dragon':3 'feet':8 'finger':17 'finger-lik':16 'fleshi':30 'flower':34 'infloresc':22 'insid':27 'leaf':5 'like':18 'mottl':20 'odor':38 'segment':19 'sheath':25 'spadix':35 'spath':26 'spike':31 'tall':10 'three':7 'tini':33 'vulgari':2
292 dracaena draco Dragon Tree Long silver-grey, narrow sword-shaped leaves in a dense rosette at the end of each branch of a heavy-trunked tree. Will grow to 30 feet (9m+) tall in the wild, making a symmetrical dome of leaves. '30':33 '9m':35 'branch':23 'dens':16 'dome':43 'dracaena':1 'draco':2 'dragon':3 'end':20 'feet':34 'grey':8 'grow':31 'heavi':27 'heavy-trunk':26 'leav':13,45 'long':5 'make':40 'narrow':9 'rosett':17 'shape':12 'silver':7 'silver-grey':6 'sword':11 'sword-shap':10 'symmetr':42 'tall':36 'tree':4,29 'trunk':28 'wild':39
293 agave attenuata Dragon-tree Agave This species is unusual in having soft tips to the blue-green leaves that rarely grow more than two feet (60cm) long. '60cm':28 'agav':1,6 'attenuata':2 'blue':18 'blue-green':17 'dragon':4 'dragon-tre':3 'feet':27 'green':19 'grow':23 'leav':20 'long':29 'rare':22 'soft':13 'speci':8 'tip':14 'tree':5 'two':26 'unusu':10
294 aloe dichotoma Dragon-tree Aloe Upright trunk eventually massive and several feet tall, Leaves about 12'' (30cm) long in rosettes at the branch tips. Flowers are yellow. '12':17 '30cm':18 'alo':1,6 'branch':24 'dichotoma':2 'dragon':4 'dragon-tre':3 'eventu':9 'feet':13 'flower':26 'leav':15 'long':19 'massiv':10 'rosett':21 'sever':12 'tall':14 'tip':25 'tree':5 'trunk':8 'upright':7 'yellow':28
295 dracunculus Dragon Wort The single leaf has a tall spotted stalk topped by a blade made up of several finger-like segments. 'blade':15 'dracunculus':1 'dragon':2 'finger':21 'finger-lik':20 'leaf':6 'like':22 'made':16 'segment':23 'sever':19 'singl':5 'spot':10 'stalk':11 'tall':9 'top':12 'wort':3
296 sedum spurium Dragons Blood Small rosettes from freely branching stems. 'blood':4 'branch':9 'dragon':3 'freeli':8 'rosett':6 'sedum':1 'small':5 'spurium':2 'stem':10
297 hibiscus rosa sinensis 'dragon's breath' Dragons Breath Hibiscus Flowers red with a white curved swirl of white from the center. Petals are somewhat lobed. 'breath':6,8 'center':21 'curv':15 'dragon':4,7 'flower':10 'hibiscus':1,9 'lobe':25 'petal':22 'red':11 'rosa':2 'sinensi':3 'somewhat':24 'swirl':16 'white':14,18
298 ornithogalum nutans Drooping Star Of Bethlehem Leaves 12-18'' (30-45cm) long. Flowers white inside but appearing green from their outside color since the flowers hang down. '-18':9 '-45':11 '12':8 '30':10 'appear':18 'bethlehem':6 'cm':12 'color':23 'droop':3 'flower':14,26 'green':19 'hang':27 'insid':16 'leav':7 'long':13 'nutan':2 'ornithogalum':1 'outsid':22 'sinc':24 'star':4 'white':15
299 hatiora salicornioides Drunkards Dream Small, much-branched shrub, the stem segments pinched at the base like inverted bottles. Flowers are yellow to orange. 'base':16 'bottl':19 'branch':8 'dream':4 'drunkard':3 'flower':20 'hatiora':1 'invert':18 'like':17 'much':7 'much-branch':6 'orang':24 'pinch':13 'salicornioid':2 'segment':12 'shrub':9 'small':5 'stem':11 'yellow':22
300 philodendron radiatum Dubia Philodendron Climbing type with deeply lobed leaves. 'climb':5 'deepli':8 'dubia':3 'leav':10 'lobe':9 'philodendron':1,4 'radiatum':2 'type':6
301 dieffenbachia bausei Dumb Cane Leaf blades about 12 inches (30cm) long, broad, green blotched with light green and with scattered white spots. '12':8 '30cm':10 'bausei':2 'blade':6 'blotch':14 'broad':12 'cane':4 'dieffenbachia':1 'dumb':3 'green':13,17 'inch':9 'leaf':5 'light':16 'long':11 'scatter':20 'spot':22 'white':21
302 dieffenbachia Dumb Cane, Leopards Lily Large, white-variegated leaves carried on upright stems brighten this rather soft plant. The largest types may reach several feet (60cm) in height. '60cm':27 'brighten':15 'cane':3 'carri':11 'dieffenbachia':1 'dumb':2 'feet':26 'height':29 'larg':6 'largest':21 'leav':10 'leopard':4 'lili':5 'may':23 'plant':19 'rather':17 'reach':24 'sever':25 'soft':18 'stem':14 'type':22 'upright':13 'varieg':9 'white':8 'white-varieg':7
303 senecio cineraria Dusty Miller Grown primarily for its attractive silver-gray foliage rather than its yellow flowers. The foliage looks good in cut arrangements. 'arrang':25 'attract':9 'cineraria':2 'cut':24 'dusti':3 'flower':18 'foliag':13,20 'good':22 'gray':12 'grown':5 'look':21 'miller':4 'primarili':6 'rather':14 'senecio':1 'silver':11 'silver-gray':10 'yellow':17
304 crocus vernus hybrid Dutch Crocus, Saffron, Spring Crocus Leaves about six inches (15cm) long, usually three or four per plant. Very early flowering. '15cm':13 'crocus':1,5,8 'dutch':4 'earli':22 'flower':23 'four':18 'hybrid':3 'inch':12 'leav':9 'long':14 'per':19 'plant':20 'saffron':6 'six':11 'spring':7 'three':16 'usual':15 'vernus':2
305 gasteria Dutch Wings, Lawyers Tongue Clump forming plants with fleshy leaves in two ranks. 'clump':6 'dutch':2 'fleshi':10 'form':7 'gasteria':1 'lawyer':4 'leav':11 'plant':8 'rank':14 'tongu':5 'two':13 'wing':3
306 musa nana 'elegantissima' Dwarf Banana Regular eating banana, fruiting when only four to six feet (120-180cm) tall. '-180':17 '120':16 'banana':5,8 'cm':18 'dwarf':4 'eat':7 'elegantissima':3 'feet':15 'four':12 'fruit':9 'musa':1 'nana':2 'regular':6 'six':14 'tall':19
307 cyperus papyrus 'dwarf' Dwarf Egyptian Paper Plant Leafless stems about a foot (30cm) tall carry a spherical inflorescence of tiny spike lets on hair-like stalks. '30cm':13 'carri':15 'cyperus':1 'dwarf':3,4 'egyptian':5 'foot':12 'hair':25 'hair-lik':24 'infloresc':18 'leafless':8 'let':22 'like':26 'paper':6 'papyrus':2 'plant':7 'spheric':17 'spike':21 'stalk':27 'stem':9 'tall':14 'tini':20
308 myrtus communis 'microphylla' Dwarf Myrtle A form with small leaves that is great for training into topiary or for bonsai. 'bonsai':20 'communi':2 'dwarf':4 'form':7 'great':13 'leav':10 'microphylla':3 'myrtl':5 'myrtus':1 'small':9 'topiari':17 'train':15
309 punica granatum 'nana' Dwarf Pomegranate A very satisfactory small-leaved, small-fruited and small-growing version of the pomegranate. The orange fruit are edible, but not juicy enough to be worthwhile. 'dwarf':4 'edibl':27 'enough':31 'fruit':14,25 'granatum':2 'grow':18 'juici':30 'leav':11 'nana':3 'orang':24 'pomegran':5,22 'punica':1 'satisfactori':8 'small':10,13,17 'small-fruit':12 'small-grow':16 'small-leav':9 'version':19 'worthwhil':34
310 kalanchoe pumila Dwarf Purple Kalanchoe A branching shrub with waxy-white leaves. 'branch':7 'dwarf':3 'kalancho':1,5 'leav':13 'pumila':2 'purpl':4 'shrub':8 'waxi':11 'waxy-whit':10 'white':12
311 cryptanthus bromelioides 'tricolor' Dwarf Rose, Stripe Star The slender leaves in arching tufts have white and pink stripes down their length. 'arch':12 'bromelioid':2 'cryptanthus':1 'dwarf':4 'leav':10 'length':21 'pink':17 'rose':5 'slender':9 'star':7 'stripe':6,18 'tricolor':3 'tuft':13 'white':15
312 schefflera arboricola Dwarf Umbrella Tree, Parasol Plant, Star Leaf Five to nine leaflets on a medium length stalk (the whole leaf about 12'' (30cm) overall), set closely up the branch make a dense bush or small tree. Green and variegated forms are available. '12':23 '30cm':24 'arboricola':2 'avail':43 'branch':30 'bush':34 'close':27 'dens':33 'dwarf':3 'five':10 'form':41 'green':38 'leaf':9,21 'leaflet':13 'length':17 'make':31 'medium':16 'nine':12 'overal':25 'parasol':6 'plant':7 'schefflera':1 'set':26 'small':36 'stalk':18 'star':8 'tree':5,37 'umbrella':4 'varieg':40 'whole':20
313 echinocactus Eagles Claw Usually globular in form but in some growing taller. Strongly ribbed and well supplied with spines. 'claw':3 'eagl':2 'echinocactus':1 'form':7 'globular':5 'grow':11 'rib':14 'spine':19 'strong':13 'suppli':17 'taller':12 'usual':4 'well':16
314 cryptanthus Earth Stars Star shaped, and in most species, flat on the ground. The leaves may be flushed with red or variously lined with other colors. 'color':26 'cryptanthus':1 'earth':2 'flat':10 'flush':18 'ground':13 'leav':15 'line':23 'may':16 'red':20 'shape':5 'speci':9 'star':3,4 'various':22
315 rhipsalidopsis gaertneri Easter Cactus Pendulous plant suitable for baskets. Flowers are a deep scarlet. 'basket':9 'cactus':4 'deep':13 'easter':3 'flower':10 'gaertneri':2 'pendul':5 'plant':6 'rhipsalidopsi':1 'scarlet':14 'suitabl':7
316 lilium longiflorum 'nellie white' Easter Lily A superior selection of the popular Easter lily. 'easter':5,13 'lili':6,14 'lilium':1 'longiflorum':2 'nelli':3 'popular':12 'select':9 'superior':8 'white':4
317 pentas lanceolata Egyptian Star Flower Upright plants, one to almost four feet (120cm) tall depending on variety, have an almost continuous set of flat bloom clusters at the tips of the branches. All colors except yellows are now available. '120cm':13 'almost':10,20 'avail':39 'bloom':25 'branch':32 'cluster':26 'color':34 'continu':21 'depend':15 'egyptian':3 'except':35 'feet':12 'flat':24 'flower':5 'four':11 'lanceolata':2 'one':8 'penta':1 'plant':7 'set':22 'star':4 'tall':14 'tip':29 'upright':6 'varieti':17 'yellow':36
318 begonia x hiemalis Elatior Begonia Fibrous rooted, forming upright plants with single or double flowers in a wide range of colors. 'begonia':1,5 'color':21 'doubl':14 'elatior':4 'fibrous':6 'flower':15 'form':8 'hiemali':3 'plant':10 'rang':19 'root':7 'singl':12 'upright':9 'wide':18 'x':2
319 portulacaria afra 'variegata' Elephant Bush, Rainbow Bush Small branched shrub with tiny round leaves, variegated in this form. 'afra':2 'branch':9 'bush':5,7 'eleph':4 'form':18 'leav':14 'portulacaria':1 'rainbow':6 'round':13 'shrub':10 'small':8 'tini':12 'varieg':15 'variegata':3
320 platycerium hillii 'superbum' Elk Horn Fern, Green Staghorn The arching fronds tend to stay upright and are shallowly lobed near the tips. 'arch':10 'elk':4 'fern':6 'frond':11 'green':7 'hillii':2 'horn':5 'lobe':19 'near':20 'platycerium':1 'shallowli':18 'staghorn':8 'stay':14 'superbum':3 'tend':12 'tip':22 'upright':15
321 platycerium Elkhorns Ferns with two or three different leaf types, one of which spreads across the substrate to form a water- and soil-holding ôbasket.ö 'across':15 'differ':8 'elkhorn':2 'fern':3 'form':19 'hold':25 'leaf':9 'one':11 'platycerium':1 'soil':24 'soil-hold':23 'spread':14 'substrat':17 'three':7 'two':5 'type':10 'water':21 'ôbasket':26 'ö':27
322 peperomia caperata Emerald Ripple Tufted, short-stemmed plant with oval leaves attached on their underside and with radiating wrinkles from this point. 'attach':13 'caperata':2 'emerald':3 'leav':12 'oval':11 'peperomia':1 'plant':9 'point':23 'radiat':19 'rippl':4 'short':7 'short-stem':6 'stem':8 'tuft':5 'undersid':16 'wrinkl':20
323 eucharis Eucharis Lily Evergreen leaves are long and paddle shaped. White flowers in groups on long stalks from the bulbs are strongly fragrant. 'bulb':20 'euchari':1,2 'evergreen':4 'flower':12 'fragrant':23 'group':14 'leav':5 'lili':3 'long':7,16 'paddl':9 'shape':10 'stalk':17 'strong':22 'white':11
324 rhoicissus capensis Evergreen Grape Vine Slender, evergreen vine which can be used in a basket or on a totem pole. 'basket':15 'capensi':2 'evergreen':3,7 'grape':4 'pole':20 'rhoicissus':1 'slender':6 'totem':19 'use':12 'vine':5,8
325 helipterum roseum grandiflorum 'double mixed Everlasting Upright stalks usually less than two feet (60cm) tall have daisy-like flowers at their tips whose texture is very crisp, and which dry well for use in arrangements. '60cm':14 'arrang':36 'crisp':28 'daisi':18 'daisy-lik':17 'doubl':4 'dri':31 'everlast':6 'feet':13 'flower':20 'grandiflorum':3 'helipterum':1 'less':10 'like':19 'mix':5 'roseum':2 'stalk':8 'tall':15 'textur':25 'tip':23 'two':12 'upright':7 'use':34 'usual':9 'well':32 'whose':24
326 hechtia Fairy Angel Long spiny leaves in a flattened rosette. Flowers are not showy. 'angel':3 'fairi':2 'flatten':9 'flower':11 'hechtia':1 'leav':6 'long':4 'rosett':10 'showi':14 'spini':5
327 adiantum raddianum 'gracillimum' Fairy Delta Fern Arching, finely divided leaves make an attractive hanging basket. 'adiantum':1 'arch':7 'attract':13 'basket':15 'delta':5 'divid':9 'fairi':4 'fern':6 'fine':8 'gracillimum':3 'hang':14 'leav':10 'make':11 'raddianum':2
328 zephyranthes candida Fairy Lily, Flower Of The Western Wind, White Rain Lily Leaves about a foot (30cm) long, flowers are white. '30cm':17 'candida':2 'fairi':3 'flower':5,19 'foot':16 'leav':13 'lili':4,12 'long':18 'rain':11 'western':8 'white':10,21 'wind':9 'zephyranth':1
329 cuphea hyssopifolia False Heather Wiry stems about a foot (30cm) long produce many tiny leaves and a mass of solitary flowers over the whole surface of the mound. Flowers range from white to deep purple. '30cm':10 'cuphea':1 'deep':34 'fals':3 'flower':21,29 'foot':9 'heather':4 'hyssopifolia':2 'leav':15 'long':11 'mani':13 'mass':18 'mound':28 'produc':12 'purpl':35 'rang':30 'solitari':20 'stem':6 'surfac':25 'tini':14 'white':32 'whole':24 'wiri':5
330 parthenocissus False Ivy, Wood Bine Rampant vines that will make a huge basket with frequent pinching. 'basket':13 'bine':5 'fals':2 'frequent':15 'huge':12 'ivi':3 'make':10 'parthenocissus':1 'pinch':16 'rampant':6 'vine':7 'wood':4
331 hardenbergia violacea False Sarsparilla, Purple Coral Pea, Vine Lilac Twining climber with slender stems that will grow to about ten feet (300cm) tall if given a support. Clusters of purple flowers are freely produced in late winter and spring. '300cm':22 'climber':11 'cluster':28 'coral':6 'fals':3 'feet':21 'flower':31 'freeli':33 'given':25 'grow':17 'hardenbergia':1 'late':36 'lilac':9 'pea':7 'produc':34 'purpl':5,30 'sarsparilla':4 'slender':13 'spring':39 'stem':14 'support':27 'tall':23 'ten':20 'twine':10 'vine':8 'violacea':2 'winter':37
332 ornithogalum caudatum False Sea Onion, Pregnant Onion Leaves may reach two feet (60cm) in length. Flowers white with a green stripe on the petals, often 50 to 100 in number. '100':28 '50':26 '60cm':13 'caudatum':2 'fals':3 'feet':12 'flower':16 'green':20 'leav':8 'length':15 'may':9 'number':30 'often':25 'onion':5,7 'ornithogalum':1 'petal':24 'pregnant':6 'reach':10 'sea':4 'stripe':21 'two':11 'white':17
333 trachycarpus Fan Palm Slow growing palms with deeply cut circular leaves. The trunks are covered with hairs. 'circular':10 'cover':15 'cut':9 'deepli':8 'fan':2 'grow':5 'hair':17 'leav':11 'palm':3,6 'slow':4 'trachycarpus':1 'trunk':13
334 washingtonia robusta Fan Palm, Washingtonia Leaves may be as much as four feet (120cm) across in plants only a few years old, and the trunk when it forms is about 18 inches (45cm) in diameter. The leaf bases and old leaves persist for many years on plants grown outside. '120cm':14 '18':31 '45cm':33 'across':15 'base':38 'diamet':35 'fan':3 'feet':13 'form':28 'four':12 'grown':48 'inch':32 'leaf':37 'leav':6,41 'mani':44 'may':7 'much':10 'old':22,40 'outsid':49 'palm':4 'persist':42 'plant':17,47 'robusta':2 'trunk':25 'washingtonia':1,5 'year':21,45
335 zamioculcas zamiifolia Fat Boy Erect leaves that may reach three feet (90cm) in length grow from a swollen basal stem. The leaves are fleshy, and the leaflets break off very easily to root and make new plants. Flowers are insignificant at the base of the leaves. '90cm':12 'basal':19 'base':43 'boy':4 'break':28 'easili':31 'erect':5 'fat':3 'feet':11 'fleshi':24 'flower':38 'grow':15 'insignific':40 'leaflet':27 'leav':6,22,46 'length':14 'make':35 'may':8 'new':36 'plant':37 'reach':9 'root':33 'stem':20 'swollen':18 'three':10 'zamiifolia':2 'zamioculca':1
336 fatshedera Fat-headed Lizzie Ivy (Hedera) in the parentage has added a tendency to a climbing habit to the hand-shaped leaves of the shrubby Fatsia. 'ad':12 'climb':17 'fat':3 'fat-head':2 'fatshedera':1 'fatsia':28 'habit':18 'hand':22 'hand-shap':21 'head':4 'hedera':7 'ivi':6 'leav':24 'lizzi':5 'parentag':10 'shape':23 'shrubbi':27 'tendenc':14
337 daphne mezereum alba February Daphne, Mezerin Deciduous shrub with a few branches that reach about four feet (120cm) in height. Flowers in clusters on the previous yearÆs wood. Pink to red in most, white in this particular selection. '120cm':18 'alba':3 'branch':12 'cluster':23 'daphn':1,5 'decidu':7 'februari':4 'feet':17 'flower':21 'four':16 'height':20 'mezereum':2 'mezerin':6 'particular':37 'pink':29 'previous':26 'reach':14 'red':31 'select':38 'shrub':8 'white':34 'wood':28 'yearæ':27
338 pyrrosia Felt Fern Rhizomatous ferns with leaves usually produced close together. Fronds simple, often crested at the tips. 'close':10 'crest':15 'felt':2 'fern':3,5 'frond':12 'leav':7 'often':14 'produc':9 'pyrrosia':1 'rhizomat':4 'simpl':13 'tip':18 'togeth':11 'usual':8
339 ficus Ficus, Fig The small number of species used from this very large genus of trees and vines all stand pruning well to keep them in bounds. 'bound':27 'ficus':1,2 'fig':3 'genus':14 'keep':24 'larg':13 'number':6 'prune':21 'small':5 'speci':8 'stand':20 'tree':16 'use':9 'vine':18 'well':22
340 ficus binnendijkii 'amstel' Ficus Of The Future "amstel" A form of this slender-leaved ficus selected for reliability in the interior. 'amstel':3,8 'binnendijkii':2 'ficus':1,4,16 'form':10 'futur':7 'interior':22 'leav':15 'reliabl':19 'select':17 'slender':14 'slender-leav':13
341 ficus benjamina 'indigo' Ficus Of The Future "indigo" Small leaves, very dark green.This is one of a superior series selected for use in the interior that is much less likely to shed leaves than the original species. 'benjamina':2 'dark':12 'ficus':1,4 'futur':7 'green.this':13 'indigo':3,8 'interior':25 'leav':10,33 'less':29 'like':30 'much':28 'one':15 'origin':36 'select':20 'seri':19 'shed':32 'small':9 'speci':37 'superior':18 'use':22
342 ficus benjamina 'midnight' Ficus Of The Future "midnight" Dark foliage on dense branches on plants selected for their suitability of use in the interior. 'benjamina':2 'branch':13 'dark':9 'dens':12 'ficus':1,4 'foliag':10 'futur':7 'interior':24 'midnight':3,8 'plant':15 'select':16 'suitabl':19 'use':21
343 ficus benjamina 'monique' Ficus Of The Future "monique" Dark leaves with wavy edges are held well on the plants in the interior. Another of the improved varieties. 'anoth':23 'benjamina':2 'dark':9 'edg':13 'ficus':1,4 'futur':7 'held':15 'improv':26 'interior':22 'leav':10 'moniqu':3,8 'plant':19 'varieti':27 'wavi':12 'well':16
344 ficus benjamina 'wiandi' Ficus Of The Future "wiandi" Small-growing form with contorted branches. Very good in the interior or as a bonsai subject. Handle with care since the branches are more brittle than usual. 'benjamina':2 'bonsai':24 'branch':15,31 'brittl':34 'care':28 'contort':14 'ficus':1,4 'form':12 'futur':7 'good':17 'grow':11 'handl':26 'interior':20 'sinc':29 'small':10 'small-grow':9 'subject':25 'usual':36 'wiandi':3,8
345 philodendron panduraeforme Fiddle Leaf Climber whose leaves have a pronounced three- to five-lobed form that gives them their common name. 'climber':5 'common':21 'fiddl':3 'five':14 'five-lob':13 'form':16 'give':18 'leaf':4 'leav':7 'lobe':15 'name':22 'panduraeform':2 'philodendron':1 'pronounc':10 'three':11 'whose':6
346 ficus lyrata Fiddle Leaf Fig Large leaves with a narrow place part way down their length reminiscent of the shape of a violin. 'ficus':1 'fiddl':3 'fig':5 'larg':6 'leaf':4 'leav':7 'length':16 'lyrata':2 'narrow':10 'part':12 'place':11 'reminisc':17 'shape':20 'violin':23 'way':13
347 costus cuspidatus Fiery Costus Short spiraling stems about two feet (60cm) tall explode into color with bright flame colored bracts and flowers at their tips. '60cm':11 'bract':20 'bright':17 'color':15,19 'costus':1,4 'cuspidatus':2 'explod':13 'feet':10 'fieri':3 'flame':18 'flower':22 'short':5 'spiral':6 'stem':7 'tall':12 'tip':25 'two':9
348 capsicum annuum conoides 'fiesta' Fiesta Chile Compact bushes with fruits that hang down, bright red when ripe. 'annuum':2 'bright':14 'bush':8 'capsicum':1 'chile':6 'compact':7 'conoid':3 'fiesta':4,5 'fruit':10 'hang':12 'red':15 'ripe':17
349 dolichothele longimamma Finger Mound Globose stems that cluster. Tubercles are stout and have one to three central spines surrounded by a rosette of radial spines. Flowers are a lemon-yellow. 'central':17 'cluster':8 'dolichothel':1 'finger':3 'flower':26 'globos':5 'lemon':30 'lemon-yellow':29 'longimamma':2 'mound':4 'one':14 'radial':24 'rosett':22 'spine':18,25 'stem':6 'stout':11 'surround':19 'three':16 'tubercl':9 'yellow':31
350 cleistocactus smaragdiflorus Firecracker Cactus Columnar with clusters of spines. Flowers not opening wide, orange tipped with green. 'cactus':4 'cleistocactus':1 'cluster':7 'columnar':5 'firecrack':3 'flower':10 'green':17 'open':12 'orang':14 'smaragdiflorus':2 'spine':9 'tip':15 'wide':13
351 crossandra infundibuliformis Firecracker Flower Medium green leaves on a sparsely branched plant that can reach three feet (90cm). Flowers are orange. '90cm':18 'branch':11 'crossandra':1 'feet':17 'firecrack':3 'flower':4,19 'green':6 'infundibuliformi':2 'leav':7 'medium':5 'orang':21 'plant':12 'reach':15 'spars':10 'three':16
352 sclerocactus Fish Hook Cactus Small globose or cylindric stems with vertical ribs and clusters of spines. 'cactus':4 'cluster':14 'cylindr':8 'fish':2 'globos':6 'hook':3 'rib':12 'sclerocactus':1 'small':5 'spine':16 'stem':9 'vertic':11
353 microsorum punctatum 'grandiceps' Fishtail Upright undivided leaved with crested tips making a dense clump. 'clump':14 'crest':9 'dens':13 'fishtail':4 'grandicep':3 'leav':7 'make':11 'microsorum':1 'punctatum':2 'tip':10 'undivid':6 'upright':5
354 nephrolepis biserrata furcans Fishtail Fern Tufted fern with three feet (90cm) tall, feather-like fronds. The end of each division of the leaf usually split into two. New plants form on creeping rhizomes. '90cm':11 'biserrata':2 'creep':33 'divis':21 'end':18 'feather':14 'feather-lik':13 'feet':10 'fern':5,7 'fishtail':4 'form':31 'frond':16 'furcan':3 'leaf':24 'like':15 'nephrolepi':1 'new':29 'plant':30 'rhizom':34 'split':26 'tall':12 'three':9 'tuft':6 'two':28 'usual':25
355 caryota Fishtail Palm Large single-stemmed or clumping palms, valued as young plants for their leaves with ôfishtailö shaped leaflets. 'caryota':1 'clump':9 'fishtail':2 'larg':4 'leaflet':21 'leav':17 'palm':3,10 'plant':14 'shape':20 'singl':6 'single-stem':5 'stem':7 'valu':11 'young':13 'ôfishtailö':19
356 pseudopanax arboreus Five Fingers Bushy small tree with leaves that change as the tree ages from having five leaflets to a simple oval leaf with coarse teeth around the margins. 'age':15 'arboreus':2 'around':28 'bushi':5 'chang':11 'coars':26 'finger':4 'five':3,18 'leaf':24 'leaflet':19 'leav':9 'margin':30 'oval':23 'pseudopanax':1 'simpl':22 'small':6 'teeth':27 'tree':7,14
357 talinum paniculatum Flame Flower, Jewel Of Opar Leaves fleshy, variegated in some selections. Flowers and fruits pink to yellow, produced in an airy spray above the leaves. 'airi':23 'flame':3 'fleshi':9 'flower':4,14 'fruit':16 'jewel':5 'leav':8,27 'opar':7 'paniculatum':2 'pink':17 'produc':20 'select':13 'spray':24 'talinum':1 'varieg':10 'yellow':19
358 solenostemon scutellarioides Flame Nettle, Painted Nettle The familiar coleus with a range of leaf colors from chartreuse to red-purple singly or in many combinations. 'chartreus':17 'coleus':9 'color':15 'combin':26 'familiar':8 'flame':3 'leaf':14 'mani':25 'nettl':4,6 'paint':5 'purpl':21 'rang':12 'red':20 'red-purpl':19 'scutellarioid':2 'singl':22 'solenostemon':1
359 episcia cupreata 'cleopatra' Flame Violet Leaves variegated with white and red, flowers are a dark red. 'cleopatra':3 'cupreata':2 'dark':15 'episcia':1 'flame':4 'flower':12 'leav':6 'red':11,16 'varieg':7 'violet':5 'white':9
360 clerodendrum splendens Flaming Glory A woody twining climber to about 10 feet (3m ) tall if not controlled. Flowers bright red in flattened clusters, with the color lasting from colored sepals after the petals are shed. '10':11 '3m':13 'bright':19 'clerodendrum':1 'climber':8 'cluster':23 'color':26,29 'control':17 'feet':12 'flame':3 'flatten':22 'flower':18 'glori':4 'last':27 'petal':33 'red':20 'sepal':30 'shed':35 'splenden':2 'tall':14 'twine':7 'woodi':6
361 kalanchoe blossfeldiana Flaming Katy Short, branching plants with dark green leaves and clusters of flowers at the tip of each stem in various colors. 'blossfeldiana':2 'branch':6 'cluster':13 'color':24 'dark':9 'flame':3 'flower':15 'green':10 'kalancho':1 'kati':4 'leav':11 'plant':7 'short':5 'stem':21 'tip':18 'various':23
362 vriesea splendens Flaming Sword Spreading vase of dark green leaves. The sword-shaped inflorescence has closely overlapping bright red bracts. 'bract':21 'bright':19 'close':17 'dark':8 'flame':3 'green':9 'infloresc':15 'leav':10 'overlap':18 'red':20 'shape':14 'splenden':2 'spread':5 'sword':4,13 'sword-shap':12 'vase':6 'vriesea':1
363 linum grandiflorum rubrum Flax Upright annual about three feet (90cm) tall. Leaves narrow, flowers deep red with a darker center. '90cm':10 'annual':6 'center':20 'darker':19 'deep':15 'feet':9 'flax':4 'flower':14 'grandiflorum':2 'leav':12 'linum':1 'narrow':13 'red':16 'rubrum':3 'tall':11 'three':8 'upright':5
364 ceratopteris Floating Fern, Water Sprite A versatile plant that will thrive in all degrees of wetness from saturated soil to being completely submerged. The leaves are thinner when growing under water. 'ceratopteri':1 'complet':22 'degre':14 'fern':3 'float':2 'grow':29 'leav':25 'plant':8 'satur':18 'soil':19 'sprite':5 'submerg':23 'thinner':27 'thrive':11 'versatil':7 'water':4,31 'wet':16
401 leucocoryne purpurea Glory Of The Sun Leaves eight to twelve inches (20-30cm) long, flowers are a pale purple. '-30':13 '20':12 'cm':14 'eight':8 'flower':16 'glori':3 'inch':11 'leav':7 'leucocoryn':1 'long':15 'pale':19 'purpl':20 'purpurea':2 'sun':6 'twelv':10
365 vittaria lineata Florida Ribbon Fern, Grass Fern, Shoestring Fern Tufts of linear leaves hang down from the root making a good plant for the side of a basket or section of log. 'basket':28 'fern':5,7,9 'florida':3 'good':21 'grass':6 'hang':14 'leav':13 'linear':12 'lineata':2 'log':32 'make':19 'plant':22 'ribbon':4 'root':18 'section':30 'shoestr':8 'side':25 'tuft':10 'vittaria':1
366 chrysanthemum morifolium Florist Chrysanthemum The familiar chrysanthemum in which literally thousands of year of breeding have produced an amazing variety of plant forms and flower colors. 'amaz':19 'breed':15 'chrysanthemum':1,4,7 'color':26 'familiar':6 'florist':3 'flower':25 'form':23 'liter':10 'morifolium':2 'plant':22 'produc':17 'thousand':11 'varieti':20 'year':13
367 chrysanthemum Florist Mum Plants up to three feet (90cm) tall producing showy flowers, usually in bunches or sprays. '90cm':9 'bunch':16 'chrysanthemum':1 'feet':8 'florist':2 'flower':13 'mum':3 'plant':4 'produc':11 'showi':12 'spray':18 'tall':10 'three':7 'usual':14
368 chrysanthemum morifolium 'charm' Florists Mum See Chrysanthemum morifolium 'charm':3 'chrysanthemum':1,7 'florist':4 'morifolium':2,8 'mum':5 'see':6
369 chrysanthemum morifolium 'sea urchin' Florists Mum See Chrysanthemum morifolium 'chrysanthemum':1,8 'florist':5 'morifolium':2,9 'mum':6 'sea':3 'see':7 'urchin':4
370 chrysanthemum morifolium 'powder puff' Florists Mum, Pot Mum See Chrysanthemum morifolium 'chrysanthemum':1,10 'florist':5 'morifolium':2,11 'mum':6,8 'pot':7 'powder':3 'puff':4 'see':9
371 musa coccinea Flowering Banana Plant may be from three to five feet (90-150cm) tall when the inflorescence grows from the top as the stem pushes up through the rolled leaf bases. The red bracts that enclose the actual flowers are the showy part of the inflorescence. '-150':14 '90':13 'actual':40 'banana':4 'base':33 'bract':36 'cm':15 'coccinea':2 'enclos':38 'feet':12 'five':11 'flower':3,41 'grow':20 'infloresc':19,48 'leaf':32 'may':6 'musa':1 'part':45 'plant':5 'push':27 'red':35 'roll':31 'showi':44 'stem':26 'tall':16 'three':9 'top':23
372 abutilon hybridum 'bella' Flowering Maple Small shrub easily held to a small size by pruning. Does well as a basket plant. 'abutilon':1 'basket':20 'bella':3 'easili':8 'flower':4 'held':9 'hybridum':2 'mapl':5 'plant':21 'prune':15 'shrub':7 'size':13 'small':6,12 'well':17
373 nicotiana x sanderae 'alata domino' Flowering Tobacco An upright plant that becomes almost woody. The leaves are sticky, and the flowers an unusual pink with a darker eye. 'alata':4 'almost':13 'becom':12 'darker':27 'domino':5 'eye':28 'flower':6,21 'leav':16 'nicotiana':1 'pink':24 'plant':10 'sandera':3 'sticki':18 'tobacco':7 'unusu':23 'upright':9 'woodi':14 'x':2
374 nephrolepis exaltata 'fluffy ruffles' Fluffy Ruffles Leaflets very much divided at their tips to make a dense, cascading head in a basket. 'basket':22 'cascad':18 'dens':17 'divid':10 'exaltata':2 'fluffi':3,5 'head':19 'leaflet':7 'make':15 'much':9 'nephrolepi':1 'ruffl':4,6 'tip':13
375 veltheimia bracteata Forest Lily Leaves evergreen, broad with wavy margins. Flowers are a pinkish-purple. 'bracteata':2 'broad':7 'evergreen':6 'flower':11 'forest':3 'leav':5 'lili':4 'margin':10 'pinkish':15 'pinkish-purpl':14 'purpl':16 'veltheimia':1 'wavi':9
376 myosotis Forget-me-not Small annuals or perennials with masses of tiny, blue, flat-faced flowers. 'annual':7 'blue':14 'face':17 'flat':16 'flat-fac':15 'flower':18 'forget':3 'forget-me-not':2 'mass':11 'myosoti':1 'perenni':9 'small':6 'tini':13
377 ceropegia sandersonii Fountain Flower, Parachute Plant Climbing or trailing plant with fleshy leaves. Flowers are tubular, flaring but roofed across the mouth, green and spotted with darker color. 'across':20 'ceropegia':1 'climb':7 'color':28 'darker':27 'flare':17 'fleshi':12 'flower':4,14 'fountain':3 'green':23 'leav':13 'mouth':22 'parachut':5 'plant':6,10 'roof':19 'sandersonii':2 'spot':25 'trail':9 'tubular':16
378 livistona Fountain Palm Fan palms which eventually outgrow the interior but are handsome specimens when small. 'eventu':7 'fan':4 'fountain':2 'handsom':13 'interior':10 'livistona':1 'outgrow':8 'palm':3,5 'small':16 'specimen':14
379 cymbidium ensifolium var 'ma ehr' Four Season Orchid Upright plants that die back to a groups of underground tubers. Flowers are daisy-like but more fleshy and may be massive. 'back':13 'cymbidium':1 'daisi':23 'daisy-lik':22 'die':12 'ehr':5 'ensifolium':2 'fleshi':27 'flower':20 'four':6 'group':16 'like':24 'ma':4 'massiv':31 'may':29 'orchid':8 'plant':10 'season':7 'tuber':19 'underground':18 'upright':9 'var':3
380 aerides Fox Tail Orchid Small plants whose upright stems have two rows of strap-shaped leaves. The fragrant flowers are carried in a pendent inflorescence. 'aerid':1 'carri':22 'flower':20 'fox':2 'fragrant':19 'infloresc':26 'leav':17 'orchid':4 'pendent':25 'plant':6 'row':12 'shape':16 'small':5 'stem':9 'strap':15 'strap-shap':14 'tail':3 'two':11 'upright':8 'whose':7
381 asparagus densiflorus 'meyersii' Foxtail Fern Arching stems in a tuft, the side branches forming a cylindrical cover to each one. 'arch':6 'asparagus':1 'branch':13 'cover':17 'cylindr':16 'densiflorus':2 'fern':5 'form':14 'foxtail':4 'meyersii':3 'one':20 'side':12 'stem':7 'tuft':10
382 cypripedium calceolus pubescens Fraues Chub, Yellow Ladies Slipper Flowers have a pouched lip that is deep yellow. 'calceolus':2 'chub':5 'cypripedium':1 'deep':16 'flower':9 'fraue':4 'ladi':7 'lip':13 'pouch':12 'pubescen':3 'slipper':8 'yellow':6,17
383 arisarum Friar's Cowl, Larus Perennial herbs making a dense mass of leaves a few inches (5cm) tall with the inflorescence often hidden beneath them. The actual flower are concealed in a hooded structure . '5cm':17 'actual':27 'arisarum':1 'beneath':24 'conceal':30 'cowl':4 'dens':10 'flower':28 'friar':2 'herb':7 'hidden':23 'hood':33 'inch':16 'infloresc':21 'larus':5 'leav':13 'make':8 'mass':11 'often':22 'perenni':6 'structur':34 'tall':18
400 thelocactus bicolor Glory Of Texas, Texas Pride Globose with eight to thirteen deep ribs with strong spines. Flowers are a deep pink, lighter in the center. 'bicolor':2 'center':26 'deep':13,21 'eight':10 'flower':18 'globos':8 'glori':3 'lighter':23 'pink':22 'pride':7 'rib':14 'spine':17 'strong':16 'texa':5,6 'thelocactus':1 'thirteen':12
384 ceratopteris thalictroides Frog Vegetable, Oriental Water Fern, Water Fern Underwater leaves flat and very little divided. Leaves emerging from the water may be very much cut up depending on the amount of light and air movement. 'air':35 'amount':31 'ceratopteri':1 'cut':26 'depend':28 'divid':16 'emerg':18 'fern':7,9 'flat':12 'frog':3 'leav':11,17 'light':33 'littl':15 'may':22 'movement':36 'much':25 'orient':5 'thalictroid':2 'underwat':10 'veget':4 'water':6,8,21
385 pelargonium 'rose diamond' Geranium A cultivar in the ôzonalö category with striking pink flowers and dark leaves. 'categori':10 'cultivar':6 'dark':16 'diamond':3 'flower':14 'geranium':4 'leav':17 'pelargonium':1 'pink':13 'rose':2 'strike':12 'ôzonalö':9
386 pelargonium Geraniums Those commonly grown are somewhat woody perennials with round leaves on short stalks, and bright flowers in big clusters produced from the upper parts of the stem. Other species are annuals or may have a striking succulent form. 'annual':33 'big':20 'bright':17 'cluster':21 'common':4 'flower':18 'form':40 'geranium':2 'grown':5 'leav':12 'may':35 'part':26 'pelargonium':1 'perenni':9 'produc':22 'round':11 'short':14 'somewhat':7 'speci':31 'stalk':15 'stem':29 'strike':38 'succul':39 'upper':25 'woodi':8
387 pachypodium namaquanum Ghost Man Usually unbranched, heavy trunk about six feet (180cm) tall with spiraled tubercles and long spines in threes. Flowers emerge in a ring at the apex, dull green among the downy green leaves. '180cm':12 'among':32 'apex':29 'downi':34 'dull':30 'emerg':23 'feet':11 'flower':22 'ghost':3 'green':31,35 'heavi':7 'leav':36 'long':18 'man':4 'namaquanum':2 'pachypodium':1 'ring':26 'six':10 'spine':19 'spiral':15 'tall':13 'three':21 'trunk':8 'tubercl':16 'unbranch':6 'usual':5
388 graptopetalum paraguayense Ghost Plant, Mother-of-pearl Plant Spreading stems topped by a rosette of fleshy leaves. Leaves on the lower parts of the stem are usually lost early. 'earli':30 'fleshi':17 'ghost':3 'graptopetalum':1 'leav':18,19 'lost':29 'lower':22 'mother':6 'mother-of-pearl':5 'paraguayens':2 'part':23 'pearl':8 'plant':4,9 'rosett':15 'spread':10 'stem':11,26 'top':12 'usual':28
389 citrus limon 'ponderosa' Giant American Lemon Tree capable of growing to a large size, but amenable to some training. Fruit up to five inches (13cm) in diameter, very juicy. '13cm':25 'amen':16 'american':5 'capabl':8 'citrus':1 'diamet':27 'five':23 'fruit':20 'giant':4 'grow':10 'inch':24 'juici':29 'larg':13 'lemon':6 'limon':2 'ponderosa':3 'size':14 'train':19 'tree':7
390 dieffenbachia amoena Giant Dumb Cane A very robust plant that may reach six feet (180cm) in height and with leaves in proportion that are dark green, heavily overlaid with white. '180cm':15 'amoena':2 'cane':5 'dark':25 'dieffenbachia':1 'dumb':4 'feet':14 'giant':3 'green':26 'heavili':27 'height':17 'leav':20 'may':11 'overlaid':28 'plant':9 'proport':22 'reach':12 'robust':8 'six':13 'white':30
391 angiopteris evecta Giant Elephant Fern, King Fern, Mules-foot Fern Young plants striking for their almost fleshy foliage and the large base with outgrowths on each side of the leaf base. 'almost':17 'angiopteri':1 'base':23,32 'eleph':4 'evecta':2 'fern':5,7,11 'fleshi':18 'foliag':19 'foot':10 'giant':3 'king':6 'larg':22 'leaf':31 'mule':9 'mules-foot':8 'outgrowth':25 'plant':13 'side':28 'strike':14 'young':12
392 passiflora quadrangularis Giant Granadilla Flowers bowl-shaped in shades of white, pink or blue. Fruit is fleshy, edible when ripe. 'blue':15 'bowl':7 'bowl-shap':6 'edibl':19 'fleshi':18 'flower':5 'fruit':16 'giant':3 'granadilla':4 'passiflora':1 'pink':13 'quadrangulari':2 'ripe':21 'shade':10 'shape':8 'white':12
393 tetrastigma Giant Grape Vigorous climbers that become woody, but will grow in a large basket. Leaves deeply cut hand shape. 'basket':15 'becom':7 'climber':5 'cut':18 'deepli':17 'giant':2 'grape':3 'grow':11 'hand':19 'larg':14 'leav':16 'shape':20 'tetrastigma':1 'vigor':4 'woodi':8
394 galanthus elwesii Giant Snowdrop Leaves about eight inches (20cm) long, flower stalks about twelve inches (30cm). Flowers about an inch and a half (4cm) wide, white with green markings at base and tip. '20cm':9 '30cm':16 '4cm':24 'base':31 'eight':7 'elwesii':2 'flower':11,17 'galanthus':1 'giant':3 'green':28 'half':23 'inch':8,15,20 'leav':5 'long':10 'mark':29 'snowdrop':4 'stalk':12 'tip':33 'twelv':14 'white':26 'wide':25
395 tradescantia albiflora 'alba vittata' Giant White Inch Plant Trailing plant with white-striped leaves and white flowers. 'alba':3 'albiflora':2 'flower':18 'giant':5 'inch':7 'leav':15 'plant':8,10 'stripe':14 'tradescantia':1 'trail':9 'vittata':4 'white':6,13,17 'white-strip':12
396 curcuma aurantiaca Ginger Bold, sword-shaped, pleated leaves stand three feet (90cm) high with a ten inch (25cm) long cone-shaped inflorescence between them. Flowers are yellow, peeping out from orange-brown bracts. '25cm':19 '90cm':13 'aurantiaca':2 'bold':4 'bract':36 'brown':35 'cone':22 'cone-shap':21 'curcuma':1 'feet':12 'flower':27 'ginger':3 'high':14 'inch':18 'infloresc':24 'leav':9 'long':20 'orang':34 'orange-brown':33 'peep':30 'pleat':8 'shape':7,23 'stand':10 'sword':6 'sword-shap':5 'ten':17 'three':11 'yellow':29
397 curcuma thorellii 'chiang mai pink' Ginger Slender stems about a foot (30cm) long carry bright pink bracts between which the flowers form. '30cm':12 'bract':17 'bright':15 'carri':14 'chiang':3 'curcuma':1 'flower':21 'foot':11 'form':22 'ginger':6 'long':13 'mai':4 'pink':5,16 'slender':7 'stem':8 'thorellii':2
398 gomphrena globosa Globe Amaranth Upright plants about two feet (60cm) tall with flowers in spheres above the leaves. The species has purple flowers, but a new variety æStrawberry Fieldsö with strawberry color spheres is becoming very popular. '60cm':10 'amaranth':4 'becom':35 'color':32 'feet':9 'fieldsö':29 'flower':13,23 'globe':3 'globosa':2 'gomphrena':1 'leav':18 'new':26 'plant':6 'popular':37 'purpl':22 'speci':20 'sphere':15,33 'strawberri':31 'tall':11 'two':8 'upright':5 'varieti':27 'æstrawberri':28
399 gloriosa rothschildiana Glory Lily Flowers are red edged with yellow, facing down with petals turned back. 'back':16 'edg':8 'face':11 'flower':5 'glori':3 'gloriosa':1 'lili':4 'petal':14 'red':7 'rothschildiana':2 'turn':15 'yellow':10
402 eccremocarpus Glory Vine Vigorous but short-lived climbers which produce orange-red tubular flowers while still small. 'climber':9 'eccremocarpus':1 'flower':16 'glori':2 'live':8 'orang':13 'orange-r':12 'produc':11 'red':14 'short':7 'short-liv':6 'small':19 'still':18 'tubular':15 'vigor':4 'vine':3
403 sinningia speciosa hybrids Gloxinia The floristÆs Gloxinia has been bred to emphasize the large flaring flowers that now come in most colors wither plain or spotted or picotee-edged. The leaves are in a rosette that gives a backdrop for the spectacular flowers. 'backdrop':40 'bred':10 'color':22 'come':19 'edg':30 'emphas':12 'flare':15 'floristæ':6 'flower':16,44 'give':38 'gloxinia':4,7 'hybrid':3 'larg':14 'leav':32 'picote':29 'picotee-edg':28 'plain':24 'rosett':36 'sinningia':1 'speciosa':2 'spectacular':43 'spot':26 'wither':23
404 aucuba japonica 'newgold' Gold Dust Tree, Japanese Aucuba A form with a broad yellow splash around the midrib of each leaf. 'around':16 'aucuba':1,8 'broad':13 'dust':5 'form':10 'gold':4 'japanes':7 'japonica':2 'leaf':21 'midrib':18 'newgold':3 'splash':15 'tree':6 'yellow':14
405 juanulloa aurantiaca Gold Finger Leathery-leaved shrub three to six feet (90-180cm) tall that form yellow-orange fleshy flowers at the tips of the branches. '-180':14 '90':13 'aurantiaca':2 'branch':29 'cm':15 'feet':12 'finger':4 'fleshi':22 'flower':23 'form':18 'gold':3 'juanulloa':1 'leatheri':6 'leathery-leav':5 'leav':7 'orang':21 'shrub':8 'six':11 'tall':16 'three':9 'tip':26 'yellow':20 'yellow-orang':19
406 echinocactus grusonii Golden Barrel, Mother In Law's Seat Globular, reaching three feet (90cm) across in the wild, strongly ribbed. With golden spines arranged in groups of eight to ten surrounding three to five larger central spines. Flowers are yellow. '90cm':14 'across':15 'arrang':24 'barrel':4 'central':36 'echinocactus':1 'eight':28 'feet':13 'five':34 'flower':38 'globular':10 'golden':3,22 'group':26 'grusonii':2 'larger':35 'law':7 'mother':5 'reach':11 'rib':20 'seat':9 'spine':23,37 'strong':19 'surround':31 'ten':30 'three':12,32 'wild':18 'yellow':40
407 dendrochilum filiforme Golden Chain Orchid Arching sprays of pale to golden yellow flowers. 'arch':6 'chain':4 'dendrochilum':1 'filiform':2 'flower':13 'golden':3,11 'orchid':5 'pale':9 'spray':7 'yellow':12
408 bambusa vulgaris 'vittata' Golden Hawaiian Bamboo, Greenstripe Bamboo Culms about three inches (7.5cm) diameter, yellow with green stripes running vertically. '7.5':13 'bamboo':6,8 'bambusa':1 'cm':14 'culm':9 'diamet':15 'golden':4 'green':18 'greenstrip':7 'hawaiian':5 'inch':12 'run':20 'stripe':19 'three':11 'vertic':21 'vittata':3 'vulgari':2 'yellow':16
409 phlebodium Golden Polypody, Rabbit's Foot Fern Strong growing ferns with wooly creeping rhizomes. 'creep':13 'fern':7,10 'foot':6 'golden':2 'grow':9 'phlebodium':1 'polypodi':3 'rabbit':4 'rhizom':14 'strong':8 'wooli':12
410 oncidium sphacelatum Golden Shower Much-branched, arching inflorescence with large numbers of brown-spotted, golden flowers. 'arch':8 'branch':7 'brown':15 'brown-spot':14 'flower':18 'golden':3,17 'infloresc':9 'larg':11 'much':6 'much-branch':5 'number':12 'oncidium':1 'shower':4 'sphacelatum':2 'spot':16
411 pachystachys lutea Golden Shrimp Plant, Lollipop Plant A shrub reaching about three feet (1m) in height, often naturally taking on a conical form. The inflorescence has a cone of yellow bracts between which white flowers emerge. '1m':14 'bract':31 'cone':28 'conic':22 'emerg':36 'feet':13 'flower':35 'form':23 'golden':3 'height':16 'infloresc':25 'lollipop':6 'lutea':2 'natur':18 'often':17 'pachystachi':1 'plant':5,7 'reach':10 'shrimp':4 'shrub':9 'take':19 'three':12 'white':34 'yellow':30
412 mammillaria elongata Golden Star Cactus Clumps of small oval stems with a crisp covering of interwoven spines. Flowers are white. 'cactus':5 'clump':6 'cover':14 'crisp':13 'elongata':2 'flower':18 'golden':3 'interwoven':16 'mammillaria':1 'oval':9 'small':8 'spine':17 'star':4 'stem':10 'white':20
413 allamanda cathartica Golden Trumpet Vine Sprawling shrub that is not difficult to control. Bright yellow flowers in most varieties, but cream and pastel types can be found. There is also a dwarf form. 'allamanda':1 'also':30 'bright':14 'cathartica':2 'control':13 'cream':21 'difficult':11 'dwarf':32 'flower':16 'form':33 'found':27 'golden':3 'pastel':23 'shrub':7 'sprawl':6 'trumpet':4 'type':24 'varieti':19 'vine':5 'yellow':15
414 columnea gloriosa Goldfish Plant The wiry, hanging stems may reach three feet (90cm) in length and carry three-inch (7.5cm) long, hooded flowers of a deep orange-red color. '7.5':21 '90cm':13 'carri':17 'cm':22 'color':32 'columnea':1 'deep':28 'feet':12 'flower':25 'gloriosa':2 'goldfish':3 'hang':7 'hood':24 'inch':20 'length':15 'long':23 'may':9 'orang':30 'orange-r':29 'plant':4 'reach':10 'red':31 'stem':8 'three':11,19 'three-inch':18 'wiri':6
415 columnea microphylla Goldfish Vine Hanging stems that produce flowers more than three inches (7.5cm) in length of a rich orange in the hooded apex and yellow at the base. '7.5':14 'apex':25 'base':30 'cm':15 'columnea':1 'flower':9 'goldfish':3 'hang':5 'hood':24 'inch':13 'length':17 'microphylla':2 'orang':21 'produc':8 'rich':20 'stem':6 'three':12 'vine':4 'yellow':27
416 chamaedorea elegans Good Luck Palm, Neanthe Bella, Parlor Palm Solitary palm with feather leaves. Flowering begins when quite small (less than two feet tall (60cm)), the inflorescences have orange stalks. '60cm':25 'begin':16 'bella':7 'chamaedorea':1 'elegan':2 'feather':13 'feet':23 'flower':15 'good':3 'infloresc':27 'leav':14 'less':20 'luck':4 'neanth':6 'orang':29 'palm':5,9,11 'parlor':8 'quit':18 'small':19 'solitari':10 'stalk':30 'tall':24 'two':22
417 jatropha podagrica Gout Plant, Guatemalan Rhubarb A swollen base forms one or a few upright shoots topped with hand-shaped leaves and with clusters of red flowers. 'base':9 'cluster':25 'flower':28 'form':10 'gout':3 'guatemalan':5 'hand':20 'hand-shap':19 'jatropha':1 'leav':22 'one':11 'plant':4 'podagrica':2 'red':27 'rhubarb':6 'shape':21 'shoot':16 'swollen':8 'top':17 'upright':15
418 cissus rhombifolia Grape Ivy Climber with tendrils and shiny three-parted leaves. A good basket plant. 'basket':16 'cissus':1 'climber':5 'good':15 'grape':3 'ivi':4 'leav':13 'part':12 'plant':17 'rhombifolia':2 'shini':9 'tendril':7 'three':11 'three-part':10
419 citrus paradisi 'marsh' Grapefruit A large tree as it matures but worth growing for a few years until it stretches the bounds of its location. Fruit about six inches (15cm) diameter. '15cm':30 'bound':22 'citrus':1 'diamet':31 'fruit':26 'grapefruit':4 'grow':13 'inch':29 'larg':6 'locat':25 'marsh':3 'matur':10 'paradisi':2 'six':28 'stretch':20 'tree':7 'worth':12 'year':17
420 ixia flexuosa Grass Lily Leaves 12-15 inches (30-38cm) long with a spike of pink to purple standing several inches (5cm) above them. '-15':7 '-38':10 '12':6 '30':9 '5cm':23 'cm':11 'flexuosa':2 'grass':3 'inch':8,22 'ixia':1 'leav':5 'lili':4 'long':12 'pink':17 'purpl':19 'sever':21 'spike':15 'stand':20
421 acorus Grass Myrtle, Rat Myrtle, Sweet Grass, Sweet Sedge An iris-like plant whose 3 ft.(90cm), upright leaves contrast well with other plants in a grouping of pots. '3':16 '90cm':18 'acorus':1 'contrast':21 'ft':17 'grass':2,7 'group':28 'iri':12 'iris-lik':11 'leav':20 'like':13 'myrtl':3,5 'plant':14,25 'pot':30 'rat':4 'sedg':9 'sweet':6,8 'upright':19 'well':22 'whose':15
422 aeonium undulatum Green Platters A shrub that may reach three feet (90cm) in height with rosettes of leaves up to eight inches (20cm) across at the end of each branch. '20cm':23 '90cm':12 'across':24 'aeonium':1 'branch':30 'eight':21 'end':27 'feet':11 'green':3 'height':14 'inch':22 'leav':18 'may':8 'platter':4 'reach':9 'rosett':16 'shrub':6 'three':10 'undulatum':2
423 greenovia aurea Green Rose Buds Rosettes of closely-packed, thin but succulent leaves. Flowers are a deep yellow on a leafless stalk raised above the leaves. 'aurea':2 'bud':5 'close':9 'closely-pack':8 'deep':18 'flower':15 'green':3 'greenovia':1 'leafless':22 'leav':14,27 'pack':10 'rais':24 'rose':4 'rosett':6 'stalk':23 'succul':13 'thin':11 'yellow':19
424 pachira aquatica Guiana Chestnut, Water Chestnut A tree reaching 60 feet (20m) tall in the tropics, but usually grown in the house as braided seedlings. The trunks are fat for their height, and have hand-shaped leaves which are often reddish-brown when they first open. '20m':12 '60':10 'aquatica':2 'braid':24 'brown':44 'chestnut':4,6 'fat':29 'feet':11 'first':47 'grown':19 'guiana':3 'hand':36 'hand-shap':35 'height':32 'hous':22 'leav':38 'often':41 'open':48 'pachira':1 'reach':9 'reddish':43 'reddish-brown':42 'seedl':25 'shape':37 'tall':13 'tree':8 'tropic':16 'trunk':27 'usual':18 'water':5
425 pachycereus pringlei Hairbrush Cactus A large tree in the wild with trunks up to 20 inches (50cm) in diameter, deep ribs with spines in groups of about 15. Flowers are white. '15':28 '20':15 '50cm':17 'cactus':4 'deep':20 'diamet':19 'flower':29 'group':25 'hairbrush':3 'inch':16 'larg':6 'pachycereus':1 'pringlei':2 'rib':21 'spine':23 'tree':7 'trunk':12 'white':31 'wild':10
426 doryopteris concolor Hand Fern Dark green, divided, hand-shaped fronds in a tuft a few inches (5cm) tall. '5cm':18 'concolor':2 'dark':5 'divid':7 'doryopteri':1 'fern':4 'frond':11 'green':6 'hand':3,9 'hand-shap':8 'inch':17 'shape':10 'tall':19 'tuft':14
427 doryopteris Hand Ferns A small, tufted fern. The few leaves are hand-shaped. 'doryopteri':1 'fern':3,7 'hand':2,13 'hand-shap':12 'leav':10 'shape':14 'small':5 'tuft':6
428 blechnum Hard Fern Leaves in a rosette, sometimes at the top of a short erect stem like a miniature tree fern. 'blechnum':1 'erect':15 'fern':3,21 'hard':2 'leav':4 'like':17 'miniatur':19 'rosett':7 'short':14 'sometim':8 'stem':16 'top':11 'tree':20
429 delosperma cooperi Hardy Ice Plant Tuft-forming, upright plants with narrow, grey-green leaves whose bases sheathe the stem. Flowers are flat-faced, single or variously double. 'base':18 'cooperi':2 'delosperma':1 'doubl':30 'face':26 'flat':25 'flat-fac':24 'flower':22 'form':8 'green':15 'grey':14 'grey-green':13 'hardi':3 'ice':4 'leav':16 'narrow':12 'plant':5,10 'sheath':19 'singl':27 'stem':21 'tuft':7 'tuft-form':6 'upright':9 'various':29 'whose':17
430 davallia Hare's Foot Fern Dainty ferns with creeping rhizomes that wind over the surface of pot or basket. 'basket':19 'creep':9 'dainti':6 'davallia':1 'fern':5,7 'foot':4 'hare':2 'pot':17 'rhizom':10 'surfac':15 'wind':12
431 sparaxis Harlequin Leaves in a narrow fan, producing a spray of flowers from the center. 'center':15 'fan':7 'flower':12 'harlequin':2 'leav':3 'narrow':6 'produc':8 'sparaxi':1 'spray':10
432 pelecyphora aseliformis Hatchet Cactus Stems globose or egg-shaped with spiraling tubercles that are flattened and topped with along, narrow areole. The effect is reminiscent of a sea-urchin, Flowers are a rose-purple. 'along':20 'areol':22 'aseliformi':2 'cactus':4 'effect':24 'egg':9 'egg-shap':8 'flatten':16 'flower':32 'globos':6 'hatchet':3 'narrow':21 'pelecyphora':1 'purpl':37 'reminisc':26 'rose':36 'rose-purpl':35 'sea':30 'sea-urchin':29 'shape':10 'spiral':12 'stem':5 'top':18 'tubercl':13 'urchin':31
433 hemionitis arifolia Heart Fern, Valentine Fern Small tufted ferns with heart-shaped, entire, glossy, dark green leaves in a tuft on black stalks. 'arifolia':2 'black':23 'dark':16 'entir':14 'fern':4,6,9 'glossi':15 'green':17 'heart':3,12 'heart-shap':11 'hemion':1 'leav':18 'shape':13 'small':7 'stalk':24 'tuft':8,21 'valentin':5
434 philodendron scandens oxycardium Heart Leaf Philodendron, Sweetheart Plant The familiar basket plant with grey-green heart-shaped leaves. Leaf size enlarges markedly if it escapes to a wall or tree. 'basket':11 'enlarg':23 'escap':27 'familiar':10 'green':16 'grey':15 'grey-green':14 'heart':4,18 'heart-shap':17 'leaf':5,21 'leav':20 'mark':24 'oxycardium':3 'philodendron':1,6 'plant':8,12 'scanden':2 'shape':19 'size':22 'sweetheart':7 'tree':32 'wall':30
435 echinocereus Hedgehog Cactus A variable genus which may be upright or sprawling in growth and are usually strongly ribbed. 'cactus':3 'echinocereus':1 'genus':6 'growth':14 'hedgehog':2 'may':8 'rib':19 'sprawl':12 'strong':18 'upright':10 'usual':17 'variabl':5
436 helleborus Hellebore Among the earliest of blooms each year outdoors, the plants may also be forced in pots to produce their fleshy flowers. 'also':14 'among':3 'bloom':7 'earliest':5 'fleshi':22 'flower':23 'forc':16 'hellebor':2 'helleborus':1 'may':13 'outdoor':10 'plant':12 'pot':18 'produc':20 'year':9
437 sempervivum tectorum Hen And Chickens Abundantly branching to form a mound of rosettes of fleshy leaves. 'abund':6 'branch':7 'chicken':5 'fleshi':15 'form':9 'hen':3 'leav':16 'mound':11 'rosett':13 'sempervivum':1 'tectorum':2
438 echeveria elegans Hens & Chicks, Mexican Snowball An evenly spaced, full rosette of fleshy, grey-blue leaves. Flowers are pink. 'blue':16 'chick':4 'echeveria':1 'elegan':2 'even':8 'fleshi':13 'flower':18 'full':10 'grey':15 'grey-blu':14 'hen':3 'leav':17 'mexican':5 'pink':20 'rosett':11 'snowbal':6 'space':9
439 hibiscus Hibiscus Large bushes unless carefully pruned. The huge flowers can be spectacular. 'bush':4 'care':6 'flower':10 'hibiscus':1,2 'huge':9 'larg':3 'prune':7 'spectacular':13 'unless':5
440 curcuma Hidden Ginger Even the smaller species of this genus produce large, tropical-feeling leaves. The inflorescence is a colorful leafy spike produced from the top of a short leafy shoot or separately on its own stem. 'color':21 'curcuma':1 'even':4 'feel':15 'genus':10 'ginger':3 'hidden':2 'infloresc':18 'larg':12 'leafi':22,31 'leav':16 'produc':11,24 'separ':34 'shoot':32 'short':30 'smaller':6 'speci':7 'spike':23 'stem':38 'top':27 'tropic':14 'tropical-feel':13
441 aucuba Himalayan Laurel, Japanese Laurel Evergreen bushes that may reach ten feet (300cm) in the garden but are easily kept to size in the interior. Leaves have a dull gloss, and may have yellow markings on a green ground. '300cm':13 'aucuba':1 'bush':7 'dull':29 'easili':19 'evergreen':6 'feet':12 'garden':16 'gloss':30 'green':38 'ground':39 'himalayan':2 'interior':25 'japanes':4 'kept':20 'laurel':3,5 'leav':26 'mark':35 'may':9,32 'reach':10 'size':22 'ten':11 'yellow':34
442 cyrtomium falcatum Holly Fern, Japanese Holly Arching fronds twelve to eighteen (30-45cm) inches long in a rosette. The dark green, shiny leaflets are broad with wavy edges. '-45':13 '30':12 'arch':7 'broad':26 'cm':14 'cyrtomium':1 'dark':21 'edg':29 'eighteen':11 'falcatum':2 'fern':4 'frond':8 'green':22 'holli':3,6 'inch':15 'japanes':5 'leaflet':24 'long':16 'rosett':19 'shini':23 'twelv':9 'wavi':28
443 cyrtomium Holly Fern Rosettes of glossy feather-like leaves up to three feet (90m) long in some species. The leaflets are broad and may be shaped like a holly leaf. '90m':15 'broad':23 'cyrtomium':1 'feather':8 'feather-lik':7 'feet':14 'fern':3 'glossi':6 'holli':2,30 'leaf':31 'leaflet':21 'leav':10 'like':9,28 'long':16 'may':25 'rosett':4 'shape':27 'speci':19 'three':13
444 hermannia verticillata Honey Bells Perennial with woody base, growing to about 12 inches (30cm) tall. Leaves feather-like with linear leaflets. Flowers grow singly or in pairs, slender bell-shaped, yellow and fragrant. '12':12 '30cm':14 'base':8 'bell':4,31 'bell-shap':30 'feather':18 'feather-lik':17 'flower':23 'fragrant':35 'grow':9,24 'hermannia':1 'honey':3 'inch':13 'leaflet':22 'leav':16 'like':19 'linear':21 'pair':28 'perenni':5 'shape':32 'singl':25 'slender':29 'tall':15 'verticillata':2 'woodi':7 'yellow':33
445 melianthus major Honey Bush A large shrub that will need pruning to stay to a moderate size. The leaves have several leaflets and are a blue-green or grey-green color that goes well with other plants. 'blue':27 'blue-green':26 'bush':4 'color':33 'goe':35 'green':28,32 'grey':31 'grey-green':30 'honey':3 'larg':6 'leaflet':22 'leav':19 'major':2 'melianthus':1 'moder':16 'need':10 'plant':39 'prune':11 'sever':21 'shrub':7 'size':17 'stay':13 'well':36
446 dendrobium anosmum Honohono Long hanging, deciduous pseudobulbs that can reach six feet (2m) in length. The flowers are carried in pairs along the length of the pseudobulbs at a time when they are leafless. '2m':13 'along':22 'anosmum':2 'carri':19 'decidu':6 'dendrobium':1 'feet':12 'flower':17 'hang':5 'honohono':3 'leafless':34 'length':15,24 'long':4 'pair':21 'pseudobulb':7,27 'reach':10 'six':11 'time':30
447 marsilea uncinata Hook-spine Water Clover Clover-like leaves on a creeping rhizome. Leaves held above the wet soil or water in which the plant grows. 'clover':7,9 'clover-lik':8 'creep':14 'grow':28 'held':17 'hook':4 'hook-spin':3 'leav':11,16 'like':10 'marsilea':1 'plant':27 'rhizom':15 'soil':21 'spine':5 'uncinata':2 'water':6,23 'wet':20
448 dodonaea viscosa 'purpurea' Hop Bush New foliage a shiny bronze-purple, losing its color slowly, particularly in low light. 'bronz':11 'bronze-purpl':10 'bush':5 'color':15 'dodonaea':1 'foliag':7 'hop':4 'light':20 'lose':13 'low':19 'new':6 'particular':17 'purpl':12 'purpurea':3 'shini':9 'slowli':16 'viscosa':2
449 achimenes 'glory' Hot Water Plant Arching stems carry deep rose pink flowers through most of the summer. Goes dormant in the winter. 'achimen':1 'arch':6 'carri':8 'deep':9 'dormant':19 'flower':12 'glori':2 'goe':18 'hot':3 'pink':11 'plant':5 'rose':10 'stem':7 'summer':17 'water':4 'winter':22
450 carpobrotus edulis Hottentot Fig, Kaffir Fig Stems rambling for two or three feet (60-90cm). Leaves are bright green, flowers purple or yellow. Stems rambling for two or three feet (60-90cm). '-90':15,33 '60':14,32 'bright':19 'carpobrotus':1 'cm':16,34 'eduli':2 'feet':13,31 'fig':4,6 'flower':21 'green':20 'hottentot':3 'kaffir':5 'leav':17 'purpl':22 'rambl':8,26 'stem':7,25 'three':12,30 'two':10,28 'yellow':24
451 sempervivum House Leek Rosettes of tightly packed, triangular fleshy leaves. 'fleshi':9 'hous':2 'leav':10 'leek':3 'pack':7 'rosett':4 'sempervivum':1 'tight':6 'triangular':8
452 sparmannia africana House Lime Large bushes with bold heart-shaped leaves and groups of white-petalled flowers with yellow centers. 'africana':2 'bold':8 'bush':6 'center':22 'flower':19 'group':14 'heart':10 'heart-shap':9 'hous':3 'larg':5 'leav':12 'lime':4 'petal':18 'shape':11 'sparmannia':1 'white':17 'white-petal':16 'yellow':21
453 hoya Hoya, Wax Plant Vining plants with broad leaves producing hanging clusters of star-shaped flowers. 'broad':8 'cluster':12 'flower':17 'hang':11 'hoya':1,2 'leav':9 'plant':4,6 'produc':10 'shape':16 'star':15 'star-shap':14 'vine':5 'wax':3
454 sarracenia Hunter's Horn, Pitcher Plant Stemless plants forming a rosette of long slender leaves modified to form liquid-holding structures. 'form':9,18 'hold':21 'horn':4 'hunter':2 'leav':15 'liquid':20 'liquid-hold':19 'long':13 'modifi':16 'pitcher':5 'plant':6,8 'rosett':11 'sarracenia':1 'slender':14 'stemless':7 'structur':22
455 hyacinthus orientalis hybrids Hyacinth Leaves about a foot (30cm) long, inflorescence standing above this with flowers in red, pink, white, yellow or blue. '30cm':9 'blue':23 'flower':16 'foot':8 'hyacinth':4 'hyacinthus':1 'hybrid':3 'infloresc':11 'leav':5 'long':10 'orientali':2 'pink':19 'red':18 'stand':12 'white':20 'yellow':21
456 lampranthus Ice Plant Fleshy, cylindrical leaves on small plants and bright daisy-like flowers. 'bright':11 'cylindr':5 'daisi':13 'daisy-lik':12 'fleshi':4 'flower':15 'ice':2 'lampranthus':1 'leav':6 'like':14 'plant':3,9 'small':8
457 delosperma Ice Plant Small, upright or trailing plants with succulent leaves. 'delosperma':1 'ice':2 'leav':11 'plant':3,8 'small':4 'succul':10 'trail':7 'upright':5
458 adenium obesum Impala Lily The swollen trunks can take on grotesque but interesting forms. 'adenium':1 'form':14 'grotesqu':11 'impala':3 'interest':13 'lili':4 'obesum':2 'swollen':6 'take':9 'trunk':7
459 calomeria amaranthoides Incense Bush, Plume Bush Strong bushy plant that can reach six feet (180cm) in height. Leaves eight to ten inches (20-25cm) long, flowers in a massive drooping inflorescence, deep pink. '-25':24 '180cm':15 '20':23 'amaranthoid':2 'bush':4,6 'bushi':8 'calomeria':1 'cm':25 'deep':33 'droop':31 'eight':19 'feet':14 'flower':27 'height':17 'incens':3 'inch':22 'infloresc':32 'leav':18 'long':26 'massiv':30 'pink':34 'plant':9 'plume':5 'reach':12 'six':13 'strong':7 'ten':21
460 chamaeranthemum venosum India Plant Stems spreading to form a mat one to two feet (30-60cm) wide, leaves two to three inches (5-7.5cm) long, broad, grey-green with silver veins. Flowers in small upright inflorescences, light purple and white. '-60':16 '-7.5':25 '30':15 '5':24 'broad':28 'chamaeranthemum':1 'cm':17,26 'feet':14 'flower':35 'form':8 'green':31 'grey':30 'grey-green':29 'inch':23 'india':3 'infloresc':39 'leav':19 'light':40 'long':27 'mat':10 'one':11 'plant':4 'purpl':41 'silver':33 'small':37 'spread':6 'stem':5 'three':22 'two':13,20 'upright':38 'vein':34 'venosum':2 'white':43 'wide':18
461 pleione Indian Crocus Small plants with flowers disproportionately large, carried a few inches above the ground. 'carri':10 'crocus':3 'disproportion':8 'flower':7 'ground':16 'inch':13 'indian':2 'larg':9 'plant':5 'pleion':1 'small':4
462 xanthosoma lindenii 'magnificum' Indian Kale Stemless or almost so, spade-shaped leaves, about a foot (30cm) long on a stalk the same length, form a dense clump. Green with bold yellow variegation on the venation. '30cm':17 'almost':8 'bold':31 'clump':28 'dens':27 'foot':16 'form':25 'green':29 'indian':4 'kale':5 'leav':13 'length':24 'lindenii':2 'long':18 'magnificum':3 'shape':12 'spade':11 'spade-shap':10 'stalk':21 'stemless':6 'varieg':33 'venat':36 'xanthosoma':1 'yellow':32
463 begonia masoniana Iron Cross Begonia A compact grower with leaves about a foot (30cm) high are clustered on horizontal rhizomes. Each leaf is heart-shaped and has a clearly marked chocolate-brown cross on a mid-green field. '30cm':14 'begonia':1,5 'brown':34 'chocol':33 'chocolate-brown':32 'clear':30 'cluster':17 'compact':7 'cross':4,35 'field':41 'foot':13 'green':40 'grower':8 'heart':25 'heart-shap':24 'high':15 'horizont':19 'iron':3 'leaf':22 'leav':10 'mark':31 'masoniana':2 'mid':39 'mid-green':38 'rhizom':20 'shape':26
464 metrosideros Iron Tree Evergreen foliage on plants held to bush size by regular pruning. Some have variegated leaves. 'bush':10 'evergreen':4 'foliag':5 'held':8 'iron':2 'leav':18 'metrosidero':1 'plant':7 'prune':14 'regular':13 'size':11 'tree':3 'varieg':17
465 pinanga kuhlii Ivory Cane Palm Very similar to P. coronata (and perhaps a form of that species). Leaf segments broad in six to eight pairs on each leaf, scattered in the upper part of a bright yellowish-green, ringed trunk . 'bright':36 'broad':20 'cane':4 'coronata':10 'eight':24 'form':14 'green':39 'ivori':3 'kuhlii':2 'leaf':18,28 'p':9 'pair':25 'palm':5 'part':33 'perhap':12 'pinanga':1 'ring':40 'scatter':29 'segment':19 'similar':7 'six':22 'speci':17 'trunk':41 'upper':32 'yellowish':38 'yellowish-green':37
466 hedera Ivy Trailing or climbing by means of roots from the stem. Dark green or variegated leaves in a variety of forms. 'climb':5 'dark':13 'form':22 'green':14 'hedera':1 'ivi':2 'leav':17 'mean':7 'root':9 'stem':12 'trail':3 'varieg':16 'varieti':20
467 pelargonium peltatum 'balcon imperial' Ivy Leafed Geranium An öivy-leavedö geranium with deep pink flowers. This category thrives in baskets where there trailing stems show off well. 'balcon':3 'basket':21 'categori':18 'deep':14 'flower':16 'geranium':7,12 'imperi':4 'ivi':5 'leaf':6 'leavedö':11 'pelargonium':1 'peltatum':2 'pink':15 'show':26 'stem':25 'thrive':19 'trail':24 'well':28 'öivi':10 'öivy-leavedö':9
468 pedilanthus Jacobs Ladder, Red Bird Cactus, Slipper Spurge Somewhat succulent zigzag stems with a leaf at each turn. Some species are variegated. 'bird':5 'cactus':6 'jacob':2 'ladder':3 'leaf':15 'pedilanthus':1 'red':4 'slipper':7 'somewhat':9 'speci':20 'spurg':8 'stem':12 'succul':10 'turn':18 'varieg':22 'zigzag':11
469 crassula ovata Jade Plant An upright branching shrub with fleshy, oval, jade-green leaves. 'branch':7 'crassula':1 'fleshi':10 'green':14 'jade':3,13 'jade-green':12 'leav':15 'oval':11 'ovata':2 'plant':4 'shrub':8 'upright':6
470 dracaena deremensis 'janet craig' Janet Craig Dark green sword-shaped leaves carried densely on much of the stem (the lower parts eventually become bare to show green stems). 'bare':25 'becom':24 'carri':13 'craig':4,6 'dark':7 'dens':14 'deremensi':2 'dracaena':1 'eventu':23 'green':8,28 'janet':3,5 'leav':12 'lower':21 'much':16 'part':22 'shape':11 'show':27 'stem':19,29 'sword':10 'sword-shap':9
471 pittosporum tobira Japanese Laurel, Japanese Pittosporum Mounding, branching shrubs produce rounded leaves at the upper part of each stem. Glossy green or more grey-green on a white field in the variegated types. 'branch':8 'field':30 'glossi':20 'green':21,26 'grey':25 'grey-green':24 'japanes':3,5 'laurel':4 'leav':12 'mound':7 'part':16 'pittosporum':1,6 'produc':10 'round':11 'shrub':9 'stem':19 'tobira':2 'type':34 'upper':15 'varieg':33 'white':29
525 lithops bella Living Stone Paired leaves brownish-yellow with darker spots. 'bella':2 'brownish':8 'brownish-yellow':7 'darker':11 'leav':6 'lithop':1 'live':3 'pair':5 'spot':12 'stone':4 'yellow':9
472 lilium speciosum 'enchantment' Japanese Lily Stems often more than four feet (120cm) tall, leafy with narrow leaves and carrying several flat or reflexed flowers which are white with red or brown spotting in the original species but may be various colors in hybrids with other species. '120cm':12 'brown':31 'carri':19 'color':41 'enchant':3 'feet':11 'flat':21 'flower':24 'four':10 'hybrid':43 'japanes':4 'leafi':14 'leav':17 'lili':5 'lilium':1 'may':38 'narrow':16 'often':7 'origin':35 'red':29 'reflex':23 'sever':20 'speci':36,46 'speciosum':2 'spot':32 'stem':6 'tall':13 'various':40 'white':27
473 carex albula Japanese Sedge Slender almost filamentous, silvery leaves about six inches (15cm) long in a dense tuft. '15cm':13 'albula':2 'almost':6 'carex':1 'dens':17 'filament':7 'inch':12 'japanes':3 'leav':9 'long':14 'sedg':4 'silveri':8 'six':11 'slender':5 'tuft':18
474 acorus gramineus 'mini' Japanese Sweet Flag, Minature Sweet Flag, Slender Sweet Flag "Small, (about 12""/30cm), tufted plants, available in plain green and with cream stripes along the length of the leaves." '/30cm':16 '12':15 'acorus':1 'along':27 'avail':19 'cream':25 'flag':6,9,12 'gramineus':2 'green':22 'japanes':4 'leav':32 'length':29 'minatur':7 'mini':3 'plain':21 'plant':18 'slender':10 'small':13 'stripe':26 'sweet':5,8,11 'tuft':17
475 pyrrosia lingua 'peacock' Japanese Tongue Fern A stronger grower than the species, and with leaves heavily divided and crested at the tips. 'crest':19 'divid':17 'fern':6 'grower':9 'heavili':16 'japanes':4 'leav':15 'lingua':2 'peacock':3 'pyrrosia':1 'speci':12 'stronger':8 'tip':22 'tongu':5
476 podocarpus macrophyllus 'maki' Japanese Yew Fairly slow growing, and willing to be trained or sheared into formal shapes. The long slender leaves are dark green. 'dark':24 'fair':6 'formal':17 'green':25 'grow':8 'japanes':4 'leav':22 'long':20 'macrophyllus':2 'maki':3 'podocarpus':1 'shape':18 'shear':15 'slender':21 'slow':7 'train':13 'will':10 'yew':5
477 jasminum Jasmine Bushes, most of which try to climb, but worth the effort of control to enjoy the star-shaped flowers. 'bush':3 'climb':9 'control':15 'effort':13 'enjoy':17 'flower':22 'jasmin':2 'jasminum':1 'shape':21 'star':20 'star-shap':19 'tri':7 'worth':11
478 bouvardia ternifolia Jasmine Plant, Scarlet Trumpetilla Flowers are bright scarlet in groups at the branch tips. 'bouvardia':1 'branch':15 'bright':9 'flower':7 'group':12 'jasmin':3 'plant':4 'scarlet':5,10 'ternifolia':2 'tip':16 'trumpetilla':6
479 sedum spathulifolium ssp pruinosum Jelly Bean Short, freely-branching stems covered along their length with fleshy leaves. 'along':13 'bean':6 'branch':10 'cover':12 'fleshi':17 'freeli':9 'freely-branch':8 'jelli':5 'leav':18 'length':15 'pruinosum':4 'sedum':1 'short':7 'spathulifolium':2 'ssp':3 'stem':11
480 sedum rubrotinctum Jelly Bean Mounding shrub with closely packed, fleshy leaves. 'bean':4 'close':8 'fleshi':10 'jelli':3 'leav':11 'mound':5 'pack':9 'rubrotinctum':2 'sedum':1 'shrub':6
481 solanum pseudocapsicum Jerusalem Cherry Semi-woody plant with upright branching stems less than two feet long. The small flowers are followed by orange berries which last all winter long in the house. 'berri':25 'branch':11 'cherri':4 'feet':16 'flower':20 'follow':22 'hous':33 'jerusalem':3 'last':27 'less':13 'long':17,30 'orang':24 'plant':8 'pseudocapsicum':2 'semi':6 'semi-woodi':5 'small':19 'solanum':1 'stem':12 'two':15 'upright':10 'winter':29 'woodi':7
482 talinum Jewel Of Opar Fleshy leaves, grey-green or variegated in color on erect stems to about 15 inches (38cm) tall. Flowers are small in an airy inflorescence. '15':19 '38cm':21 'airi':28 'color':13 'erect':15 'fleshi':5 'flower':23 'green':9 'grey':8 'grey-green':7 'inch':20 'infloresc':29 'jewel':2 'leav':6 'opar':4 'small':25 'stem':16 'talinum':1 'tall':22 'varieg':11
483 ludisia discolor Jewel Orchid The leaves glisten in the right light, and the dark color sets off the white flowers which are produced in abundance in the upright inflorescences. 'abund':25 'color':15 'dark':14 'discolor':2 'flower':20 'glisten':7 'infloresc':29 'jewel':3 'leav':6 'light':11 'ludisia':1 'orchid':4 'produc':23 'right':10 'set':16 'upright':28 'white':19
484 bertolonia marmorata Jewel Plant Leaves oval, about six inches (15cm) long on short stalks. Deep green or with a brownish cast and a lighter midrib. Flowers in small pink clusters carried just above the leaves. '15cm':10 'bertolonia':1 'brownish':20 'carri':31 'cast':21 'cluster':30 'deep':15 'flower':26 'green':16 'inch':9 'jewel':3 'leav':5,35 'lighter':24 'long':11 'marmorata':2 'midrib':25 'oval':6 'pink':29 'plant':4 'short':13 'six':8 'small':28 'stalk':14
485 brunsvigia marginata Josephine's Lily Leaves about 12 to 15 inches (30-38cm) long, spreading from top of bulb. Flowers are a deep pink to red. '-38':13 '12':8 '15':10 '30':12 'brunsvigia':1 'bulb':20 'cm':14 'deep':24 'flower':21 'inch':11 'josephin':3 'leav':6 'lili':5 'long':15 'marginata':2 'pink':25 'red':27 'spread':16 'top':18
486 alternanthera Joy Weed Herbaceous plants that last a season or two. Leaves broad in the cultivated types usually multicolored. Flowers in white puffs, but not conspicuous. 'alternanthera':1 'broad':13 'conspicu':26 'cultiv':16 'flower':20 'herbac':4 'joy':2 'last':7 'leav':12 'multicolor':19 'plant':5 'puff':23 'season':9 'two':11 'type':17 'usual':18 'weed':3 'white':22
487 clivia miniata Kaffir Lily Thick, strap-shaped leaves about 18 inches (45cm) long. Flowers 10-18 in a cluster, deep orange-red or variations of this. '-18':17 '10':16 '18':11 '45cm':13 'clivia':1 'cluster':20 'deep':21 'flower':15 'inch':12 'kaffir':3 'leav':9 'lili':4 'long':14 'miniata':2 'orang':23 'orange-r':22 'red':24 'shape':8 'strap':7 'strap-shap':6 'thick':5 'variat':26
488 howea forsteriana Kentia Palm, Paradise Palm, Thatch Leaf Palm Solitary palm with a green, ringed trunk a few inches (5cm) in diameter bearing an graceful crown of arching dark green leaves. Slow growing, giving many years of service in even a small space. '5cm':20 'arch':28 'bear':23 'crown':26 'dark':29 'diamet':22 'even':40 'forsteriana':2 'give':34 'grace':25 'green':14,30 'grow':33 'howea':1 'inch':19 'kentia':3 'leaf':8 'leav':31 'mani':35 'palm':4,6,9,11 'paradis':5 'ring':15 'servic':38 'slow':32 'small':42 'solitari':10 'space':43 'thatch':7 'trunk':16 'year':36
489 thrinax morrisii Key Thatch Palm Spreading crown of palmate leaves cut more than halfway to the center, carried on upright and later spreading stalks. 'carri':18 'center':17 'crown':7 'cut':11 'halfway':14 'key':3 'later':22 'leav':10 'morrisii':2 'palm':5 'palmat':9 'spread':6,23 'stalk':24 'thatch':4 'thrinax':1 'upright':20
490 homalomena wallisii King Of Hearts, Silver Thread Bright green leaves blotched with yellow about six inches (15cm) long in a wide-spreading clump. '15cm':17 'blotch':11 'bright':8 'clump':24 'green':9 'heart':5 'homalomena':1 'inch':16 'king':3 'leav':10 'long':18 'silver':6 'six':15 'spread':23 'thread':7 'wallisii':2 'wide':22 'wide-spread':21 'yellow':13
491 vriesea hieroglyphica King Of The Bromeliads Upright or slightly spreading vase more than two feet (60cm) tall, with the leaves intricately marked with darker bands. '60cm':16 'band':25 'bromeliad':6 'darker':24 'feet':15 'hieroglyphica':2 'intric':21 'king':3 'leav':20 'mark':22 'slight':9 'spread':10 'tall':17 'two':14 'upright':7 'vase':11 'vriesea':1
492 justicia carnea Kings Crown Upright shrub three or four feet (90-120cm) tall under interior conditions. The inflorescences at the tips of branches have flowers with long petals like ribbons in various colors. '-120':12 '90':11 'branch':24 'carnea':2 'cm':13 'color':34 'condit':17 'crown':4 'feet':10 'flower':26 'four':9 'infloresc':19 'interior':16 'justicia':1 'king':3 'like':30 'long':28 'petal':29 'ribbon':31 'shrub':6 'tall':14 'three':7 'tip':22 'upright':5 'various':33
493 hypocyrta (name has changed see nematanthus) Kiss Me Plant Climbing or trailing plants with glossy leaves. Orange flowers are produced in most leaf axils. 'axil':24 'chang':4 'climb':10 'flower':18 'glossi':15 'hypocyrta':1 'kiss':7 'leaf':23 'leav':16 'name':2 'nematanthus':6 'orang':17 'plant':9,13 'produc':20 'see':5 'trail':12
494 nematanthus Kiss Me Plant Climbing or trailing plants with glossy leaves. Orange flowers are produced in most leaf axils. 'axil':19 'climb':5 'flower':13 'glossi':10 'kiss':2 'leaf':18 'leav':11 'nematanthus':1 'orang':12 'plant':4,8 'produc':15 'trail':7
495 fortunella japonica Kumquat Fruit round or egg-shaped on plants that are easily trained to pot size. 'easili':14 'egg':8 'egg-shap':7 'fortunella':1 'fruit':4 'japonica':2 'kumquat':3 'plant':11 'pot':17 'round':5 'shape':9 'size':18 'train':15
496 echinocereus baileyi albispinus Lace Cactus Globular or taller, ribbed and with 14-16 radial spines around one to three (or no) central spines. Flowers are pink. '-16':13 '14':12 'albispinus':3 'around':16 'baileyi':2 'cactus':5 'central':22 'echinocereus':1 'flower':24 'globular':6 'lace':4 'one':17 'pink':26 'radial':14 'rib':9 'spine':15,23 'taller':8 'three':19
497 microlepia strigosa Lace Fern Creeping rhizome producing large leaves two to four feet (60-120cm) long spaced along its length. The leaves are feather-like and dark green. '-120':15 '60':14 'along':19 'cm':16 'creep':5 'dark':29 'feather':26 'feather-lik':25 'feet':13 'fern':4 'four':12 'green':30 'lace':3 'larg':8 'leav':9,23 'length':21 'like':27 'long':17 'microlepia':1 'produc':7 'rhizom':6 'space':18 'strigosa':2 'two':10
498 episcia dianthiflora Lace Flower Leaves dark green, flowers white with fringed petals. 'dark':6 'dianthiflora':2 'episcia':1 'flower':4,8 'fring':11 'green':7 'lace':3 'leav':5 'petal':12 'white':9
499 brassavola nodosa Lady Of The Night Flowers opening a few at a time on an erect stalk. Lip broad, white, remainder of flower slender, slightly greenish. 'brassavola':1 'broad':19 'erect':16 'flower':7,23 'greenish':26 'ladi':3 'lip':18 'night':6 'nodosa':2 'open':8 'remaind':21 'slender':24 'slight':25 'stalk':17 'time':13 'white':20
500 rhapis Lady Palm Small palms making shoots about one inch (2.5cm) in diameter and up to ten feet (300cm) tall, The leaves are cut like the fingers of a hand and have black hairs at their bases that persist on the trunk. '2.5':11 '300cm':20 'base':38 'black':34 'cm':12 'cut':25 'diamet':14 'feet':19 'finger':28 'hair':35 'hand':31 'inch':10 'ladi':2 'leav':23 'like':26 'make':6 'one':9 'palm':3,5 'persist':40 'rhapi':1 'shoot':7 'small':4 'tall':21 'ten':18 'trunk':43
501 paphiopedilum insigne x maudiae 'emerald' Lady Slipper Orchid Pouch of the flowers olive green flushed with red, upright petal white heavily spotted with brown. 'brown':24 'emerald':5 'flower':12 'flush':15 'green':14 'heavili':21 'insign':2 'ladi':6 'maudia':4 'oliv':13 'orchid':8 'paphiopedilum':1 'petal':19 'pouch':9 'red':17 'slipper':7 'spot':22 'upright':18 'white':20 'x':3
502 fuchsia Lady's Eardrops Open growing shrubs whose flowers hang gracefully, making them good plants for baskets. 'basket':17 'eardrop':4 'flower':9 'fuchsia':1 'good':14 'grace':11 'grow':6 'hang':10 'ladi':2 'make':12 'open':5 'plant':15 'shrub':7 'whose':8
503 cypripedium Lady's Slipper Orchid Terrestrial orchids with creeping rhizomes form small rosettes from which a leafless stalk carries a single flower. The flowers have a lip shaped like a slipper. 'carri':19 'creep':9 'cypripedium':1 'flower':22,24 'form':11 'ladi':2 'leafless':17 'like':29 'lip':27 'orchid':5,7 'rhizom':10 'rosett':13 'shape':28 'singl':21 'slipper':4,31 'small':12 'stalk':18 'terrestri':6
504 sedum lanceolatum Lanceleaf Stone Crop Stems forming a clump of rosettes of very fleshy, almost cylindrical leaves. 'almost':15 'clump':9 'crop':5 'cylindr':16 'fleshi':14 'form':7 'lanceleaf':3 'lanceolatum':2 'leav':17 'rosett':11 'sedum':1 'stem':6 'stone':4
505 lantana camara Lantana Three feet to six feet (90-180cm) tall and at least as wide according to the variety if this shrub is left alone to grow. It stands cutting well, however, to stay to a controlled size in pot or basket. '-180':10 '90':9 'accord':18 'alon':27 'basket':44 'camara':2 'cm':11 'control':39 'cut':32 'feet':5,8 'grow':29 'howev':34 'lantana':1,3 'least':15 'left':26 'pot':42 'shrub':24 'six':7 'size':40 'stand':31 'stay':36 'tall':12 'three':4 'varieti':21 'well':33 'wide':17
506 latania Latan Palm Handsome giant fan palm with red-flushed silvery-green leaves, striking as a young plant. 'fan':6 'flush':11 'giant':5 'green':14 'handsom':4 'latan':2 'latania':1 'leav':15 'palm':3,7 'plant':20 'red':10 'red-flush':9 'silveri':13 'silvery-green':12 'strike':16 'young':19
507 lavandula Lavender Narrow grey leaves tightly set on a small branching bush. Flowers grow in a dense terminal spike. 'branch':11 'bush':12 'dens':17 'flower':13 'grey':4 'grow':14 'lavandula':1 'lavend':2 'leav':5 'narrow':3 'set':7 'small':10 'spike':19 'termin':18 'tight':6
508 plumbago Leadworts Erect or trailing shoots of small grayish leaves with terminal inflorescences of blue, white or red flowers. 'blue':15 'erect':3 'flower':19 'grayish':9 'infloresc':13 'leadwort':2 'leav':10 'plumbago':1 'red':18 'shoot':6 'small':8 'termin':12 'trail':5 'white':16
509 rumohra adiantiformis 'bur' Leather Fern Glossy, triangular-shaped leaves, much divided and held in one plane making them good as cut foliage for bouquets. Leaves from a creeping rhizome. 'adiantiformi':2 'bouquet':25 'bur':3 'creep':29 'cut':22 'divid':12 'fern':5 'foliag':23 'glossi':6 'good':20 'held':14 'leather':4 'leav':10,26 'make':18 'much':11 'one':16 'plane':17 'rhizom':30 'rumohra':1 'shape':9 'triangular':8 'triangular-shap':7
510 rumohra Leatherleaf Fern Shiny, branched, leathery leaves with leaflets lying in one plane. 'branch':5 'fern':3 'leaflet':9 'leatheri':6 'leatherleaf':2 'leav':7 'lie':10 'one':12 'plane':13 'rumohra':1 'shini':4
511 metrosideros collina 'spring fire' Lehua A strong grower that will need pruning to stay in size. Broad, rounded leaves, deep green on top and with fine hairs beneath make a dense bush. Flowers are a rich red, about two inches long, and with prominent stamens. 'beneath':28 'broad':17 'bush':32 'collina':2 'deep':20 'dens':31 'fine':26 'fire':4 'flower':33 'green':21 'grower':8 'hair':27 'inch':40 'leav':19 'lehua':5 'long':41 'make':29 'metrosidero':1 'need':11 'promin':44 'prune':12 'red':37 'rich':36 'round':18 'size':16 'spring':3 'stamen':45 'stay':14 'strong':7 'top':23 'two':39
512 aloysia triphylla Lemon Verbena Strong growing bush that will stand control reasonably but does like space eventually. The leaves are gland-dotted and fragrant. Flowers white, small and many together in spikes at the ends of the branches. 'aloysia':1 'branch':39 'bush':7 'control':11 'dot':23 'end':36 'eventu':17 'flower':26 'fragrant':25 'gland':22 'gland-dot':21 'grow':6 'leav':19 'lemon':3 'like':15 'mani':30 'reason':12 'small':28 'space':16 'spike':33 'stand':10 'strong':5 'togeth':31 'triphylla':2 'verbena':4 'white':27
513 ligularia tussilaginea 'aureomaculata' Leopard Plant Leaves brightened with large yellow spots. 'aureomaculata':3 'brighten':7 'larg':9 'leav':6 'leopard':4 'ligularia':1 'plant':5 'spot':11 'tussilaginea':2 'yellow':10
514 gasteria liliputana Liliput Dark green, marbled, leaves in a rosette with a spiral arrangement. 'arrang':14 'dark':4 'gasteria':1 'green':5 'leav':7 'liliput':3 'liliputana':2 'marbl':6 'rosett':10 'spiral':13
515 lilium Lily Perennial leafy-stemmed plants with scaly storage organs. Flowers are funnel-shaped, often numerous and large on a tall stem. 'flower':12 'funnel':15 'funnel-shap':14 'larg':20 'leafi':5 'leafy-stem':4 'lili':2 'lilium':1 'numer':18 'often':17 'organ':11 'perenni':3 'plant':7 'scali':9 'shape':16 'stem':6,24 'storag':10 'tall':23
516 odontoglossum pulchellum Lily Of The Valley Orchid A rather open inflorescence of white, brown-spotted flowers is produced from the base of the pseudobulbs. 'base':22 'brown':15 'brown-spot':14 'flower':17 'infloresc':11 'lili':3 'odontoglossum':1 'open':10 'orchid':7 'produc':19 'pseudobulb':25 'pulchellum':2 'rather':9 'spot':16 'valley':6 'white':13
517 ophiopogon Lily-turf, Snake's Beard Clusters of grass-like leaves four to fifteen inches (10-38cm) tall spread by means of rhizomes. '-38':19 '10':18 'beard':7 'cluster':8 'cm':20 'fifteen':16 'four':14 'grass':11 'grass-lik':10 'inch':17 'leav':13 'like':12 'lili':3 'lily-turf':2 'mean':24 'ophiopogon':1 'rhizom':26 'snake':5 'spread':22 'tall':21 'turf':4
518 liriope Lily Turfs, Liriope Linear leaves, plain green or variegated, grow in tufts to heights up to 24 inches (60cm). '24':18 '60cm':20 'green':8 'grow':11 'height':15 'inch':19 'leav':6 'lili':2 'linear':5 'liriop':1,4 'plain':7 'tuft':13 'turf':3 'varieg':10
519 rivina Lipstick Plant, Rouge Plant Plant may reach almost three feet (90cm) in height and become woody at the base but is often smaller. Tiny white flowers followed by red berries that will stain lips or cheeks. '90cm':12 'almost':9 'base':20 'becom':16 'berri':31 'cheek':37 'feet':11 'flower':27 'follow':28 'height':14 'lip':35 'lipstick':2 'may':7 'often':23 'plant':3,5,6 'reach':8 'red':30 'rivina':1 'roug':4 'smaller':24 'stain':34 'three':10 'tini':25 'white':26 'woodi':17
520 aeschynanthus lobbianus Lipstick Vine The flowers are bright red with a yellow throat, and form from a dark-colored tubular calyx in groups at the tips of branches. 'aeschynanthus':1 'branch':29 'bright':8 'calyx':22 'color':20 'dark':19 'dark-color':18 'flower':6 'form':15 'group':24 'lipstick':3 'lobbianus':2 'red':9 'throat':13 'tip':27 'tubular':21 'vine':4 'yellow':12
521 aeschynanthus speciosus Lipstick Vine Bright orange flowers form in groups at the tips of branches. 'aeschynanthus':1 'branch':15 'bright':5 'flower':7 'form':8 'group':10 'lipstick':3 'orang':6 'speciosus':2 'tip':13 'vine':4
522 agave parviflora Little-princess Agave A very small species between four and six inches (10-15cm) tall. The narrow leaves, and white threads that break away from the leaf edges give a spiky appearance. '-15':17 '10':16 'agav':1,6 'appear':36 'away':28 'break':27 'cm':18 'edg':32 'four':12 'give':33 'inch':15 'leaf':31 'leav':22 'littl':4 'little-princess':3 'narrow':21 'parviflora':2 'princess':5 'six':14 'small':9 'speci':10 'spiki':35 'tall':19 'thread':25 'white':24
523 pleiospilos bolusii Living Rock Stemless with a small number of grey, fleshy leaves that look as though they have been split from a globose rock. 'bolusii':2 'fleshi':12 'globos':24 'grey':11 'leav':13 'live':3 'look':15 'number':9 'pleiospilo':1 'rock':4,25 'small':8 'split':21 'stemless':5 'though':17
524 ariocarpus Living Rock Cacti Globular stems covered with triangular outgrowths (tubercles) that give the impression of a rosette of stubby leaves. 'ariocarpus':1 'cacti':4 'cover':7 'give':13 'globular':5 'impress':15 'leav':21 'live':2 'outgrowth':10 'rock':3 'rosett':18 'stem':6 'stubbi':20 'triangular':9 'tubercl':11
527 dinteranthus Living Stones Small paired leaves nestling at ground level are crowned by daisy-like flowers. 'crown':12 'daisi':15 'daisy-lik':14 'dinteranthus':1 'flower':17 'ground':9 'leav':6 'level':10 'like':16 'live':2 'nestl':7 'pair':5 'small':4 'stone':3
528 dorotheanthus bellidiformis Livingstone Daisy Annual, forming mats covered with almost cylindrical leaves that have glistening spots on the surface. The daisy-like flowers in many colors are borne in great profusion. 'almost':10 'annual':5 'bellidiformi':2 'born':29 'color':27 'cover':8 'cylindr':11 'daisi':4,22 'daisy-lik':21 'dorotheanthus':1 'flower':24 'form':6 'glisten':15 'great':31 'leav':12 'like':23 'livingston':3 'mani':26 'mat':7 'profus':32 'spot':16 'surfac':19
529 lobelia erinus Lobelia Mounding plants four to twelve inches (30cm) tall that are covered with flowers of various colors. Deep blue was once the sought after color, but there are now reds, pinks, whites and bicolors. '30cm':10 'bicolor':36 'blue':21 'color':19,27 'cover':14 'deep':20 'erinus':2 'flower':16 'four':6 'inch':9 'lobelia':1,3 'mound':4 'pink':33 'plant':5 'red':32 'sought':25 'tall':11 'twelv':8 'various':18 'white':34
530 lobelia erinus 'crystal palace' Lobelia A classic variety with deep reddish-green foliage and flowers of deepest blue 'blue':19 'classic':7 'crystal':3 'deep':10 'deepest':18 'erinus':2 'flower':16 'foliag':14 'green':13 'lobelia':1,5 'palac':4 'reddish':12 'reddish-green':11 'varieti':8
531 clianthus puniceus Lobster Claw, Parrot's Beak Shrub about six feet (180cm) tall. Flowers dusty-pink reaching more than four inches (10cm) in length. '10cm':23 '180cm':12 'beak':7 'claw':4 'clianthus':1 'dusti':16 'dusty-pink':15 'feet':11 'flower':14 'four':21 'inch':22 'length':25 'lobster':3 'parrot':5 'pink':17 'puniceus':2 'reach':18 'shrub':8 'six':10 'tall':13
532 heliconia angustifolia cv 'yellow christmas' Lobster Claw The inflorescence of five to nine yellow bracts with lighter flowers stands well above the plant, which reaches a height of four to seven feet (120-210cm). '-210':34 '120':33 'angustifolia':2 'bract':15 'christma':5 'claw':7 'cm':35 'cv':3 'feet':32 'five':11 'flower':18 'four':29 'height':27 'heliconia':1 'infloresc':9 'lighter':17 'lobster':6 'nine':13 'plant':23 'reach':25 'seven':31 'stand':19 'well':20 'yellow':4,14
533 macropiper excelsum Lofty Pepper, Pepper Tree Multiple trunks that may reach eight feet (240cm) in height make control simple: cut out the largest as they get too big, and allow a smaller one to fill in. Large leaves and white spikes of tiny flowers make an attractive plant. '240cm':14 'allow':30 'attract':47 'big':28 'control':18 'cut':20 'eight':12 'excelsum':2 'feet':13 'fill':35 'flower':44 'get':26 'height':16 'larg':37 'largest':23 'leav':38 'lofti':3 'macropip':1 'make':17,45 'may':10 'multipl':7 'one':33 'pepper':4,5 'plant':48 'reach':11 'simpl':19 'smaller':32 'spike':41 'tini':43 'tree':6 'trunk':8 'white':40
534 crinum moorei Long-neck Swamp Lily Plant usually about four to five feet (120-150cm) overall. Flowers are white. '-150':16 '120':15 'cm':17 'crinum':1 'feet':14 'five':13 'flower':19 'four':11 'lili':7 'long':4 'long-neck':3 'moorei':2 'neck':5 'overal':18 'plant':8 'swamp':6 'usual':9 'white':21
535 luffa Loofah Strong annual vine with bold yellow flowers, the females followed by hanging fruits. 'annual':4 'bold':7 'femal':11 'flower':9 'follow':12 'fruit':15 'hang':14 'loofah':2 'luffa':1 'strong':3 'vine':5 'yellow':8
536 luffa cylindrica Loofah Sponge Strong vine, hard to confine to a small trellis. The large yellow female flowers produce long hanging gourds which are the source of the bathtub luffa when fully mature and cleaned of their skin and seeds. 'bathtub':29 'clean':35 'confin':9 'cylindrica':2 'femal':17 'flower':18 'fulli':32 'gourd':22 'hang':21 'hard':7 'larg':15 'long':20 'loofah':3 'luffa':1,30 'matur':33 'produc':19 'seed':40 'skin':38 'small':12 'sourc':26 'spong':4 'strong':5 'trelli':13 'vine':6 'yellow':16
537 mikania scandens Louse Plaster, Plush Vine A slender but very vigorous twining vine. Leaves arrow shaped, flowers small in flat clusters in late spring and summer. 'arrow':15 'cluster':21 'flat':20 'flower':17 'late':23 'leav':14 'lous':3 'mikania':1 'plaster':4 'plush':5 'scanden':2 'shape':16 'slender':8 'small':18 'spring':24 'summer':26 'twine':12 'vigor':11 'vine':6,13
538 oxalis regnelii Lucky Clover Leaves purple below, often with a red blotch on the upper surface. Flowers white to pale pink. 'blotch':12 'clover':4 'flower':17 'leav':5 'lucki':3 'often':8 'oxali':1 'pale':20 'pink':21 'purpl':6 'red':11 'regnelii':2 'surfac':16 'upper':15 'white':18
539 ptychosperma macarthurii Macarthur Palm Cluster palm, similar in other respects to P. elegans, but slower growing. 'cluster':5 'elegan':13 'grow':16 'macarthur':3 'macarthurii':2 'p':12 'palm':4,6 'ptychosperma':1 'respect':10 'similar':7 'slower':15
540 stephanotis floribunda Madagascar Jessamine Slender, twining vine, easily controlled. The groups of white, waxy flowers are very fragrant. 'control':9 'easili':8 'floribunda':2 'flower':15 'fragrant':18 'group':11 'jessamin':4 'madagascar':3 'slender':5 'stephanoti':1 'twine':6 'vine':7 'waxi':14 'white':13
541 pachypodium lamerei Madagascar Palm Tree eventually reaching 15-18' (5-6m) with a swollen trunk, that may branch evenly into two as it grows, with a tuft of leaves at the tip and the whole covered with spirally arranged tubercles with spines almost an inch long. Flowers are white. '-18':9 '-6':11 '15':8 '5':10 'almost':44 'arrang':40 'branch':19 'cover':37 'even':20 'eventu':6 'flower':48 'grow':25 'inch':46 'lamerei':2 'leav':30 'long':47 'm':12 'madagascar':3 'may':18 'pachypodium':1 'palm':4 'reach':7 'spine':43 'spiral':39 'swollen':15 'tip':33 'tree':5 'trunk':16 'tubercl':41 'tuft':28 'two':22 'white':50 'whole':36
542 catharanthus roseus Madagascar Periwinkle Flowers come in a range of colors from white, white with an eye, to various shades of pink and near-red. 'catharanthus':1 'color':11 'come':6 'eye':17 'flower':5 'madagascar':3 'near':25 'near-r':24 'periwinkl':4 'pink':22 'rang':9 'red':26 'roseus':2 'shade':20 'various':19 'white':13,14
574 cypripedium acaule Moccasin Flower, Pink Lady Slipper The flowers are dominated by the rose-pink pouched lip. 'acaul':2 'cypripedium':1 'domin':11 'flower':4,9 'ladi':6 'lip':18 'moccasin':3 'pink':5,16 'pouch':17 'rose':15 'rose-pink':14 'slipper':7
543 achimenes Magic Flower, Nut Orchid Upright or trailing plants rarely more than a foot (30cm) tall, that die back in winter to an underground scaly rhizome. Flowers are tubular, flaring to a flat face one to two inches (2.5-5 cm)across in a great variety of colors. '-5':40 '2.5':39 '30cm':15 'achimen':1 'across':42 'back':19 'cm':41 'color':48 'die':18 'face':34 'flare':30 'flat':33 'flower':3,27 'foot':14 'great':45 'inch':38 'magic':2 'nut':4 'one':35 'orchid':5 'plant':9 'rare':10 'rhizom':26 'scali':25 'tall':16 'trail':8 'tubular':29 'two':37 'underground':24 'upright':6 'varieti':46 'winter':21
544 piper ornatum variegata Magnificent Pepper Slender vine with heart-shaped leaves that may have whitish veins. 'heart':10 'heart-shap':9 'leav':12 'magnific':4 'may':14 'ornatum':2 'pepper':5 'piper':1 'shape':11 'slender':6 'variegata':3 'vein':17 'vine':7 'whitish':16
545 adiantum Maidenhair Fern Fine-textured ferns of various sizes. 'adiantum':1 'fern':3,7 'fine':5 'fine-textur':4 'maidenhair':2 'size':10 'textur':6 'various':9
546 ravenea rivularis Majesty Palm Beautiful arching, mid-green feather leaves when young, but too big for most spots when the massive single trunk develops. 'arch':6 'beauti':5 'big':16 'develop':25 'feather':10 'green':9 'leav':11 'majesti':3 'massiv':22 'mid':8 'mid-green':7 'palm':4 'ravenea':1 'rivulari':2 'singl':23 'spot':19 'trunk':24 'young':13
547 xanthosoma Malanga, Yautia Tuberous but usually evergreen plants with a small number of arrowhead leaves held at an angle to upright leaf stalks. 'angl':19 'arrowhead':14 'evergreen':7 'held':16 'leaf':22 'leav':15 'malanga':2 'number':12 'plant':8 'small':11 'stalk':23 'tuber':4 'upright':21 'usual':6 'xanthosoma':1 'yautia':3
548 costus speciosus Malay Ginger Stem strongly spiraled reaching about eight (240cm) feet. Flowers open singly or in pairs from a rather dowdy cone, but are about three (7.5cm) inches in diameter and of a white or yellow creepy texture. '240cm':11 '7.5':28 'cm':29 'cone':23 'costus':1 'creepi':39 'diamet':32 'dowdi':22 'eight':10 'feet':12 'flower':13 'ginger':4 'inch':30 'malay':3 'open':14 'pair':18 'rather':21 'reach':8 'singl':15 'speciosus':2 'spiral':7 'stem':5 'strong':6 'textur':40 'three':27 'white':36 'yellow':38
549 dracaena marginata Marginata Narrow leaves tapering to the tip. Green with a red edge is the color of the original species, but selections are available with white or white and red stripes the length of the leaf, and with a purple cast to the whole leaf. 'avail':25 'cast':42 'color':17 'dracaena':1 'edg':14 'green':10 'leaf':37,46 'leav':5 'length':34 'marginata':2,3 'narrow':4 'origin':20 'purpl':41 'red':13,31 'select':23 'speci':21 'stripe':32 'taper':6 'tip':9 'white':27,29 'whole':45
550 chrysanthemum frutescens hybrids Marguerite Stiff-stemmed low plants between one and two feet (30-60cm) tall, with daisy-like flowers about two inches (5cm) across at the tips of the shoots. '-60':16 '30':15 '5cm':27 'across':28 'chrysanthemum':1 'cm':17 'daisi':21 'daisy-lik':20 'feet':14 'flower':23 'frutescen':2 'hybrid':3 'inch':26 'like':22 'low':8 'marguerit':4 'one':11 'plant':9 'shoot':34 'stem':7 'stiff':6 'stiff-stem':5 'tall':18 'tip':31 'two':13,25
551 tagetes Marigold Annuals that may survive into a further year. Upright with divided feather-like leaves and a terminal flower head. 'annual':3 'divid':13 'feather':15 'feather-lik':14 'flower':21 'head':22 'leav':17 'like':16 'marigold':2 'may':5 'surviv':6 'taget':1 'termin':20 'upright':11 'year':10
552 tagetes patula 'disco flame' Marigold Plants reaching eight to twelve inches (20-30cm) , flowers in this cultivar ôsingle,ö orange with a yellow edge. There are plain yellows and oranges, mahogany shades and single and double forms on the market with new ones appearing each year. '-30':13 '20':12 'appear':45 'cm':14 'cultivar':18 'disco':3 'doubl':37 'edg':25 'eight':8 'flame':4 'flower':15 'form':38 'inch':11 'mahogani':32 'marigold':5 'market':41 'new':43 'one':44 'orang':21,31 'patula':2 'plain':28 'plant':6 'reach':7 'shade':33 'singl':35 'taget':1 'twelv':10 'year':47 'yellow':24,29 'ôsingl':19 'ö':20
553 streptosolen jamesonii Marmalade Bush Shrubs reaching about four feet (120cm) but beginning to flower when much smaller. Bright green leaves and open cone shaped orange flowers produced in profusion. '120cm':10 'begin':12 'bright':18 'bush':4 'cone':23 'feet':9 'flower':14,26 'four':8 'green':19 'jamesonii':2 'leav':20 'marmalad':3 'much':16 'open':22 'orang':25 'produc':27 'profus':29 'reach':6 'shape':24 'shrub':5 'smaller':17 'streptosolen':1
554 pelargonium x domesticum 'lord bute' Martha Washington A ôMartha Washingtonö type with richly purple suffused magenta petals. The plants are compact upright shrubs. 'bute':5 'compact':21 'domesticum':3 'lord':4 'magenta':16 'martha':6 'pelargonium':1 'petal':17 'plant':19 'purpl':14 'rich':13 'shrub':23 'suffus':15 'type':11 'upright':22 'washington':7 'washingtonö':10 'x':2 'ômartha':9
555 campelia zanonia variegata (name has changed see tradescantia zanonia variegata) Mexican Flag A rosette of leaves is carried at the tip of a stem that gradually grows erect, sometimes reaching three feet (1m) in height. Flowers are white. Leaves may be green or with yellow variegation. '1m':33 'campelia':1 'carri':18 'chang':6 'erect':28 'feet':32 'flag':12 'flower':36 'gradual':26 'green':42 'grow':27 'height':35 'leav':16,39 'may':40 'mexican':11 'name':4 'reach':30 'rosett':14 'see':7 'sometim':29 'stem':24 'three':31 'tip':21 'tradescantia':8 'varieg':46 'variegata':3,10 'white':38 'yellow':45 'zanonia':2,9
556 tradescantia zanonia 'variegata' Mexican Flag A rosette of leaves is carried at the tip of a stem that gradually grows erect, sometimes reaching three feet (90cm) in height. Flowers are white. Leaves may be green or with yellow variegation. '90cm':26 'carri':11 'erect':21 'feet':25 'flag':5 'flower':29 'gradual':19 'green':35 'grow':20 'height':28 'leav':9,32 'may':33 'mexican':4 'reach':23 'rosett':7 'sometim':22 'stem':17 'three':24 'tip':14 'tradescantia':1 'varieg':39 'variegata':3 'white':31 'yellow':38 'zanonia':2
573 ficus deltoidea Mistletoe Fig Small trees easily controlled to a size for the house. Leaves are triangular, wider at the top than at the stalk. 'control':8 'deltoidea':2 'easili':7 'ficus':1 'fig':4 'hous':14 'leav':15 'mistleto':3 'size':11 'small':5 'stalk':25 'top':21 'tree':6 'triangular':17 'wider':18
557 allophyton mexican (name has changed see tetranema roseum) Mexican Foxglove Open inflorescences about a foot (30cm) high with pinkish-purple flowers, produced from a foot (30cm) wide rosette of rough leaves. '30cm':16,27 'allophyton':1 'chang':5 'flower':22 'foot':15,26 'foxglov':10 'high':17 'infloresc':12 'leav':32 'mexican':2,9 'name':3 'open':11 'pinkish':20 'pinkish-purpl':19 'produc':23 'purpl':21 'rosett':29 'roseum':8 'rough':31 'see':6 'tetranema':7 'wide':28
558 otatea acuminata Mexican Weeping Bamboo Graceful arching habit with linear, long leaves that hide the stems when in full growth. 'acuminata':2 'arch':7 'bamboo':5 'full':19 'grace':6 'growth':20 'habit':8 'hide':14 'leav':12 'linear':10 'long':11 'mexican':3 'otatea':1 'stem':16 'weep':4
559 ochna serrulata Mickey Mouse Plant Shrub with wiry branches about four to six feet (120-180cm) tall. Flowers yellow an inch or two (2.5-5cm) across, followed by a fleshy central mound from which a few black seeds protrude giving the effect of mouse ears (Mickey Mouse, of course). '-180':16 '-5':26 '120':15 '2.5':25 'across':28 'black':39 'branch':9 'central':33 'cm':17,27 'cours':51 'ear':47 'effect':44 'feet':14 'fleshi':32 'flower':19 'follow':29 'four':11 'give':42 'inch':22 'mickey':3,48 'mound':34 'mous':4,46,49 'ochna':1 'plant':5 'protrud':41 'seed':40 'serrulata':2 'shrub':6 'six':13 'tall':18 'two':24 'wiri':8 'yellow':20
560 asclepias Milkweed Small plants which are evergreen or die back to underground storage roots. Flowers in dense heads. 'asclepia':1 'back':10 'dens':17 'die':9 'evergreen':7 'flower':15 'head':18 'milkwe':2 'plant':4 'root':14 'small':3 'storag':13 'underground':12
561 blechnum gibbum Minature Tree Fern Arching feather leaves in a rosette on a short trunk that rarely gets more than a few inches (5cm) long in the house. '5cm':24 'arch':6 'blechnum':1 'feather':7 'fern':5 'get':18 'gibbum':2 'hous':28 'inch':23 'leav':8 'long':25 'minatur':3 'rare':17 'rosett':11 'short':14 'tree':4 'trunk':15
562 soleirolia soleirolii Mind Your Own Business Tiny leaves in thread-like stems make a solid interlacing mat on the surface of the soil. Flowers are minute. 'busi':6 'flower':25 'interlac':17 'leav':8 'like':12 'make':14 'mat':18 'mind':3 'minut':27 'soil':24 'soleirolia':1 'soleirolii':2 'solid':16 'stem':13 'surfac':21 'thread':11 'thread-lik':10 'tini':7
563 polyscias fruticosa Ming Aralia Pure foliage plants (flowers add nothing to it) that naturally form exotic branching patterns. The much-divided leaves give a shaggy appearance. 'add':9 'appear':27 'aralia':4 'branch':17 'divid':22 'exot':16 'flower':8 'foliag':6 'form':15 'fruticosa':2 'give':24 'leav':23 'ming':3 'much':21 'much-divid':20 'natur':14 'noth':10 'pattern':18 'plant':7 'polyscia':1 'pure':5 'shaggi':26
564 scirpus cernuus Miniature Bulrush Extremely fine leaves about six inches (15cm) long in a dense tuft. The inconspicuous inflorescence is on similar fine stalks. '15cm':11 'bulrush':4 'cernuus':2 'dens':15 'extrem':5 'fine':6,23 'inch':10 'inconspicu':18 'infloresc':19 'leav':7 'long':12 'miniatur':3 'scirpus':1 'similar':22 'six':9 'stalk':24 'tuft':16
565 trichodiadema densum Miniature Desert Rose Short stems from a tuberous root with close-set slender leaves with a number of bristles at the tip. 'bristl':22 'close':14 'close-set':13 'densum':2 'desert':4 'leav':17 'miniatur':3 'number':20 'root':11 'rose':5 'set':15 'short':6 'slender':16 'stem':7 'tip':25 'trichodiadema':1 'tuber':10
566 brassica oleracea acephala crispa Miniature Flowering Kale A ôcabbageö that does not make a tight head and has leaves of various colors. When flowers finally form, they are yellow and in tall spikes. 'acephala':3 'brassica':1 'color':22 'crispa':4 'final':25 'flower':6,24 'form':26 'head':16 'kale':7 'leav':19 'make':13 'miniatur':5 'oleracea':2 'spike':33 'tall':32 'tight':15 'various':21 'yellow':29 'ôcabbageö':9
567 malpighia coccigera Miniature Holly Spreading, arched branches carry spiny dark green leaves shaped like holly, and pale pink or white flat flowers that eventually form little red fruit. 'arch':6 'branch':7 'carri':8 'coccigera':2 'dark':10 'eventu':24 'flat':21 'flower':22 'form':25 'fruit':28 'green':11 'holli':4,15 'leav':12 'like':14 'littl':26 'malpighia':1 'miniatur':3 'pale':17 'pink':18 'red':27 'shape':13 'spini':9 'spread':5 'white':20
568 kalanchoe uniflora Miniature Kalanchoe Trailing perennial with rounded ovate leaves. The inflorescence is upright and has many pink bell-shaped flowers. 'bell':20 'bell-shap':19 'flower':22 'infloresc':12 'kalancho':1,4 'leav':10 'mani':17 'miniatur':3 'ovat':9 'perenni':6 'pink':18 'round':8 'shape':21 'trail':5 'uniflora':2 'upright':14
569 pilea depressa Miniature Peperomia Prostrate stems, rooting at nodes, produce small round leaves. Suitable for hanging basket use. 'basket':17 'depressa':2 'hang':16 'leav':13 'miniatur':3 'node':9 'peperomia':4 'pilea':1 'produc':10 'prostrat':5 'root':7 'round':12 'small':11 'stem':6 'suitabl':14 'use':18
570 rosa chinensis 'elegant parade' Miniature Rose A medium size bush with all the rose characters of thorns and typical leaves has the full-petalled Chinese type of rose in a clear yellow. 'bush':10 'charact':15 'chinensi':2 'chines':26 'clear':32 'eleg':3 'full':24 'full-petal':23 'leav':20 'medium':8 'miniatur':5 'parad':4 'petal':25 'rosa':1 'rose':6,14,29 'size':9 'thorn':17 'type':27 'typic':19 'yellow':33
571 hoya bella Miniature Wax Plant Upright shrub with a slight tendency to climb that is easily controlled. Flowers are white in a flat cluster. 'bella':2 'climb':13 'cluster':24 'control':17 'easili':16 'flat':23 'flower':18 'hoya':1 'miniatur':3 'plant':5 'shrub':7 'slight':10 'tendenc':11 'upright':6 'wax':4 'white':20
572 mentha Mint Upright shoots a few inches long with pairs of leaves alternating in position up the stem. Inflorescence terminal with a cylindrical spike of white, pink or blue, short, tubular flowers. All species are fragrant when crushed. 'altern':13 'blue':29 'crush':38 'cylindr':23 'flower':32 'fragrant':36 'inch':7 'infloresc':19 'leav':12 'long':8 'mentha':1 'mint':2 'pair':10 'pink':27 'posit':15 'shoot':4 'short':30 'speci':34 'spike':24 'stem':18 'termin':20 'tubular':31 'upright':3 'white':26
628 passiflora Passion Flower Strong vines with intriguing showy flowers. 'flower':3,9 'intrigu':7 'passiflora':1 'passion':2 'showi':8 'strong':4 'vine':5
575 mimosa pudica Modest Princess, Sensitive Plant, Shame Plant Prostrate stems carry feathery leaves which fold when touched. Flowers are small pink, powder puffs. 'carri':11 'featheri':12 'flower':18 'fold':15 'leav':13 'mimosa':1 'modest':3 'pink':21 'plant':6,8 'powder':22 'princess':4 'prostrat':9 'pudica':2 'puff':23 'sensit':5 'shame':7 'small':20 'stem':10 'touch':17
576 sauromatum Monarch Of The East The single leaf has a tall stalk and a flat blade at the top divided into three or more segments. The erect inflorescence is produced before the leaf, and is best viewed through a window because of its smell. 'best':36 'blade':16 'divid':20 'east':5 'erect':27 'flat':15 'infloresc':28 'leaf':8,33 'monarch':2 'produc':30 'sauromatum':1 'segment':25 'singl':7 'smell':44 'stalk':12 'tall':11 'three':22 'top':19 'view':37 'window':40
577 nepenthes Monkey Bamboo Jug Slender to moderately stout vines, climbing by wrapping part of their leaves around a support. The ends of many leaves are modified to form pitchers of digestive fluid into which unsuspecting flies fall, giving the plant its supply of nitrogen. 'around':17 'bamboo':3 'climb':10 'digest':31 'end':21 'fall':37 'fli':36 'fluid':32 'form':28 'give':38 'jug':4 'leav':16,24 'mani':23 'moder':7 'modifi':26 'monkey':2 'nepenth':1 'nitrogen':44 'part':13 'pitcher':29 'plant':40 'slender':5 'stout':8 'suppli':42 'support':19 'unsuspect':35 'vine':9 'wrap':12
578 mimulus Monkey Flower Bushy annuals or perennials, occasionally becoming shrubby. Leaves small, flowers in spikes, flaring at the mouth from a tubular base, and with an inflated green structure around the lower part of the flower (the calyx). 'annual':5 'around':30 'base':23 'becom':9 'bushi':4 'calyx':38 'flare':16 'flower':3,13,36 'green':28 'inflat':27 'leav':11 'lower':32 'mimulus':1 'monkey':2 'mouth':19 'occasion':8 'part':33 'perenni':7 'shrubbi':10 'small':12 'spike':15 'structur':29 'tubular':22
579 mimulus hybridus Monkey Flower Branching plants becoming a little woody, covered with masses of flowers in spring and summer. 'becom':7 'branch':5 'cover':11 'flower':4,15 'hybridus':2 'littl':9 'mass':13 'mimulus':1 'monkey':3 'plant':6 'spring':17 'summer':19 'woodi':10
580 ruellia makoyana Monkey Plant Perennials growing to about one foot (30cm) tall in a dense mass. The grey-green leaves have a clear white stripe down their midrib and produce half inch (1.25cm) tubular purple flowers freely. '1.25':34 '30cm':11 'clear':24 'cm':35 'dens':15 'flower':38 'foot':10 'freeli':39 'green':20 'grey':19 'grey-green':18 'grow':6 'half':32 'inch':33 'leav':21 'makoyana':2 'mass':16 'midrib':29 'monkey':3 'one':9 'perenni':5 'plant':4 'produc':31 'purpl':37 'ruellia':1 'stripe':26 'tall':12 'tubular':36 'white':25
581 araucaria araucana Monkey Puzzle Tree The scale leaves are triangular and end in a point, making these trees quite unfriendly to the touch. 'araucana':2 'araucaria':1 'end':12 'leav':8 'make':16 'monkey':3 'point':15 'puzzl':4 'quit':19 'scale':7 'touch':23 'tree':5,18 'triangular':10 'unfriend':20
582 rhoicissus Monkey Rope, Wild Grape Strong climbers with small stems and hand-shaped leaves that can be controlled in height to succeed in a pot. 'climber':7 'control':19 'grape':5 'hand':13 'hand-shap':12 'height':21 'leav':15 'monkey':2 'pot':26 'rhoicissus':1 'rope':3 'shape':14 'small':9 'stem':10 'strong':6 'succeed':23 'wild':4
583 phalaenopsis amabilis 'orphan annie' Moon Orchid White flowers are lined with purple and slightly purple-flushed. 'amabili':2 'anni':4 'flower':8 'flush':17 'line':10 'moon':5 'orchid':6 'orphan':3 'phalaenopsi':1 'purpl':12,16 'purple-flush':15 'slight':14 'white':7
584 fittonia Mosaic Plant Low growing perennials with leaves whose have contrasting veins in white or red. The flowers are not unattractive but are not showy. 'contrast':11 'fittonia':1 'flower':18 'grow':5 'leav':8 'low':4 'mosaic':2 'perenni':6 'plant':3 'red':16 'showi':25 'unattract':21 'vein':12 'white':14 'whose':9
585 phalaenopsis Moth Orchids Leafy orchids with long-lasting sprays of moth-like flowers in whites and pastel colors. 'color':20 'flower':15 'last':9 'leafi':4 'like':14 'long':8 'long-last':7 'moth':2,13 'moth-lik':12 'orchid':3,5 'pastel':19 'phalaenopsi':1 'spray':10 'white':17
586 diplazium esculentum Mother Fern, Vegetable Fern Arching fronds, usually only five or six in number, on a dark trunk a few inches in length. 'arch':7 'dark':18 'diplazium':1 'esculentum':2 'fern':4,6 'five':11 'frond':8 'inch':22 'length':24 'mother':3 'number':15 'six':13 'trunk':19 'usual':9 'veget':5
587 sansevieria trifasciata Mother In Law Tongue, Snake Plant Vertical, grey-green, barred, sword-shaped leaves from an underground stem. 'bar':13 'green':12 'grey':11 'grey-green':10 'law':5 'leav':17 'mother':3 'plant':8 'sansevieria':1 'shape':16 'snake':7 'stem':21 'sword':15 'sword-shap':14 'tongu':6 'trifasciata':2 'underground':20 'vertic':9
588 arisarum proboscideum Mouse Tail Plant Leaf blades six inches (15cm) long on stalks longer than that. The sheathing spathe of the inflorescence is dark maroon or brown above a light base, and encloses a white fleshy spadix in which the flowers are sunk. '15cm':10 'arisarum':1 'base':31 'blade':7 'brown':27 'dark':24 'enclos':33 'fleshi':36 'flower':41 'inch':9 'infloresc':22 'leaf':6 'light':30 'long':11 'longer':14 'maroon':25 'mous':3 'plant':5 'proboscideum':2 'sheath':18 'six':8 'spadix':37 'spath':19 'stalk':13 'sunk':43 'tail':4 'white':35
589 hibiscus rosa sinensis 'mr.ace' Mr. Ace Hibiscus Near-blue flowers with a maroon center. 'ace':6 'blue':10 'center':15 'flower':11 'hibiscus':1,7 'maroon':14 'mr':5 'mr.ace':4 'near':9 'near-blu':8 'rosa':2 'sinensi':3
590 myrtus Myrtle Dense evergreen shrubs easily held to a small size. 'dens':3 'easili':6 'evergreen':4 'held':7 'myrtl':2 'myrtus':1 'shrub':5 'size':11 'small':10
591 colchicum Naked Boys, Naked Lady Upright goblet-shaped flowers, often several from a single bulb, formed with, or before the emerging leaves or after they are lost for the year. 'boy':3 'bulb':16 'colchicum':1 'emerg':22 'flower':10 'form':17 'goblet':8 'goblet-shap':7 'ladi':5 'leav':23 'lost':28 'nake':2,4 'often':11 'sever':12 'shape':9 'singl':15 'upright':6 'year':31
592 carissa macrocarpa Natal Plum Evergreen shrubs with upright or flat growth habits depending on the cultivar. Leaves dark green, glossy and heavy textured. Flowers are white, star-shaped, followed by red purplish berries about an inch (2.5cm) long. '2.5':38 'berri':34 'carissa':1 'cm':39 'cultivar':16 'dark':18 'depend':13 'evergreen':5 'flat':10 'flower':24 'follow':30 'glossi':20 'green':19 'growth':11 'habit':12 'heavi':22 'inch':37 'leav':17 'long':40 'macrocarpa':2 'natal':3 'plum':4 'purplish':33 'red':32 'shape':29 'shrub':6 'star':28 'star-shap':27 'textur':23 'upright':8 'white':26
593 rhapidophyllum histrix Needle Palm Clustering palm with leaves about four feet (120cm) long, protected by spines at their base. Very slow growing. '120cm':12 'base':19 'cluster':5 'feet':11 'four':10 'grow':22 'histrix':2 'leav':8 'long':13 'needl':3 'palm':4,6 'protect':14 'rhapidophyllum':1 'slow':21 'spine':16
594 fittonia verschaffeltii Nerve Plant Upright, branching plants about a foot (30cm) tall. The leaves have veins of a very distinctly different color from the rest of the blade. '30cm':11 'blade':28 'branch':6 'color':22 'differ':21 'distinct':20 'fittonia':1 'foot':10 'leav':14 'nerv':3 'plant':4,7 'rest':25 'tall':12 'upright':5 'vein':16 'verschaffeltii':2
595 ctenanthe lubbersiana Never-never Plant Branching stems to about three feet (90cm) tall with broad leaves, heavily variegated green and yellow. '90cm':13 'branch':7 'broad':16 'ctenanth':1 'feet':12 'green':20 'heavili':18 'leav':17 'lubbersiana':2 'never':4,5 'never-nev':3 'plant':6 'stem':8 'tall':14 'three':11 'varieg':19 'yellow':22
596 griselinia New Zealand Broadleaf Large evergreen shrubs with oval heavy-textured leaves about two to four inches (5-10cm) long. '-10':20 '5':19 'broadleaf':4 'cm':21 'evergreen':6 'four':17 'griselinia':1 'heavi':11 'heavy-textur':10 'inch':18 'larg':5 'leav':13 'long':22 'new':2 'oval':9 'shrub':7 'textur':12 'two':15 'zealand':3
597 corynocarpus laevigata New Zealand Laurel Leaves about four inches (10cm) long and two inches (5cm) wide are closely set on the branches to give a dense tree. '10cm':10 '5cm':15 'branch':22 'close':18 'corynocarpus':1 'dens':26 'four':8 'give':24 'inch':9,14 'laevigata':2 'laurel':5 'leav':6 'long':11 'new':3 'set':19 'tree':27 'two':13 'wide':16 'zealand':4
598 leptospermum New Zealand Tree, Tea Tree Wiry-branched shrubs or small trees with small, linear leaves and round flowers. 'branch':9 'flower':20 'leav':17 'leptospermum':1 'linear':16 'new':2 'round':19 'shrub':10 'small':12,15 'tea':5 'tree':4,6,13 'wiri':8 'wiry-branch':7 'zealand':3
599 echinopsis pachanoi Night-blooming San Pedro Very large plant in nature, branching near base and with six to eight rounded vertical ribs bearing a few small spines. Flowers are white and fragrant at night. 'base':15 'bear':24 'bloom':5 'branch':13 'echinopsi':1 'eight':20 'flower':29 'fragrant':33 'larg':9 'natur':12 'near':14 'night':4,35 'night-bloom':3 'pachanoi':2 'pedro':7 'plant':10 'rib':23 'round':21 'san':6 'six':18 'small':27 'spine':28 'vertic':22 'white':31
600 polianthes tuberosa Night Sensation, Tuberose Leaves more than a foot (30cm) long. Inflorescence may be as tall as three feet (90cm) with long, white tubular flowers that flare at the end. Double forms are known. '30cm':11 '90cm':21 'doubl':32 'end':31 'feet':20 'flare':28 'flower':26 'foot':10 'form':33 'infloresc':13 'known':35 'leav':6 'long':12,23 'may':14 'night':3 'polianth':1 'sensat':4 'tall':17 'three':19 'tuberos':5 'tuberosa':2 'tubular':25 'white':24
601 solanum Nightshade, White Jasmine Nightshade A large genus with plants of all life forms. Those usually grown are erect or vining shrubs producing star-shaped flowers. 'erect':19 'flower':27 'form':14 'genus':8 'grown':17 'jasmin':4 'larg':7 'life':13 'nightshad':2,5 'plant':10 'produc':23 'shape':26 'shrub':22 'solanum':1 'star':25 'star-shap':24 'usual':16 'vine':21 'white':3
602 araucaria heterophylla Norfolk Island Pine Scale leaves linear and a little bristly to the touch, but not likely to draw blood. 'araucaria':1 'blood':21 'brist':12 'draw':20 'heterophylla':2 'island':4 'leav':7 'like':18 'linear':8 'littl':11 'norfolk':3 'pine':5 'scale':6 'touch':15
603 columnea Norse Fire Plant Basket plants with handsome dark foliage and hooded tubular flowers produced at each leaf base for a period of weeks. 'base':19 'basket':5 'columnea':1 'dark':9 'fire':3 'flower':14 'foliag':10 'handsom':8 'hood':12 'leaf':18 'nors':2 'period':22 'plant':4,6 'produc':15 'tubular':13 'week':24
604 pelargonium fragrans variegatum Nutmeg Geranium Leaves somewhat three lobed, variegated and aromatic. 'aromat':12 'fragran':2 'geranium':5 'leav':6 'lobe':9 'nutmeg':4 'pelargonium':1 'somewhat':7 'three':8 'varieg':10 'variegatum':3
605 cissus rhombifolia 'manda supreme' Oak Leaf Ivy A more compact form of the species that is equally good for baskets. 'basket':20 'cissus':1 'compact':10 'equal':17 'form':11 'good':18 'ivi':7 'leaf':6 'manda':3 'oak':5 'rhombifolia':2 'speci':14 'suprem':4
606 drynaria rigidula Oakleaf Fern A creeping rhizome has upright, broad fronds less than a foot (30cm) in length and other taller, dark green, feather-like leaves with a rather hard texture. '30cm':16 'broad':10 'creep':6 'dark':22 'drynaria':1 'feather':25 'feather-lik':24 'fern':4 'foot':15 'frond':11 'green':23 'hard':31 'leav':27 'length':18 'less':12 'like':26 'oakleaf':3 'rather':30 'rhizom':7 'rigidula':2 'taller':21 'textur':32 'upright':9
607 drynaria Oakleaf Ferns Great ferns for baskets. The creeping rhizome produces clasping brown leaves as well as upright green fronds. 'basket':7 'brown':13 'clasp':12 'creep':9 'drynaria':1 'fern':3,5 'frond':20 'great':4 'green':19 'leav':14 'oakleaf':2 'produc':11 'rhizom':10 'upright':18 'well':16
608 anthurium andraeanum Oilcloth Flower, Painters Palette The floristÆs Anthurium. Spathe white, pink or red, in some with a green flush at one end. The spadix may match the spathe or contrast with it with a golden yellow or white color. 'andraeanum':2 'anthurium':1,9 'color':40 'contrast':31 'end':23 'floristæ':8 'flower':4 'flush':20 'golden':36 'green':19 'match':27 'may':26 'oilcloth':3 'one':22 'painter':5 'palett':6 'pink':12 'red':14 'spadix':25 'spath':10,29 'white':11,39 'yellow':37
609 catharanthus Old Maid, Periwinkle Branching plants with dark green leaves that set off the inch-wide (2.5cm) flowers. '2.5':18 'branch':5 'catharanthus':1 'cm':19 'dark':8 'flower':20 'green':9 'inch':16 'inch-wid':15 'leav':10 'maid':3 'old':2 'periwinkl':4 'plant':6 'set':12 'wide':17
610 cephalocereus senilis Old Man Cactus Columnar, so covered with grey hairs that details of the stem structure are hard to make out. Flowers are red and white. 'cactus':5 'cephalocereus':1 'columnar':6 'cover':8 'detail':13 'flower':23 'grey':10 'hair':11 'hard':19 'make':21 'man':4 'old':3 'red':25 'senili':2 'stem':16 'structur':17 'white':27
611 borzicactus Old Man Of The Andes Columnar in shape and often with very hairy stems. 'andes':6 'borzicactus':1 'columnar':7 'hairi':14 'man':3 'often':11 'old':2 'shape':9 'stem':15
612 lobivia winteriana Orange Corn Cob Cactus Globular with well-marked ribs and tubercles with short spines. Flower are a carmine-red. 'cactus':6 'carmin':22 'carmine-r':21 'cob':5 'corn':4 'flower':18 'globular':7 'lobivia':1 'mark':11 'orang':3 'red':23 'rib':12 'short':16 'spine':17 'tubercl':14 'well':10 'well-mark':9 'winteriana':2
613 guzmania lingulata Orange Star Leaves strap-shaped from a short cup. Inflorescence upright with orange-red bracts in a star shape below the flowers. 'bract':19 'cup':12 'flower':26 'guzmania':1 'infloresc':13 'leav':5 'lingulata':2 'orang':3,17 'orange-r':16 'red':18 'shape':8,23 'short':11 'star':4,22 'strap':7 'strap-shap':6 'upright':14
614 epiphyllum hybrids Orchid Cactus Climbing plants with flattened fleshy stems which attach by roots, Good for baskets or pots with a totem pole. The flowers are spectacular, and come in a variety of colors. 'attach':12 'basket':17 'cactus':4 'climb':5 'color':34 'come':29 'epiphyllum':1 'flatten':8 'fleshi':9 'flower':25 'good':15 'hybrid':2 'orchid':3 'plant':6 'pole':23 'pot':19 'root':14 'spectacular':27 'stem':10 'totem':22 'varieti':32
615 origanum vulgare Oregano Sometimes woody stem about three feet (90cm) tall. Leaves grayish. Flowers are purple or green in small clusters. '90cm':10 'cluster':21 'feet':9 'flower':14 'grayish':13 'green':18 'leav':12 'oregano':3 'origanum':1 'purpl':16 'small':20 'sometim':4 'stem':6 'tall':11 'three':8 'vulgar':2 'woodi':5
616 capsicum Cayenne, Ornamental Pepper Bushy plants covered with long lasting fruits in a dazzling array of forms and colors. 'array':15 'bushi':5 'capsicum':1 'cayenn':2 'color':19 'cover':7 'dazzl':14 'form':17 'fruit':11 'last':10 'long':9 'ornament':3 'pepper':4 'plant':6
617 mammillaria parkinsonii Owl's Eyes Stems up to six inches (15cm) high, branching evenly to form a tight clump. Radial spines short, central long giving the plant an overall hairy appearance. Flowers are straw colored. '15cm':11 'appear':31 'branch':13 'central':23 'clump':19 'color':35 'even':14 'eye':5 'flower':32 'form':16 'give':25 'hairi':30 'high':12 'inch':10 'long':24 'mammillaria':1 'overal':29 'owl':3 'parkinsonii':2 'plant':27 'radial':20 'short':22 'six':9 'spine':21 'stem':6 'straw':34 'tight':18
618 elaphoglossum Paddle Ferns The fronds grow close together from a creeping rhizome. They are undivided but cultivated forms may show cresting at the top. 'close':7 'creep':11 'crest':21 'cultiv':17 'elaphoglossum':1 'fern':3 'form':18 'frond':5 'grow':6 'may':19 'paddl':2 'rhizom':12 'show':20 'togeth':8 'top':24 'undivid':15
619 curculigo Palm Grass A stemless plant with large (to almost three feet (90cm) long), broad, pleated leaves held stiffly upright. '90cm':13 'almost':10 'broad':15 'curculigo':1 'feet':12 'grass':3 'held':18 'larg':8 'leav':17 'long':14 'palm':2 'plant':6 'pleat':16 'stemless':5 'stiffli':19 'three':11 'upright':20
620 kalanchoe tomentosa Panda Plant Small branching plant with rounded leaves covered in silvery hairs and with a brown tip. 'branch':6 'brown':18 'cover':11 'hair':14 'kalancho':1 'leav':10 'panda':3 'plant':4,7 'round':9 'silveri':13 'small':5 'tip':19 'tomentosa':2
621 miltonia Pansy Orchids The pseudobulbs produce one or two evergreen leaves at the apex. Solitary flowers large for the size of the plant. 'apex':14 'evergreen':10 'flower':16 'larg':17 'leav':11 'miltonia':1 'one':7 'orchid':3 'pansi':2 'plant':23 'produc':6 'pseudobulb':5 'size':20 'solitari':15 'two':9
622 helipterum Paper Daisy, Sunray Annuals or perennial herbs which may become woody. Leaves often white-hairy, but the plants are usually grown for their papery flowers which last very well when dried. 'annual':5 'becom':11 'daisi':3 'dri':33 'flower':27 'grown':23 'hairi':17 'helipterum':1 'herb':8 'last':29 'leav':13 'may':10 'often':14 'paper':2 'paperi':26 'perenni':7 'plant':20 'sunray':4 'usual':22 'well':31 'white':16 'white-hairi':15 'woodi':12
623 narcissus hybrids Paper White Several hundred colors, sizes and forms have been produced by narcissus breeders, each with its own charm. 'breeder':16 'charm':21 'color':7 'form':10 'hundr':6 'hybrid':2 'narcissus':1,15 'paper':3 'produc':13 'sever':5 'size':8 'white':4
624 pittosporum Parchment Bark Evergreen shrubs or small trees, kept to a manageable size by pruning. 'bark':3 'evergreen':4 'kept':9 'manag':12 'parchment':2 'pittosporum':1 'prune':15 'shrub':5 'size':13 'small':7 'tree':8
625 heliconia psittacorum 'lady di' Parrot Flower Dark red bracts and yellow flowers in a plant reaching two and a half to five feet (75-150cm). '-150':25 '75':24 'bract':9 'cm':26 'dark':7 'di':4 'feet':23 'five':22 'flower':6,12 'half':20 'heliconia':1 'ladi':3 'parrot':5 'plant':15 'psittacorum':2 'reach':16 'red':8 'two':17 'yellow':11
626 petroselinum crispum var.neopolitanum Parsley A rather large leaved variety with the leaflets not strongly divided or curled, as is the case with many selections. 'case':21 'crispum':2 'curl':17 'divid':15 'larg':7 'leaflet':12 'leav':8 'mani':23 'parsley':4 'petroselinum':1 'rather':6 'select':24 'strong':14 'var.neopolitanum':3 'varieti':9
627 aloe variegata Partridge Breast Aloe, Tiger Aloe Clumps of short stemmed rosettes with white banded leaves that overlap closely. Flowers are a salmon-red. 'alo':1,5,7 'band':15 'breast':4 'close':19 'clump':8 'flower':20 'leav':16 'overlap':18 'partridg':3 'red':25 'rosett':12 'salmon':24 'salmon-r':23 'short':10 'stem':11 'tiger':6 'variegata':2 'white':14
629 impatiens hawkeri 'exotica' Patience Plant One of the plants from which the spectacular New Guinea impatiens were bred, and with the vigorous growth and large flowers that now mark those plants. 'bred':18 'exotica':3 'flower':26 'growth':23 'guinea':15 'hawkeri':2 'impatien':1,16 'larg':25 'mark':29 'new':14 'one':6 'patienc':4 'plant':5,9,31 'spectacular':13 'vigor':22
630 spathiphyllum 'sensation' Peace Lily Massive cultivar of the peace lily that an grow to five feet in height and four in width. Flower spathes white, carried just above the leaves. 'carri':26 'cultivar':6 'feet':16 'five':15 'flower':23 'four':20 'grow':13 'height':18 'leav':30 'lili':4,10 'massiv':5 'peac':3,9 'sensat':2 'spath':24 'spathiphyllum':1 'white':25 'width':22
631 spathiphyllum 'mauna loa' Peace Lily A compact plant with leaves about two feet (60cm) tall and inflorescences about a foot (30cm) taller. The spathe and spadix are about six inches (15cm) long and pure white. '15cm':31 '30cm':21 '60cm':14 'compact':7 'feet':13 'foot':20 'inch':30 'infloresc':17 'leav':10 'lili':5 'loa':3 'long':32 'mauna':2 'peac':4 'plant':8 'pure':34 'six':29 'spadix':26 'spath':24 'spathiphyllum':1 'tall':15 'taller':22 'two':12 'white':35
632 echeveria peacockii Peacock Echeveria A high-centerd rosette of fleshy, yellow-green leaves. Flowers are a rich red. 'centerd':8 'echeveria':1,4 'fleshi':11 'flower':16 'green':14 'high':7 'high-centerd':6 'leav':15 'peacock':3 'peacockii':2 'red':20 'rich':19 'rosett':9 'yellow':13 'yellow-green':12
633 calathea roseopicta Peacock Plant Broad leaf blades are about eight inches (20cm) long and very dark in color with a narrow grey-green jagged line some distance in from the leaf margin. '20cm':12 'blade':7 'broad':5 'calathea':1 'color':18 'dark':16 'distanc':28 'eight':10 'green':24 'grey':23 'grey-green':22 'inch':11 'jag':25 'leaf':6,32 'line':26 'long':13 'margin':33 'narrow':21 'peacock':3 'plant':4 'roseopicta':2
634 calathea burle-marxii 'blue ice' Peacock Plant A stem of plain green leaves about 30'' (75cm) tall carry an inflorescence at the top that has a leafy cone of porcelain-blue bracts each producing a single purple flower. There is a form with a white cone and white or purple flowers. '30':16 '75cm':17 'blue':5,33 'bract':34 'burl':3 'burle-marxii':2 'calathea':1 'carri':19 'cone':29,48 'flower':40,53 'form':44 'green':13 'ice':6 'infloresc':21 'leafi':28 'leav':14 'marxii':4 'peacock':7 'plain':12 'plant':8 'porcelain':32 'porcelain-blu':31 'produc':36 'purpl':39,52 'singl':38 'stem':10 'tall':18 'top':24 'white':47,50
635 arachis hypogaea Peanut The edible peanut. Plants about a foot (60cm) tall, dark green, forming yellow flowers which bury themselves to form the food nut. '60cm':11 'arachi':1 'buri':19 'dark':13 'edibl':5 'flower':17 'food':24 'foot':10 'form':15,22 'green':14 'hypogaea':2 'nut':25 'peanut':3,6 'plant':7 'tall':12 'yellow':16
636 chamaecereus silvestrii hybrids Peanut Cactus Short, cylindrical stems in a tufted mound, ribbed and with bristle-like spines on the ridges. Flowers are scarlet or various shades of orange-red. 'bristl':17 'bristle-lik':16 'cactus':5 'chamaecereus':1 'cylindr':7 'flower':23 'hybrid':3 'like':18 'mound':12 'orang':31 'orange-r':30 'peanut':4 'red':32 'rib':13 'ridg':22 'scarlet':25 'shade':28 'short':6 'silvestrii':2 'spine':19 'stem':8 'tuft':11 'various':27
637 gastrolea beguinii Pearl Aloe About three feet (90cm) tall. Spikes with many pinkish-purple flowers. '90cm':8 'alo':4 'beguinii':2 'feet':7 'flower':16 'gastrolea':1 'mani':12 'pearl':3 'pinkish':14 'pinkish-purpl':13 'purpl':15 'spike':10 'tall':9 'three':6
638 lithops Pebble Plants Each plant of a clump forms two swollen fleshy leaves with flattened tops that are colored like stones. 'clump':8 'color':19 'flatten':15 'fleshi':12 'form':9 'leav':13 'like':20 'lithop':1 'pebbl':2 'plant':3,5 'stone':21 'swollen':11 'top':16 'two':10
639 faucaria tuberculosa Pebbled Tiger Jaws Leaves less than an inch long with teeth on the edges and rough places scattered over the upper surface. 'edg':16 'faucaria':1 'inch':10 'jaw':5 'leav':6 'less':7 'long':11 'pebbl':3 'place':19 'rough':18 'scatter':20 'surfac':24 'teeth':13 'tiger':4 'tuberculosa':2 'upper':23
640 saxifraga stolonifera 'harvest moon' Pedlar's Basket, Rowing Sailor, Strawberry Geranium The rosette of leaves that is the main plant, produces long runners with new plants at their tips to form an interesting basket, or a clump if used as a groundcover. 'basket':7,34 'clump':37 'form':31 'geranium':11 'groundcov':42 'harvest':3 'interest':33 'leav':15 'long':22 'main':19 'moon':4 'new':25 'pedlar':5 'plant':20,26 'produc':21 'rosett':13 'row':8 'runner':23 'sailor':9 'saxifraga':1 'stolonifera':2 'strawberri':10 'tip':29 'use':39
641 pellionia Pellonia Trailing stems have leaves mostly in one plane showing various markings and colors. 'color':15 'leav':6 'mark':13 'most':7 'one':9 'pellionia':1 'pellonia':2 'plane':10 'show':11 'stem':4 'trail':3 'various':12
642 pentas Pentas Bright clusters of star-shaped flowers form almost continuously at the tips of stems which may reach three feet (90cm) in some varieties but can be kept pinched back (with some delay in re-flowering). '90cm':23 'almost':11 'back':32 'bright':3 'cluster':4 'continu':12 'delay':35 'feet':22 'flower':9,39 'form':10 'kept':30 'may':19 'penta':1,2 'pinch':31 're':38 're-flow':37 'reach':20 'shape':8 'star':7 'star-shap':6 'stem':17 'three':21 'tip':15 'varieti':26
643 kalanchoe marmorata Penwiper Plant Fleshy stems, upright or sprawling, with leaves heavily spotted with brown that are soon lost from the lower parts of the plant. 'brown':15 'fleshi':5 'heavili':12 'kalancho':1 'leav':11 'lost':19 'lower':22 'marmorata':2 'part':23 'penwip':3 'plant':4,26 'soon':18 'spot':13 'sprawl':9 'stem':6 'upright':7
644 piper Pepper Vines climbing by means of roots to the substrate, or strong erect species, some reaching twenty feet (6m+) in height. '6m':20 'climb':4 'erect':14 'feet':19 'height':22 'mean':6 'pepper':2 'piper':1 'reach':17 'root':8 'speci':15 'strong':13 'substrat':11 'twenti':18 'vine':3
645 peperomia Pepper Elder, Radiator Plants Species in this genus range in habit and leaf color. Many make good baskets or base plantings for larger pots. 'base':21 'basket':19 'color':15 'elder':3 'genus':9 'good':18 'habit':12 'larger':24 'leaf':14 'make':17 'mani':16 'peperomia':1 'pepper':2 'plant':5,22 'pot':25 'radiat':4 'rang':10 'speci':6
646 ampelopsis Pepper Vine Climbing shrubs with hand-shaped leaves, the fruits resemble grapes but are not for eating. 'ampelopsi':1 'climb':4 'eat':19 'fruit':12 'grape':14 'hand':8 'hand-shap':7 'leav':10 'pepper':2 'resembl':13 'shape':9 'shrub':5 'vine':3
647 pelargonium tomentosum Peppermint Geranium Long, trailing or upright stems carry much-divided leaves. The flowers are white, marked with red. 'carri':10 'divid':13 'flower':16 'geranium':4 'leav':14 'long':5 'mark':19 'much':12 'much-divid':11 'pelargonium':1 'peppermint':3 'red':21 'stem':9 'tomentosum':2 'trail':6 'upright':8 'white':18
648 jatropha integerrima Peregrina Branching bushes or small trees in the tropics. The clusters of red flowers at the ends of the branches hold their color for a long time. 'branch':4,22 'bush':5 'cluster':13 'color':25 'end':19 'flower':16 'hold':23 'integerrima':2 'jatropha':1 'long':28 'peregrina':3 'red':15 'small':7 'time':29 'tree':8 'tropic':11
649 iberis sempervirens Perennial Candytuft Low growing, much-branched perennial with flat-headed inflorescences of white flowers. 'branch':9 'candytuft':4 'flat':13 'flat-head':12 'flower':18 'grow':6 'head':14 'iberi':1 'infloresc':15 'low':5 'much':8 'much-branch':7 'perenni':3,10 'semperviren':2 'white':17
650 chlidanthus fragrans Perfumed Fairy Lily Leave a foot (30cm) long. Flowers four to five inches (10-13cm) long, lily-shaped, borne in small numbers on a short leafless stalk. '-13':17 '10':16 '30cm':9 'born':23 'chlidanthus':1 'cm':18 'fairi':4 'five':14 'flower':11 'foot':8 'four':12 'fragran':2 'inch':15 'leafless':30 'leav':6 'lili':5,21 'lily-shap':20 'long':10,19 'number':26 'perfum':3 'shape':22 'short':29 'small':25 'stalk':31
651 vinca (name has changed see catharanthus) Periwinkle Branching plants with dark green leaves that set off the inch-wide (2.5cm) flowers. '2.5':21 'branch':8 'catharanthus':6 'chang':4 'cm':22 'dark':11 'flower':23 'green':12 'inch':19 'inch-wid':18 'leav':13 'name':2 'periwinkl':7 'plant':9 'see':5 'set':15 'vinca':1 'wide':20
652 strobilanthes dyeranus Persian Shield A medium sized shrub that is just as attractive kept small. The leaves are dark green with lighter stripes along their length, the whole suffused with a neon purple. 'along':24 'attract':13 'dark':19 'dyeranus':2 'green':20 'kept':14 'leav':17 'length':26 'lighter':22 'medium':6 'neon':32 'persian':3 'purpl':33 'shield':4 'shrub':8 'size':7 'small':15 'stripe':23 'strobilanth':1 'suffus':29 'whole':28
653 exacum affine Persian Violet Densely tufted green masses about a foot (30cm) in each direction with yellow-centerd purple flowers dotted heavily over the surface. '30cm':12 'affin':2 'centerd':19 'dens':5 'direct':15 'dot':22 'exacum':1 'flower':21 'foot':11 'green':7 'heavili':23 'mass':8 'persian':3 'purpl':20 'surfac':26 'tuft':6 'violet':4 'yellow':18 'yellow-centerd':17
654 cereus peruvianus Peruvian Apple Heavy stem capable of growing many feet (60cm+) in height, with a few thick, blunt ribs with spaced areoles having one long and several short spines. Flowers very large, white. '60cm':12 'appl':4 'areol':23 'blunt':19 'capabl':7 'cereus':1 'feet':11 'flower':31 'grow':9 'heavi':5 'height':14 'larg':33 'long':26 'mani':10 'one':25 'peruvian':3 'peruvianus':2 'rib':20 'sever':28 'short':29 'space':22 'spine':30 'stem':6 'thick':18 'white':34
655 spathiphyllum 'petite' Petite Peace Lily A miniature, with leaves about nine inches (23cm) long and flowers held a few inches above them. Spathe and spadix creamy white. '23cm':13 'creami':26 'flower':16 'held':17 'inch':12,20 'leav':9 'lili':5 'long':14 'miniatur':7 'nine':11 'peac':4 'petit':2,3 'spadix':25 'spath':23 'spathiphyllum':1 'white':27
656 lophophora williamsii Peyote Stems globose or longer from a thickened root, smooth and spineless, blue-grey. Flowers are pink. 'blue':16 'blue-grey':15 'flower':18 'globos':5 'grey':17 'longer':7 'lophophora':1 'peyot':3 'pink':20 'root':11 'smooth':12 'spineless':14 'stem':4 'thicken':10 'williamsii':2
657 anthurium scherzerianum Pig Tailed Anthurium Upright plants usually only a foot (30cm) tall. The spathe of the inflorescence is variously colored or spotted, and the spadix has a twist that is the source of one of the common names ôpig tail Anthurium.ö '30cm':12 'anthurium':1,5,42 'color':21 'common':38 'foot':11 'infloresc':18 'name':39 'one':35 'pig':3 'plant':7 'scherzerianum':2 'sourc':33 'spadix':26 'spath':15 'spot':23 'tail':4,41 'tall':13 'twist':29 'upright':6 'usual':8 'various':20 'ôpig':40 'ö':43
658 rivina humilis Pigeon Berry Upright to a height of four feet (120cm). Small flowers in scattered clusters form bright red fruits. '120cm':12 'berri':4 'bright':19 'cluster':17 'feet':11 'flower':14 'form':18 'four':10 'fruit':21 'height':8 'humili':2 'pigeon':3 'red':20 'rivina':1 'scatter':16 'small':13 'upright':5
659 tolmiea menziesii Piggy Back Plant The plantlets that form on the leaves will eventually fall off to form new plants. 'back':4 'eventu':14 'fall':15 'form':9,18 'leav':12 'menziesii':2 'new':19 'piggi':3 'plant':5,20 'plantlet':7 'tolmiea':1
660 cotyledon orbiculata Pig's Ear Medium green leaves on a sparsely branched plant that can reach three feet (90cm). Flowers are orange. '90cm':19 'branch':12 'cotyledon':1 'ear':5 'feet':18 'flower':20 'green':7 'leav':8 'medium':6 'orang':22 'orbiculata':2 'pig':3 'plant':13 'reach':16 'spars':11 'three':17
661 ananas bracteatus Pineapple Fruit small and usually pithy. One variety has striking variegated leaves. 'anana':1 'bracteatus':2 'fruit':4 'leav':14 'one':9 'pineappl':3 'pithi':8 'small':5 'strike':12 'usual':7 'varieg':13 'varieti':10
662 dendrobium densiflorum Pineapple Orchid "Pseudobulbs 15-20"" (38-50cm) long, upright producing an arching inflorescence of many medium-sized flowers developed from upper nodes. Flowers about an inch (2.5cm) across, white with a chrome-yellow lip." '-20':7 '-50':9 '15':6 '2.5':31 '38':8 'across':33 'arch':15 'chrome':38 'chrome-yellow':37 'cm':10,32 'dendrobium':1 'densiflorum':2 'develop':23 'flower':22,27 'inch':30 'infloresc':16 'lip':40 'long':11 'mani':18 'medium':20 'medium-s':19 'node':26 'orchid':4 'pineappl':3 'produc':13 'pseudobulb':5 'size':21 'upper':25 'upright':12 'white':34 'yellow':39
663 acanthostachys strobilacea Pinecone Bromeliad Short trailing stems carry rosettes of long slender leaves with spiny edges. The small cone-like flower heads are orange-yellow. 'acanthostachi':1 'bromeliad':4 'carri':8 'cone':20 'cone-lik':19 'edg':16 'flower':22 'head':23 'leav':13 'like':21 'long':11 'orang':26 'orange-yellow':25 'pinecon':3 'rosett':9 'short':5 'slender':12 'small':18 'spini':15 'stem':7 'strobilacea':2 'trail':6 'yellow':27
664 mandevilla Pink Allamanda Moderately vigorous vines that do well on a trellis or in a basket. Leaves are dark green and the flowers an open trumpet shape. 'allamanda':3 'basket':16 'dark':19 'flower':23 'green':20 'leav':17 'mandevilla':1 'moder':4 'open':25 'pink':2 'shape':27 'trelli':12 'trumpet':26 'vigor':5 'vine':6 'well':9
665 zantedeschia rehmannii 'new zealand' Pink Calla Hybrid callas now have a range of colors in their inflorescences. Most are between one and two feet (60cm) in height. '60cm':25 'calla':6,8 'color':14 'feet':24 'height':27 'hybrid':7 'infloresc':17 'new':3 'one':21 'pink':5 'rang':12 'rehmannii':2 'two':23 'zantedeschia':1 'zealand':4
666 scadoxus puniceus Pink Paintbrush Leaves short on a long neck above the bulb. Inflorescence of crowded flowers with prominent stamens, red to almost green in some examples. 'almost':23 'bulb':13 'crowd':16 'exampl':27 'flower':17 'green':24 'infloresc':14 'leav':5 'long':9 'neck':10 'paintbrush':4 'pink':3 'promin':19 'puniceus':2 'red':21 'scadoxus':1 'short':6 'stamen':20
667 tillandsia cyanea Pink Quill Leaves dark green with a purple flush beneath, about six inches (15cm) long. Flowers are a deep purple with pink bracts. '15cm':16 'beneath':12 'bract':25 'cyanea':2 'dark':6 'deep':21 'flower':18 'flush':11 'green':7 'inch':15 'leav':5 'long':17 'pink':3,24 'purpl':10,22 'quill':4 'six':14 'tillandsia':1
668 zephyranthes grandiflora Pink Rainlily, Zephyr Lily Leaves a little more than a foot (30cm) long, flowers are pink. '30cm':14 'flower':16 'foot':13 'grandiflora':2 'leav':7 'lili':6 'littl':9 'long':15 'pink':3,18 'rainlili':4 'zephyr':5 'zephyranth':1
669 stenandrium lindenii Pinklet Almost stemless with broad leaves that are deep green with a yellow vein pattern. Flowers on a short stalk above the leaves, tubular. 'almost':4 'broad':7 'deep':11 'flower':18 'green':12 'leav':8,25 'lindenii':2 'pattern':17 'pinklet':3 'short':21 'stalk':22 'stemless':5 'stenandrium':1 'tubular':26 'vein':16 'yellow':15
670 aeonium haworthii Pinwheel The plant forms a low, much-branched shrub to about two feet (60cm) tall with loose rosettes of fleshy leaves at the end of each branch. The leaves may drop when the plant flowers. '60cm':17 'aeonium':1 'branch':11,30 'drop':34 'end':27 'feet':16 'fleshi':23 'flower':38 'form':6 'haworthii':2 'leav':24,32 'loos':20 'low':8 'may':33 'much':10 'much-branch':9 'pinwheel':3 'plant':5,37 'rosett':21 'shrub':12 'tall':18 'two':15
671 nepenthes alata Pitcher Plant The light green pitchers, which may be five inches (13cm) long in a healthy plant, have two fringed wings running from their base to the oval mouth. '13cm':14 'alata':2 'base':27 'five':12 'fring':22 'green':7 'healthi':18 'inch':13 'light':6 'long':15 'may':10 'mouth':31 'nepenth':1 'oval':30 'pitcher':3,8 'plant':4,19 'run':24 'two':21 'wing':23
672 adromischus cooperi Plover Eggs Tightly clustered leaves about one inch (2.5cm) long, held close to the ground. '2.5':11 'adromischus':1 'close':15 'cluster':6 'cm':12 'cooperi':2 'egg':4 'ground':18 'held':14 'inch':10 'leav':7 'long':13 'one':9 'plover':3 'tight':5
673 echeveria 'topsy turvy' Plush Plant Blue-green in color. The leaves are too narrow to form the perfect rosette usually expected in this genus. 'blue':7 'blue-green':6 'color':10 'echeveria':1 'expect':22 'form':17 'genus':25 'green':8 'leav':12 'narrow':15 'perfect':19 'plant':5 'plush':4 'rosett':20 'topsi':2 'turvi':3 'usual':21
674 calceolaria crenatiflora hybrids Pocketbook Plant A large-flowered series in a wide range of clear and spotted colors. Plants about 15 '' (38cm) tall. '15':22 '38cm':23 'calceolaria':1 'clear':16 'color':19 'crenatiflora':2 'flower':9 'hybrid':3 'larg':8 'large-flow':7 'plant':5,20 'pocketbook':4 'rang':14 'seri':10 'spot':18 'tall':24 'wide':13
675 metrosideros excelsus Pohotukawa Thick oval leaves, dark green above and whitish beneath. 'beneath':12 'dark':7 'excelsus':2 'green':8 'leav':6 'metrosidero':1 'oval':5 'pohotukawa':3 'thick':4 'whitish':11
676 euphorbia pulcherrima 'freedom red' Poinsettia The familiar Christmas poinsettia which is surprisingly easy to grow on for another year. 'anoth':18 'christma':8 'easi':13 'euphorbia':1 'familiar':7 'freedom':3 'grow':15 'poinsettia':5,9 'pulcherrima':2 'red':4 'surpris':12 'year':19
677 crinum asiaticum Poison-bulb Massive bulbs forming a thick neck above ground, from which a rosette of arching leaves up to four feet (120 cm) long grows. Leafless shoots from between the upper leaves carry a head of spidery white flowers a couple of times a year. '120':25 'arch':19 'asiaticum':2 'bulb':5,7 'carri':36 'cm':26 'coupl':44 'crinum':1 'feet':24 'flower':42 'form':8 'four':23 'ground':13 'grow':28 'head':38 'leafless':29 'leav':20,35 'long':27 'massiv':6 'neck':11 'poison':4 'poison-bulb':3 'rosett':17 'shoot':30 'spideri':40 'thick':10 'time':46 'upper':34 'white':41 'year':48
678 primula obconica 'june rose' Poison Primrose Flowers a rich deep pink, an example of the many colors that have been bred. 'bred':21 'color':17 'deep':10 'exampl':13 'flower':7 'june':3 'mani':16 'obconica':2 'pink':11 'poison':5 'primros':6 'primula':1 'rich':9 'rose':4
679 hypoestes phyllostachya Polka Dot Plant Clumping perennial with stems about a foot (30cm) in height. Leaves green with dense white or pink spots covering the whole surface. '30cm':13 'clump':6 'cover':24 'dens':19 'dot':4 'foot':12 'green':17 'height':15 'hypoest':1 'leav':16 'perenni':7 'phyllostachya':2 'pink':22 'plant':5 'polka':3 'spot':23 'stem':9 'surfac':27 'white':20 'whole':26
680 polypodium Polypody Ferns with a wide variety of form even though many that used to have this name have been reclassified elsewhere. 'elsewher':22 'even':10 'fern':3 'form':9 'mani':12 'name':18 'polypodi':2 'polypodium':1 'reclassifi':21 'though':11 'use':14 'varieti':7 'wide':6
681 punica Pomegranate Small, upright plants with yellow-green leaves and orange-red flowers that may set an edible fruit. 'edibl':20 'flower':15 'fruit':21 'green':9 'leav':10 'may':17 'orang':13 'orange-r':12 'plant':5 'pomegran':2 'punica':1 'red':14 'set':18 'small':3 'upright':4 'yellow':8 'yellow-green':7
682 schizanthus Poor Man's Orchid Annuals and short-lived perennials, mostly upright in their growth and with two-lipped flowers in terminal groups. 'annual':6 'flower':22 'group':25 'growth':16 'lip':21 'live':10 'man':3 'most':12 'orchid':5 'perenni':11 'poor':2 'schizanthus':1 'short':9 'short-liv':8 'termin':24 'two':20 'two-lip':19 'upright':13
683 ampelopsis brevipedunculata elegans Porcelain Berry Climbing by tendrils to the height of the support. Berries a handsome deep blue. 'ampelopsi':1 'berri':5,15 'blue':19 'brevipedunculata':2 'climb':6 'deep':18 'elegan':3 'handsom':17 'height':11 'porcelain':4 'support':14 'tendril':8
684 calendula Pot Marigold, Scottish Marigold Both leaves and flowers have a rich fragrance when touched that make this a valuable interior plant for bright situations. 'bright':24 'calendula':1 'flower':9 'fragranc':13 'interior':21 'leav':7 'make':17 'marigold':3,5 'plant':22 'pot':2 'rich':12 'scottish':4 'situat':25 'touch':15 'valuabl':20
685 calendula officinalis hybrids Pot Marigold Sturdy plants about a foot (30cm) tall. The flowers in shades of yellow and orange are fully double and may have a dark eye. They are displayed well above the grey-green leaves. '30cm':11 'calendula':1 'dark':28 'display':32 'doubl':23 'eye':29 'flower':14 'foot':10 'fulli':22 'green':38 'grey':37 'grey-green':36 'hybrid':3 'leav':39 'marigold':5 'may':25 'officinali':2 'orang':20 'plant':7 'pot':4 'shade':16 'sturdi':6 'tall':12 'well':33 'yellow':18
686 chrysanthemum morifolium 'atiko' Pot Mum See Chrysanthemum morifolium 'atiko':3 'chrysanthemum':1,7 'morifolium':2,8 'mum':5 'pot':4 'see':6
687 solanum jasminoides album Potato Vine Slender vine twining to about fifteen feet (5m) on a suitable support but easily held smaller. Leaves deeply cut, dark green, flowers in tight clusters, white in this form, purple blue in others. '5m':13 'album':3 'blue':36 'cluster':30 'cut':24 'dark':25 'deepli':23 'easili':19 'feet':12 'fifteen':11 'flower':27 'form':34 'green':26 'held':20 'jasminoid':2 'leav':22 'other':38 'potato':4 'purpl':35 'slender':6 'smaller':21 'solanum':1 'suitabl':16 'support':17 'tight':29 'twine':8 'vine':5,7 'white':31
688 mammillaria bocasana Powder Puff Cactus Clumps of globose stems covered with tubercles bearing hooked central spines and interwoven radial spines ending in hairs. Flowers are straw colored. 'bear':13 'bocasana':2 'cactus':5 'central':15 'clump':6 'color':27 'cover':10 'end':21 'flower':24 'globos':8 'hair':23 'hook':14 'interwoven':18 'mammillaria':1 'powder':3 'puff':4 'radial':19 'spine':16,20 'stem':9 'straw':26 'tubercl':12
689 crinum x powellii Powell's Swamp Lily Leaves about four feet (120cm) long, strap-shaped. Flowers terminal on a leafless stalk, trumpet-shaped, reddish. '120cm':12 'crinum':1 'feet':11 'flower':17 'four':10 'leafless':21 'leav':8 'lili':7 'long':13 'powel':4 'powellii':3 'reddish':26 'shape':16,25 'stalk':22 'strap':15 'strap-shap':14 'swamp':6 'termin':18 'trumpet':24 'trumpet-shap':23 'x':2
690 maranta Prayer Plant Preferred types as houseplants are low growing with colored leaves, but the genus includes much larger types. 'color':12 'genus':16 'grow':10 'housepl':7 'includ':17 'larger':19 'leav':13 'low':9 'maranta':1 'much':18 'plant':3 'prayer':2 'prefer':4 'type':5,20
691 opuntia Prickly Pear Distinctive form consisting of flat pads joined end to end to give a branched plant. 'branch':17 'consist':6 'distinct':4 'end':11,13 'flat':8 'form':5 'give':15 'join':10 'opuntia':1 'pad':9 'pear':3 'plant':18 'prick':2
692 opuntia littoralis Prickly Pear Cactus Broad pads two to three inches (5-7.5cm) long, unarmed or with a few large spines. Flowers are yellow with a red center. '-7.5':13 '5':12 'broad':6 'cactus':5 'center':29 'cm':14 'flower':23 'inch':11 'larg':21 'littorali':2 'long':15 'opuntia':1 'pad':7 'pear':4 'prick':3 'red':28 'spine':22 'three':10 'two':8 'unarm':16 'yellow':25
693 curcuma roscoeana Pride Of Burma Bold orange bracts with lighter flowers make up the cone-shaped inflorescence carried between sword-shaped leaves about two feet (60cm) tall. '60cm':28 'bold':6 'bract':8 'burma':5 'carri':19 'cone':16 'cone-shap':15 'curcuma':1 'feet':27 'flower':11 'infloresc':18 'leav':24 'lighter':10 'make':12 'orang':7 'pride':3 'roscoeana':2 'shape':17,23 'sword':22 'sword-shap':21 'tall':29 'two':26
694 primula vulgaris Primrose A rosette of tongue-shaped leaves grows at ground level from a very short stem. The original plants had yellow flowers, but breeding has now developed a range of colors. 'breed':27 'color':34 'develop':30 'flower':25 'ground':13 'grow':11 'leav':10 'level':14 'origin':21 'plant':22 'primros':3 'primula':1 'rang':32 'rosett':5 'shape':9 'short':18 'stem':19 'tongu':8 'tongue-shap':7 'vulgari':2 'yellow':24
695 jasminum mesnyi Primrose Jasmine Evergreen shrub with long weak branches which may be shortened to keep a shrub form, or trained to a trellis. Flowers are star-shaped, butter yellow in spring and summer. 'branch':10 'butter':30 'evergreen':5 'flower':25 'form':19 'jasmin':4 'jasminum':1 'keep':16 'long':8 'may':12 'mesnyi':2 'primros':3 'shape':29 'shorten':14 'shrub':6,18 'spring':33 'star':28 'star-shap':27 'summer':35 'train':21 'trelli':24 'weak':9 'yellow':31
696 primula Primula Perennial plants, most evergreen, and most with leaves in a basal rosette from which the upright flower stalk develops. 'basal':13 'develop':21 'evergreen':6 'flower':19 'leav':10 'perenni':3 'plant':4 'primula':1,2 'rosett':14 'stalk':20 'upright':18
697 ligustrum Privet Evergreen shrubs, the leaves sometimes variegated. Small flowers form in large groups at branch tips. 'branch':16 'evergreen':3 'flower':10 'form':11 'group':14 'larg':13 'leav':6 'ligustrum':1 'privet':2 'shrub':4 'small':9 'sometim':7 'tip':17 'varieg':8
698 crassula cultrata 'tri color jade' Propeller Plant Upright, branching shrub with fleshy leaves heavily variegated with cream and slightly flushed red. 'branch':9 'color':4 'crassula':1 'cream':17 'cultrata':2 'fleshi':12 'flush':20 'heavili':14 'jade':5 'leav':13 'plant':7 'propel':6 'red':21 'shrub':10 'slight':19 'tri':3 'upright':8 'varieg':15
699 rhodochiton atrosanguineum Purple Bell Vine Slender, somewhat woody vines reaching a few feet (60cm) in height. Flowers an open bell shape, deep pink, with a central tubular, red to deep purple section. '60cm':14 'atrosanguineum':2 'bell':4,20 'central':26 'deep':22,30 'feet':13 'flower':17 'height':16 'open':19 'pink':23 'purpl':3,31 'reach':10 'red':28 'rhodochiton':1 'section':32 'shape':21 'slender':6 'somewhat':7 'tubular':27 'vine':5,9 'woodi':8
700 rhodochiton Purple Bells Slender vine with bell-shaped flowers. Small enough to control on a trellis or in a basket. 'basket':21 'bell':3,8 'bell-shap':7 'control':14 'enough':12 'flower':10 'purpl':2 'rhodochiton':1 'shape':9 'slender':4 'small':11 'trelli':17 'vine':5
701 tradescantia pallida Purple Heart The whole plant is a deep, dusty purple. Upright or trailing stem with the narrow leaves up to six inches long. Flowers are a pink-purple. 'deep':10 'dusti':11 'flower':26 'heart':4 'inch':24 'leav':20 'long':25 'narrow':19 'pallida':2 'pink':30 'pink-purpl':29 'plant':7 'purpl':3,12,31 'six':23 'stem':16 'tradescantia':1 'trail':15 'upright':13 'whole':6
702 gynura aurantiaca Purple Velvet Plant, Royal Velvet Plant Erect or clambering shrub from three to ten feet (90-300cm) tall with four-inch (10cm) leaves covered with purple hairs. Flowers are in loose clusters, orange. '-300':19 '10cm':26 '90':18 'aurantiaca':2 'clamber':11 'cluster':36 'cm':20 'cover':28 'erect':9 'feet':17 'flower':32 'four':24 'four-inch':23 'gynura':1 'hair':31 'inch':25 'leav':27 'loos':35 'orang':37 'plant':5,8 'purpl':3,30 'royal':6 'shrub':12 'tall':21 'ten':16 'three':14 'velvet':4,7
703 hemigraphis 'exotica' Purple Waffle Plant Leaves dark green flushed red above, deeper red below. Stems upright or trailing when planted in a basket. 'basket':23 'dark':7 'deeper':12 'exotica':2 'flush':9 'green':8 'hemigraphi':1 'leav':6 'plant':5,20 'purpl':3 'red':10,13 'stem':15 'trail':18 'upright':16 'waffl':4
704 calceolaria Purse Flower, Slipper Flower, Slipper Wort Short-lived small shrubs that give a mass of flowers if grown with enough light. Slipper-like or pouched flowers in dense groups on short plants. 'calceolaria':1 'dens':31 'enough':22 'flower':3,5,18,29 'give':14 'group':32 'grown':20 'light':23 'like':26 'live':10 'mass':16 'plant':35 'pouch':28 'purs':2 'short':9,34 'short-liv':8 'shrub':12 'slipper':4,6,25 'slipper-lik':24 'small':11 'wort':7
705 anthurium warocqueanum Queen Anthurium Stems trailing or climbing for a few feet (60cm) by attachment roots. Leaves narrow, about six to nine inches (15-23cm) wide and more than two feet (60cm) long, velvety green in color with the veins paler. '-23':25 '15':24 '60cm':13,33 'anthurium':1,4 'attach':15 'climb':8 'cm':26 'color':38 'feet':12,32 'green':36 'inch':23 'leav':17 'long':34 'narrow':18 'nine':22 'paler':42 'queen':3 'root':16 'six':20 'stem':5 'trail':6 'two':31 'vein':41 'velveti':35 'warocqueanum':2 'wide':27
706 phaedranassa Queen Lily One or two broad paddle-shaped leaves from each bulb. The flowers are tubular, usually red and green, and are formed at the top of a leafless stalk. 'broad':7 'bulb':14 'flower':16 'form':25 'green':22 'leafless':31 'leav':11 'lili':3 'one':4 'paddl':9 'paddle-shap':8 'phaedranassa':1 'queen':2 'red':20 'shape':10 'stalk':32 'top':28 'tubular':18 'two':6 'usual':19
707 selenicereus grandiflorus Queen Of Darkness, Queen Of The Night Stem about an inch (2.5cm) wide with five to eight ribs along its length. Flowers as much as a foot long, trumpet-shaped, grading in color from yellowish on the outside to pure white in the center. '2.5':14 'along':22 'center':48 'cm':15 'color':37 'dark':5 'eight':20 'five':18 'flower':25 'foot':30 'grade':35 'grandiflorus':2 'inch':13 'length':24 'long':31 'much':27 'night':9 'outsid':42 'pure':44 'queen':3,6 'rib':21 'selenicereus':1 'shape':34 'stem':10 'trumpet':33 'trumpet-shap':32 'white':45 'wide':16 'yellowish':39
708 aechmea chantinii Queen Of The Bromeliads Tall upright leaves form a tight vase. Leaves dark green with even transverse silver bands. Flower head stands well above the vase and has showy red bracts as well as reddish flowers. 'aechmea':1 'band':21 'bract':33 'bromeliad':6 'chantinii':2 'dark':15 'even':18 'flower':22,38 'form':10 'green':16 'head':23 'leav':9,14 'queen':3 'red':32 'reddish':37 'showi':31 'silver':20 'stand':24 'tall':7 'tight':12 'transvers':19 'upright':8 'vase':13,28 'well':25,35
709 agave victoria-reginae Queen Victoria Agave, Royal Agave A small plant making a tight rosette about two feet (60cm) across with age. The stiff leaves are angular in cross section. '60cm':20 'across':21 'agav':1,7,9 'age':23 'angular':28 'cross':30 'feet':19 'leav':26 'make':13 'plant':12 'queen':5 'regina':4 'rosett':16 'royal':8 'section':31 'small':11 'stiff':25 'tight':15 'two':18 'victoria':3,6 'victoria-regina':2
710 hoffmannia refulgens Quilted Taffeta Plant A short plant usually less than a foot (30cm) tall with rounded leaves of a coppery color. '30cm':14 'color':22 'copperi':21 'foot':13 'hoffmannia':1 'leav':18 'less':10 'plant':5,8 'quilt':3 'refulgen':2 'round':17 'short':7 'taffeta':4 'tall':15 'usual':9
711 davallia fejeensis Rabbits Foot Fern Rhizomes scaly, stout. Fronds with long stalks and blades more than a foot (30cm) long, triangular in shape and much divided. '30cm':19 'blade':14 'davallia':1 'divid':26 'fejeensi':2 'fern':5 'foot':4,18 'frond':9 'long':11,20 'much':25 'rabbit':3 'rhizom':6 'scali':7 'shape':23 'stalk':12 'stout':8 'triangular':21
712 echinocereus rigidissimus Rainbow Cactus Cylindrical with many narrow ribs, radial spines very prominent, golden yellow. Flowers are pink with a white center. 'cactus':4 'center':22 'cylindr':5 'echinocereus':1 'flower':16 'golden':14 'mani':7 'narrow':8 'pink':18 'promin':13 'radial':10 'rainbow':3 'rib':9 'rigidissimus':2 'spine':11 'white':21 'yellow':15
713 pellionia pulchra Rainbow Vine Leaves purple below, green with brown blotching above. 'blotch':11 'brown':10 'green':8 'leav':5 'pellionia':1 'pulchra':2 'purpl':6 'rainbow':3 'vine':4
733 mammillaria zeilmanniana Rose Pin Cactus Globose with tubercles in a regular spiral. Areoles have medium length white spines. Flowers are a deep pink. 'areol':13 'cactus':5 'deep':22 'flower':19 'globos':6 'length':16 'mammillaria':1 'medium':15 'pin':4 'pink':23 'regular':11 'rose':3 'spine':18 'spiral':12 'tubercl':8 'white':17 'zeilmanniana':2
714 aporocactus flagelliformis Rat Tail Cactus Stems able to reach more than six feet (180 cm) in length with 10-14 grooves. The areolas each have a tuft of very short spines. Flowers flaring from a narrow base are a deep pink. '-14':20 '10':19 '180':14 'abl':7 'aporocactus':1 'areola':23 'base':37 'cactus':5 'cm':15 'deep':40 'feet':13 'flagelliformi':2 'flare':33 'flower':32 'groov':21 'length':17 'narrow':36 'pink':41 'rat':3 'reach':9 'short':30 'six':12 'spine':31 'stem':6 'tail':4 'tuft':27
715 crassula lycopodioides Rat Tail Plant Upright shrub with slender leaves completely clothed with four rows of small, overlapping fleshy leaves. 'cloth':12 'complet':11 'crassula':1 'fleshi':19 'four':14 'leav':10,20 'lycopodioid':2 'overlap':18 'plant':5 'rat':3 'row':15 'shrub':7 'slender':9 'small':17 'tail':4 'upright':6
716 rebutia minuscula Red Crown Cactus Stems globose, tubercles spiraling with hair-like spines. Flowers are a deep red-orange. 'cactus':5 'crown':4 'deep':18 'flower':15 'globos':7 'hair':12 'hair-lik':11 'like':13 'minuscula':2 'orang':21 'rebutia':1 'red':3,20 'red-orang':19 'spine':14 'spiral':9 'stem':6 'tubercl':8
717 hemigraphis Red Ivy Upright or spreading plants that do well in baskets. Underside of foliage usually a deep maroon. 'basket':12 'deep':18 'foliag':15 'hemigraphi':1 'ivi':3 'maroon':19 'plant':7 'red':2 'spread':6 'undersid':13 'upright':4 'usual':16 'well':10
718 mimulus cardinalis Red Monkey Flower Perennial herb that may reach three feet (90cm) in height. Flowers flaring, scarlet with yellow spots in the throat. '90cm':13 'cardinali':2 'feet':12 'flare':17 'flower':5,16 'height':15 'herb':7 'may':9 'mimulus':1 'monkey':4 'perenni':6 'reach':10 'red':3 'scarlet':18 'spot':21 'three':11 'throat':24 'yellow':20
719 passiflora racemosa Red Passion Flower Flowers red, somewhat reflexing. 'flower':5,6 'passiflora':1 'passion':4 'racemosa':2 'red':3,7 'reflex':9 'somewhat':8
720 ananas comosus Red Pineapple Fruit the familiar table pineapple. These are quite possible to produce in a light warm situation. 'anana':1 'comosus':2 'familiar':7 'fruit':5 'light':18 'pineappl':4,9 'possibl':13 'produc':15 'quit':12 'red':3 'situat':20 'tabl':8 'warm':19
721 calliandra haematocephala Red Powder Puff The powder puffs of flowers are a bright red. 'bright':13 'calliandra':1 'flower':10 'haematocephala':2 'powder':4,7 'puff':5,8 'red':3,14
722 primula obconica 'agate rouge' Red Primrose Broad tongue-shaped leaves in a rosette, flowers in clusters on leafless stems less than a foot (30cm) high. Flower colors in a wide range of pastel shades in other selections. '30cm':25 'agat':3 'broad':7 'cluster':17 'color':28 'flower':15,27 'foot':24 'high':26 'leafless':19 'leav':11 'less':21 'obconica':2 'pastel':34 'primros':6 'primula':1 'rang':32 'red':5 'rosett':14 'roug':4 'select':38 'shade':35 'shape':10 'stem':20 'tongu':9 'tongue-shap':8 'wide':31
723 lycoris radiata Red Spider Lily Flowers are red, produced after the leaves. 'flower':6 'leav':12 'lili':5 'lycori':1 'produc':9 'radiata':2 'red':3,8 'spider':4
724 cephalophyllum alstonii Red Spike Tufts of almost cylindrical leaves grow on trailing stems. Flowers are red with purple anthers. 'almost':7 'alstonii':2 'anther':19 'cephalophyllum':1 'cylindr':8 'flower':14 'grow':10 'leav':9 'purpl':18 'red':3,16 'spike':4 'stem':13 'trail':12 'tuft':5
725 begonia x rex hybrida Rex Begonia This medium sized species bears up to 5 flowers, each about 2 inches (5cm) across. The sepals and petals are wine-red flushed with yellow. The lip color ranges from whitish to rose-red. '2':18 '5':14 '5cm':20 'across':21 'bear':11 'begonia':1,6 'color':35 'flower':15 'flush':30 'hybrida':4 'inch':19 'lip':34 'medium':8 'petal':25 'rang':36 'red':29,42 'rex':3,5 'rose':41 'rose-r':40 'sepal':23 'size':9 'speci':10 'whitish':38 'wine':28 'wine-r':27 'x':2 'yellow':32
726 homalocladium Ribbon Plant Small bush with flattened stems and little in the way of leaves. 'bush':5 'flatten':7 'homalocladium':1 'leav':15 'littl':10 'plant':3 'ribbon':2 'small':4 'stem':8 'way':13
727 chlorophytum Ribbon Plant Rosettes of long leaves, usually with white longitudinal stripes, produce hanging stems of small white flowers followed by plantlets that root even as they hang from the parent. 'chlorophytum':1 'even':25 'flower':19 'follow':20 'hang':14,28 'leav':7 'long':6 'longitudin':11 'parent':31 'plant':3 'plantlet':22 'produc':13 'ribbon':2 'root':24 'rosett':4 'small':17 'stem':15 'stripe':12 'usual':8 'white':10,18
728 iberis amara Bitter Candytuft, Clowns Mustard, Rocket Candytuft Mounded annuals covered with flattened clusters of flowers. 'amara':2 'annual':10 'bitter':3 'candytuft':4,8 'clown':5 'cluster':14 'cover':11 'flatten':13 'flower':16 'iberi':1 'mound':9 'mustard':6 'rocket':7
729 ceropegia woodii Rosary Vine, String Of Hearts Trailing or hanging wiry stems have heart shaped leaves and often form tubers at the nodes which can be used to make new plants. Flowers are tubular, flaring at the mouth, red in color. 'ceropegia':1 'color':41 'flare':35 'flower':32 'form':19 'hang':10 'heart':7,14 'leav':16 'make':29 'mouth':38 'new':30 'node':23 'often':18 'plant':31 'red':39 'rosari':3 'shape':15 'stem':12 'string':5 'trail':8 'tuber':20 'tubular':34 'use':27 'vine':4 'wiri':11 'woodii':2
730 rosa Rose Miniature forms have been developed that flower well under bright indoor conditions, the more usual forms may find house conditions to dark for anything except a short time in the house while in full bloom. 'anyth':26 'bloom':37 'bright':12 'condit':14,22 'dark':24 'develop':7 'except':27 'find':20 'flower':9 'form':4,18 'full':36 'hous':21,33 'indoor':13 'may':19 'miniatur':3 'rosa':1 'rose':2 'short':29 'time':30 'usual':17 'well':10
731 pelargonium graveolens Rose Geranium Leaves deeply five-lobed, Flowers are a rose-pink marked with purple. 'deepli':6 'five':8 'five-lob':7 'flower':10 'geranium':4 'graveolen':2 'leav':5 'lobe':9 'mark':16 'pelargonium':1 'pink':15 'purpl':18 'rose':3,14 'rose-pink':13
732 portulaca Rose Moss Annuals and perennials, usually with rambling stems and fleshy small leaves. Flowers at the stem tips are double or single in a range of colors and sizes. 'annual':4 'color':28 'doubl':21 'fleshi':12 'flower':15 'leav':14 'moss':3 'perenni':6 'portulaca':1 'rambl':9 'rang':26 'rose':2 'singl':23 'size':30 'small':13 'stem':10,18 'tip':19 'usual':7
734 polyscias guilfoylei 'victoriae' Roseleaf Aralias A strong, vertical growth form is softened by the variegated leaves that are frilly around the edges. 'aralia':5 'around':20 'edg':22 'form':10 'frilli':19 'growth':9 'guilfoylei':2 'leav':16 'polyscia':1 'roseleaf':4 'soften':12 'strong':7 'varieg':15 'vertic':8 'victoria':3
735 ficus elastica Rubber Plant Large, broad leaves, often eight inches (20cm) long, on a strong plant for the interior. '20cm':11 'broad':6 'eight':9 'elastica':2 'ficus':1 'inch':10 'interior':19 'larg':5 'leav':7 'long':12 'often':8 'plant':4,16 'rubber':3 'strong':15
736 licuala grandis Ruffled Fan Palm The solitary, slender trunks are covered with persistent leaf bases. Leaves are pleated, almost circular in outline with shallow notches around the margin, and are held in a broad spreading crown. 'almost':19 'around':26 'base':15 'broad':34 'circular':20 'cover':11 'crown':36 'fan':4 'grandi':2 'held':31 'leaf':14 'leav':16 'licuala':1 'margin':28 'notch':25 'outlin':22 'palm':5 'persist':13 'pleat':18 'ruffl':3 'shallow':24 'slender':8 'solitari':7 'spread':35 'trunk':9
737 aphelandra squarrosa Saffron Spike Leaves dark green with bright yellow midrib and veins. Flowers with yellow bracts. 'aphelandra':1 'bract':17 'bright':9 'dark':6 'flower':14 'green':7 'leav':5 'midrib':11 'saffron':3 'spike':4 'squarrosa':2 'vein':13 'yellow':10,16
738 astrophytum asterias Sand Dollar Stem globose with radial lines of areoles on the ridges of wide grooves. Flowers are yellow flushed with red. 'areol':11 'asteria':2 'astrophytum':1 'dollar':4 'flower':18 'flush':21 'globos':6 'groov':17 'line':9 'radial':8 'red':23 'ridg':14 'sand':3 'stem':5 'wide':16 'yellow':20
739 browallia speciosa 'baugloekenchen' Sapphire Flower Compact plants with large blue bell-shaped flowers freely produced. 'baugloekenchen':3 'bell':12 'bell-shap':11 'blue':10 'browallia':1 'compact':6 'flower':5,14 'freeli':15 'larg':9 'plant':7 'produc':16 'sapphir':4 'shape':13 'speciosa':2
740 aeonium arboreum Saucer Plant, Tree Aeonium A small shrub with a few branches that may reach three feet (90cm) in height and produce groups of bright yellow flowers. Leaves in a green flat rosette at the ends of the branches. '90cm':19 'aeonium':1,6 'arboreum':2 'branch':13,40 'bright':26 'end':37 'feet':18 'flat':33 'flower':28 'green':32 'group':24 'height':21 'leav':29 'may':15 'plant':4 'produc':23 'reach':16 'rosett':34 'saucer':3 'shrub':9 'small':8 'three':17 'tree':5 'yellow':27
741 saxifraga Saxifrage Tufted and mostly stemless, with rounded leaves, Some produce long runners that form plantlets at the tips. 'form':15 'leav':9 'long':12 'most':5 'plantlet':16 'produc':11 'round':8 'runner':13 'saxifrag':2 'saxifraga':1 'stemless':6 'tip':19 'tuft':3
742 cleistocactus baumannii Scarlet Bugler Columnar, reaching about three feet (90cm) in height, with numerous vertical ribs and armed with long spines. Flowers are scarlet-red. '90cm':10 'arm':18 'baumannii':2 'bugler':4 'cleistocactus':1 'columnar':5 'feet':9 'flower':22 'height':12 'long':20 'numer':14 'reach':6 'red':26 'rib':16 'scarlet':3,25 'scarlet-r':24 'spine':21 'three':8 'vertic':15
743 crassula falcata Scarlet Paintbrush Upright small shrub, with few branches. Grey-green sickle shaped, fleshy leaves almost hide the stems. 'almost':18 'branch':10 'crassula':1 'falcata':2 'fleshi':16 'green':13 'grey':12 'grey-green':11 'hide':19 'leav':17 'paintbrush':4 'scarlet':3 'shape':15 'shrub':7 'sickl':14 'small':6 'stem':21 'upright':5
744 euphorbia fulgens Scarlet Plume Deciduous shrub with slender arching branches. Flowers form in small clusters. Red, orange, yellow and white forms have been developed. 'arch':9 'branch':10 'cluster':15 'decidu':5 'develop':24 'euphorbia':1 'flower':11 'form':12,21 'fulgen':2 'orang':17 'plume':4 'red':16 'scarlet':3 'shrub':6 'slender':8 'small':14 'white':20 'yellow':18
745 pandanus utilis Screw Pine Striking plant with long sword-shaped leaves produced in a spiral rosette. As a trunk forms the tree will branch to form several heads, eventually giving a very regular conical specimen plant about 20 feet (6m) tall and wide if space allows. '20':39 '6m':41 'allow':47 'branch':25 'conic':35 'eventu':30 'feet':40 'form':21,27 'give':31 'head':29 'leav':12 'long':8 'pandanus':1 'pine':4 'plant':6,37 'produc':13 'regular':34 'rosett':17 'screw':3 'sever':28 'shape':11 'space':46 'specimen':36 'spiral':16 'strike':5 'sword':10 'sword-shap':9 'tall':42 'tree':23 'trunk':20 'utili':2 'wide':44
746 coccoloba uvifera Sea Grape Trees that can be kept quite small are interesting for their large, almost round, leathery leaves . 'almost':17 'coccoloba':1 'grape':4 'interest':13 'kept':9 'larg':16 'leatheri':19 'leav':20 'quit':10 'round':18 'sea':3 'small':11 'tree':5 'uvifera':2
747 urginea maritima Sea Onion Leaves about 18 inches (45cm) long, produced after the five feet (150cm) high, leafless flower stalk has matured its groups of half-inch (1.25cm) whitish flowers. '1.25':29 '150cm':16 '18':7 '45cm':9 'cm':30 'feet':15 'five':14 'flower':19,32 'group':24 'half':27 'half-inch':26 'high':17 'inch':8,28 'leafless':18 'leav':5 'long':10 'maritima':2 'matur':22 'onion':4 'produc':11 'sea':3 'stalk':20 'urginea':1 'whitish':31
748 cyrtostachys renda Sealing Wax Palm Clustering palm with feather-like leaves.The brilliant red of the leaf sheath develops on even young palms a couple of feet tall. Growth is slow giving a number of years before the plants are too big for most situations. 'big':42 'brilliant':13 'cluster':6 'coupl':25 'cyrtostachi':1 'develop':19 'even':21 'feather':10 'feather-lik':9 'feet':27 'give':32 'growth':29 'leaf':17 'leaves.the':12 'like':11 'number':34 'palm':5,7,23 'plant':39 'red':14 'renda':2 'seal':3 'sheath':18 'situat':45 'slow':31 'tall':28 'wax':4 'year':36 'young':22
749 carex Sedge Tufted, grass-like foliage which may be plain or variegated. 'carex':1 'foliag':7 'grass':5 'grass-lik':4 'like':6 'may':9 'plain':11 'sedg':2 'tuft':3 'varieg':13
750 geogenanthus undatus Seersucker Plant Leaves striped lengthwise with silvery green on a dark ground. The leaf surface is puckered, giving the plants their common name of ôseersucker plant.ö 'common':24 'dark':13 'geogenanthus':1 'give':20 'green':10 'ground':14 'leaf':16 'leav':5 'lengthwis':7 'name':25 'plant':4,22,28 'pucker':19 'seersuck':3 'silveri':9 'stripe':6 'surfac':17 'undatus':2 'ôseersuck':27 'ö':29
751 phoenix reclinata Senegal Date Palm Handsome but very spiny feather leaves form a dense crown on clustered trunks that will eventually outgrow most positions in the house. 'cluster':17 'crown':15 'date':4 'dens':14 'eventu':21 'feather':10 'form':12 'handsom':6 'hous':27 'leav':11 'outgrow':22 'palm':5 'phoenix':1 'posit':24 'reclinata':2 'seneg':3 'spini':9 'trunk':18
752 biophytum sensitivum Sensitive Plant Fern-like leaves in a rosette at the apex of a stem a few inches (5cm) long are sensitive to the touch, the leaflets folding downwards when molested. '5cm':21 'apex':14 'biophytum':1 'downward':31 'fern':6 'fern-lik':5 'fold':30 'inch':20 'leaflet':29 'leav':8 'like':7 'long':22 'molest':33 'plant':4 'rosett':11 'sensit':3,24 'sensitivum':2 'stem':17 'touch':27
753 schefflera digitata Seven Fingers Leaves with seven to ten leaflets. About 15 inches (38cm) long including the leaf stalk. Leaflet margins wavy. '15':12 '38cm':14 'digitata':2 'finger':4 'inch':13 'includ':16 'leaf':18 'leaflet':10,20 'leav':5 'long':15 'margin':21 'schefflera':1 'seven':3,7 'stalk':19 'ten':9 'wavi':22
754 ariocarpus retusus Seven Stars Overall effect blue-green, tubercles with blunt points. Flowers are white with a red midrib on the petals. 'ariocarpus':1 'blue':8 'blue-green':7 'blunt':12 'effect':6 'flower':14 'green':9 'midrib':20 'overal':5 'petal':23 'point':13 'red':19 'retusus':2 'seven':3 'star':4 'tubercl':10 'white':16
755 oxalis Shamrock, Wood Sorrel Leaves clover-like with four parts to the blade, stems underground. The flowers may be above or hidden within the foliage. 'blade':14 'clover':7 'clover-lik':6 'flower':18 'foliag':26 'four':10 'hidden':23 'leav':5 'like':8 'may':19 'oxali':1 'part':11 'shamrock':2 'sorrel':4 'stem':15 'underground':16 'within':24 'wood':3
756 marcgravia rectiflora Shingle Plant Leaves leathery, often overlapping in a plant that climbs, then developing stalks to the leaves. A slender vine, in the house rarely more than a few feet tall (60cm). '60cm':33 'climb':13 'develop':15 'feet':31 'hous':25 'leatheri':6 'leav':5,19 'marcgravia':1 'often':7 'overlap':8 'plant':4,11 'rare':26 'rectiflora':2 'shingl':3 'slender':21 'stalk':16 'tall':32 'vine':22
757 marcgravia Shingle Vine Intriguing small climbers that press their leaves flat to the support. 'climber':6 'flat':11 'intrigu':4 'leav':10 'marcgravia':1 'press':8 'shingl':2 'small':5 'support':14 'vine':3
758 vittaria Shoestring Ferns Epiphytic fern with very narrow hanging leaves six to nine inches (15-23cm) long. '-23':16 '15':15 'cm':17 'epiphyt':4 'fern':3,5 'hang':9 'inch':14 'leav':10 'long':18 'narrow':8 'nine':13 'shoestr':2 'six':11 'vittaria':1
759 aloe brevifolia Short Leaf Aloe Short stems forming clumps with fleshy leaves about six inches (15cm) long. Flowers are red. '15cm':16 'alo':1,5 'brevifolia':2 'clump':9 'fleshi':11 'flower':18 'form':8 'inch':15 'leaf':4 'leav':12 'long':17 'red':20 'short':3,6 'six':14 'stem':7
760 justicia betonica Shrimp Plant, Squirrel Tail Upright flower spikes at the branch tips are more showy for the green striped white bracts below each flower than for the small pinkish flowers themselves. 'betonica':2 'bract':22 'branch':12 'flower':8,25,31 'green':19 'justicia':1 'pinkish':30 'plant':4 'showi':16 'shrimp':3 'small':29 'spike':9 'squirrel':5 'stripe':20 'tail':6 'tip':13 'upright':7 'white':21
761 grevillea robusta Silk Oak Deeply divided, grey-green leaves give an interesting color and texture to a large tree that can be pruned to stay small for a number of years. 'color':14 'deepli':5 'divid':6 'give':11 'green':9 'grevillea':1 'grey':8 'grey-green':7 'interest':13 'larg':19 'leav':10 'number':30 'oak':4 'prune':24 'robusta':2 'silk':3 'small':27 'stay':26 'textur':16 'tree':20 'year':32
762 notocactus scopa Silver Ball Cactus Globose, often clustering with 25-30 low ribs which may spiral slightly and have medium length central spines surrounded by many fine radials. Flowers are a pale yellow. '-30':11 '25':10 'ball':4 'cactus':5 'central':22 'cluster':8 'fine':27 'flower':29 'globos':6 'length':21 'low':12 'mani':26 'may':15 'medium':20 'notocactus':1 'often':7 'pale':32 'radial':28 'rib':13 'scopa':2 'silver':3 'slight':17 'spine':23 'spiral':16 'surround':24 'yellow':33
763 dendrochilum glumaceum Silver Chain Arching sprays of only partly opened flowers that are white with a yellow lip. 'arch':5 'chain':4 'dendrochilum':1 'flower':11 'glumaceum':2 'lip':18 'open':10 'part':9 'silver':3 'spray':6 'white':14 'yellow':17
764 chirita sinensis Silver Chirita Leaves about six inches (15cm) long in a rosette, thick textured, green with variable amounts of silver flooding the upper surface. '15cm':9 'amount':19 'chirita':1,4 'flood':22 'green':16 'inch':8 'leav':5 'long':10 'rosett':13 'silver':3,21 'sinensi':2 'six':7 'surfac':25 'textur':15 'thick':14 'upper':24 'variabl':18
765 astrophytum Silver Dollar Plant bodies globose or with radial ridges. Spines of various degrees of prominence. 'astrophytum':1 'bodi':5 'degre':14 'dollar':3 'globos':6 'plant':4 'promin':16 'radial':9 'ridg':10 'silver':2 'spine':11 'various':13
766 aglaonema commutatum Silver Evergreen Leaf stalk about the same length as the blade, which is heavily marked with silver in various patterns, six to eighteen inches (15-45cm) long and held fairly upright. '-45':28 '15':27 'aglaonema':1 'blade':13 'cm':29 'commutatum':2 'eighteen':25 'evergreen':4 'fair':33 'heavili':16 'held':32 'inch':26 'leaf':5 'length':10 'long':30 'mark':17 'pattern':22 'silver':3,19 'six':23 'stalk':6 'upright':34 'various':21
767 fittonia verschaffeltii 'argyroneura' Silver Nerve Plant The veins of the leaf are white and the rest of the blade green. 'argyroneura':3 'blade':19 'fittonia':1 'green':20 'leaf':11 'nerv':5 'plant':6 'rest':16 'silver':4 'vein':8 'verschaffeltii':2 'white':13
768 ledebouria socialis Silver Squill Leaves mottled green and silver on the upper surface and violet below, about six inches (15cm) long. Flowers are green with white edges, cup-shaped. '15cm':20 'cup':29 'cup-shap':28 'edg':27 'flower':22 'green':7,24 'inch':19 'leav':5 'ledebouria':1 'long':21 'mottl':6 'shape':30 'silver':3,9 'six':18 'sociali':2 'squill':4 'surfac':13 'upper':12 'violet':15 'white':26
769 aechmea fasciata Silver Vase, Urn Plant An open vase of silvery leaves complements the pastel colors of the inflorescence held above it. 'aechmea':1 'color':16 'complement':13 'fasciata':2 'held':20 'infloresc':19 'leav':12 'open':8 'pastel':15 'plant':6 'silver':3 'silveri':11 'urn':5 'vase':4,9
770 tillandsia ionantha Sky Plant Closely packed silvery leaves forming a spherical plant that packs tightly with others. As they mature the centers becomes red and produce bright blue flowers. 'becom':23 'blue':28 'bright':27 'center':22 'close':5 'flower':29 'form':9 'ionantha':2 'leav':8 'matur':20 'other':17 'pack':6,14 'plant':4,12 'produc':26 'red':24 'silveri':7 'sky':3 'spheric':11 'tight':15 'tillandsia':1
771 paphiopedilum Slipper Orchids Leafy orchids with characteristic slipper-shaped flowers borne singly. 'born':12 'characterist':7 'flower':11 'leafi':4 'orchid':3,5 'paphiopedilum':1 'shape':10 'singl':13 'slipper':2,9 'slipper-shap':8
772 iberis sempervirens 'snow flake' Snow Flake Candytuft A fine form of the species with very showy, wide inflorescences. 'candytuft':7 'fine':9 'flake':4,6 'form':10 'iberi':1 'infloresc':18 'semperviren':2 'showi':16 'snow':3,5 'speci':13 'wide':17
773 serissa Snow Rose Low, upright shrubs with tiny dark green or variegated leaves. Small flowers are usually white but pink forms are being introduced. 'dark':9 'flower':15 'form':21 'green':10 'introduc':24 'leav':13 'low':4 'pink':20 'rose':3 'serissa':1 'shrub':6 'small':14 'snow':2 'tini':8 'upright':5 'usual':17 'varieg':12 'white':18
774 mammillaria candida Snowball Pincushion Cactus Globose, completely covered by interwoven white spines, Flowers are pink, deeper in the center. 'cactus':5 'candida':2 'center':19 'complet':7 'cover':8 'deeper':16 'flower':13 'globos':6 'interwoven':10 'mammillaria':1 'pincushion':4 'pink':15 'snowbal':3 'spine':12 'white':11
775 galanthus Snowdrop Narrow, thick leaves. Flowers single on stalks just longer than the leaves. 'flower':6 'galanthus':1 'leav':5,14 'longer':11 'narrow':3 'singl':7 'snowdrop':2 'stalk':9 'thick':4
776 trevesia Snowflake, Tropical Snowflake Large plants with very large, round leaves, divided and with holes in them to resemble a snowflake. 'divid':12 'hole':15 'larg':5,9 'leav':11 'plant':6 'resembl':19 'round':10 'snowflak':2,4,21 'trevesia':1 'tropic':3
777 trevesia palmata Snowflake Aralia Huge leaves that may reach three feet (90cm) in diameter are intricately cut into snowflake patterns. Leaves usually concentrated at the top of slender trunks. '90cm':12 'aralia':4 'concentr':23 'cut':17 'diamet':14 'feet':11 'huge':5 'intric':16 'leav':6,21 'may':8 'palmata':2 'pattern':20 'reach':9 'slender':28 'snowflak':3,19 'three':10 'top':26 'trevesia':1 'trunk':29 'usual':22
778 tulbaghia violacea 'silver lace' Society Garlic Inflorescence on a leafless stalk about two feet (60cm) tall. Flowers are a pink-purple in a cluster. Leaves green in most forms, this one variegated. '60cm':15 'cluster':25 'feet':14 'flower':17 'form':30 'garlic':6 'green':27 'infloresc':7 'lace':4 'leafless':10 'leav':26 'one':32 'pink':21 'pink-purpl':20 'purpl':22 'silver':3 'societi':5 'stalk':11 'tall':16 'tulbaghia':1 'two':13 'varieg':33 'violacea':2
779 dracaena reflexa 'song of india' Song Of India The narrow leaves are dark green with a white edge. 'dark':13 'dracaena':1 'edg':18 'green':14 'india':5,8 'leav':11 'narrow':10 'reflexa':2 'song':3,6 'white':17
780 polypodium cambricum Southern Polypody Eight to ten inch (20-25cm) fronds in open tufts from a creeping rhizome. '-25':10 '20':9 'cambricum':2 'cm':11 'creep':18 'eight':5 'frond':12 'inch':8 'open':14 'polypodi':4 'polypodium':1 'rhizom':19 'southern':3 'ten':7 'tuft':15
781 ardisia Spear Flower Strong growing shrubs reaching three to twenty feet (1-6m) in height depending on the type. '-6':13 '1':12 'ardisia':1 'depend':17 'feet':11 'flower':3 'grow':5 'height':16 'm':14 'reach':7 'shrub':6 'spear':2 'strong':4 'three':8 'twenti':10 'type':20
782 mentha spicata Spearmint Shoots about a foot (30cm) long with pink, white or blue flowers. '30cm':8 'blue':14 'flower':15 'foot':7 'long':9 'mentha':1 'pink':11 'shoot':4 'spearmint':3 'spicata':2 'white':12
783 gymnocalycium Spider Cactus Globular or cylindrical stems are strongly ridged and spiny. 'cactus':3 'cylindr':6 'globular':4 'gymnocalycium':1 'ridg':10 'spider':2 'spini':12 'stem':7 'strong':9
784 hymenocallis Spider Lily Strap-shaped basal leavesÆ usually evergreen, and a leafless stalk with a small number of large flowers at the top. The petals have a membrane joining them that is the basis for the name of the genus. 'basal':7 'basi':35 'evergreen':10 'flower':21 'genus':41 'hymenoc':1 'join':30 'larg':20 'leafless':13 'leavesæ':8 'lili':3 'membran':29 'name':38 'number':18 'petal':26 'shape':6 'small':17 'spider':2 'stalk':14 'strap':5 'strap-shap':4 'top':24 'usual':9
785 chlorophytum comosum 'vittatum' Spider Plant Leaves linear, about ten to twelve inches (25-30cm) long, green with a broad white stripe down the midrib. '-30':14 '25':13 'broad':20 'chlorophytum':1 'cm':15 'comosum':2 'green':17 'inch':12 'leav':6 'linear':7 'long':16 'midrib':25 'plant':5 'spider':4 'stripe':22 'ten':9 'twelv':11 'vittatum':3 'white':21
786 tradescantia Spiderworts Trailing, soft plants, many great in baskets or as groundcover, a few forming upright rosettes. 'basket':9 'form':15 'great':7 'groundcov':12 'mani':6 'plant':5 'rosett':17 'soft':4 'spiderwort':2 'tradescantia':1 'trail':3 'upright':16
787 selaginella Spike Moss Stems closely packed with tiny, scale-like leaves. Most species small and tufted but a few trailing or even climbing. Leaves often iridescent. 'climb':24 'close':5 'even':23 'iridesc':27 'leav':12,25 'like':11 'moss':3 'often':26 'pack':6 'scale':10 'scale-lik':9 'selaginella':1 'small':15 'speci':14 'spike':2 'stem':4 'tini':8 'trail':21 'tuft':17
788 hyophorbe verschaffeltii Spindle Palm Six to ten arching leaves are carried on a smooth gray trunk that may have a bulge for part of its height. 'arch':8 'bulg':21 'carri':11 'gray':15 'height':26 'hyophorb':1 'leav':9 'may':18 'palm':4 'part':23 'six':5 'smooth':14 'spindl':3 'ten':7 'trunk':16 'verschaffeltii':2
789 yucca elephantipes Spineless Yucca Long, arching, sword-shaped leaves, borne spirally up the stout trunk, are stiff but lack any spine at the tip. 'arch':6 'born':11 'elephantip':2 'lack':20 'leav':10 'long':5 'shape':9 'spine':22 'spineless':3 'spiral':12 'stiff':18 'stout':15 'sword':8 'sword-shap':7 'tip':25 'trunk':16 'yucca':1,4
790 licuala spinosa Spiny Licuala Clustering, slender stalks covered with persistent leaf bases carry leaves that are circular in outline, but are divide almost to the center into wedge-shaped, pleated segments. 'almost':23 'base':12 'carri':13 'center':26 'circular':17 'cluster':5 'cover':8 'divid':22 'leaf':11 'leav':14 'licuala':1,4 'outlin':19 'persist':10 'pleat':31 'segment':32 'shape':30 'slender':6 'spini':3 'spinosa':2 'stalk':7 'wedg':29 'wedge-shap':28
791 costus sanguineus Spiral Flag Stems reach about ten feet (300cm) in the wild, bearing dark velvety leaves with a white midrib that are flushed red beneath. The flowers are in a red terminal cone of bracts. '300cm':10 'bear':14 'beneath':26 'bract':36 'cone':34 'costus':1 'dark':15 'feet':9 'flag':4 'flower':28 'flush':24 'leav':17 'midrib':21 'reach':6 'red':25,32 'sanguineus':2 'spiral':3 'stem':5 'ten':8 'termin':33 'velveti':16 'white':20 'wild':13
792 costus Spiral Ginger Plants may reach six feet (180cm) high and the same width. Many flower variations in pink, white and red are found, all with large bell-shaped flowers up to eight inches (20cm) across in heavy sprays. '180cm':9 '20cm':36 'across':37 'bell':29 'bell-shap':28 'costus':1 'eight':34 'feet':8 'flower':16,31 'found':24 'ginger':3 'heavi':39 'high':10 'inch':35 'larg':27 'mani':15 'may':5 'pink':19 'plant':4 'reach':6 'red':22 'shape':30 'six':7 'spiral':2 'spray':40 'variat':17 'white':20 'width':14
793 asplenium Spleenwort A very large and varied group of ferns. Most are tufted or have leaves spaced on short trailing stems. 'asplenium':1 'fern':10 'group':8 'larg':5 'leav':16 'short':19 'space':17 'spleenwort':2 'stem':21 'trail':20 'tuft':13 'vari':7
794 pleiospilos Split Rock Stemless succulents with a few leaves, some of them in a ôliving stoneö form. 'form':17 'leav':9 'pleiospilo':1 'rock':3 'split':2 'stemless':4 'stoneö':16 'succul':5 'ôlive':15
795 aglaonema 'silver queen' Spotted Chinese Evergreen A slender leaf blade on a spreading stalk. Dark green with chevron bars of silver making up only about half the leaf surface. 'aglaonema':1 'bar':19 'blade':10 'chevron':18 'chines':5 'dark':15 'evergreen':6 'green':16 'half':26 'leaf':9,28 'make':22 'queen':3 'silver':2,21 'slender':8 'spot':4 'spread':13 'stalk':14 'surfac':29
796 aglaonema costatum Spotted Chinese Evergreen Leaves about eight inches (20cm) long, tufted from a semi-creeping stem. Deep green with a white midrib and heavy silver-white spotting that may join to cover much of the upper surface. '20cm':10 'aglaonema':1 'chines':4 'costatum':2 'cover':35 'creep':17 'deep':19 'eight':8 'evergreen':5 'green':20 'heavi':26 'inch':9 'join':33 'leav':6 'long':11 'may':32 'midrib':24 'much':36 'semi':16 'semi-creep':15 'silver':28 'silver-whit':27 'spot':3,30 'stem':18 'surfac':40 'tuft':12 'upper':39 'white':23,29
797 lamium maculatum 'nancy white' Spotted Dead Nettle Silvery-green leaves are colorful year round, joined by clusters of pale flowers that stand above the leaves in late summer. 'cluster':18 'color':13 'dead':6 'flower':21 'green':10 'join':16 'lamium':1 'late':28 'leav':11,26 'maculatum':2 'nanci':3 'nettl':7 'pale':20 'round':15 'silveri':9 'silvery-green':8 'spot':5 'stand':23 'summer':29 'white':4 'year':14
798 abutilon pictum Spotted Flowering Maple Small shrub, often with leaves heavily yellow-mottled. 'abutilon':1 'flower':4 'heavili':11 'leav':10 'mapl':5 'mottl':14 'often':8 'pictum':2 'shrub':7 'small':6 'spot':3 'yellow':13 'yellow-mottl':12
799 gasteria maculata 'little warty' Spotted Gasteria Leaves more or less spiraled, green with white bands. 'band':15 'gasteria':1,6 'green':12 'leav':7 'less':10 'littl':3 'maculata':2 'spiral':11 'spot':5 'warti':4 'white':14
800 aucuba japonica 'variegata' Spottedlaurel, Variegated Laurel Bright yellow spots add color to the leaves. 'add':10 'aucuba':1 'bright':7 'color':11 'japonica':2 'laurel':6 'leav':14 'spot':9 'spottedlaurel':4 'varieg':5 'variegata':3 'yellow':8
801 asparagus densiflorus 'sprengeri' Sprengeri Fern Arching stems with loose side branches that form a mound of green. 'arch':6 'asparagus':1 'branch':11 'densiflorus':2 'fern':5 'form':13 'green':17 'loos':9 'mound':15 'side':10 'sprengeri':3,4 'stem':7
802 scilla Squill Leaves strap-shaped, usually appearing with the flowers that form on an upright stalk. 'appear':8 'flower':11 'form':13 'leav':3 'scilla':1 'shape':6 'squill':2 'stalk':17 'strap':5 'strap-shap':4 'upright':16 'usual':7
803 urginea Squill Long, narrow leaves from the top of the bulb, produced after the leafless flowering stalk which produces little groups of small flowers. 'bulb':11 'flower':16,24 'group':21 'leafless':15 'leav':5 'littl':20 'long':3 'narrow':4 'produc':12,19 'small':23 'squill':2 'stalk':17 'top':8 'urginea':1
804 ledebouria Squill Short, narrow, fleshy, evergreen leaves from a small bulb, silvery above with darker spots. 'bulb':11 'darker':15 'evergreen':6 'fleshi':5 'leav':7 'ledebouria':1 'narrow':4 'short':3 'silveri':12 'small':10 'spot':16 'squill':2
805 platycerium bifurcatum 'netherlands' Staghorn Fern Arching fronds usually less than two feet (60cm) long, grey-green. '60cm':13 'arch':6 'bifurcatum':2 'feet':12 'fern':5 'frond':7 'green':17 'grey':16 'grey-green':15 'less':9 'long':14 'netherland':3 'platycerium':1 'staghorn':4 'two':11 'usual':8
806 stapelia leendertziae Star Flower Tufted plant with dark colored, hairy, slightly furrowed stems. Flowers are cup-shaped or more open in a star, purple-brown. 'brown':27 'color':9 'cup':17 'cup-shap':16 'dark':8 'flower':4,14 'furrow':12 'hairi':10 'leendertzia':2 'open':21 'plant':6 'purpl':26 'purple-brown':25 'shape':18 'slight':11 'stapelia':1 'star':3,24 'stem':13 'tuft':5
842 cyanotis kewensis Teddchysar Plant Herb with fleshy leaves in rosettes and long stolons. The undersides of the leaves are reddish. 'cyanoti':1 'fleshi':7 'herb':5 'kewensi':2 'leav':8,18 'long':12 'plant':4 'reddish':20 'rosett':10 'stolon':13 'teddchysar':3 'undersid':15
807 jasminum multiflorum Star Jasmine A vine with long twining branches that climb several feet (60cm) high in the ground in the subtropics, but easily pruned to a rounded bush. The white, star-shaped flowers form in profusion in bright light, but are not fragrant. '60cm':15 'branch':10 'bright':40 'bush':29 'climb':12 'easili':24 'feet':14 'flower':35 'form':36 'fragrant':45 'ground':19 'high':16 'jasmin':4 'jasminum':1 'light':41 'long':8 'multiflorum':2 'profus':38 'prune':25 'round':28 'sever':13 'shape':34 'star':3,33 'star-shap':32 'subtrop':22 'twine':9 'vine':6 'white':31
808 trachelospermum Star Jessamine Evergreen climbing or trailing shrubs that produce white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers. 'climb':5 'evergreen':4 'flower':16 'fragrant':12 'jessamin':3 'produc':10 'shape':15 'shrub':8 'star':2,14 'star-shap':13 'trachelospermum':1 'trail':7 'white':11
809 ornithogalum arabicum 'dubium' Star Of Bethlehem Leaves 12-18'' (30-45cm) long, Flower stem one to two feet long with six to twelve white flowers each with a black dot at the center. '-18':9 '-45':11 '12':8 '30':10 'arabicum':2 'bethlehem':6 'black':30 'center':34 'cm':12 'dot':31 'dubium':3 'feet':19 'flower':14,26 'leav':7 'long':13,20 'one':16 'ornithogalum':1 'six':22 'star':4 'stem':15 'twelv':24 'two':18 'white':25
810 lithops turbiniformis Stone Face Top of leaves wrinkled, light and dark brown. 'brown':12 'dark':11 'face':4 'leav':7 'light':9 'lithop':1 'stone':3 'top':5 'turbiniformi':2 'wrinkl':8
811 sedum Stonecrop Arching or tufted stems with small succulent leaves closely packed along their length. 'along':13 'arch':3 'close':11 'leav':10 'length':15 'pack':12 'sedum':1 'small':8 'stem':6 'stonecrop':2 'succul':9 'tuft':5
812 epiphyllum Strap Cactus Climbing plants with flattened fleshy stems which attach by roots, Good for baskets or pots with a totem pole. The flowers are spectacular, and come in a variety of colors. 'attach':11 'basket':16 'cactus':3 'climb':4 'color':33 'come':28 'epiphyllum':1 'flatten':7 'fleshi':8 'flower':24 'good':14 'plant':5 'pole':22 'pot':18 'root':13 'spectacular':26 'stem':9 'strap':2 'totem':21 'varieti':31
813 helipterum eximium Strawberry Everlasting Small shrub with wooly leaves. Inflorescence of several daisy-like heads held above the leaves. 'daisi':14 'daisy-lik':13 'everlast':4 'eximium':2 'head':16 'held':17 'helipterum':1 'infloresc':10 'leav':9,20 'like':15 'sever':12 'shrub':6 'small':5 'strawberri':3 'wooli':8
814 psidium littorale var longipes Strawberry Guava Handsome shrub with glossy red-brown bark, peeling in areas to reveal other colors. The leaves are glossy dark green and branches end in clusters of white flowers that give way to red or yellow, tasty fruit about an inch (2.5cm) across. '2.5':48 'across':50 'area':17 'bark':14 'branch':29 'brown':13 'cluster':32 'cm':49 'color':21 'dark':26 'end':30 'flower':35 'fruit':44 'give':37 'glossi':10,25 'green':27 'guava':6 'handsom':7 'inch':47 'leav':23 'littoral':2 'longip':4 'peel':15 'psidium':1 'red':12,40 'red-brown':11 'reveal':19 'shrub':8 'strawberri':5 'tasti':43 'var':3 'way':38 'white':34 'yellow':42
815 streptosolen Streptosolen Small woody plant that may reach six feet (180cm) in height but is easily controlled. Bright orange flowers cover the upper parts. '180cm':11 'bright':18 'control':17 'cover':21 'easili':16 'feet':10 'flower':20 'height':13 'may':7 'orang':19 'part':24 'plant':5 'reach':8 'six':9 'small':3 'streptosolen':1,2 'upper':23 'woodi':4
816 senecio rowleyanus String Of Pearls Spherical leaves at intervals along a trailing or hanging slender, stem. 'along':10 'hang':14 'interv':9 'leav':7 'pearl':5 'rowleyanus':2 'senecio':1 'slender':15 'spheric':6 'stem':16 'string':3 'trail':12
817 davallia solida Sturdy Davallia Rhizomes heavy, leaves about a foot (30cm) long, divided into small segments in an overall triangular shape. '30cm':11 'davallia':1,4 'divid':13 'foot':10 'heavi':6 'leav':7 'long':12 'overal':19 'rhizom':5 'segment':16 'shape':21 'small':15 'solida':2 'sturdi':3 'triangular':20
818 billbergia pyramidalis Summer Torch Clear green broad vases produce brilliant red flower cluster held above the leaves. 'billbergia':1 'brilliant':10 'broad':7 'clear':5 'cluster':13 'flower':12 'green':6 'held':14 'leav':17 'produc':9 'pyramidali':2 'red':11 'summer':3 'torch':4 'vase':8
819 heliocereus speciosus Sun Cactus Stems trailing, four-angled, flowers about six inches (15cm) long, scarlet. '15cm':14 'angl':9 'cactus':4 'flower':10 'four':8 'four-angl':7 'heliocereus':1 'inch':13 'long':15 'scarlet':16 'six':12 'speciosus':2 'stem':5 'sun':3 'trail':6
820 portulaca grandiflora Sun Plant Tufted growth from trailing fleshy stems with short, equally fleshy leaves. Flowers single or double in a range of colors, opening only in the morning or for longer periods in the strains selected for that quality. 'color':24 'doubl':19 'equal':13 'fleshi':9,14 'flower':16 'grandiflora':2 'growth':6 'leav':15 'longer':32 'morn':29 'open':25 'period':33 'plant':4 'portulaca':1 'qualiti':40 'rang':22 'select':37 'short':12 'singl':17 'stem':10 'strain':36 'sun':3 'trail':8 'tuft':5
821 veitchia montgomeryana Sunshine Palm The arching crown of leaves, about six feet (180cm) long and dark green, is held on a trunk six to eight inches (15-20cm) in diameter, grey-brown with the leaf scars making obvious rings. '-20':28 '15':27 '180cm':13 'arch':6 'brown':34 'cm':29 'crown':7 'dark':16 'diamet':31 'eight':25 'feet':12 'green':17 'grey':33 'grey-brown':32 'held':19 'inch':26 'leaf':37 'leav':9 'long':14 'make':39 'montgomeryana':2 'obvious':40 'palm':4 'ring':41 'scar':38 'six':11,23 'sunshin':3 'trunk':22 'veitchia':1
822 hibiscus rosa sinensis 'sunshower' Sunshower Hibiscus Heavy-textured flowers with petals red at the tips and for most of length, interrupted by an uneven creamy white section near the tips and a white splotch in the center. 'center':38 'creami':26 'flower':10 'heavi':8 'heavy-textur':7 'hibiscus':1,6 'interrupt':22 'length':21 'near':29 'petal':12 'red':13 'rosa':2 'section':28 'sinensi':3 'splotch':35 'sunshow':4,5 'textur':9 'tip':16,31 'uneven':25 'white':27,34
823 cattleya violacea Superba Of The Orinoco Inflorescence of three to seven noticeably flat flowers, which are purple, deeper in the center and with two yellow blotches on the lip. 'blotch':26 'cattleya':1 'center':21 'deeper':18 'flat':13 'flower':14 'infloresc':7 'lip':29 'notic':12 'orinoco':6 'purpl':17 'seven':11 'superba':3 'three':9 'two':24 'violacea':2 'yellow':25
824 plectranthus coleoides 'marginatus' Swedish Ivy Trailing stems that may reach three feet (90cm) in length. Leaves round, variegated with cream margins and irregular patches. Flowers are small and white. '90cm':13 'coleoid':2 'cream':20 'feet':12 'flower':25 'irregular':23 'ivi':5 'leav':16 'length':15 'margin':21 'marginatus':3 'may':9 'patch':24 'plectranthus':1 'reach':10 'round':17 'small':27 'stem':7 'swedish':4 'three':11 'trail':6 'varieg':18 'white':29
825 lobularia maritima Sweet Alyssum Usually grow to no more than a foot (30cm) in height. The original color for the flowers was white but there is now a range of pastel shades as well from which to choose. '30cm':13 'alyssum':4 'choos':38 'color':18 'flower':21 'foot':12 'grow':6 'height':15 'lobularia':1 'maritima':2 'origin':17 'pastel':31 'rang':29 'shade':32 'sweet':3 'usual':5 'well':34 'white':23
826 ocimum basilicum 'green globe' Sweet Basil Compact plants forming neat globes rarely more than nine inches (23cm) tall. Leaves are fragrant. '23cm':17 'basil':6 'basilicum':2 'compact':7 'form':9 'fragrant':21 'globe':4,11 'green':3 'inch':16 'leav':19 'neat':10 'nine':15 'ocimum':1 'plant':8 'rare':12 'sweet':5 'tall':18
827 acorus calamus Sweet Flag, Sweet Myrtle, Sweet Rush There is a white-striped form as well as the plain green iris-like species with leaves about 3 ft.(90cm) tall. '3':29 '90cm':31 'acorus':1 'calamus':2 'flag':4 'form':15 'ft':30 'green':21 'iri':23 'iris-lik':22 'leav':27 'like':24 'myrtl':6 'plain':20 'rush':8 'speci':25 'stripe':14 'sweet':3,5,7 'tall':32 'well':17 'white':13 'white-strip':12
828 origanum majorana Sweet Marjoram Upright reddish stems reach about two feet (60cm). Leaves grayish. Flowers are white, mauve or pink in small clusters. '60cm':12 'cluster':23 'feet':11 'flower':15 'grayish':14 'leav':13 'majorana':2 'marjoram':4 'mauv':18 'origanum':1 'pink':20 'reach':8 'reddish':6 'small':22 'stem':7 'sweet':3 'two':10 'upright':5 'white':17
829 ageratum Sweet Nancy, Sweet Yarrow Branching plants to one foot (30cm) tall, spreading to at least this width. Flowers in flat, fuzzy clusters in blue, pink and white. '30cm':11 'ageratum':1 'blue':25 'branch':6 'cluster':23 'flat':21 'flower':19 'foot':10 'fuzzi':22 'least':16 'nanci':3 'one':9 'pink':26 'plant':7 'spread':13 'sweet':2,4 'tall':12 'white':28 'width':18 'yarrow':5
830 osmanthus fragrans Sweet Olive Leathery dark green leaves on a rather open branch system. The four-petalled flowers are produced in small groups and are fragrant out of all proportion to their size. 'branch':13 'dark':6 'flower':19 'four':17 'four-petal':16 'fragran':2 'fragrant':27 'green':7 'group':24 'leatheri':5 'leav':8 'oliv':4 'open':12 'osmanthus':1 'petal':18 'produc':21 'proport':31 'rather':11 'size':34 'small':23 'sweet':3 'system':14
831 lathyrus Sweet Pea Annuals or perennial climbers with small groups of flowers produced on stalks from the axils of the upper leaves. 'annual':4 'axil':18 'climber':7 'flower':12 'group':10 'lathyrus':1 'leav':22 'pea':3 'perenni':6 'produc':13 'small':9 'stalk':15 'sweet':2 'upper':21
832 pteris ensiformis 'victoriae' Sword Brake Fern Leaves divided into a number of narrow leaflets, green with a narrow white midrib. 'brake':5 'divid':8 'ensiformi':2 'fern':6 'green':15 'leaflet':14 'leav':7 'midrib':20 'narrow':13,18 'number':11 'pteri':1 'sword':4 'victoria':3 'white':19
833 polystichum minutum Sword Fern Fronds in a dense clump, feather-like, two to three feet (60-90cm) tall. '-90':18 '60':17 'clump':9 'cm':19 'dens':8 'feather':11 'feather-lik':10 'feet':16 'fern':4 'frond':5 'like':12 'minutum':2 'polystichum':1 'sword':3 'tall':20 'three':15 'two':13
834 nephrolepis Sword Ferns Strong feather leafed ferns with the fronds growing in tufts from aggressive runners. 'aggress':15 'feather':5 'fern':3,7 'frond':10 'grow':11 'leaf':6 'nephrolepi':1 'runner':16 'strong':4 'sword':2 'tuft':13
835 gardenia taitensis Symbol Flower Upright species with rather open habit. Flowers have a long tube with six or more petals flaring flat at the top. 'flare':21 'flat':22 'flower':4,11 'gardenia':1 'habit':10 'long':14 'open':9 'petal':20 'rather':8 'six':17 'speci':6 'symbol':3 'taitensi':2 'top':25 'tube':15 'upright':5
836 syngonium Syngonium Trailing or climbing, fleshy plants with arrowhead-shaped leaves, often marked with white or yellow. 'arrowhead':10 'arrowhead-shap':9 'climb':5 'fleshi':6 'leav':12 'mark':14 'often':13 'plant':7 'shape':11 'syngonium':1,2 'trail':3 'white':16 'yellow':18
837 pteris cretica 'albo-lineata' Table Fern, Victorian Brake Leaves with five to seven short narrow leaflets, green with a wide white central band. 'albo':4 'albo-lineata':3 'band':24 'brake':9 'central':23 'cretica':2 'fern':7 'five':12 'green':18 'leaflet':17 'leav':10 'lineata':5 'narrow':16 'pteri':1 'seven':14 'short':15 'tabl':6 'victorian':8 'white':22 'wide':21
838 pinguicula caudata Tailed Butterwort The sticky leaves catch tiny insects without any movement to enclose them. Digestion and absorption proceed from the plants own secretions. Flowers are carmine-pink and showy. 'absorpt':19 'butterwort':4 'carmin':29 'carmine-pink':28 'catch':8 'caudata':2 'digest':17 'enclos':15 'flower':26 'insect':10 'leav':7 'movement':13 'pinguicula':1 'pink':30 'plant':23 'proceed':20 'secret':25 'showi':32 'sticki':6 'tail':3 'tini':9 'without':11
839 masdevallia Tailed Orchid Fleshy narrow leaves take the place of pseudobulbs in this genus. Flowers are solitary but produced in quantity. 'fleshi':4 'flower':15 'genus':14 'leav':6 'masdevallia':1 'narrow':5 'orchid':3 'place':9 'produc':19 'pseudobulb':11 'quantiti':21 'solitari':17 'tail':2 'take':7
840 citrus reticulata Tangerine Medium-sized tree with orange fruits in the shape of a flattened globe about three or four inches (7.5-10cm) across. '-10':24 '7.5':23 'across':26 'citrus':1 'cm':25 'flatten':16 'four':21 'fruit':10 'globe':17 'inch':22 'medium':5 'medium-s':4 'orang':9 'reticulata':2 'shape':13 'size':6 'tangerin':3 'three':19 'tree':7
841 osmanthus Tea Olive Small shrubs with leaves that may be spiny at the edges like holly. Tiny flowers are strongly fragrant. 'edg':14 'flower':18 'fragrant':21 'holli':16 'leav':7 'like':15 'may':9 'oliv':3 'osmanthus':1 'shrub':5 'small':4 'spini':11 'strong':20 'tea':2 'tini':17
843 dypsis lastelliana Teddy Bear Palm Medium size palm with stout trunks. The feather-like leaves reach about six feet (2m) in length. Their bases are covered with velvety rust colored hairs. '2m':21 'base':25 'bear':4 'color':31 'cover':27 'dypsi':1 'feather':14 'feather-lik':13 'feet':20 'hair':32 'lastelliana':2 'leav':16 'length':23 'like':15 'medium':6 'palm':5,8 'reach':17 'rust':30 'six':19 'size':7 'stout':10 'teddi':3 'trunk':11 'velveti':29
844 smithiantha cinnabarina 'little one' Temple Bells Short stalks with deep green leaves carry bright orange-red, tubular flowers 'bell':6 'bright':14 'carri':13 'cinnabarina':2 'deep':10 'flower':19 'green':11 'leav':12 'littl':3 'one':4 'orang':16 'orange-r':15 'red':17 'short':7 'smithiantha':1 'stalk':8 'templ':5 'tubular':18
845 rhapis subtilis Thai Dwarf Lady Palm Thai dwarf lady palm Slender trunks often only half an inch (1.25cm) in diameter, in a cluster spreading from a single point of origin rather than from spreading rhizomes. '1.25':18 'cluster':24 'cm':19 'diamet':21 'dwarf':4,8 'half':15 'inch':17 'ladi':5,9 'often':13 'origin':31 'palm':6,10 'point':29 'rather':32 'rhapi':1 'rhizom':36 'singl':28 'slender':11 'spread':25,35 'subtili':2 'thai':3,7 'trunk':12
846 thrinax Thatch Palm Slender palms with a crown of almost circular leaves. 'almost':10 'circular':11 'crown':8 'leav':12 'palm':3,5 'slender':4 'thatch':2 'thrinax':1
847 echinopsis Thistle Globe Globular or more cylindrical plants with strongly developed ribs. 'cylindr':7 'develop':11 'echinopsi':1 'globe':3 'globular':4 'plant':8 'rib':12 'strong':10 'thistl':2
848 trachelium Throatwort Plants reaching two or three feet (60-90cm) in height, the upright stalks crowned with shimmering tiny blue flowers. '-90':10 '60':9 'blue':21 'cm':11 'crown':17 'feet':8 'flower':22 'height':13 'plant':3 'reach':4 'shimmer':19 'stalk':16 'three':7 'throatwort':2 'tini':20 'trachelium':1 'two':5 'upright':15
849 thymus vulgaris 'clear gold' Thyme A gold-leaved form of the culinary thyme that will form a dense mat. 'clear':3 'culinari':13 'dens':19 'form':10,17 'gold':4,8 'gold-leav':7 'leav':9 'mat':20 'thyme':5,14 'thymus':1 'vulgari':2
850 cordyline fruiticosa hybrids Ti Plant Broad, sword-shaped leaves in a variety of colors depending on the form selected. Leaves held upright on stems that branch only occasionally form an upright plant. 'branch':27 'broad':6 'color':15 'cordylin':1 'depend':16 'form':19,30 'fruiticosa':2 'held':22 'hybrid':3 'leav':10,21 'occasion':29 'plant':5,33 'select':20 'shape':9 'stem':25 'sword':8 'sword-shap':7 'ti':4 'upright':23,32 'varieti':13
851 faucaria tigrina Tiger Jaws Leaves about two inches (5cm) long but otherwise very much like Faucaria felina. '5cm':9 'faucaria':1,16 'felina':17 'inch':8 'jaw':4 'leav':5 'like':15 'long':10 'much':14 'otherwis':12 'tiger':3 'tigrina':2 'two':7
852 odontoglossum grande Tiger Orchid Several large flowers about four inches (10cm) across are produced in an arching spray from the base of the pseudobulbs. Flowers are greenish-yellow very heavily barred and decorated with purple-brown. '10cm':11 'across':12 'arch':17 'bar':32 'base':21 'brown':38 'decor':34 'flower':7,25 'four':9 'grand':2 'greenish':28 'greenish-yellow':27 'heavili':31 'inch':10 'larg':6 'odontoglossum':1 'orchid':4 'produc':14 'pseudobulb':24 'purpl':37 'purple-brown':36 'sever':5 'spray':18 'tiger':3 'yellow':29
853 faucaria Tiger's Chops Tufts of fleshy leaves, flat on the upper surface, have white teeth around the margin. 'around':17 'chop':4 'faucaria':1 'flat':9 'fleshi':7 'leav':8 'margin':19 'surfac':13 'teeth':16 'tiger':2 'tuft':5 'upper':12 'white':15
854 nicotiana Tobacco Annuals or perennials, upright or clumping, and most with clammy leaves. Flowers a long tube flaring to a flat face. 'annual':3 'clammi':12 'clump':8 'face':22 'flare':18 'flat':21 'flower':14 'leav':13 'long':16 'nicotiana':1 'perenni':5 'tobacco':2 'tube':17 'upright':6
855 parodia Tom Thumb Globular or short cylindrical cacti, usually with spiraling ribs. 'cacti':8 'cylindr':7 'globular':4 'parodia':1 'rib':12 'short':6 'spiral':11 'thumb':3 'tom':2 'usual':9
856 elaphoglossum longifolium Tongue Fern Broad undivided leaves about a foot (30cm) long are produced on a short creeping stem. '30cm':11 'broad':5 'creep':18 'elaphoglossum':1 'fern':4 'foot':10 'leav':7 'long':12 'longifolium':2 'produc':14 'short':17 'stem':19 'tongu':3 'undivid':6
857 pyrrosia lingua Tongue Fern The creeping rhizome produces undivided fronds about ten inches long. They are covered with a rusty-brown felt when young and become dark green with age. 'age':31 'becom':27 'brown':22 'cover':17 'creep':6 'dark':28 'felt':23 'fern':4 'frond':10 'green':29 'inch':13 'lingua':2 'long':14 'produc':8 'pyrrosia':1 'rhizom':7 'rusti':21 'rusty-brown':20 'ten':12 'tongu':3 'undivid':9 'young':25
858 echinopsis candicans Torch Cactus Branching near the base to make large clumps, about 10 low vertical ribs are covered with interlacing spines. '10':14 'base':8 'branch':5 'cactus':4 'candican':2 'clump':12 'cover':19 'echinopsi':1 'interlac':21 'larg':11 'low':15 'make':10 'near':6 'rib':17 'spine':22 'torch':3 'vertic':16
859 abutilon megapotamicum Trailing Abutilon Narrow-leaved shrub with red and yellow hanging flowers. Good for baskets. 'abutilon':1,4 'basket':17 'flower':14 'good':15 'hang':13 'leav':7 'megapotamicum':2 'narrow':6 'narrow-leav':5 'red':10 'shrub':8 'trail':3 'yellow':12
860 gerbera Transvaal Daisy A basal rosette of lobed leaves produces leafless stems topped with daisy flowers. 'basal':5 'daisi':3,15 'flower':16 'gerbera':1 'leafless':11 'leav':9 'lobe':8 'produc':10 'rosett':6 'stem':12 'top':13 'transvaal':2
861 ravenala Traveler's Palm A massive, usually single-trunked tree in the wild, with huge paddle-shaped leaves carried more or less in one plane. Growth is slow enough that even in the house, the plant will give several years of service. 'carri':21 'enough':31 'even':33 'give':40 'growth':28 'hous':36 'huge':16 'leav':20 'less':24 'massiv':6 'one':26 'paddl':18 'paddle-shap':17 'palm':4 'plane':27 'plant':38 'ravenala':1 'servic':44 'sever':41 'shape':19 'singl':9 'single-trunk':8 'slow':30 'travel':2 'tree':11 'trunk':10 'usual':7 'wild':14 'year':42
862 ravenala madagascariensis Traveler's Tree A very large-scale plant in any but its first few years, but a very interesting fan of leaves for a place large enough to enjoy it. 'enjoy':32 'enough':30 'fan':23 'first':16 'interest':22 'larg':9,29 'large-scal':8 'leav':25 'madagascariensi':2 'place':28 'plant':11 'ravenala':1 'scale':10 'travel':3 'tree':5 'year':18
863 kohleria medea Tree Gloxinia Upright stems two to three feet (60-90cm) long with velvety green leaves produce flowers in the upper parts, red on the outside, yellow within. '-90':12 '60':11 'cm':13 'feet':10 'flower':20 'gloxinia':4 'green':17 'kohleria':1 'leav':18 'long':14 'medea':2 'outsid':28 'part':24 'produc':19 'red':25 'stem':6 'three':9 'tree':3 'two':7 'upper':23 'upright':5 'velveti':16 'within':30 'yellow':29
864 fatshedera lizei Tree Ivy Semi climber from one parent (ivy), but with large hand-shaped leaves from the other (Fatsia). Various leaf colors of plain green or variegated have been selected. 'climber':6 'color':24 'fatshedera':1 'fatsia':21 'green':27 'hand':15 'hand-shap':14 'ivi':4,10 'larg':13 'leaf':23 'leav':17 'lizei':2 'one':8 'parent':9 'plain':26 'select':32 'semi':5 'shape':16 'tree':3 'varieg':29 'various':22
865 dypsis decaryi Triangle Palm A solitary trunked palm with the silvery-grey, feather leaves carried in three clear rows on the trunk, giving rise to the name ôtriangle palmö. 'carri':16 'clear':19 'decaryi':2 'dypsi':1 'feather':14 'give':24 'grey':13 'leav':15 'name':28 'palm':4,8 'palmö':30 'rise':25 'row':20 'silveri':12 'silvery-grey':11 'solitari':6 'three':18 'triangl':3 'trunk':7,23 'ôtriangl':29
866 cordyline fruiticosa tricolor Tricolor A form in which the leaves are marked with bold sectors of white and deep pink. 'bold':14 'cordylin':1 'deep':19 'form':6 'fruiticosa':2 'leav':10 'mark':12 'pink':20 'sector':15 'tricolor':3,4 'white':17
867 melocactus intortus Turks Head Cactus Globose stem with vertical ribs and strong spines is capped with a spiny and woolly structure which enlarges year by year and is the site of pink flower production. 'cactus':5 'cap':15 'enlarg':23 'flower':33 'globos':6 'head':4 'intortus':2 'melocactus':1 'pink':32 'product':34 'rib':10 'site':30 'spine':13 'spini':18 'stem':7 'strong':12 'structur':21 'turk':3 'vertic':9 'woolli':20 'year':24,26
868 oncidium ampliatum majus Turtle Orchid, Yellow Tree An upright, branched inflorescence, often three feet (90cm) tall, has many sprays of bright yellow and red-brown flowers. '90cm':15 'ampliatum':2 'branch':10 'bright':21 'brown':26 'feet':14 'flower':27 'infloresc':11 'majus':3 'mani':18 'often':12 'oncidium':1 'orchid':5 'red':25 'red-brown':24 'spray':19 'tall':16 'three':13 'tree':7 'turtl':4 'upright':9 'yellow':6,22
869 cyperus alternifolius Umbrella Plant Stems two to four feet (60-120cm) tall produce an umbrella of leaves at the top with tiny flowers in spike lets at the center of the rosette. '-120':11 '60':10 'alternifolius':2 'center':30 'cm':12 'cyperus':1 'feet':9 'flower':24 'four':8 'leav':18 'let':27 'plant':4 'produc':14 'rosett':33 'spike':26 'stem':5 'tall':13 'tini':23 'top':21 'two':6 'umbrella':3,16
870 oplismenus hirtellus 'variegatus' Variegated Basketgrass Green and white variegated leaves, sometimes flushed with pink on arching stems that make an attractive basket plant. 'arch':16 'attract':21 'basket':22 'basketgrass':5 'flush':12 'green':6 'hirtellus':2 'leav':10 'make':19 'oplismenus':1 'pink':14 'plant':23 'sometim':11 'stem':17 'varieg':4,9 'variegatus':3 'white':8
871 osmanthus heterophyllus 'variegatus' Variegated False Holly Dark shiny leaves, variegated in this form, and small fragrant white flowers. 'dark':7 'fals':5 'flower':18 'form':13 'fragrant':16 'heterophyllus':2 'holli':6 'leav':9 'osmanthus':1 'shini':8 'small':15 'varieg':4,10 'variegatus':3 'white':17
872 liriope muscari variegata Variegated Lily Turf Leaves with yellow-white lines along their length. 'along':13 'leav':7 'length':15 'lili':5 'line':12 'liriop':1 'muscari':2 'turf':6 'varieg':4 'variegata':3 'white':11 'yellow':10 'yellow-whit':9
873 ficus elastica 'doescheri' Variegated Rubber Plant A handsome form of the species with a broad cream area from the edge of the leaf. 'area':17 'broad':15 'cream':16 'doescheri':3 'edg':20 'elastica':2 'ficus':1 'form':9 'handsom':8 'leaf':23 'plant':6 'rubber':5 'speci':12 'varieg':4
874 sansevieria trifasciata 'laurentii' Variegated Snake Plant Vertical leaves with the grey-green barred leaves edged in a clear yellow. 'bar':14 'clear':19 'edg':16 'green':13 'grey':12 'grey-green':11 'laurentii':3 'leav':8,15 'plant':6 'sansevieria':1 'snake':5 'trifasciata':2 'varieg':4 'vertic':7 'yellow':20
875 stenotaphrum secundatum 'variegatum' Variegated St. Augustine Grass Strongly variegated form of a vigorous grass for baskets, groundcover or mixed containers. 'augustin':6 'basket':16 'contain':20 'form':10 'grass':7,14 'groundcov':17 'mix':19 'secundatum':2 'st':5 'stenotaphrum':1 'strong':8 'varieg':4,9 'variegatum':3 'vigor':13
876 manihot esculenta 'variegata' Variegated Tapioca Plant Upright or angled, knobby stems hold deeply cut, hand-shaped leaves in their upper parts. In this variety they are brightly variegated. 'angl':9 'bright':28 'cut':14 'deepli':13 'esculenta':2 'hand':16 'hand-shap':15 'hold':12 'knobbi':10 'leav':18 'manihot':1 'part':22 'plant':6 'shape':17 'stem':11 'tapioca':5 'upper':21 'upright':7 'varieg':4,29 'variegata':3 'varieti':25
877 schefflera actinophylla variegata Variegated Umbrella Tree Large leaves each made up of seven to thirteen large oval leaflets radiating from the end of a long stalk. The whole leaf may measure more than three feet (90cm) overall. Green forms are the most common. '90cm':36 'actinophylla':2 'common':43 'end':22 'feet':35 'form':39 'green':38 'larg':7,16 'leaf':29 'leaflet':18 'leav':8 'long':25 'made':10 'may':30 'measur':31 'oval':17 'overal':37 'radiat':19 'schefflera':1 'seven':13 'stalk':26 'thirteen':15 'three':34 'tree':6 'umbrella':5 'varieg':4 'variegata':3 'whole':28
878 dodonaea Varnish Bush Shrubs or small trees in nature that can be kept smaller when confined in containers. The narrow leaves are glossy on their upper surface. 'bush':3 'confin':16 'contain':18 'dodonaea':1 'glossi':23 'kept':13 'leav':21 'narrow':20 'natur':9 'shrub':4 'small':6 'smaller':14 'surfac':27 'tree':7 'upper':26 'varnish':2
879 billbergia Vase Plant Species vary in size. Most form a water-holding, rather narrow vase from which the flower stalk emerges to hold the cluster of flowers upright or in a graceful arch. 'arch':34 'billbergia':1 'cluster':26 'emerg':22 'flower':20,28 'form':9 'grace':33 'hold':13,24 'narrow':15 'plant':3 'rather':14 'size':7 'speci':4 'stalk':21 'upright':29 'vari':5 'vase':2,16 'water':12 'water-hold':11
880 veitchia Veitchia Palm Single trunk palm that will reach 20 feet (6m+) in the tropics, but will live several years in a container for interior use. '20':10 '6m':12 'contain':23 'feet':11 'interior':25 'live':18 'palm':3,6 'reach':9 'sever':19 'singl':4 'tropic':15 'trunk':5 'use':26 'veitchia':1,2 'year':20
881 veltheimia Velthemia Leaves in a basal rosette with a central stalk of tubular flowers rising well above the dark leaves. 'basal':6 'central':10 'dark':19 'flower':14 'leav':3,20 'rise':15 'rosett':7 'stalk':11 'tubular':13 'veltheimia':1 'velthemia':2 'well':16
882 gynura Velvet Plant Trailing plants suitable for baskets or pots. The leaves are covered with purple hairs. 'basket':8 'cover':14 'gynura':1 'hair':17 'leav':12 'plant':3,5 'pot':10 'purpl':16 'suitabl':6 'trail':4 'velvet':2
883 aeonium decorum Velvet Rose Rosettes of broad leaves are most attractive when small and close to the ground, but eventually are carried at the tips of branches of a two foot (60cm) tall shrub. '60cm':32 'aeonium':1 'attract':11 'branch':27 'broad':7 'carri':22 'close':15 'decorum':2 'eventu':20 'foot':31 'ground':18 'leav':8 'rose':4 'rosett':5 'shrub':34 'small':13 'tall':33 'tip':25 'two':30 'velvet':3
884 dionaea muscipula Venus Fly Trap Each leaf of the rosette develops a trap at the end which closes when triggered by an insect, trapping the victim, and digesting it with juices secreted by the leaf. The plant gets much of its needed nitrogen in this way. 'close':18 'develop':11 'digest':28 'dionaea':1 'end':16 'fli':4 'get':38 'insect':23 'juic':31 'leaf':7,35 'much':39 'muscipula':2 'need':42 'nitrogen':43 'plant':37 'rosett':10 'secret':32 'trap':5,13,24 'trigger':20 'venus':3 'victim':26 'way':46
885 parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia Creeper Rampant vine with attractive shiny, five-lobed leaves that will cover a space very quickly. 'attract':8 'cover':16 'creeper':4 'five':11 'five-lob':10 'leav':13 'lobe':12 'parthenocissus':1 'quick':20 'quinquefolia':2 'rampant':5 'shini':9 'space':18 'vine':6 'virginia':3
886 hemigraphis colorata Waffle Plant Leaves grey-green above, purple-red below. Stems upright or trailing, making a good groundcover or basket plant. 'basket':23 'colorata':2 'good':20 'green':8 'grey':7 'grey-green':6 'groundcov':21 'hemigraphi':1 'leav':5 'make':18 'plant':4,24 'purpl':11 'purple-r':10 'red':12 'stem':14 'trail':17 'upright':15 'waffl':3
887 sparaxis grandiflora 'color fantasy' Wand Flower Leaves 12-18 inches (30-45cm) tall. Individual flowers about two inches (5cm) across in a wide array of colors, many with a different color center to the flower. '-18':9 '-45':12 '12':8 '30':11 '5cm':20 'across':21 'array':25 'center':33 'cm':13 'color':3,27,32 'differ':31 'fantasi':4 'flower':6,16,36 'grandiflora':2 'inch':10,19 'individu':15 'leav':7 'mani':28 'sparaxi':1 'tall':14 'two':18 'wand':5 'wide':24
888 tradescantia zebrina Wandering Jew Soft, rapidly growing, trailing stems have leaves about two inches (5cm) long for much of their length. The leaves are red-purple beneath and silver, purple and green above. Flowers are white. '5cm':15 'beneath':28 'flower':35 'green':33 'grow':7 'inch':14 'jew':4 'leav':11,23 'length':21 'long':16 'much':18 'purpl':27,31 'rapid':6 'red':26 'red-purpl':25 'silver':30 'soft':5 'stem':9 'tradescantia':1 'trail':8 'two':13 'wander':3 'white':37 'zebrina':2
889 zebrina pendula (name has changed see tradescantia zebrina) Wandering Jew Soft, rapidly growing, trailing stems have leaves about two inches (5cm) long for much of their length. The leaves are red-purple beneath and silver, purple and green above. Flowers are white. '5cm':21 'beneath':34 'chang':5 'flower':41 'green':39 'grow':13 'inch':20 'jew':10 'leav':17,29 'length':27 'long':22 'much':24 'name':3 'pendula':2 'purpl':33,37 'rapid':12 'red':32 'red-purpl':31 'see':6 'silver':36 'soft':11 'stem':15 'tradescantia':7 'trail':14 'two':19 'wander':9 'white':43 'zebrina':1,8
890 dracaena deremensis 'warneckei' Warnecki Leaves grey-green with a broad white stripe close to the margin on each side of the leaf. 'broad':11 'close':14 'deremensi':2 'dracaena':1 'green':8 'grey':7 'grey-green':6 'leaf':23 'leav':5 'margin':17 'side':20 'stripe':13 'warneckei':3 'warnecki':4 'white':12
891 washingtonia Washingtonia Palms Large palms with almost circular leaves. Useful in containers when young, but eventually outgrowing most interiors. 'almost':7 'circular':8 'contain':12 'eventu':16 'interior':19 'larg':4 'leav':9 'outgrow':17 'palm':3,5 'use':10 'washingtonia':1,2 'young':14
892 crassula muscosa Watch Chain Slender upright stems of this small shrub are almost hidden by the small leaves in closely packed rows. 'almost':13 'chain':4 'close':20 'crassula':1 'hidden':14 'leav':18 'muscosa':2 'pack':21 'row':22 'shrub':11 'slender':5 'small':10,17 'stem':7 'upright':6 'watch':3
893 marsilea quadrifolia Water Clover Leaves resembling a four-leaved clover held above the surface of the mud/water. 'clover':4,11 'four':9 'four-leav':8 'held':12 'leav':5,10 'marsilea':1 'mud/water':18 'quadrifolia':2 'resembl':6 'surfac':15 'water':3
894 marsilea Water Clovers Leaves resemble clover more than a conventional fern leaf. Thrive in water or wet mud. 'clover':3,6 'convent':10 'fern':11 'leaf':12 'leav':4 'marsilea':1 'mud':18 'resembl':5 'thrive':13 'water':2,15 'wet':17
895 peperomia argyreia Watermelon Begonias Very short stemmed plants with oval leaves attached by stalks on their underside, and with silver and grey bars radiating out from just off-center of the leaf. 'argyreia':2 'attach':12 'bar':23 'begonia':4 'center':30 'grey':22 'leaf':33 'leav':11 'off-cent':28 'oval':10 'peperomia':1 'plant':8 'radiat':24 'short':6 'silver':20 'stalk':14 'stem':7 'undersid':17 'watermelon':3
896 stenocactus Wavy-ribbed Cactus Globular or cylindrical plants with numerous ribs and a strong covering of spines. 'cactus':5 'cover':16 'cylindr':8 'globular':6 'numer':11 'plant':9 'rib':4,12 'spine':18 'stenocactus':1 'strong':15 'wavi':3 'wavy-rib':2
897 begonia semperflorens cultorum Wax Begonias Short, compact tufted plants with waxy, shiny leaves and clusters of flowers in whites, pinks and reds. 'begonia':1,5 'cluster':15 'compact':7 'cultorum':3 'flower':17 'leav':13 'pink':20 'plant':9 'red':22 'semperfloren':2 'shini':12 'short':6 'tuft':8 'wax':4 'waxi':11 'white':19
898 ligustrum japonicum 'texanum' Wax Leaf A vigorous grower with leathery leaves that darken as they age. 'age':16 'darken':13 'grower':8 'japonicum':2 'leaf':5 'leatheri':10 'leav':11 'ligustrum':1 'texanum':3 'vigor':7 'wax':4
899 hoya carnosa 'little leaf' Wax Plant Twining climber that can be controlled to make a good basket plant. Flowers are white with red centers in flat clusters. 'basket':17 'carnosa':2 'center':24 'climber':8 'cluster':27 'control':12 'flat':26 'flower':19 'good':16 'hoya':1 'leaf':4 'littl':3 'make':14 'plant':6,18 'red':23 'twine':7 'wax':5 'white':21
900 cuphea Waxweed Small to medium, upright plants, flowering in a range from an abundance of tiny blooms to a smaller number of interestingly-shaped larger flowers. 'abund':14 'bloom':17 'cuphea':1 'flower':8,27 'interest':24 'interestingly-shap':23 'larger':26 'medium':5 'number':21 'plant':7 'rang':11 'shape':25 'small':3 'smaller':20 'tini':16 'upright':6 'waxwe':2
901 lytocaryum weddellianum Weddell Palm, Wedding Palm Slender, solitary palm with a trunk only about an inch (2.5cm) in diameter. Dark green feather leaves in proportion to this form a graceful arching crown. '2.5':17 'arch':32 'cm':18 'crown':33 'dark':21 'diamet':20 'feather':23 'form':29 'grace':31 'green':22 'inch':16 'leav':24 'lytocaryum':1 'palm':4,6,9 'proport':26 'slender':7 'solitari':8 'trunk':12 'wed':5 'weddel':3 'weddellianum':2
902 otatea Weeping Bamboo Medium sized plant reaching 12' (4m) and of open growth in the tropics, smaller and more clumping in a container. '12':8 '4m':9 'bamboo':3 'clump':20 'contain':23 'growth':13 'medium':4 'open':12 'otatea':1 'plant':6 'reach':7 'size':5 'smaller':17 'tropic':16 'weep':2
903 ficus benjamina variegata Weeping Fig A number of named varieties of benjamina have variegated leaves. The white or cream color is strongest in high light situations. 'benjamina':2,12 'color':20 'cream':19 'ficus':1 'fig':5 'high':24 'leav':15 'light':25 'name':9 'number':7 'situat':26 'strongest':22 'varieg':14 'variegata':3 'varieti':10 'weep':4 'white':17
904 leea coccinea West Indian Holly The much-divided leaves give a lacy effect to a strong plant. The flat heads of tiny flowers is followed by dark berries which should be handled with care since the flesh is caustic. There is an interesting form with all parts flushed purple. 'berri':29 'care':35 'caustic':40 'coccinea':2 'dark':28 'divid':9 'effect':14 'flat':20 'flesh':38 'flower':24 'flush':49 'follow':26 'form':45 'give':11 'handl':33 'head':21 'holli':5 'indian':4 'interest':44 'laci':13 'leav':10 'leea':1 'much':8 'much-divid':7 'part':48 'plant':18 'purpl':50 'sinc':36 'strong':17 'tini':23 'west':3
905 thrinax radiata West Indian Thatch Palm Similar to T.morrisii but less likely to develop a silver underside to the leaves. 'develop':14 'indian':4 'leav':20 'less':11 'like':12 'palm':6 'radiata':2 'silver':16 'similar':7 't.morrisii':9 'thatch':5 'thrinax':1 'undersid':17 'west':3
906 lycaste virginalis alba 'knob hill' White Nun Orchid Six to eight showy flowers in shades of pink and white with a deeper lip, are carried on an arching spray from the base of the pseudobulb. 'alba':3 'arch':28 'base':32 'carri':25 'deeper':22 'eight':11 'flower':13 'hill':5 'knob':4 'lip':23 'lycast':1 'nun':7 'orchid':8 'pink':17 'pseudobulb':35 'shade':15 'showi':12 'six':9 'spray':29 'virginali':2 'white':6,19
907 haemanthus albiflos White Paint Brush Leaves thick, fleshy, six to eight inches (15-20cm) long. Flowers grow in a dense group, white with yellow stamens. '-20':14 '15':13 'albiflo':2 'brush':5 'cm':15 'dens':21 'eight':11 'fleshi':8 'flower':17 'group':22 'grow':18 'haemanthus':1 'inch':12 'leav':6 'long':16 'paint':4 'six':9 'stamen':26 'thick':7 'white':3,23 'yellow':25
908 mammillaria geminispina Whitey Stems cylindrical, tubercles with hairs at their bases and with short, white radial and longer, dark central spines, the whole giving a silvery appearance to the plant. Flowers are red. 'appear':27 'base':11 'central':20 'cylindr':5 'dark':19 'flower':31 'geminispina':2 'give':24 'hair':8 'longer':18 'mammillaria':1 'plant':30 'radial':16 'red':33 'short':14 'silveri':26 'spine':21 'stem':4 'tubercl':6 'white':15 'whitey':3 'whole':23
909 commelina communis Widows Tears Sprawling stems about two feet (60cm) long. Clear blue flowers form between two green leaf-like bracts and open a few at a time over a long period. '60cm':10 'blue':13 'bract':22 'clear':12 'commelina':1 'communi':2 'feet':9 'flower':14 'form':15 'green':18 'leaf':20 'leaf-lik':19 'like':21 'long':11,32 'open':24 'period':33 'sprawl':5 'stem':6 'tear':4 'time':29 'two':8,17 'widow':3
910 mitriostigma axillare Wild Coffee A medium size shrub with dark green glossy leaves. Many white flowers about half an inch wide are produced in small groups where leaves join the stem. 'axillar':2 'coffe':4 'dark':10 'flower':16 'glossi':12 'green':11 'group':26 'half':18 'inch':20 'join':29 'leav':13,28 'mani':14 'medium':6 'mitriostigma':1 'produc':23 'shrub':8 'size':7 'small':25 'stem':31 'white':15 'wide':21 'wild':3