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Scientific name - Angophora hispida Blaxell Synonyms -- Popular names - dwarf apple, apple scrub. Distribution and Habitat - originating in Australia, is common in coastal areas. Description - shrub or small tree, 4-5 m high. Gray-red bark at first smooth, exfoliating in due course. Leaves opposite, Sesia or short stalks, cordiform, 5-10 x 2.5-4.5 cm, pale green, pubescent. 3.7 flowers in a corymb, 10-15 cm diameter. Sepa free (dialisepal), green, petals free (dialipetal), white cream. Blooming in January. Fruit capsule. Tolerances - Short term frosts and drought. Requirements - well-drained soils, sunny. Propagation - the seeds soon after ripening. It looks bad in sand and perlite, GErminarea occurs at 2-3 weeks at 20-23 C. ͦ In the first years to protect plants from frost. Natural partners and Garden - Brachychiton bidwillii, Epacris microphylla, Grevillea sericea, Kunzea ambigua, Leptospermum arachnoides, Leptospermum trinervium. Properties and Uses - can be used as ornamental trees in dry areas, and as a street tree. References Jann Williams, John Woinarski - Eucalypt Ecology - Individuals to Ecosystems - Cambridge University Press, 1997 Roger Spencer, Su Pearson - Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia - Flowering Plants Dicotyledons - New South Wales, 2002
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Hebe x franciscana
Hebe x franciscana - evergreen shrub, up to 1.5 m tall. Hebe x franciscana is a hybrid of Hebe speciosa Hebe from New Zealand and Elliptic. Hamamelis mollis
Species from China (Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan), at altitudes of 800-1400 m, where grows beside Quercus serrata , Corylopsis sinensis , Castanea seguinii , Rhododendron simsii , Hosta ventricosa and Linder sp. . Catalpa bignonioides
Catalpa bignonioides - deciduu tree, a native of south-eastern United States in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. Cultivated as an ornamental tree. Helianthemum nummularium - Rock Rose
Scientific name, Helianthemum numularium, derived from the Greek Helios = sun and the Latin word indicating the currency, numumus = currency, because the flowers that sparkle in sunlight like a golden coin. Callicarpa L.
Callicarpa L. comprises 170 species of trees and shrubs of temperate and tropical zones. The most commonly found in parks and gardens are Beautyberry American Beautyberry bodinieri, Beautyberry dichotoma, Japan and Beautyberry Beautyberry macrophylla. Magnoliopsida
Campanula spicata
Campanula spicata - Alpine endemic species which grows on calcareous rocks, cultivated as ornamental species for rock garden. Papaver aurantiacum
Papaver aurantiacum - perennial species, grows on limestone debris and rocky places in alpine and subalpine region. Pedicularis rostrata-capitata
Pedicularis rostrata-capitata - grows on alpine and subalpine meadows, cave sites, 1800-2400 m altitude. Pedicularis rostrata-capital belongs to the family Orobanchaceae, which contain parasites or semiparazite, with or without chlorophyll, leaf bracteiforme. Goniothalamus dumontetii
Small tree, stem 6 m tall, thin. Lujerii are pubescent. Leaves with Lamine obovata, 9-19 x 3.5-5.5 cm, short top acuminata, the acute subcoriacee, subglabra mid rib, ribs side 10-13 pairs, petiole 3.5-10 mm, slightly pubescent. Firmiana simplex
Firmiana simplex - also known as Sterculia platanifolia, was named in honor of Karl Joseph von Firmiana (1718-1782). Firmiana simplex - ornamental species grown in parks and gardens in shady and protected from winds exhibitions. |
 
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