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Scientific name - Pittosporum tobira Synonyms -- Popular names - English: tobira, mock orange, Australian Laurel, Japan: Tober, tobira. Distribution and Habitat - originating in China and Japan. Description - shrub 4 m high, dense crown. Bark brown, rough. Leaves persistent, coriacee, simple, language spatulate, entire edge, top round, the obovata, central rib obvious, and glossy dark green upper side, more open bottom, glabra, arranged in vertical false. Umbela blossom. Flowers hermaphrodite, scented (like orange flowers); Corola 5 free petals, 2.5 cm diameter. Fruit capsule flashy, triangular, subsferica, 1-2 cm diameter, green. Seeds covered by a mucilaginous layer red-orange. Growth rate - fast. Propagation - by semi-lignificati seedlings. Diseases and pests -- Curiosity - Pittosporum tobira was introwent to England in 1804, in Canton, China, by William Kerr, botanical collector for Kew Garden. References James R. Cothran - Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum - University of South Carolina Press, 2003 Marie Harrison - Groundcovers for the South - Pineapple Press, 2006 Ran Levy-Yamamori, Gerard Taaffe - Garden Plants of Japan - Timber Press, 2004 Ronald Houtman, Royal Boskoop Horticultural Society Staff - Variegated Trees and Shrubs - Timber Press, 2004 W. Arthur Whistler - Tropical Ornamentals - Timber Press, 2000
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Maclura tricuspidata
Maclura tricuspidata - native to North America, used as an ornamental species, used for protection curtains. Menzies ferruginea Smith
Shrub 1-2 m tall, thin stalk, reddish brown, slightly pubescent, terminal buds in bouquets, bark red-brown to gray-brown, thin, becomes scaly. Leaves alternate, decidue, nervatiune pinnate, obovata-elliptic, 3-6 cm long, dark green on upper and pale green inside, margins entire or soirees. Cocos nucifera
Palm mono, with one strain. Trunk erect, gray, 20 m high and 50 cm in diameter. Paripenat-leaves are compound, folio 200-250 pairs of linear-lanceolata. 4,5-5,5 m long Frondele and stalks are covered quarter length. Foliolele have 1,5-5 cm wide. Ribbed rachides may be green or bronze. Alnus glutinosa - common alder
Alnus glutinosa - genus name derives from celticul 'the lan' = nearly as bad, due to habitat plants that grow near rivers, species name 'glutinosa' refers to the resin that covers the young leaves and stems. Acer palmatum - Japanese maple
Acer palmatum originally from China, Korea and Japan. Grown for leafy greens or red. Magnoliopsida
Prenanthes purpurea - rabbit salad
Herbaceous perennial. Stem branched, 25-150 cm, pubescent. Amplexicaule leaves, elliptical, oblong or fidate, margin entire or Pinata-fidata, glauca. Flowers arranged in panicule, ligula flowers are purple, with 5 teeth, tubular flowers absent. Zinnia elegans
Zinnia elegans - herbaceous annual, native of Mexico. Zinnia elegans was named in honor of Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759), professor of anatomy and botany at the University of Gottingen (Germany), which described the species Zinnia peruviana. Physoplexis comosa
Herbaceous perennial, fleshy rhizome. Flexible stem, erect to decumbenta, ribbed, light purple, 8-20 cm high. Leaves petiolate, green-glauca, glabra, 5-10 cm long, leaf-ovat basal orbiculare or reniforme; caulinare lanceolata-spatulate leaves, base cuneata, top acute, edge teeth caulinare upper leaves are elliptical, bracteiforme. Acer tataricum - tatarian maple
Acer tataricum - interest forest and ornamental tree grown in parks and gardens.It is used in dyeing natural fibers. Nigella damascena L.
Annual species. Stem thin, ribbed, glabra, or geniculara erect, branched toward the top, 20-45 cm high. Leaves alternate, basal leaves linear-lanceolata, 2-3 pinnate-sectors; caulinare leaves are Sesi |
 
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