Plants

Plants

Any organisms of the kingdom Plantae that is characterized by containing chloroplast, having cellulose cell walls being photosynthetic.

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Plants

Genus of about 350 species of evergreen perennials, shrubs, and climbers, some with succulent stems or roots, occurring in tropical and subtropical regions, at forest margins and thickets. Cissus are ...

strobilanthes

Plants; Plants

Genus of 250 species of evergreen or deciduous perennials or soft-stemmed shrubs from woodland margins in Asia and Madagascar. Strobilanthes is a foliage plant. The long, pointed leaves are dark ...

streptocarpus

Plants; Plants

Genus of about 130 species of annuals and perennials, some monocarpic, or rarely subshrubs, often found in rainforest, sometimes as epiphytes, and on damp banks and rocks or in grassland, found from ...

strelitzia

Plants; Plants

Genus af about 5 species of clump-forming, evergreen perennials found in habitats ranging from riverbanks to open glades in the bush of South Africa. Bird of Paradise is not easily grown. It can get ...

stephanotis

Plants; Plants

The name derives from the Greek 'stephanos' crown and 'otis' ear which refers to the arrangement of the stamens in the flower which (supposedly) are ear shaped. Genus of 5-15 species of evergreen, ...

stapelia

Plants; Plants

Genus of about 45 species of perennial succulents from low, hilly, often rocky terrain, mainly in tropical and southern Africa. All Stapelias have spectacular flowers. The most popular type is ...

stanhopea

Plants; Plants

Genus of about 30 species of evergreen, epiphytic orchids from moist forest, in Mexico and Central and South America. The conical, ribbed pseudobulbs each bear a single, large, semi-rigid, folded, ...