Plants

Plants

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.

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colmanara

Plants; Plants

Colmanara is a complex hybrid containing three different genera of orchids (Oncidium, Miltonia, Odontoglossum). Flowers are carried on long branching spikes, and typically last ...

colocasia

Plants; Plants

Genus of 6 species of tuberous, deciduous or evergreen perennials from swampy or moist areas in tropical Asia, and widely grown there as a staple food. Colocasia is similar a ...

columnea

Plants; Plants

Genus of about 150 species of evergreen shrubs and subshrubs, with trailing or pendent shoots, and occasionally scandent climbers from moist woodland, rainforest, or cloud forest ...

cordyline

Plants; Plants

Genus of 15 species of evergreen shrubs or tree-like, woody-stemmed perennials, the larger one resembling palms, found on open hillsides and in scrub and open forest in S.E. Asia ...

beloperone

Plants; Plants

Genus of about 420 species of evergreen perennials, shrubs and subshrubs from a wide range of habitats in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide and from temperate North ...

blechnum

Plants; Plants

Genus of 150-200 species of evergreen, rhizomatous, terrestrial ferns found in moist, sheltered, acidic sites in temperate and tropical regions. A distinct trunk develops with age ...

bouvardia

Plants; Plants

Genus of about 30 species of evergreen shrubs and perennials from scrub, thickets, woodland and forest margins in tropical ans subtropical S. US to South America. Bouvardia have ...