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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cissus

Plants; 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...