General plants

General plants

Plants in general and their related subjects and terms.

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General plants

Genus of 12 species of evergreen perennials and shrubs, from woodland or rainforest in the West Indies and tropical Central and South America. Pachystachys bears cone-shaped flower-heads above the ...

pandanus

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 250 species of dioecious, evergreen shrubs and trees occuring in dry and moist sites throughout tropical regions of Africa, India, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands. Pandanus ...

paphiopedilum

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 60 species of evergreen, mainly terrestrial orchids, some epiphytic or lithophytic, occuring from India to China, S.E.Asia, and Papua New Guinea. Paphiopedilums are divided into two ...

parthenocissus

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 10 species of deciduous tendrill climbers found in forests in the Himalayas, E. Asia, and North America. Some species are twining, but more commonly they cling by disk-like suckers on ...

passiflora

Plants; General plants

Genus of more than 400 species of mostly evergreen tendril climbers, and a few annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees, occuring in tropical woodland, on rocks, and in grassland, in tropical North, ...

pedilanthus

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 14 species of bushy, succulent shrubs and small trees occuring mainly in low, rocky terrain in Mexico, Central and South America, the West Indies, and Florida. The house plant ...

pelargonium

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 230 species of mainly evergreen perennials, succulents, subshrubs, and shruns, occuring in a variety of habitats, from mountains to deserts, mostly in South Africa. Pelargoniums are ...