General plants

General plants

Plants in general and their related subjects and terms.

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General plants

Genus of about 100 species of rosette-forming or scrambling, evergreen or herbaceous, insectivorous perennials, also including some annuals, found in poor, acidic, boggy soil throughout the world, ...

agapanthus

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 10 species of perennials, some of them evergreen, from S. Africa. There is no difficulty to grow Agapanthus. Just move it to a frost-free room in winter. There it will need very little ...

corokia

Plants; General plants

Genus of 3 species of evergreen shrubs occuring in forest and rocky areas in New Zealand. They grow from 8 to 12 feet high and produce small, star-shaped yellow flowers, which are followed by pretty ...

costus

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 90 species of mostly clump-forming, rhizomatous perennials with an open, lax habit, found on forest floors in tropical Africa, Asia, Australia, and North, Central and South America. ...

cotyledon

Plants; General plants

Genus of 9 species of compact, often clump-forming, perennial succulents and evergreen subshrubs from desert or shaded areas in E. Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Africa. Most known is ...

crassula

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 150 species of annual and perennial succulents and evergreen, succulent shrubs and subshrubs, ranging from dwarf to tall, tree-like plants, and found in dry to moist, high to low areas ...

crinum

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 130 species of deciduous or evergreen, bulbous perennials found at streamsides and lake margins throughout tropical regoins and Tropical Africa. Crinum is very large - the 6 in. bulb, ...