General plants

General plants

Plants in general and their related subjects and terms.

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General plants

Genus of about 200 species of usually evergreen shrubs and trees, a few epiphytic, found in habitats ranging from sandy savanna to rainforest, in Australia, southern Africa, S. and E. Asia, and the ...

platycerium

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 15 species of evergreen, epiphytic ferns, with short-creeping rhizomes. Most are found in temperate and tropical rainforest in Africa, Asia and Australia; one occurs in South America. ...

plectranthus

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 350 species of annuals, evergreen perennials, semi-succulents, and shrubs from Africa, Asia, Madagascar, Australia, and Pacific islands.

pleione

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 16-20 species of small, deciduous, epiphytic, terrestrial, or lithophytic orchids mainly from wet forest or woodland, from N. India to S. China and Taiwan. They produce short-lived, ...

plumbago

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 15 species of annuals, perennials, and evergreen shrubs and scandent climbers from tropical woodland and scrub in warm-temperate to tropical regions worldwide. An evergreen shrub with ...

pogonoatherum

Plants; General plants

Only one specie is grown as a houseplant, Pogonatherum paniceum. From the Greek pogon (beard) and ather (awns on an ‘ear of corn’), referring to the beardlike appearance of inflorescences resulting ...

polypodium

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 75 species of mostly evergreen, usually epiphytic, sometimes terrestrial ferns, from tropical regions of the US, Central America, South America, but also from temperate and other ...