Gardenia is a charming shrub of family Rubiaceae, native of South-East China and Japan were is moderate temperature and high constant moisture.
Gardenia description
Gardenia is, as we said before, a very appreciated shrub, 1- 2,5 meters weight, bushy and with a slow growing. Its leaves are dark healthy green, glace and having between 5 and 10 centimeters (for potted plant). Gardenia’s flowers are most loved because of their perfume very alike jasmine’s flavor. They are white or light cream colored and seam to be waxen. Gardenia has oval orange fruits, not very decorating elements.
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The Passion Flower – Passiflora
The Passion Flower ‘ Passiflora ‘ is a genus with over 500 species of flowering plants belonging to family Passifloraceae.
The most popular species of Passiflora is The Blue Passion Flower ‘ Passiflora caerulea ‘ also known as Common Passion Flower.
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Clivia
Clivia is also called “Winter Lily” because of its winter blooming. Native of subtropical areas of South Africa, Clivia is now the most popular lily houseplants decorating places of all over the world. It had arrived in England in 1852 and its name is of Duchess of Northumberland, lady Charlotte-Florentine-Clive, Queen Victoria’s governess.
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Description
Kalanchoe is the most popular and also one of the prettiest representatives of the Crasulaceae family. Although native of Madagascar, Kalanchoe is cultivated all over the world and it’s easy to recognize because of its inflorescence with beautiful flowers collected in small bouquets colored in red, orange, yellow and violet and its fleshy and succulent leaves, oval shaped and easy to break because of their tenderness.
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African violet description
African Violet is one of the most popular indoor plants and there are many cultivars interested in who have a real collection of it in their places. We admit that it’s no way of no loving it, because Violet seems like an invasion of color and tenderness. And of course it’s hard to grow, we agree with that too. African Violet is a special plant and it requires a bit of special care. But nothing compares to the impatience of waiting Violet to flower and the happiness of seeing its blooms in different colors and combination. And with a good care, your violet can flower all over the year.
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Fuchsia description
Fuchsia is a beautiful plant ornamental by its tender flowers, native of South America mostly. It’s popularly called Earring, at least in Romania, for its flowers which delicately flow alike real earrings. All Fuchsia species are charming decoration for your houses, their flowers wearing different colors, from white, pink, red, violet to several color combination, original and special too.
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Cactus description
There are thousands of Cactus species all over the world, with different types of stems. Their flowers are very gay colored, appreciated mostly for their short existence.
Most of the Cactuses are thorny plants, no water lover, but being precious in full light. Therefore the cactus plants were called “children of the sun”.
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The yuccas comprise the genus Yucca of 40-50 species of perennials, shrubs, and trees in the agave family Agavaceae, notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves and large terminal clusters of white or whitish flowers. They are native to the hot and dry parts of North America, Central America, and the West Indies.
Yuccas have a very specialized pollination system, being pollinated by the yucca moth; the insect purposefully transfers the pollen from the stamens of one plant to the stigma of another, and at the same time lays an egg in the flower; the moth larva then eats some of the developing seeds, but far from all.
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Dieffenbachia is a genus of tropical plants in the Family Araceae noted for their patterned leaves. Members of this genus are popular as houseplants because of their tolerance to shade. The Dieffenbachia is often referred to as the “King of Plants”.
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About Anthurium
Anthurium Schott 1829, is a large neotropical genus of about 600- 800 (possibly 1,000) species, belonging to the arum family (Araceae). It is the largest and probably the most complex genus of this family. Many species are undoubtedly not described yet and new ones are being found every year.
They grow in the most diverse habitats, mostly in wet tropical mountain forest of Central America and South America, but some in semi-arid environments. Most species occur in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.
Anthurium (Flamingo flower) grows in many forms, mostly evergreen, bushy or climbing epiphytes with relatively few roots. They occur also as terrestrials or lithophytes. Some are only found in association with arboreal ant colonies or growing on rocks in midstream (such as A. amnicola).
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Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants, native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa. The species include both herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5-2 m tall.
They are widely cultivated for their flowers in tropical and subtropical environments and (as an annual plant) in temperate climates. Some species are invasive, and are considered to be noxious weeds in southern Asia, southern Africa, and Australia, with there being specialised services that you can call in to remove the plants. In the United States, some Lantana species are now naturalized in the southeast, especially coastal regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and the Gulf Coast where it is often known as “ham and eggs”. Lantana species are used as food plants by the larvae of hepialid moths of the genera Aenetus, including A. ligniveren and A. scotti, and Endoclita, including E. malabaricus. Other Lepidoptera whose larvae feed on Lantana include Hypercompe orsa and Setaceous Hebrew Character.
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Chrysanthemums are a genus (Chrysanthemum) of about 30 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Asia and northeastern Europe. Amongst florists and in the floral industry, they are commonly referred to as “mums”.
Chrysanthemum history
Chrysanthemums were cultivated in China as a flowering herb as far back as the 15th century BC. An ancient Chinese city was named Chu-Hsien, meaning “chrysanthemum city”. The flower was introduced into Japan probably in the 8th century CE, and the Emperor adopted the flower as his official seal. There is a “Festival of Happiness” in Japan that celebrates the flower.
The flower was brought to Europe in the 17th century. Linnaeus named it from the Greek prefix chrys-, which means golden (the colour of the original flowers), and -anthemon, meaning flower.
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Hibiscus or Rosemallow is a large genus of about 200-220 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, and woody shrubs and small trees. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to lanceolate, often with a toothed or lobed margin. The flowers are large, conspicuous, trumpet-shaped, with five petals, ranging from white to pink, red, purple or yellow, and from 4-15 cm broad. The fruit is a dry five-lobed capsule, containing several seeds in each lobe, which are released when the capsule splits open at maturity.
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Description
The original Bamboo is a grass of Gramineae family and Bambusoideae subfamily. Its size is from inches to over 100′ and can grow a foot or even more a day and there are running or clumping species. But what we’ll discuss about and have inside our houses or what is sold by the name of bamboo in flower shops, cut and arranged in different decorating ways, is not a real bamboo plant, but a kind of Dracaena sanderia plant native of Cameron.
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Orchids (Orchidaceae family) are the largest and most diverse of the flowering plant (Angiospermae) families, with over 800 described genera and 25,000 species. Some sources give 30,000 species, but the exact number is unknown since classification differs greatly in the academic world. Revisions of different genera occur on a monthly basis and this will increase with the growing use of genetic research and biochemistry. There are another 100,000+ hybrids and cultivars produced by horticulturists, created since the introduction of tropical species in the 19th century. The Kew World Checklist of Orchids includes about 24,000 accepted species. About 800 new species are added each year. Orchids, through their interactions with pollinators and their symbiosis with orchid mycorrhizal fungi, are considered by some, along with the grasses, to be examples of the most advanced (derived) floral evolution known.
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