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Crotalaria cunninghamii - this form has distinctive green flowers in axillary clusters.. Crotalaria cunninghamii, also known as green bird flower, bird flower ratulpo, parrot pea, or regal bird flower, is a plant of the legume family Fabaceae, [1] named Crotalaria after the Greek word for rattle because their seeds rattle, and cunninghamii after early 19th-century botanist Allan Cunningham.
Shrubland is the natural landscape dominated by various shrubs; there are many distinct types around the world, including fynbos, maquis, shrub-steppe, shrub swamp and moorland. In gardens and parks, an area largely dedicated to shrubs (now somewhat less fashionable than a century ago) is called a shrubbery , shrub border or shrub garden.
Euphorbia tithymaloides has a large number of household names used by gardeners and the public. Among them are redbird flower, [7] devil's-backbone, [8] redbird cactus, Jewbush, buck-thorn, cimora misha, Christmas candle, fiddle flower, ipecacuahana, Jacob's ladder, Japanese poinsettia, Jew's slipper, milk-hedge, myrtle-leaved spurge, Padus-leaved clipper plant, red slipper spurge, slipper ...
Angiospermae; Scientific name Common name Family Conservation status Hardwoods; Aceraceae: maple family; Acer: maples; Acer amplum: broad maple Aceraceae (maple family) : Acer argutum
Linnaeus referred to the description and picture of a plant in the Horti Malabarici as the plant for which the genus was created. [5] In 1753 he named this species as Ceropegia candelabrum. [6] Linnaeus did not explain the etymology but later explanations stated that the name Ceropegia was from the Greek [7] word keropegion κηροπηγɩον.
Prunus padus, known as bird cherry, hackberry (unrelated to the genus Celtis), hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the rose family. It is a species of cherry, a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to 16 metres (52 ft) tall. It is the type species of the subgenus Padus, which have flowers in racemes.
Holodiscus discolor is a fast-growing deciduous shrub usually from to 1.2–1.5 metres (4–5 feet) in width, and up to 2.1 m (7 ft) tall. Its alternate leaves are small, 5–9 centimetres (2– 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) long and 4–7 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –3 in) broad, lobed, juicy green when new. [6]
Pisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae.It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso (1611–1678). [3] Certain species in this genus are known as catchbirdtrees, birdcatcher trees or birdlime trees because they catch birds. [4]