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Additional copy by Medgina Saint-Elien. Hoya. Hoyas, also known as porcelain flowers or wax plants, are related to milkweed and are generally low-maintenance, fragrant tropical flowers that grow ...
Neolamarckia cadamba, with English common names burflower-tree, laran, and Leichhardt pine, [2] and called kadamba or kadam or cadamba [2] locally, is an evergreen, tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia. The genus name honours French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It has scented orange flowers in dense globe-shaped clusters.
Tropical gardens are no longer exclusive to tropical areas. Many gardeners in cooler climates are adopting the tropical garden design, which is possible through careful choice of plants and flowers. Main features include plants with very large leaves, vegetation that builds in height towards the back of the garden, creating a dense garden.
Camellia (pronounced / k ə ˈ m ɛ l i ə / [2] or / k ə ˈ m iː l i ə / [3]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. [1] They are found in tropical and subtropical areas in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia.
Strangler fig is the common name for a number of tropical and subtropical plant species in the genus Ficus, including those that are commonly known as banyans. Species [ edit ]
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, the elephant foot yam [4] or whitespot giant arum, [5] [6] is a tropical plant native to Island Southeast Asia.It is cultivated for its edible tubers in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Madagascar, New Guinea, and the Pacific islands.
Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, [3] is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus, Asclepias. [4] It is native to the American tropics [ 5 ] and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species .
Botanical illustration, 1910. Pleiocarpa mutica grows as a shrub or small tree up to 7.5 metres (25 ft) tall, with a stem diameter of up to 5 cm (2 in). Its fragrant flowers feature a white corolla.