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The plant has a trailing, branching, and spreading habit; it is generally an epiphyte in nature and a hanging-basket plant in cultivation. The flower has fused petals. In some species, the flower has a "pouch" at the bottom. The fancied resemblance of such flowers to a goldfish gives these plants the common name goldfish plant or guppy plant.
The flowers vaguely resemble clogs or rotund goldfish in shape and color, hence the common names; some gardeners have nicknamed it the "guppy plant", as well as "garibaldi plant" or "garibaldi flower" due to its resemblance of the marine fish species Hypsypops rubicundus, the California garibaldi.
Columnea gloriosa is commonly known as the goldfish plant (a name it shares with a number of other species), because of the fish shaped flowers it produces. Native to the Caribbean, Central and South American tropics, it falls into the genus Columnea. [1] Also known as a cousin to African violets. This plant is in the family Gesneriaceae.
Goldfish plant is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Columnea; Nematanthus This page was last edited on 20 March 2021, at 06:05 (UTC). Text is ...
The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of order Cypriniformes. It is commonly kept as a pet in indoor aquariums, and is one of the most popular aquarium fish. Goldfish released into the wild have become an invasive pest in parts of North America and Australia. [4] [5]
The common goldfish usually resembles the wild carp more closely than the comet goldfish. Comets are sometimes said to display a wider variety of colors, but common goldfish also display many of the same types of colors, including red/white, blue, red, orange, yellow, and other two-toned colors like black/orange.
Heliconia mariae inflorescence Heliconia psittacorum. Heliconia is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae.Most of the 194 known species [3] are native to the tropical Americas, but a few are indigenous to certain islands of the western Pacific and Maluku in Indonesia. [2]
A gilliflower or gillyflower (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l i ˌ f l aʊ. ər /) [1] is the carnation or a similar plant of the genus Dianthus, especially the Clove Pink Dianthus caryophyllus. [2] Its botanical name is Matthiola incana, also known as stock. [3] The same name also describes other plants, such as the wallflower, which have fragrant flowers