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Aubrieta
Aubrieta deltoidea
Aubrieta is an evergreen, mat-forming perennial from the mustard family, originally native to Southeast Europe (including Greece, Bulgaria, and the Balkans). The plant forms dense, gray-green cushions of small, spatulate to egg-shaped leaves and is smothered in spring and early summer by numerous violet, purple, pink, or white four-petaled flowers. It is widely used as a groundcover in rock gardens, on walls, and on slopes, where it tolerates drought and poor soil better than most perennials.
Japanese Laurel / Spotted Laurel (genus)
Aucuba
Aucuba is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the family Garryaceae, native to East Asia. Prized for their glossy, often gold-spotted foliage, they thrive in shaded gardens and low-light conditions.
Spotted Laurel
Aucuba japonica
Aucuba japonica, commonly known as Spotted Laurel or Japanese Laurel, is a robust evergreen shrub native to Japan, China, and the Himalayas. Famous for its glossy, leathery leaves — often boldly spotted or mottled with gold in variegated cultivars — it thrives in deep shade where few other shrubs flourish. Female plants produce striking bright red berries in autumn that persist through winter, adding seasonal interest.
Wood Ear Mushroom
Auricularia cornea
Auricularia cornea, commonly known as the Wood Ear or Hairy Wood Ear mushroom, is a basidiomycete fungus that grows on decaying logs. It has a gelatinous texture when moist and becomes rigid and leathery when dry. Its outer surface is covered with tiny grayish hairs, while the inner surface is smooth and reddish-brown.
Eve's Pin Cactus / Cane Cholla (genus)
Austrocylindropuntia
Austrocylindropuntia is a genus of Andean columnar cacti native to South America, primarily Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. The most well-known species are A. subulata (Eve's Pin) and A. cylindrica (Cane Cholla). These are robust, fast-growing plants with cylindrical stems covered in sharp spines.
Eve's Needle Cactus
Austrocylindropuntia subulata
Austrocylindropuntia subulata, commonly known as Eve's Needle Cactus, is a columnar cactus native to the Peruvian Andes. Its dark green cylindrical stems can reach up to 4 meters in height in their natural habitat, and it is distinguished by its persistent needle-like leaves — a remarkable feature among cacti. This robust, drought-tolerant plant is highly ornamental and thrives in sunny gardens and bright indoor spaces.
Monstrose Eve's Needle Cactus
Austrocylindropuntia subulata f. monstrosa
This is the monstrose form of Eve's needle cactus (Austrocylindropuntia subulata), a cactus from the Peruvian Andes. A mutation makes the plant grow in a disorderly way: instead of a few smooth cylindrical branches, it puts up many upright green stems crowded with short knobby offshoots, which gives the clump the outline of a small fir tree. That is why it is sold as Christmas tree cactus. The fleshy little leaves typical of this group are shorter than on the species, up to 5 cm, and can be green, yellow, red or pink. Spines are missing or few, thin and pale, up to 1.5 cm. It stays smaller than the normal form, usually 1 to 2 metres in a pot, and bears red flowers and fruit in spring and summer.
Old Man of the Andes
Austrocylindropuntia vestita
Austrocylindropuntia vestita, commonly known as the Old Man of the Andes or Cotton Coral Cactus, is a slender columnar cactus native to the high-altitude rocky grasslands of northwest Argentina and Bolivia. Its stems are densely covered in long white hairs that give it a distinctive woolly appearance, providing insulation against the cold Andean climate. It produces striking deep red to violet flowers at the stem tips during spring and summer.
Oat
Avena sativa
Oat (Avena sativa) is an annual cereal grass of the grass family (Poaceae), descended from a wild oat of the Fertile Crescent and domesticated in Europe about 3,000 years ago. It forms upright tufts of flat, bright green leaves and, when allowed to mature, hollow stems 60-120 cm tall (occasionally up to 1.8 m) topped by loose, nodding panicles of dangling spikelets that ripen from green to straw-gold. At home it is grown in three ways: as a small grain plot or ornamental in the garden, as a cover crop and green manure that protects and loosens the soil, and, most often, as cat grass, sown densely in a tray and offered to cats when the shoots are 7-14 days old.
Bilimbi
Averrhoa bilimbi
Averrhoa bilimbi, commonly known as bilimbi or cucumber tree, is a tropical perennial fruit tree in the Oxalidaceae family. Unlike its close relative, the starfruit, its fruits are cylindrical, extremely acidic, and grow in clusters directly on the trunk and main branches (cauliflory). It features pinnate leaves and small, fragrant, deep purple flowers.
Starfruit
Averrhoa carambola
Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola) is a small tropical fruit tree native to Southeast Asia, cultivated for centuries for its glossy yellow fruit that forms a perfect five-pointed star when sliced. The tree has a bushy, rounded crown with soft, pinnate, medium-green leaves that fold when touched or at night. Small pink to purplish-red bell-shaped flowers bloom nearly year-round in tropical climates, followed by crisp, juicy fruit ranging from tart to sweet. It's a popular backyard and ornamental fruit tree in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
gray mangrove
Avicennia marina
Avicennia marina, the gray mangrove, is a salt-tolerant coastal tree native to the intertidal zones of the Indo-Pacific region, spanning East Africa, the Arabian Gulf, South and Southeast Asia, and Australasia. It grows as a shrub or tree from 3 to 14 meters tall, with smooth grey bark, leathery leaves that are glossy dark green above and silvery-grey below (dusted with excreted salt crystals), and small white to pale yellow flowers. Its most distinctive feature is a network of pencil-like breathing roots (pneumatophores) that rise from the mud to draw oxygen in waterlogged, anaerobic sediment. A pioneer species, it colonizes newly formed mudflats and produces viviparous propagules that germinate while still attached to the parent tree before dropping and rooting in the substrate. Extremely tolerant of salinity, tidal flooding and heat, it is rarely cultivated outside coastal restoration, aquaculture, and specialist paludarium or bonsai settings.
Broadleaf carpet grass
Axonopus compressus
Broadleaf carpet grass (Axonopus compressus) is a perennial, stoloniferous, and rhizomatous grass native to the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Its wide, deep green leaves form a dense and uniform mat, making it one of the most widely used species for residential lawns, parks, and recreational areas. It grows close to the ground, reaching between 6 and 8 inches in height when left unmowed, and produces flowering stalks that can reach 12 to 18 inches. It tolerates shade well, forming thick carpets under tree canopies, and adapts to poor soils, although it prefers fertile, well-drained ground.
White-spined crown cactus
Aylostera albopectinata
Aylostera albopectinata, still sold as Rebutia albopectinata, is a tiny cactus from southern Bolivia, where it grows on dry slopes at 3,000-3,500 m in the Chuquisaca region. The body is a grey-green ball about 1.5 cm across, usually solitary, with a thick, beet-like root. The spines are short, white and lie flat on the body, arranged like the teeth of a comb, hence the name albopectinata ("white comb"). In spring it opens red or orange flowers with a pink or white throat that can be larger than the plant itself. In the wild it is endangered.
Sun Crown Cactus
Aylostera heliosa
Aylostera heliosa (formerly Rebutia heliosa) is a small clustering cactus native to the high-altitude slopes near Tarija, Bolivia. Its compact, spherical to cylindrical stems are covered in dense white spines and rarely exceed 2.5 cm in diameter, but under bright sun they produce a spectacular abundance of orange to pinkish blooms in spring.
Neem
Azadirachta indica
Azadirachta indica, commonly known as Neem or Margosa, is a fast-growing evergreen tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Belonging to the mahogany family Meliaceae, it is one of the most versatile and celebrated trees in traditional medicine and sustainable agriculture. Neem can reach heights of 15–20 meters with a broad, spreading crown. Its small white fragrant flowers bloom in drooping clusters, and the olive-like fruits contain seeds rich in azadirachtin, the compound responsible for its powerful insecticidal properties.
Azalea
Azalea
The azalea is an ornamental shrub of the genus Rhododendron (section Azalea), belonging to the Ericaceae family, known for its abundant and colorful flowers that appear mainly in spring. Its leaves are small, elliptical, and slightly velvety in texture, forming a compact and dense bush. It is widely cultivated both in pots and in gardens, being very popular on Mother's Day for symbolizing care and affection.
Carolina mosquitofern
Azolla caroliniana
Azolla caroliniana is a tiny free-floating water fern native to the eastern Americas. Each plant is only about 1–2 cm across, made of small overlapping scale-like leaves on short branching stems, with fine roots hanging into the water. In still or slow water it multiplies quickly and can cover a pond surface with a velvety mat. The fronds are green in shade and turn pink, orange or rusty red in strong light, cold weather or when phosphorus runs low. Inside its leaves lives a cyanobacterium (Anabaena azollae) that fixes nitrogen from the air, which is why Azolla is used as a green manure in rice paddies and as feed for ducks, chickens and fish. The name is debated: many botanists now treat it as Azolla filiculoides, and some as Azolla cristata, so the same plant may be sold under any of these names.
Fragrant Baboon Flower
Babiana fragrans
Babiana fragrans (Jacq.) Steud., also known by its widely-used synonym Babiana disticha, is a perennial cormous geophyte in the iris family (Iridaceae), endemic to the low-lying Western Cape of South Africa, from the Cape Peninsula to the Ceres area. It grows in fynbos and renosterveld vegetation on sandstone, granite or clay-derived soils. Its hairy, pleated, dagger-shaped leaves emerge in autumn. Between winter and spring (July to September in the Southern Hemisphere) it produces branched stems 7-20 cm tall bearing strongly sweet-scented flowers, violet to pale blue in colour, occasionally creamy-yellow, with dark markings near the base of the lower tepals. The plant is deciduous, dying back and resting as a dormant corm through the dry summer.
Baboon Flower
Babiana stricta
Babiana stricta, commonly known as the Baboon Flower or Blue Freesia, is a cormous perennial native to the Cape Province of South Africa. It produces beautiful blue, purple, or pink cup-shaped flowers in spring, rising from hairy, upright leaves. The plant grows 10–30 cm tall and is a popular garden ornamental in mild climates.
Field Rosemary
Baccharis dracunculifolia
Baccharis dracunculifolia, popularly known as field rosemary or vassourinha, is a shrub native to Brazil belonging to the Asteraceae family. It can reach up to 4 m in height, with thin, sparse, and aromatic branches, and small, lanceolate leaves, 1 to 2.5 cm long. It produces small white to slightly pink flowers, highly sought after by bees: it is one of the main botanical sources of Brazilian green propolis. It occurs naturally in Cerrado areas, rupestrian grasslands, forest edges, and degraded lands in South-Central Brazil, and is also used in the ecological restoration of degraded areas.
Carqueja
Baccharis trimera
Baccharis trimera, commonly known as Carqueja, is a fast-growing perennial shrub native to Brazil and South America. It is distinguished by its unique three-winged stems and is widely used in traditional South American medicine for its digestive, hepatoprotective, and anti-inflammatory properties. Small white flowers cluster at the stem tips during spring and summer, attracting pollinators.
Lemon myrtle
Backhousia citriodora
Lemon myrtle is an evergreen shrub or small tree from the Myrtaceae family, native to the subtropical rainforests of eastern Australia (Queensland, from Mackay to Brisbane). In the wild, it can grow up to 20 m, while in cultivation it usually reaches 3-5 m. The glossy lanceolate leaves, 5-12 cm long, release an intense lemon fragrance when crushed—they contain an exceptionally high proportion of citral (90-98%), making it one of the richest natural sources of this compound in the world. From summer to autumn, it blooms with small creamy-white flowers in clustered panicles.
Water Hyssop
Bacopa monnieri
Bacopa monnieri, widely known as water hyssop or brahmi, is a creeping, succulent-leaved herb native to wetlands across Asia, including riverbanks, ponds and marshes in India, China and Vietnam. Its branching stems and small fleshy leaves form dense mats in moist soil, and the plant is also a popular aquarium species. In traditional Ayurvedic medicine it has been valued for centuries as a brain tonic for memory, focus and stress relief.
Candle Plant
Baculellum articulatum
Baculellum articulatum, long sold under its older names Senecio articulatus and Curio articulatus, is a quirky South African succulent subshrub prized for its pale grey-green, jointed, sausage-like stems. Native to rocky slopes of the Little and Great Karoo, it stores water in swollen stem segments and produces small arrowhead-shaped leaves that emerge in the cooler months and drop again in summer. In winter, mature plants send up clusters of small white-to-yellow discoid flowers with purple anthers.
Black horehound
Ballota nigra
Black horehound (Ballota nigra) is a perennial herb in the mint family (Lamiaceae), originally native to the Mediterranean region and now widespread across Europe in roadside and wasteland plant communities. Its square, hairy stems and wrinkled, scalloped-toothed leaves emit a characteristic, unpleasant, musty odor when crushed — hence its genus name, which in Ancient Greek means 'repulsive' or 'rejected'. In summer and early autumn, pink-purple labiate flowers bloom in dense verticillasters, which fade to almost white after the first frosts. It often spreads in patches covering several square meters via underground rhizomes and overwinters well.
Hedge Bamboo
Bambusa multiplex
Hedge Bamboo (Bambusa multiplex) is a perennial grass known for its fast and dense growth, forming compact clumps. It features thin, flexible culms with vibrant green leaves that create a lush screen. It is a popular choice for landscaping, privacy hedges, and as an ornamental plant in pots.
Slender Weavers Bamboo
Bambusa textilis gracili
Slender Weavers Bamboo (Bambusa textilis gracili) is a clumping bamboo native to southern China, prized for its elegant, upright culms that can reach up to 9 meters tall. Unlike running bamboos, it forms compact, non-invasive clumps with culms up to 3 cm in diameter and a spread of only 2 meters. It is one of the most popular bamboos for privacy screens, hedges, and tropical garden landscaping worldwide. Its fast growth rate, low maintenance needs, and non-invasive root system make it an ideal choice for both residential and commercial gardens.
Buddha Belly Bamboo
Bambusa ventricosa
Buddha Belly Bamboo (Bambusa ventricosa) is a clumping bamboo native to China and Southeast Asia, celebrated for its distinctively swollen internodes resembling the rounded belly of the Buddha statue. This ornamental feature is most pronounced when the plant is grown in containers or under mild stress conditions. It is one of the most attractive bamboo species available, equally valued in gardens, patios, and as a bonsai subject.
Common Bamboo
Bambusa vulgaris
Bambusa vulgaris, commonly known as Common Bamboo or Golden Bamboo, is one of the most widely cultivated bamboo species in the world. Native to South and Southeast Asia, it has spread to tropical and subtropical regions across all continents. Its culms can reach up to 20 meters in height, featuring a characteristic yellow-green coloration. It is an extremely fast-growing, versatile, and resilient plant used in construction, landscaping, and food production.
Bamboo
Bambusoideae
Bamboo is the name given to woody grasses of the Bambusoideae subfamily (Poaceae family). The hollow culms, segmented by nodes, grow from underground rhizomes, and the leaves are evergreen. Two groups appear in gardens: running bamboos, such as Phyllostachys, which spread via long rhizomes and can invade neighboring areas, and clumping bamboos, such as Fargesia and Bambusa, which form compact clumps. Their size ranges from about 2 m in potted varieties to over 10 m in forest species. Flowering is rare, occurring at decades-long intervals, and usually weakens or kills the clump. Note: the "lucky bamboo" sold in vases with water is not bamboo, but Dracaena sanderiana.
Wintercress
Barbarea vulgaris
Wintercress (Barbarea vulgaris) is a biennial herbaceous plant in the Brassicaceae (mustard) family, native to Europe and widely naturalized across North America and beyond. It forms a basal rosette of dark, glossy, lobed leaves through autumn and winter, then sends up flowering stalks in early spring bearing clusters of bright yellow, four-petaled flowers. The young leaves have a pleasantly bitter, peppery flavor reminiscent of watercress or arugula and are one of the few fresh greens available during winter months. It grows in disturbed soils, roadsides, moist meadows, and stream banks, and is valued both as a wild edible and for its early-season nectar for pollinators.
Sea Poison Tree
Barringtonia
Barringtonia is a genus of approximately 73 species of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs in the family Lecythidaceae. Native to coastal and freshwater habitats across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Australia, and Pacific and Indian Ocean islands. Renowned for showy nocturnal, sweet-scented flowers on long pendulous racemes. The most famous species, B. asiatica (Sea Poison Tree), produces highly toxic seeds containing saponins, historically used by coastal communities to stun fish.
Fish Poison Tree
Barringtonia asiatica
Barringtonia asiatica, commonly known as the Fish Poison Tree or Sea Poison Tree, is a striking tropical tree native to the coastlines of the Indo-Pacific. Belonging to the family Lecythidaceae, it produces spectacular night-blooming flowers with white petals and long pink-tipped stamens, filling the air with fragrance. The large, pyramidal fruits are highly buoyant and have been known to float across entire oceans for up to 15 years. Despite its beauty, all parts of the plant are highly toxic due to the presence of saponins.
Malabar Spinach
Basella alba
Malabar Spinach (Basella alba) is a fast-growing tropical edible vine native to India and Southeast Asia. Its thick, succulent leaves are rich in vitamins A and C, calcium, and iron, making it a nutritious leafy green for warm climates. It thrives in heat and humidity where traditional spinach fails.
Burningbush
Bassia scoparia
Burningbush (Bassia scoparia) is a fast-growing annual herb native to Eurasia. It forms a dense, symmetrical mound of fine, bright green foliage that turns brilliant red or purple in autumn, creating a spectacular seasonal display. Widely grown as an ornamental in gardens and borders.
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