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Walnut Mycena
Mycena crocea
Mycena crocea, commonly known as the Walnut Mycena, is a small, saprobic mushroom characterized by its striking orange to saffron-colored cap and stem. It typically grows on decaying wood, particularly walnut husks or buried hardwood debris. The cap is conical to bell-shaped, often with a translucent-striate margin, and the gills are pale. This fungus plays a vital role in forest ecosystems by breaking down organic matter.
Bonnet mushroom
Mycena galericulata
Mycena galericulata, commonly known as the bonnet mushroom, is a common gilled mushroom belonging to the Mycenaceae family. It is characterized by a conical to bell-shaped cap with radial grooves and a typically stiff, hollow stipe. It usually grows in clusters on decaying hardwood, especially oak and beech. Its color varies from grayish-brown to whitish depending on humidity.
Garlic Parachute
Mycetinis
Fungi belonging to the genus Mycetinis are known for their characteristic odor reminiscent of garlic. These small mushrooms often live on decaying wood or leaf litter in forests. Their caps are thin, and their stems are tough and dark-colored. The most well-known species is the Garlic Marasmius, which is a valuable culinary mushroom used as a spice.
Ngaio
Myoporum laetum
Myoporum laetum, commonly known as ngaio or mousehole tree, is a fast-growing shrub or small tree endemic to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. It reaches up to 10 meters in height, featuring bright green leaves dotted with translucent oil glands visible when held up to the light. In spring and summer, it produces clusters of small white flowers speckled with purple, followed by reddish fruits. It is extremely salt and wind tolerant, making it widely used as a windbreak and coastal screen. All parts of the plant contain ngaione, a potent liver toxin: it is highly toxic to livestock, dogs, cats, and humans if ingested.
Water Forget-me-not
Myosotis scorpioides
The Water Forget-me-not is a moisture-loving perennial herb from the Boraginaceae family, native to Europe and Asia. It grows on muddy banks, in wetlands, and on river floodplains, blooming from May to September with small blue flowers featuring a yellow center. It is very frost-resistant (down to -20 Β°C). It spreads easily in nature and can be invasive in some wetland areas.
jaboticaba
Myrciaria cauliflora
The jaboticaba is a tropical fruit tree native to the Atlantic Forests of Brazil, particularly found in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, GoiΓ‘s, and SΓ£o Paulo states. Belonging to the Myrtaceae family, it is a medium-sized tree reaching up to 15 meters in height, characterized by a smooth, attractive reddish-brown trunk that peels to reveal creamy to gray underbark. The leaves are simple, opposite, and lanceolate, creating a dense, well-structured canopy. The most distinctive feature is its remarkable cauliflory: delicate white, fluffy flowers emerge directly from the trunk and major branches, creating the appearance of a 'snow-covered tree' during bloom. The fruits are small, rounded berries with dark purple skin and soft, white, sweet pulp, uniquely arranged on the trunk and branches rather than at branch tips. The tree is evergreen and highly productive, capable of yielding six to eight crops per year under ideal conditions.
Brazilian Grapetree
Myrciaria jaboticaba
The Brazilian Grapetree (Myrciaria jaboticaba) is a fruit-bearing tree native to Brazil's Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, renowned for producing its dark purple fruits directly on the trunk and main branches β a phenomenon known as cauliflory. It is one of the most cultivated jaboticaba varieties in Brazil, prized for its sweet, thin-skinned fruits with juicy white pulp.
Yumberry
Myrica rubra
Myrica rubra (syn. Morella rubra) is an evergreen fruit tree native to central and southern China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines, where it grows in mountain forests between 100 and 1,500 m. In the wild, it reaches 10 to 20 m, with smooth gray bark, a rounded crown, and leathery dark green leaves that are serrated in their upper half. The species is dioecious: reddish and inconspicuous male and female flowers open in spring on separate plants. Female trees produce round fruits in early summer with a granular surface, ranging from crimson red to purple. These fruits are sweet and very tart, but perish quickly after harvest. Cultivated in China for over 2,000 years, it has nearly a hundred varieties there. Its roots fix nitrogen through symbiotic bacteria.
German tamarisk
Myricaria germanica
The German tamarisk (Myricaria germanica) is the only species of the Tamaricaceae family native to Central Europe. It is a deciduous shrub growing 60β250 cm tall, featuring rod-like, upright branches and tiny, scale-like leaves. It blooms between June and August, producing small flowers ranging from pale pink to white in dense racemes. A typical pioneer species, it colonizes gravelly and sandy banks of mountain and subalpine rivers, where periodic flooding and drought are common. In Hungary, it is a strictly protected and endangered species, now occurring only in a few, mostly secondary (man-made) habitats.
Parrot's feather
Myriophyllum aquaticum
Myriophyllum aquaticum, commonly known as parrot's feather, is a rhizomatous perennial aquatic plant native to the Amazon basin of South America. It produces creeping stems that root in submerged mud and erect stems that emerge from the water surface up to 12-24 inches, covered in bright light green pinnate leaves arranged in feathery whorls that resemble parrot feathers. In summer, it bears tiny, almost imperceptible white or yellowish flowers in the leaf axils of the emergent stems. Widely used ornamentally for ponds and aquariums due to its oxygenating and filtering action, this species is now listed as an invasive alien species of Union concern (EU Regulation 1143/2014): its cultivation, sale, and release into the wild are prohibited in Italy and the rest of the European Union, as it forms dense mats that choke waterways and displace native flora.
Cow Horn Orchid
Myrmecophila tibicinis
Myrmecophila tibicinis is a large epiphytic orchid native to seasonally dry tropical forests from Mexico through northern South America. Its hollow, cylindrical pseudobulbs β up to 45 cm tall β are colonized by ants in the wild in a mutualistic relationship that provides extra nutrients to the plant. Flowers are spectacular: magenta sepals and petals with bronze-orange tips, a large white lip with intense magenta veining, and a bright yellow central callus. The flower spike can exceed 1.5 m and bear up to 15 blooms.
Colicwood
Myrsine
Myrsine is a genus of about 280 evergreen shrubs and small trees in the primrose family (Primulaceae), found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. In the United States the genus is called colicwood, in New Zealand matipo or mapou and in Hawaii kΕlea. The leaves are leathery and glossy; the tiny white, cream or greenish flowers sit in clusters right on the branches, often below the leaves. The fruits are small one-seeded berries, purple-black, black or bluish, eaten by birds. Most species have separate male and female plants. Some, such as Myrsine africana (African boxwood) and Myrsine australis (red matipo), are grown as ornamental shrubs and hedges.
African Boxwood
Myrsine africana
Myrsine africana is a compact, evergreen shrub native to Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean. Its small, glossy, serrated leaves form a dense canopy, making it excellent for hedging, topiary, and garden borders. It is highly adaptable and drought-tolerant once established.
Guiana Rapanea
Myrsine guianensis
The Guiana Rapanea (Myrsine guianensis) is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to coastal areas, moist forests, and dry forests ranging from South Florida and the West Indies to Brazil and northern Argentina, including much of Colombia from sea level to nearly 3,300 meters in altitude. Its leaves are alternate, oblong-elliptic, 7 to 20 cm long, glossy bright green on the upper surface and paler underneath. The trunk typically branches in a candelabra shape, featuring reddish bark and long, flexible, nearly horizontal branches. It produces small, inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers, followed by drupe fruits that ripen to a shiny black and are highly prized by birds. It is a very resilient species, capable of growing rapidly even in poor, eroded, or poorly drained soils.
Myrtillocactus
Myrtillocactus
Myrtillocactus is a genus of four candelabra-shaped cacti from Mexico and Guatemala. The best known is Myrtillocactus geometrizans, which has its own page. The others are M. cochal from Baja California, M. schenckii and M. eichlamii. Stems are green to blue-green, ribbed and spiny, and branch from a trunk. The largest plants reach 43 ft (13 m) in the wild, but stay far smaller in pots. Small white to cream flowers open in summer, followed by round fruits up to 0.6 in (1.5 cm) across, red to purple. Those fruits give the genus its name, which means blueberry cactus.
Blue Candle Cactus
Myrtillocactus geometrizans
Myrtillocactus geometrizans, commonly known as the Blue Candle Cactus, is a striking columnar cactus native to central and northern Mexico. Its branching stems display a distinctive blue-green hue that intensifies with sun exposure, and the plant can reach heights of up to 5 meters in its native habitat. It produces small, edible berries called garambullos, similar in appearance to blueberries and long used by indigenous Mexican communities. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental specimen in dry gardens and as a grafting rootstock.
Common Myrtle
Myrtus
Myrtus (myrtle) is an aromatic evergreen shrub native to the Mediterranean, valued for its glossy dark-green leaves, fragrant white star-shaped flowers, and dark berries used in cooking and traditional remedies. Slow-to-medium growing and remarkably drought-tolerant once established, it thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it a popular choice for hedges, topiary, and containers.
Common Myrtle
Myrtus communis
Common myrtle (Myrtus communis) is an evergreen, aromatic shrub native to the Mediterranean region and a member of the Myrtaceae family. Its small, glossy leaves are packed with essential oils and release a strong fragrance when crushed. From late spring through summer the plant produces delicate white flowers with long, showy stamens, followed by small blue-black to purple berries that are edible and have been used for centuries in cooking and in liqueurs such as Sardinian mirto. Grown as an ornamental shrub, aromatic hedge, or even as a container bonsai, common myrtle is drought-tolerant and low-maintenance, and carries strong historical symbolism tied to love and fidelity.
Heavenly Bamboo / Sacred Bamboo (genus)
Nandina
Nandina is a compact, evergreen shrub native to eastern Asia (Japan, China, and the Himalayas), belonging to the family Berberidaceae. Despite its common name "Heavenly Bamboo," it is not a true bamboo. It features elegant foliage with brilliant red new growth, white spring flowers, and vibrant red berries in fall and winter. Widely used in ornamental landscaping across USDA zones 6-11.
Heavenly Bamboo
Nandina domestica
Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina domestica) is an evergreen shrub native to China and Japan, celebrated for its ornamental foliage that transitions from bronze-red in spring, through fresh green in summer, to vivid scarlet and burgundy in autumn and winter. Despite its common name, it is not a true bamboo but belongs to the Berberidaceae family. It produces airy panicles of small white flowers in late spring and clusters of brilliant red berries that persist through winter, making it a four-season garden standout.
Daffodil
Narcissus
Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring-flowering perennial bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. The genus includes daffodils, jonquils, and paperwhites, offering a wide range of flower forms and colors from white to yellow, orange, and pink. Native mainly to Europe and North Africa.
Cyclamen Daffodil
Narcissus cyclamineus
Narcissus cyclamineus is a miniature daffodil species native to the Iberian Peninsula, particularly the humid meadows and stream banks of northwestern Portugal and Galicia, Spain. It is instantly recognizable by its fully reflexed perianth segments β swept back almost parallel to the stem β and its long, narrow, bright yellow trumpet. One of the most distinctive and legally protected wild daffodils in Europe, it blooms in late winter to early spring. As a bulbous perennial, it enters summer dormancy after flowering.
Paperwhite
Narcissus papyraceus
Narcissus papyraceus, commonly known as paperwhite, is a perennial bulbous plant in the Amaryllidaceae family, native to the Mediterranean region (from southern Portugal and Spain to Greece, plus Morocco and Algeria). It is widely grown to force indoor bloom in winter without needing a chilling period, producing clusters of intensely fragrant white flowers atop slender stems.
Poet's Narcissus
Narcissus poeticus
Poet's Narcissus (Narcissus poeticus) is a perennial bulb native to Southern Europe, celebrated for its pure white, intensely fragrant flowers with a distinctive yellow corona edged in red. One of the oldest cultivated daffodil species, it has been cherished since antiquity and remains a cornerstone of European perfumery. A spring bloomer, it goes dormant in summer after flowering.
Wild Daffodil
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Narcissus pseudonarcissus, commonly called the wild daffodil or Lent lily, is a bulbous perennial in the Amaryllidaceae family native to Western Europe, including Britain. It produces a single nodding flower per stem with pale yellow outer petals surrounding a deeper yellow trumpet-shaped corona, blooming from late winter into early spring. The strap-like grey-green leaves emerge before the flower and die back completely by early summer as the bulb enters dormancy. All parts of the plant, especially the bulb, contain toxic alkaloids, most notably lycorine, making it unsafe for humans and pets to ingest.
Paperwhite Narcissus
Narcissus tazetta
Narcissus tazetta, commonly known as the paperwhite narcissus or bunch-flowered daffodil, is a bulbous perennial native to the Mediterranean region and parts of Central Asia. Unlike single-flowered daffodils, each stem carries a cluster of 4 to 8 small, intensely fragrant flowers with white petals and a shallow yellow or white corona. Growing 45-75cm tall, it is prized both as a garden bulb for mild-winter climates and as an indoor bulb that can be forced into bloom for the winter holidays with no soil at all, simply set in water and pebbles.
Mexican feather grass
Nassella tenuissima
Nassella tenuissima, also known as Mexican feather grass, is a fine-textured ornamental bunchgrass native to Mexico, Texas, and Argentina. It forms soft, silky, thread-like blades that ripple and shimmer in the slightest breeze, turning from bright green to golden-tan as the seed heads mature in summer. Prized in xeriscaping and modern garden design, it thrives in poor, well-draining soil and full sun with minimal care once established. Note that it self-seeds readily and is considered invasive in parts of California and Australia.
Watercress
Nasturtium officinale
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) is a perennial aquatic vegetable from the Brassicaceae family, native to Europe and Central Asia, where it grows spontaneously along the banks of clean, flowing streams and springs. Its hollow, floating stems easily root at the nodes in contact with waterlogged soil, forming dense clumps of dark green, rounded leaves with a pungent and slightly bitter taste. It is one of the oldest leafy vegetables cultivated by humans: it was already recommended by Hippocrates as an expectorant in Ancient Greece, and Greek soldiers consumed the plant believing it strengthened the body and mind. Today it is recognized as one of the most nutritious vegetables in the world, rich in vitamins A, C, and B complex, as well as iron, folic acid, and calcium.
Peppervine
Nekemias arborea
Peppervine (Nekemias arborea, formerly Ampelopsis arborea) is a vigorous deciduous to semi-evergreen woody vine in the grape family, native to the southeastern and south-central United States. It climbs by tendrils onto trees, shrubs, fences, and other structures, reaching 20 to 35 feet in length, or sprawls as an informal ground cover where nothing supports it. Its bipinnately compound leaves emerge purple-red and mature to glossy dark green before turning yellow or red in fall. Small greenish-white flower clusters appear in late spring to summer and give way to showy berries that shift from green to red to shiny blue-black, which birds and small mammals readily eat. Because it spreads rapidly by seed and root suckers, it is often regarded as weedy in cultivated settings.
American lotus
Nelumbo lutea
American lotus (Nelumbo lutea) is a perennial aquatic plant native to North America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, growing in lakes, swamps and floodplains. Its roots and rhizome anchor in the mud, and the round leaves, 33 to 43 cm across, rise above the water on stalks that can exceed 1.5 m; the plant stands 0.8β1.8 m above the surface. In summer it opens large flowers, 18 to 28 cm wide, creamy white to pale yellow (lutea means "yellow" in Latin); each flower lasts about three days, opening in the morning and closing in the afternoon. It leaves a woody, shower-head-shaped seed pod with very long-lived seeds. Seeds and rhizomes are edible and were a food of Native American peoples. It spreads by long rhizomes and can take over a whole pond. It is a close relative of the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera), with which it forms hybrids.
Sacred Lotus
Nelumbo nucifera
The Sacred Lotus is an iconic perennial aquatic plant native to Asia, cultivated in ponds for its large, fragrant flowers (8 to 12 inches in diameter) held above broad, water-repellent round leaves. Hardy up to USDA zone 4 as long as the rhizomes do not freeze underwater, it enters winter dormancy (deciduous foliage) before regrowing vigorously in the spring. Sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism, it symbolizes the ability to bloom pure despite a muddy environment.
Goldfish Plant
Nematanthus gregarius
Nematanthus gregarius, popularly known as the Goldfish Plant, is an epiphytic plant native to the Brazilian tropical forests. Its leaves are small, oval, succulent in texture, and bright dark green. The common name comes from its tubular orange flowers that have a bulge on the lower part, closely resembling a small goldfish or 'platy'. It is a trailing plant, ideal for hanging baskets.
Goldfish Plant
Nematanthus wettsteinii
The Goldfish Plant (Nematanthus wettsteinii) is a trailing epiphytic plant native to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, where it naturally grows on tree trunks. It is prized for its small, glossy, fleshy leaves and its plump, tubular orange flowers that resemble tiny goldfish with their mouths open. It is ideal for hanging baskets, where its cascading stems can be shown off.
Mauve Nemesia
Nemesia fruticans
Nemesia fruticans is a perennial plant native to South Africa, valued as a cool-season ornamental for its abundant and showy flowers in a wide range of colors: white, yellow, orange, pink, red, purple, and blue. It belongs to the Scrophulariaceae family and grows in a compact, bushy habit, reaching between 8 and 20 inches (20-50 cm) in height. It is ideal for pots, hanging baskets, garden borders, and pollinator gardens. It blooms most vigorously in spring and fall when temperatures are cool, and may slow its flowering during the hottest summer months.
Cape Jewels
Nemesia strumosa
Nemesia strumosa, commonly known as Cape jewels, is a compact, cool-season flowering annual native to the southwestern Cape provinces of South Africa. A relative of snapdragons, it produces masses of small, pouch-shaped, often bicolored flowers in shades of white, cream, yellow, orange, pink, red, and purple from spring through fall. Its fast growth and mounding habit make it a popular choice for borders, containers, and hanging baskets, though it tends to decline once summer heat sets in.
Walking Iris
Neomarica caerulea
Neomarica caerulea, commonly known as Walking Iris or Apostle Plant, is a rhizomatous perennial native to Brazil. It forms dense upright clumps of sword-shaped, fan-like dark green leaves. In late spring through summer, branching flower stems bear a succession of stunning blue-purple iris-like flowers adorned with intricate white, yellow, and cinnamon markings β each lasting only one day but appearing in waves for weeks.
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