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Silver bracts
Pachyphytum bracteosum
A Mexican succulent that grows on rocks between 1,200 and 1,800 m around the Barranca de MetztitlΓ‘n in Hidalgo. It forms rosettes of thick, spoon-shaped leaves up to about 5 cm long, silvery grey to bluish green, which flush pink in strong light. The fleshy stem reaches about 30 cm and carries round scars where old leaves fell. From late spring into summer it sends up stalks 20 to 60 cm long with a nodding tip, packed with silvery bracts that almost hide the red flowers.
Little Jewel
Pachyphytum compactum
Succulent native to Mexico (Hidalgo and QuerΓ©taro) with compact rosettes of plump, cylindrical leaves covered in a grayish waxy bloom. It forms branching clumps up to about 15 cm tall and flowers in late spring.
Moonstone Succulent
Pachyphytum oviferum
Pachyphytum oviferum, commonly known as the Moonstone Succulent, is a charming species native to the rocky cliffs of San Luis PotosΓ, Mexico. It belongs to the family Crassulaceae and is prized for its plump, egg-shaped leaves coated in a silvery-white farina (pruina) that gives them a dreamy, translucent appearance reminiscent of precious moonstones.
Madagascar Palm
Pachypodium
Pachypodium is a genus of spiny, caudex-forming succulent shrubs and trees native primarily to Madagascar. The most widely cultivated species β P. lamerei and P. geayi β are commonly called "Madagascar palms" for their striking appearance: a thick, spiny, water-storing trunk topped with a crown of long, narrow leaves. Despite the common name, they are not true palms but members of the Apocynaceae family.
Silver Madagascar Palm
Pachypodium geayi
Pachypodium geayi, commonly called the Silver Madagascar Palm, is a striking caudiciform succulent native to the arid southwest of Madagascar. Despite its palm-like silhouette, it belongs to the Apocynaceae family and is unrelated to true palms. Its thick, spiny, silvery-grey trunk stores water for long dry spells, while a crown of narrow, grey-green leaves with a distinctive pink midrib tops the plant. In the wild it can reach 5-8 m, though potted specimens stay much smaller and grow slowly. Mature plants produce fragrant white flowers with yellow centers after a decade or more of growth.
Madagascar Palm
Pachypodium lamerei
Pachypodium lamerei, commonly known as the Madagascar Palm, is a spiny succulent native to the arid regions of Madagascar. Despite its common name, it is not a true palm β it belongs to the family Apocynaceae. Its thick, spine-covered caudex (trunk) supports a crown of long, glossy green leaves at the top, giving it a palm-like appearance. Mature specimens produce fragrant white star-shaped flowers.
Kudu Lily
Pachypodium saundersii
Pachypodium saundersii, commonly known as the Kudu Lily, is a caudiciform succulent shrub native to rocky lowveld habitats in South Africa, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. It features a thick, swollen grey-green stem armed with paired spines up to 7 cm long, glossy dark green leaves, and clusters of white flowers flushed with pink to purple that bloom from late summer into winter. The succulent stem stores water, allowing the plant to endure long dry seasons in its native lowveld woodland.
Japanese spurge
Pachysandra terminalis
Pachysandra terminalis (Japanese spurge) is a low-growing, evergreen perennial groundcover from the boxwood family (Buxaceae), native to the forests of Japan. It forms dense, 15-30 cm high mats of leathery, dark green leaves clustered at the ends of the stems - hence the specific name "terminalis". It spreads slowly via underground rhizomes and forms a continuous carpet within 2-3 years. In early spring, it produces small, inconspicuous white flowers in spike-like clusters. It is hardy in USDA zones 4a to 9b and excels in its ability to grow in deep shade where most other plants fail to thrive.
Golden Shrimp Plant
Pachystachys lutea
The Golden Shrimp Plant (Pachystachys lutea) is a tropical shrub native to Peru and South America, prized for its upright golden-yellow bracts and delicate white tubular flowers. An evergreen perennial in tropical climates, it is widely grown as an indoor houseplant or outdoor ornamental shrub worldwide.
Pachyveria
Pachyveria
Pachyveria (Γ Pachyveria) is an intergeneric hybrid genus created by crossing Pachyphytum with Echeveria, in the Crassulaceae family. It forms compact rosettes, usually 8 to 20 cm across, of thick, plump, often pointed leaves in powdery blue, silver-green, lilac or pink tones, with edges that blush red or purple under strong sun and cool nights. In spring and early summer it sends up arching stalks of small bell-shaped flowers in yellow, orange, pink or red. Popular cultivars include 'Glauca' (Little Jewel), 'Blue Mist', 'Scheideckeri' and 'Powder Puff'.
Skunkvine
Paederia foetida
Paederia foetida is a perennial climbing vine in the Rubiaceae family, native to tropical and temperate Asia (India, China, Southeast Asia). It is known for the strong, sulfurous odor that the foliage emits when crushed or bruised, caused by compounds such as dimethyl disulfide. It grows rapidly, twining around other plants or structures for support, and can reach several meters in length. In various regions outside its native habitat, such as parts of the United States, it has become naturalized and is considered an invasive species.
Peony
Paeonia
Paeonia is a genus of herbaceous perennial and shrubby flowering plants in the family Paeoniaceae, native to Asia, Europe, and western North America. Cultivated for centuries for their large, fragrant blooms, garden peonies (herbaceous types) die back to the ground each winter and re-emerge in spring, flowering from late spring into early summer.
Chinese Peony
Paeonia lactiflora
Paeonia lactiflora, commonly known as the Chinese Peony or Common Garden Peony, is a herbaceous perennial native to China, Korea, and Mongolia. Celebrated for its enormous, fragrant blooms up to 25 cm across in shades of white, pink, red, and purple, it is one of the most beloved garden plants in the world.
Wild Peony
Paeonia mascula
Wild peony (Paeonia mascula) is a herbaceous peony native to southern Europe and the Middle East, from Spain to Syria and Israel. It forms a clump 50 cm to 1 m tall, with bluish-green leaves divided into broad leaflets. In late spring it bears single, scented flowers 7-13 cm across, deep purplish-red or rose pink, with a boss of yellow stamens; the display lasts about a week. Over summer the seed pods, once called jester's hats, split open to show red and black seeds. The top growth dies back in winter and returns in spring. It is long-lived, takes 2 to 5 years to mature and dislikes being disturbed.
European Common Peony
Paeonia officinalis
Paeonia officinalis, the European common peony or garden peony, is a herbaceous perennial native to southern Europe. It produces large, fragrant flowers in spring in shades of red, pink, and white, growing up to 90 cm tall. It is one of the most beloved ornamental plants in European gardens, prized for its longevity and classic beauty. CAUTION: toxic to pets and humans β roots contain paeonol.
Tree Peony
Paeonia suffruticosa
Paeonia suffruticosa, commonly known as the Tree Peony or Mudan, is a majestic woody shrub native to China that can live for over a century. It produces spectacular flowers up to 20 cm in diameter in shades of white, pink, red, purple, and yellow, blooming in spring. Revered as the "King of Flowers" (θ±η) in Eastern culture, it is one of the most celebrated ornamental plants in the world.
Ratbane
Palicourea marcgravii
Ratbane (Palicourea marcgravii) is a shrub native to Brazil, belonging to the Rubiaceae family. It can reach up to 4 meters in height, featuring a cylindrical glabrous stem and opposite, lanceolate to oblong leaves 5 to 10 cm long, which emit a methyl salicylate odor when crushed. Its panicle inflorescences feature tubular flowers that are yellowish at the base and bluish-purple at the apex, followed by fruits (berries) that turn from green to purplish-black upon ripening. It is considered the most economically significant toxic plant for Brazilian livestock: it contains sodium monofluoroacetate, a compound that blocks the Krebs cycle and causes sudden death in cattle even at very low doses (average lethal dose of about 0.6 g of fresh leaves per kg of body weight).
Christ's thorn
Paliurus spina-christi
Paliurus spina-christi (Rhamnaceae family), known in English as Christ's thorn or Jerusalem thorn, is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to the Mediterranean region and Western Asia, from Afghanistan to Romania. It grows up to 4-6 meters in height, with thin zigzagging branches equipped with paired spinesβone straight and one curved. The leaves are oval, glossy, and feature three prominent veins. In late spring and summer, it produces small greenish-yellow flowers in clusters, followed by woody fruits surrounded by a disk-shaped wing resembling a small hat, which are green at first and turn brown when ripe. According to tradition, its thorny branches were used to weave the crown of thorns for Jesus, which is the origin of its common name.
Panaeolus cinctulus
Panaeolus cinctulus
Panaeolus cinctulus is a cosmopolitan saprophytic fungus, commonly known as the banded mottlegill. It is characterized by its convex, cinnamon to dark brown cap that displays a distinctive hygrophanous band around the margin when it begins to dry. It typically grows on dung piles, well-fertilized lawns, or nitrogen-rich substrates.
Korean Ginseng
Panax ginseng
Panax ginseng is a perennial herbaceous plant in the Araliaceae family, native to the shady forests of East Asia (Russia, China, Korea). It reaches a height of approximately 80 cm, featuring whorled palmate compound leaves and small, greenish-white flowers that transform into clusters of bright red berries in autumn. Its fleshy root, typically harvested after 6-7 years of growth, has been used for over 5,000 years in traditional Asian medicine for its adaptogenic properties.
Sea Daffodil
Pancratium maritimum
Pancratium maritimum, the sea daffodil, is a bulbous perennial of the Amaryllidaceae family native to Mediterranean, Black Sea and Macaronesian coastlines, where it grows rooted deep in shifting beach dunes. From August to October it produces clusters of large, white, funnel-shaped flowers with a fringed corona and a sweet, exotic scent that intensifies at dusk, pollinated almost exclusively by the convolvulus hawk-moth. Its strap-like, blue-green leaves often die back during the hottest, driest part of summer before the flower stalks emerge from the bare sand.
Screw Pine
Pandanus
Pandanus is a large genus of palm-like, dioecious trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics, spanning coastal Africa, Madagascar, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific islands. Known for its strap-shaped, often spiny leaves arranged in a spiral around the stem and distinctive stilt roots that anchor top-heavy trunks, Pandanus ranges from compact houseplant-sized shrubs to towering 20-meter trees. Female plants produce pineapple-like fruit clusters that ripen to orange or red, while the fragrant leaves of some species (notably Pandanus amaryllifolius) are prized across Southeast Asian kitchens.
Pandan
Pandanus amaryllifolius
Pandanus amaryllifolius, commonly known as pandan, is a tropical evergreen shrub prized for its long, blade-like aromatic leaves. Native to Southeast Asia, this sterile cultivar rarely flowers and is propagated entirely from suckers. Its leaves are a staple flavoring and coloring agent in Southeast Asian cuisine, often called the "vanilla of Asia" for their sweet, nutty fragrance.
Fragrant Screwpine
Pandanus odorifer
Pandanus odorifer, commonly known as Fragrant Screwpine or Kewra, is a tropical evergreen plant of the family Pandanaceae, native to South Asia. Its intensely fragrant male flowers are distilled to produce kewra essence and kewra water β key ingredients in Indian cuisine, confectionery and traditional perfumery. With its long spiraling leaves and striking silhouette, it is valued as an ornamental plant and for its wide range of culinary, medicinal and aromatic uses.
Tahitian Screwpine
Pandanus tectorius
Pandanus tectorius, known as the Tahitian Screwpine or Hala, is a coastal tropical tree in the Pandanaceae family. Native to the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, and Australia, it is renowned for its dramatic prop roots, long spiraling spiny leaves, and colorful pineapple-like fruits. A culturally significant species across the Pacific, it has been used for food, weaving, medicine, and shelter for thousands of years.
Screw Pine
Pandanus utilis
Pandanus utilis is a sculptural tropical tree, famous for its aerial (prop) roots that support the trunk and its long, leathery, spirally arranged leaves. Native to Madagascar, it is widely used in tropical landscaping due to its exotic and architectural appearance. Its leaves have small spines along the edges, requiring careful handling.
Bower Vine
Pandorea
Pandorea is a genus of woody evergreen climbers native to Australia, belonging to the family Bignoniaceae. Twining stems scramble over trellises, fences and pergolas, forming a dense curtain of glossy foliage studded with trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of white, pink and purple, often with a contrasting streaked throat. It is a vigorous, fast-growing plant popular for screening and shading in mild-to-warm gardens, though it is frost-tender and needs protection in cold climates.
Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) is a warm-season perennial grass native to the North American prairies, forming upright clumps of narrow blue-green blades that turn golden in fall. Prized in naturalistic gardens, erosion control, and as a biomass crop for biofuel, it is a rugged, drought-tolerant, low-maintenance plant that attracts birds and butterflies.
Poppy
Papaver
Papaver is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants commonly known as poppies. They are celebrated for their silky, tissue-paper-like petals in shades of red, orange, yellow, pink, and white. Notable species include P. somniferum (opium poppy), P. rhoeas (corn/field poppy), and P. orientale (oriental poppy). All parts of the plant produce a milky latex that is toxic if ingested. Species range from hardy annuals to perennials, blooming in late spring through early summer.
Long-headed Poppy
Papaver dubium
Papaver dubium, commonly known as the long-headed poppy or blindeyes, is a slender annual native to Europe and North Africa. It is identified by its elongated seed capsule and pale red to pink petals lacking dark basal spots. All plant parts except mature seeds contain toxic alkaloids, making it harmful to humans, cats, and dogs.
Oriental Poppy
Papaver orientale
Papaver orientale, commonly known as the Oriental Poppy, is a spectacular hardy perennial native to the Caucasus mountains, northeastern Turkey, and northern Iran. It produces enormous, tissue-paper-thin flowers in vivid shades of orange, red, pink, white, and purple, each with a dramatic dark center. After flowering in late spring to early summer, the foliage dies back completely, only to reappear as a basal rosette in autumn. This deciduous habit allows it to survive the dry summers of its native range.
Common Poppy
Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas, commonly known as the Common Poppy or Corn Poppy, is an annual flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Celebrated for its vivid scarlet-red petals with dark basal blotches, it has become a universal symbol of remembrance for fallen soldiers, particularly associated with World War I battlefields in Flanders. It thrives in disturbed soils, open fields, roadsides, and gardens, blooming from late spring through early summer.
Opium poppy
Papaver somniferum
Papaver somniferum, known as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is an annual herb characterized by its glaucous, lobed foliage and large, striking flowers. It is historically significant for its production of latex containing alkaloids such as morphine and codeine, as well as for its edible seeds used globally in culinary applications. The plant typically features a single upright stem topped by a nodding bud that opens into a delicate, four-petaled flower.
Lady Slipper Orchid
Paphiopedilum insigne
Paphiopedilum insigne is a stunning terrestrial orchid native to the misty forests of Southeast Asia and the Himalayas. Known for its distinctive pouch-shaped lip that resembles a delicate slipper, this cool-growing orchid produces elegant flowers in shades of green, yellow, and brown with characteristic spotted patterns. It is the type species of the Paphiopedilum genus and has been cultivated since the 19th century, prized for its long-lasting blooms that can persist for 6-8 weeks.
Lady Slipper Orchid
Paphiopedilum sp
Paphiopedilum, commonly known as the Lady Slipper Orchid, is a genus of terrestrial orchids native to the humid forests of Southeast Asia. Distinguished by their unique pouch-shaped lip (the "slipper"), these orchids produce long-lasting, exotic blooms in a wide range of colors. Unlike most orchids, they are true ground-dwellers, growing in leaf litter and mossy forest floors.
Charming Paphiopedilum
Paphiopedilum venustum
A ground-growing orchid from the eastern Himalaya: Nepal, north-east India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern China. It grows between 1,000 and 1,500 m at the foot of cliffs and in damp undergrowth near streams. The leaves, up to 25 cm long, are mottled dark and pale green on top and purple underneath, so it looks good even out of flower. From winter into spring it sends up a stem with a single flower about 8 cm across: a white top sepal striped green, green petals tipped rose-red with dark spots, and a green-veined pouch. Each flower can last up to six weeks.
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