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Clearweed
Pilea pumila
Clearweed is a delicate annual herb native to eastern North America and East Asia, prized for its translucent, glassy stems and bright green, coarsely toothed leaves. It thrives in the dappled shade of moist woodlands, where its tiny greenish-yellow flowers bloom from midsummer into fall.
Red Brilliantine Pilea
Pilea serpyllacea
Red Brilliantine (Pilea serpyllacea) is a tiny creeping plant native to the Andes of Bolivia and Peru. It is prized for its small, glossy leaves with reddish tones, often confused with Pilea glauca. It thrives in terrariums, hanging pots, and as ground cover in humid indoor settings.
Silver Tree Pilea
Pilea spruceana
The Silver Tree Pilea is a small ornamental houseplant native to the Andean mountain regions of Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru in South America. It is prized for its textured, metallic silver-to-bronze foliage that shimmers under indirect light. It forms compact clumps, making it a great choice for pots and indoor terrariums.
Guaitecas cypress
Pilgerodendron uviferum
The Guaitecas cypress (Pilgerodendron uviferum) is the southernmost conifer in the world, growing in southern Chile and southwestern Argentina, from near Valdivia (about 40° S) to Tierra del Fuego (54° S). It is the only species in its genus, though many botanists include it in Libocedrus. It is an evergreen tree with a narrow, conical crown, reaching 2 to 20 m in height with a trunk up to 1.5 m in diameter, featuring reddish-brown bark that peels in grayish strips. Its leaves are tiny scales, less than 1 cm long, arranged in crossed pairs so that the branchlets appear square. It is dioecious, with separate male and female trees producing cones of 5 to 12 mm. It inhabits peat bogs, wetlands, and humid forests of the coast and the Andes, thriving in acidic, nutrient-poor, and waterlogged soils where it often forms nearly pure stands. It is very slow-growing and long-lived. Its aromatic, reddish-yellow wood is nearly rot-proof and was historically used for railway sleepers, boats, oars, and houses; however, exploitation, fires, and livestock have reduced its population. It is currently classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN and protected under CITES Appendix I.
Mouse-ear hawkweed
Pilosella officinarum
Pilosella officinarum, commonly known as mouse-ear hawkweed, is a perennial herbaceous plant native to Europe and northern Asia. It forms basal rosettes of green leaves covered in distinct white hairs, which help conserve moisture. The plant spreads via creeping stolons, creating a dense mat. Its bright yellow flowers resemble small dandelions and emerge on single, upright stems.
Pilosocereus (genus)
Pilosocereus
Pilosocereus is a genus of columnar cacti native to Brazil and the Caribbean, recognized by their striking blue-green waxy stems and dense white woolly hair. Many species grow several meters tall and produce nocturnal flowers.
Brazilian Blue Cactus
Pilosocereus azureus
Pilosocereus azureus, commonly known as the Brazilian Blue Cactus, is a columnar cactus native to Brazil's rocky caatinga and cerrado scrublands. Its most striking feature is the blue-grey coloration of the stem, caused by a waxy epicuticular coating that shields it from intense sunlight. In habitat it can grow up to 10 meters tall, branching into clusters covered in golden-yellow spines. It produces large white, night-blooming flowers pollinated by bats and moths, typically appearing from spring into summer.
Caatinga Blue Pilosocereus
Pilosocereus catingicola
Pilosocereus catingicola is a columnar cactus endemic to the semi-arid Caatinga biome of northeastern Brazil. Known for its striking blue-green stems and nocturnal white to pink flowers, it can reach up to 10 meters tall in the wild. It is one of the most iconic cacti of the Brazilian Caatinga, highly adapted to drought and intense sun.
Brazilian Cactus
Pilosocereus chrysostele
Pilosocereus chrysostele is a columnar cactus native to the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in northeastern Brazil (Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte). It grows in clumps that branch only near the base, forming upright columns with a blue-green epidermis and pale yellow spines, reaching up to 3 m tall in the wild. Its flowers emerge at night from a woolly lateral structure called a cephalium and are pollinated mainly by bats.
Blue Torch Cactus
Pilosocereus pachycladus
Pilosocereus pachycladus, commonly known as the Blue Torch Cactus or Blue Columnar Cactus, is a columnar cactus native to Brazil, specifically the Caatinga region. Its most striking feature is its intense, waxy blue epidermis, which serves as protection against solar radiation and water loss. It has well-defined ribs with areoles bearing yellowish spines. Its flowers are large, white, and bloom at night, being pollinated primarily by bats.
Butterwort
Pinguicula
Pinguicula, commonly known as butterwort, is a genus of over 100 species of carnivorous plants in the Lentibulariaceae family, native to temperate and tropical regions of America, Europe, and Asia. Their leaves form rosettes with a greasy, shiny surface (hence the common name) covered in mucilaginous glands that trap, digest, and absorb nutrients from small insects, supplementing the scarce nutrients of the peaty soil where they grow. Some Mexican species maintain succulent leaves year-round; others from temperate climates form a winter bud (hibernaculum) during dormancy.
Mexican butterwort
Pinguicula moranensis
Pinguicula moranensis is a perennial carnivorous plant from Mexico and Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras), where it grows in oak and pine-oak woodland between 800 and 3200 m, often on limestone, moss, damp rock faces or even tree trunks. It changes shape with the seasons: in the rainy season it forms a flat rosette of 6 to 8 large, fleshy, sticky leaves, 5 to 13 cm long, covered in glands that trap and digest gnats and other small insects. In the dry season, from October to May, it swaps them for a tight rosette of small succulent leaves with no glue. It flowers twice a year, with single pink, purple or violet flowers (white in var. alba) on stalks 10 to 25 cm tall.
Aleppo pine
Pinus halepensis
The Aleppo pine is an evergreen Mediterranean conifer, recognizable by its often twisted and irregular habit, its fissured grayish bark, and its long, thin needles grouped in pairs of a pale, slightly bluish green. Native to the Mediterranean basin, it grows equally well on sandy coastal dunes as on the most arid rocky and limestone slopes, where it can reach 15 to 25 meters in height. Extremely resistant to heat, wind, and drought once established, it plays a major ecological role in soil stabilization and Mediterranean reforestation.
Mountain Pine
Pinus mugo
Pinus mugo, commonly known as Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine, is a hardy evergreen conifer native to the mountains of Central and Southern Europe, including the Alps, Carpathians, and Pyrenees. It typically grows as a spreading shrub or small tree up to 3 meters tall, featuring paired dark green needles and small dark brown ovoid cones. Exceptionally cold-hardy and wind-resistant, it thrives in poor, rocky, well-drained soils at high altitudes. Widely used in rock gardens, alpine landscaping, erosion control, and as a bonsai subject.
Austrian Pine
Pinus nigra
The Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) is a robust, fast-growing evergreen conifer native to the mountains of Central and Southern Europe, from Austria down through the Balkans and into parts of Turkey and North Africa. It forms a dense, broadly pyramidal crown with stiff, dark green needles borne in pairs and grey-brown, deeply fissured bark. Prized for its toughness, it tolerates poor, alkaline, and compacted soils, urban pollution, coastal salt spray, and strong winds, making it a favorite for windbreaks, reforestation, and street planting throughout temperate climates.
Maritime pine
Pinus pinaster
Maritime pine is a tree of the western Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast of Europe, native to Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and North Africa. It usually reaches 20 to 35 metres, with thick, orange-red bark that is deeply fissured at the base of the trunk. The needles come in pairs, 10 to 25 cm long, and are the longest and sturdiest of any European pine. The cones are 8 to 22 cm long, ripen to a glossy red-brown after two years, and can stay closed for years, sometimes opening only in the heat of a forest fire. It is the most common conifer in Portugal, where it covers nearly 30% of the forest.
Stone Pine
Pinus pinea
Pinus pinea, the stone pine, is a large Mediterranean conifer famous for its broad, umbrella-shaped crown and for the edible pine nuts (pinoli) held in its rounded cones. It has stiff, dark green paired needles and reddish, fissured bark, and can reach 20 to 25 metres over a long, slow life. Its distinctive silhouette is a hallmark of the Italian and Iberian landscape.
Ponderosa Pine
Pinus ponderosa
The Ponderosa Pine is a massive, iconic conifer of the American West. It is easily recognized by its long, dark-green needles that grow in bundles of three and its thick, plate-like bark that develops a beautiful orange-brown hue and a scent reminiscent of vanilla or butterscotch as the tree matures.
Smooth-bark Mexican Pine
Pinus pseudostrobus
The Smooth-bark Mexican Pine (Pinus pseudostrobus) is a large conifer native to the highlands of Mexico and Central America, where it grows in pine-oak forests between 850 and 3,250 meters in altitude. It is distinguished by its smooth, grayish bark in young specimens, which becomes rougher and cracked with age, and by its long, drooping needles grouped in fascicles of five. In its natural habitat, it can exceed 30 meters in height, with a dense, rounded crown. It is a fast-growing species, drought-tolerant once established, and valued both for its timber and its ornamental use in temperate to warm climates.
Scots Pine
Pinus sylvestris
Pinus sylvestris, known as the Scots Pine, is a majestic conifer native to Eurasia. It is easily recognizable by its bark, which becomes orange and flaky on the upper part of the trunk, and its blue-green needles arranged in pairs. It is one of the hardiest trees in the world, capable of thriving in Arctic climates and poor, sandy soils.
Pepper Plants
Piper
Piper is a tropical genus in the family Piperaceae, with over a thousand species of herbs, shrubs and climbers. It gives us black pepper, long pepper, betel and kava. Most species live in the understory of lowland tropical forests and carry tiny flowers in slim spikes. Do not confuse it with chili and bell peppers, which belong to Capsicum.
Matico
Piper aduncum
Piper aduncum, popularly known as matico or spiked pepper, is a perennial shrub or small tree native to Central and South America, common in Brazil, where it grows in secondary forests, forest edges, and riverbanks. It grows rapidly, reaching 2 to 8 meters in height, with aromatic, pungent-tasting leaves and elongated, white to pale-yellow floral spikes that can appear year-round. It is widely valued in traditional Amazonian medicine for its healing, antiseptic, and antimicrobial properties.
Black pepper
Piper nigrum
Piper nigrum is the plant behind the peppercorn: a perennial evergreen vine from the warm, wet forests of South and Southeast Asia, native to the Western Ghats of India. It climbs trees, posts or trellises with small roots along the stems and can reach 10 m in the wild, though farmers keep it at 3-4 m. The leaves are glossy, oval and pointed. Hanging spikes carry 50 to 150 tiny white flowers that turn into small round berries, green at first and red when ripe. Black, green and white pepper all come from the same fruit, picked at different stages and processed differently. A vine can live for more than 30 years.
Wild Betel
Piper sarmentosum
Wild betel (Piper sarmentosum) is an evergreen perennial plant from the Piperaceae family, native to Southeast Asia. Its creeping stems root at the nodes and form a dense mat, with upright shoots reaching about 50 cm. Its heart-shaped, glossy green leaves with a peppery taste are widely used in cooking (la lot leaves, mieng kham) and traditional medicine.
Cowfoot
Piper umbellatum
The Cowfoot (Piper umbellatum) is a perennial subshrub in the Piperaceae family, native to the tropical regions of the Americas, including nearly all of Brazil. It can reach 3 to 13 feet in height in its natural habitat, though it remains more compact when grown in pots. Its leaves are large, rounded to cordate (heart-shaped), with prominent palmate venation and long petioles that optimize light capture in shaded environments. The inflorescences appear as erect axillary spikes, yellowish-white in color, followed by brownish pyramidal fruits. It grows naturally at the edges of primary forests, secondary forests, riparian forests, and shaded riverside areas.
Alligator Tree
Piptadenia gonoacantha
The Alligator Tree is a native species of the Atlantic Forest, reaching 26 to 65 feet in height. It is easily recognized by its corky trunk featuring longitudinal and transverse ridges that resemble alligator skin—the origin of its common name. The leaves are bipinnate with dozens of pairs of leaflets, forming a wide and sparse canopy. Small white to cream-colored flowers gather in axillary spikes, attracting large numbers of bees during the flowering season. As a fast-growing pioneer species, it is essential for restoring degraded areas and reforestation due to its ability to fix nitrogen in the soil through bacteria associated with its roots.
Vassourão-branco
Piptocarpha angustifolia
The Vassourão-branco (Piptocarpha angustifolia) is a tree native to Brazil, belonging to the Asteraceae family. It is found in the Atlantic Forest and Araucaria moist forests of the South and Southeast regions, ranging from Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul. It is a pioneer, evergreen species that can reach up to 30 m in height and 60 cm in diameter at maturity, featuring a high, elongated canopy with characteristic grayish-green foliage visible from a distance. The trunk grows nearly straight, with smooth, whitish bark when young, becoming grayish, rough, and reticulated with age. Its leaves are narrow and lanceolate, and its cream-colored flowers, clustered in small heads, bloom from August to February depending on the region, serving as an important nectar source for native bees. It grows rapidly in clearings, secondary forests, and degraded areas, making it widely used in ecological restoration and soil recovery projects.
Dyeball
Pisolithus tinctorius
Pisolithus tinctorius is a fascinating ectomycorrhizal fungus, commonly known as the Dyeball or Dead Man's Foot. It is not a plant, but a fungus that forms a vital symbiotic relationship with the roots of trees such as pines and oaks. Its fruiting body has a globose, earthy appearance, similar to a stone or animal waste, which matures into a mass of dark brown spores. It is highly valued in forestry for its ability to help trees colonize poor, acidic, or mining-degraded soils.
Pull-and-hold
Pisonia aculeata
Pisonia aculeata, known as pull-and-hold or devil's claws, is a tropical thorny climber in the Nyctaginaceae family. Native to the tropical regions of the Americas and the Caribbean, this vigorous plant develops long branches armed with recurved thorns—like hooks—that cling to other plants and surfaces to climb. Its small, inconspicuous flowers appear in clusters during spring and summer, followed by sticky seeds that can trap small insects and birds. It is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental plant in tropical gardens and natural hedges.
Pistachio
Pistacia
Pistacia is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Anacardiaceae, native to Mediterranean regions, the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of the Americas. The genus includes iconic species such as the edible pistachio (P. vera), the mastic tree (P. lentiscus), the terebinth (P. terebinthus), and the ornamental Chinese pistache (P. chinensis). Adapted to arid and semi-arid climates, Pistacia plants are celebrated for their exceptional drought tolerance, longevity, and versatile uses spanning food, medicine, and ornamentation.
Chinese Pistache
Pistacia chinensis
Pistacia chinensis, commonly known as Chinese pistache, is a medium to large deciduous tree native to China and Taiwan. Renowned for its spectacular fiery fall foliage — turning vivid orange, red, and scarlet — it is one of the most reliable and showy ornamental trees for temperate climates. It grows 30–40 feet tall with a broad, rounded canopy, exfoliating bark that reveals salmon-colored inner layers, and small, inconspicuous spring flowers. Once established, it is exceptionally drought-tolerant, pollution-resistant, and largely pest-free, making it a low-maintenance landscape favorite.
Mastic Tree
Pistacia lentiscus
Evergreen Mediterranean shrub or small tree with leathery leaves and a rounded, spreading form. It is dioecious, with tiny green or reddish flowers in spring. Female plants bear bright red berries that turn black when ripe. The bark yields the aromatic resin known as mastic.
Terebinth
Pistacia terebinthus
The terebinth (Pistacia terebinthus) is a deciduous shrub or small tree in the Anacardiaceae family, native to the Mediterranean region. It thrives in rocky, calcareous soils and produces an aromatic resin historically harvested as "Chios turpentine". Reddish-purple flowers appear in spring, followed by small globose fruits that ripen from red to dark brown.
Water Lettuce
Pistia stratiotes
Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) is a free-floating aquatic plant in the Araceae family, native to pantropical regions. Its velvety rosette leaves resemble a small head of lettuce, hence the common name. It is widely cultivated in ornamental ponds, aquariums, and water features where it plays a key role in natural water filtration by absorbing excess nutrients.
Garden pea
Pisum sativum
The garden pea (Pisum sativum) is an annual climbing herb from the legume family (Fabaceae), cultivated for thousands of years for its sweet, nutritious pods and seeds. It uses tendrils to attach itself to supports and can grow up to 2 meters in height under ideal conditions. Thanks to its ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen through Rhizobium root nodule bacteria, it enriches the soil and is a popular cover crop as well as a staple vegetable for gardeners.
Pittosporum
Pittosporum
Pittosporum is a genus of evergreen shrubs and small trees prized for their glossy, whorled foliage and clusters of fragrant, orange-blossom-scented flowers that bloom in spring. Widely used for hedging, screening, and foundation plantings, it is tough, tolerant of coastal salt spray, and responds well to shaping, making it a staple of ornamental landscaping in mild climates.
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