Friday, October 7, 2011

Ipomoea fistulosa

Ipomoea fistulosa

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Ipomoea fistulosa | Ipomoea carnea, is an alternative meal for most people of the world. and it also has many nutrients. the Pink Morning Glory, is a species of morning glory. This Flowering plant has heart-shaped leaves are a rich That green and 6-9 inches long. It can be easily grown from seeds the which are toxic and it can be hazardous to cattle.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Nymphaea nouchali

Nymphaea nouchali

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Nymphaea nouchali |  Nymphaea nouchali is a day blooming nonviviparous plant with submerged roots and stems. Part of the leaves are submerged, while others rise slightly above the surface. The leaves are round and green on top; they usually have a darker underside. The floating leaves have undulating edges that give them a crenellate appearance. Their size is about 20–23 cm and their spread is 0.9 to 1.8 m

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Clerodendrum thomsonae

Clerodendrum thomsonae

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Clerodendrum thomsonae | Nona Makan Sirih | Herbs, sometimes subshrubs or shrubs , annual or perennial , usually aromatic . Stems and branches usually 4-angled. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled or alternate, simple to pinnately dissected or compound , without stipules. Inflorescences generally compound, sometimes flowers solitary and axillary ; verticillasters 2- to many flowered, subtended by leaves or bracts. Flowers bisexual , zygomorphic, rarely subactinomorphic, bracteolate or not.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Hibiscus mutabilis

Hibiscus mutabilis
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Hibiscus mutabilis | Beautiful flowers. but also this plant is not only in the said interest. but this might be of interest. Confederate roses growing niche to be shrubby or treelike in Zones 9 and 10, though it behaves more like a perennial Further north. Flowers can be double or single and are 4 to 6 inches in diameter; They open white or pink, and change to deep red by evening. The 'Rubra' variety has red flowers. Generally single blooming flowers are cup-shaped. Bloom season usually Lasts from summer through fall.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Parkia speciosa

Parkia speciosa

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Parkia speciosa | Can be said of fruit can also say the plant. petai really enjoyed for the eastern Asia including Indonesia sebagao famous eating salad. Parkia speciosa is a tree up to 15-40 m in height and 50-100 cm in diameter. Branchlets are hairy. Leaves bipinnate on 2-6 cm long stalks with gland 7-15 mm above base stalk. Pinnae 10-19 pairs, 5-9 cm long, each with 31-38 pairs of leaflets Opposite linear, 5-9 mm long and about 2 mm wide, with rounded tip and small pointed or ear lobe at the base. Flowers small and creamy white, found in densely crowded heads. Pods large, 35-55 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, straight or more commonly twisted; dangling in small bundles, green Becoming black. Each pod contains 10-18 large seeds. Valves swollen over seeds. Testa soft. Robert Brown described the genus Parkia in 1826. He named it after Mungo Park, a Scot WHO made ​​two remarkable Journeys of exploration into the interior of West Africa in 1795-97 and 1805. The specific name, 'speciosa' is Latin for beautiful, showy.

Gloriosa superba

Gloriosa superba

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Gloriosa superba | Flowers are very beautiful red color became one of the best work of god. Gloriosa superba is a striking tuberous climbing plant with brilliant Wavy-edged yellow and red flowers. There is also a more Bushy, yellow-flowered form. The name Gloriosa comes from the word gloriosus, the which means handsome and superba form the word superb Cleary alluding to the beautiful flowers the which Appear from November to March. Naturally it Occurs in semi-shade areas Among bush on hillsides along the Cape coast, Natal, Swaziland, Northern Province, Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Pogostemon hortensis

Pogostemon hortensis
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Pogostemon hortensis | Patchouli Soap is a superior product Sagara Gemilang made ​​from export quality patchouli oil composition in which the function is more typical of soaps as an antiseptic, anti fungal, anti acne, cure eczema, chapped skin, helps reduce inflammation can even help reduce anxiety and depression or help people with insomnia (difficulty sleeping disorders) and is an aphrodisiac to increase sexual arousal.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Citrus medica var. proper

Citrus medica  var. proper

Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Citrus medica  var. proper | Strange name  for the fruit.  but it was orange papaya  fruit. strange  but nyata.These plants are large shrubs or small trees,  5-15 m Reaching tall, with spiny shoots and alternately  Arranged evergreen leaves with an entire margin.  The flowers are solitary or in small  corymbs, each  flower 2-4 cm diameter, with five (rarely four)  white petals and numerous stamens; Often They are very strongly scented.  The fruit is a hesperidium,  a Specialised berry, globose to elongated, 4-30 cm long  and 4-20 cm in diameter,  with a leathery rind Surrounding segments or "liths"  filled with pulp vesicles. The genus is  commercially Important  as many species are cultivated for Their fruit,  the which is Eaten fresh, pressed for juice, or Preserved in marmalades and pickles.

Limnocharis flava

Limnocharis flava 

Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Limnocharis flava  | L. flava has triangular-shaped leaf and flower stalks and produces 'octopus-like' inflorescences consisting of up to 15 three-lobed yellow flowers. Its fruits are spherical and made up of cresent shaped segments that eventually split off, carried by water currents to disperse seeds to new locations (CRC for Australian Weed Management, 2003). The botanical specifics are noted as follows. It is glabrous (lacks hairs and is smooth), scapigerous (produces leafless flowering stalks) and lactiferous (contains a milky substance). It has a short stout rhizome (which measures about 3cm long and 3cm in diameter) and numerous fibrous roots. The leaves are erect, sheathing and curvinerved, and rise in clusters above the water.

Brassica oleracea var. capitata

Brassica oleracea  var. capitata

Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Brassica oleracea  var. capitata | cabbage or Brassica oleracea var. capitata is one of the popular vegetable in the world that many health benefits. This is the way cabbage grows until longer days and warmer weather signals it to bolt to flower. Then, the head splits open and Gives birth to a stalk That uncurls Itself as it forces the head split open farther. The stalk grows 2-4 '(0.6-1.2 m) tall, then develops numerous branches and small, four-petaled, cross-shaped yellow flowers elongate That eventually develop into seed pods. There are Hundreds of cultivars of cabbage (Cornucopia - A Source Book of Edible Plants lists 73 available in the U.S.). They can be grouped into three main Kinds: smooth green, red and Savoy. The smooth green cabbages may have a round, flattened or conical heads, and can be green, blue-green or yellow-green. Head size can range from one pound in some dwarf varieties to more than 60 lbs (27 kg) for some of the Kraut cabbages.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Rubus idaeus

Rubus idaeus

Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Rubus idaeus | Rosaceae Rubus idaeus perennial shrub native to north-central Europe sarmentosa, stump consists of small size, long shoots that grow with the construction of two years, covered by a thin hair, sometimes spiny, curved and flexible, growing to 150 - 200 cm. In the spring produces small white flowers pink, at Inflorescences pyramidal, some varieties produce fruit in summer, the branch of the year, other varieties produce fruit on branches a year in spring and summer, feeding on new shoots.

Gossypium hirsutum

Gossypium hirsutum
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Gossypium hirsutum |  Gossypium hirsutum cotton or very important as a highly profitable industrial plants stout tumbuhab benefit from this. and with history, Archeological evidence from the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico shows the cultivation of this species as long as 5.000 years ago. This is the earliest evidence of cotton cultivation in the Americas found thus far. Gossypium hirsutum includes a number of varieties or cultivars of cross-Bred with varying fiber lengths and tolerances to a number of growing conditions. The longer length varieties are called "Long Staple Upland" and the shorter length varieties are Referred to as "Short Staple Upland". The long staple varieties are the most widely cultivated in commercial production.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Dillenia philippinensis

Dillenia philippinensis
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Dillenia philippinensis | Up to 10 m shrub. No stipules. Leaves opposite, simple, pinnate leaf veins, petiole winged along the entire length. Flowers about 95 mm, yellow, sometimes arranged in clusters quiet. Fruit about 23 mm capsule, long red, cracked, seed with red aril.

Ipomoea cairica

Ipomoea cairica

Plant | Ipomoea cairica |  The dominant color of purple flowers is perfect to be a decoration in front of the house plants in the planting tatu. Morning glory Ipomoea cairica has many common names, including Mile-a-Minute Vine, Messina Creeper, Cairo Morning Glory, Morning Glory and Coast Railroad Creeper. Vining This perennial has palmate leaves and large, showy white to lavender flowers. And this flower has a special feature Each fruit matures at about 1 cm across and contains hairy seeds. 

Pelargonium x hortorum

Pelargonium x hortorum
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Pelargonium x hortorum | Pelargonium x hortorum make you happy today. Flower is very beatiful. spesial to you every day. And Species of Pelargonium are evergreen perennials indigenous to Southern Africa and are drought and heat tolerant, and can tolerate only minor frosts. Pelargoniums are extremely popular garden plants, grown as annuals in temperate climates.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Diospyros blancoi

Diospyros blancoi
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Diospyros blancoi | Butter plants is similar to its name and Mabolo, Velvet Apple or (locally) bossing sa mabolo (Diospyros blancoi) is a plant of the genus of ebony trees and persimmons, Diospyros. Its edible fruit has a skin covered in a fine, velvety fur the which is usually reddish-brown, and soft, creamy, pink flesh, with a taste and aroma comparable to fruit cream cheese (the aroma of the fruit Itself, however, is unpleasant , comparable to rotten cheese or cat feces; inspiring names like the French "Caca de Chat" in Reunion). It is native to the Philippines, where kamagong usually refers to the entire tree, and mabolo is applied to the fruit.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Averrhoa bilimbi

Averrhoa bilimbi
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Averrhoa bilimbi  | Carambola that have a sour taste. The bilimbi tree is long-lived and reaches 5-10 m in height. Its trunk is short and divides up into ramifications Quickly. Bilimbi leaves, 3-6 cm long, are alternate, imparipinnate and clusters at branch extremities. There are around 11 to 37 alternate or subopposite oblong leaflets. The leaves are quite similar to Those of the Otaheite gooseberry.

Epiphyllum oxypetalum

Epiphyllum oxypetalum
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Epiphyllum oxypetalum | This dominant white flowers are very beautiful flowers and flower Wijaya Kusuma (Epiphyllum anguliger) including the type of cactus, anthophita division, nation and class opuntiales dicotiledoneae. Flowers Wijayakusuma just broke a few moments alone at night and not all flowering plants can Wijayakusuma easily, depending on climate, soil fertility and how maintenance.

Ipomoea reptans

Ipomoea reptans
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Ipomoea reptans | Water spinach (Ipomoea sp.) Can be planted in the lowlands and highlands. kale is a favorite meal full of nutrition for spinach lovers know the vegetarians. Kale is a type of leaf vegetable crops, included into the family Convolvulaceae. Kale leaves long, whitish green color is a source of pro vitamin A. Vitamin Based on the site, kale can be divided into two kinds: 1) Watercress land, living in a dry or moor, and 2) Kangkung water, life is juicy and wet place.

Platycodon grandiflorus

Platycodon grandiflorus
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Platycodon grandiflorus  | ornamental flower one is very suitable to decorate a beautiful and interesting to look at. Platycodon grandiflorus is a species of annual flowering plant family Campanulaceae and the only plant of the genus Platycodon. This species is often referred to as platycodon, Chinese bell flower, sometimes also flowers japanese bell, or just called a balloon flower.

Pinus merkusii

Pinus merkusii
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Pinus merkusii | This tree is suitable for building materials. and suitable also for forestry. A tree, 30-50 (70) m tall with a crown and an open, level to upcurved branches, the crown changing from conical to rounded as the tree ages. Bark rough, gray-brown, Deeply fissured, forming small rounded plates on the lower part of the trunk; thin and flaky in the upper crown; all thin bark on trees from some areas at higher altitudes (Tapanuli prov., Sumatra) where grass fires are infrequent.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Fuchsia speciosa

Fuchsia speciosa
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Fuchsia speciosa | exquisite flowers with dangling red. Kembang Anting-anting Indonesia called, Indonesian society is more familiar with beautiful flowers on this one by the name of Flower Earrings.

Adenium obesum

Adenium obesum
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Adenium obesum | Flowers are very famous in Japan. It is an evergreen or Succulent Drought-deciduous shrub (which can also lose its leaves During cold spells, or According to the subspecies or cultivar).There are several species of Adenium: Adenium swazicum, Adenium somalense, Adenium arabicum,  Adenium boehmianum, Adenium multiflorum, Adenium crispum, Adenium obesum.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Pelargonium x hortorum

 Pelargonium x hortorum
Biggest Plant Dictionary  |  Pelargonium x hortorum | Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants which includes about 200 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs, commonly known as scented geraniums or storksbills. Confusingly, Geranium is the correct botanical name of a separate genus of related plants often called Cranesbills.

Saraca indica

Saraca indica
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Saraca indica | Saraca Indica commonly known as Ashoka tree or Sorrowless Tree is one of the most exotic flowering trees of the Indian subcontinent.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Saraca thaipingensis

Saraca thaipingensis
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Saraca thaipingensis | Saraca thaipingensis is a tree species native to southeast Asia. It has yellow flowers, borne on old wood, and is grown as an ornamental for floral effect.

Casuarina equisetifolia

Casuarina equisetifolia
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Casuarina equisetifolia | It is an evergreen tree growing to 6–35 m (20–115 ft) tall. The foliage consists of slender, much-branched green to grey-green twigs 0.5–1 mm (0.020–0.039 in) diameter, bearing minute scale-leaves in whorls of 6–8.

Saccharum officinarum

Saccharum officinarum
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Saccharum officinarum | Saccharum officinarum can be recognised by its hairless or short-haired panicle axis, and leaf-blades up to 6 cm wide.

Alpinia purpurata

Alpinia purpurata
Biggest Plant Dictionary  | Alpinia purpurata | Red Ginger (Alpinia purpurata), also called Ostrich Plume and Pink Cone Ginger, are native Malaysian plants with showy flowers on long brightly colored red bracts.

Platystele sp

Platystele sp
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Platystele sp | In late 2009 the then world peranggrekan enlivened the world with international news about the discovery of the smallest sized orchids in the world.

Garcinia mangostana

Garcinia mangostana

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Garcinia mangostana | Native to Southeast Asia. Cultivated throughout the tropics, but primarily in Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, Honduras, Panama, and in the USA, in Hawaii.

Samanea saman

Samanea saman
Plant | Samanea saman | Samanea saman is often referred to Trembesi (Rain tree) is a plant that has many protective benefits. Rain Tree can last 2-4 months or longer in areas that have a rainfall of 40 mm / year (Dry season) or even live longer depending on the age, tree size, temperature and soil.

Kaempferia galanga

Kaempferia galanga
Plant | Kaempferia galanga | Kaempferia galanga, commonly known as kencur, aromatic ginger, sand ginger, cutcherry or resurrection lily, is a monocotyledonous plant in the ginger family.

Jasminum pubescens

Jasminum pubescens
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Jasminum pubescens | Freely spreading shrub with downy cordate leaves and clusters of intensely sweet scented white starlike flowers at tips and along the stems.

Daisies


Aster flower

Plant | Daisies | The shape and size of the flower is almost similar to the sunflower. Aster flower-shaped circular, or like a star with the petals and the petals are numerous and separate.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.

Plant | Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. |  Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.) is a shrub tribe Malvaceae originating from East Asia and widely planted as an ornamental plant in the tropics and subtropics .

Monday, September 5, 2011

Helianthus anuus

Helianthus anuus
Plant | Helianthus anuus | Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas that possesses a large inflorescence (flowering head). The sunflower got its name from its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image is often used to depict the sun.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Ocimum sanctum

Ocimum sanctum
Plant | Ocimum sanctum | Terna small basil leaves are commonly eaten as a salad. Leaves distinctive aroma, strong but soft aroma with a touch of lime. Basil is one of the ingredients for the Pepes.

Nicotiana glauca

Nicotiana glauca
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Nicotiana glauca | Tree tobacco is native to South America but it is now widespread as an introduced species on other continents.

Hevea brasiliensis

Hevea brasiliensis
Plant | Hevea brasiliensis | Tree up to 40 m tall, with girth 2.6–3.3 m; stems smooth and straight; trunk unbranched up a long way and then with much-branched leafy canopy; bark grayish; taproot well-developed; leaves alternate, trifoliolate, stipulate, petioles 7.5–10(-70) cm long;

Euphorbia milii

Euphorbia milii
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Euphorbia milii | Euphorbia milii (Crown-of-thorns or Christ Plant) is a woody, succulent species of Euphorbia  native to Madagascar. The species name commemorates Baron Milius, once governor of RĂ©union, who introduced the species to France in 1821.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Swietenia mahagoni

Swietenia mahagoni
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Swietenia mahagoni | Swietenia mahagoni is a tall tree, up to 30 m high, with a short, buttressing base, up to 1 m in diameter and a large, spherical crown, many heavy branches and dense shade. The bark is smooth grey on young trees, turning to scaly dark reddish-brown on large trees.

Catharanthus roseus

Catharanthus roseus
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Catharanthus roseus | It is an evergreen subshrub or herbaceous plant growing to 1 m tall. The leaves are oval to oblong, 2.5–9 cm long and 1–3.5 cm broad, glossy green, hairless, with a pale midrib and a short petiole 1–1.8 cm long; they are arranged in opposite pairs.

Nicotiana tabacum

Nicotiana tabacum
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Nicotiana tabacum  | Nicotiana tabacum or tobacco, a native of Tropical America is the plant that is cultivated as the principal source of tobacco.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Adenium obesum

Adenium obesum
Plant | Adenium obesum | It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub (which can also lose its leaves during cold spells, or according to the subspecies or cultivar).

Polianthes tuberosa

Polianthes tuberosa
Plant | Polianthes tuberosa | The tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa) is a perennial plant related to the agaves, extracts of which are used as a middle note in perfumery.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Solanum tuberosum

Solanum tuberosum 

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Solanum tuberosum | The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family (also known as the nightshades).

Pistia stratiotes

Pistia stratiotes 

Biggest Plant Dictionary | Pistia stratiotes | Rivers (2002) notes that for P. stratiotes to survive, it requires a wet, temperate habitat. It is usually found in lakes and rivers, however, it can survive in mud.

Leontopodium alpinum

Leontopodium alpinum 
Plant | Leontopodium alpinum  | Leaves and flowers are covered with white hairs and appear woolly (tomentose).

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Eclipta alba

Eclipta alba
Plant | Eclipta alba ( Urang-aring ) | Eclipta alba (L.) Hassk. (syn. Eclipta prostrata L.), commonly known as False Daisy , yerba de tago, and bhringraj, is a plant belonging to the family Asteraceae. Root well developed, cylindrical, greyish. It is also named 'kehraj' in Assamese and karisalankanni in Tamil.