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.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Phaseolus vulgaris

Phaseolus vulgaris
Biggets Plant Dictionary | Phaseolus vulgaris ( Bunkis )  | Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean, is an herbaceous annual plant domesticated independently in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, and now grown worldwide for its edible bean, popular both dry and as a green bean.

Allium cepa

Allium cepa
Plant | Allium cepa  | The onion (or allium) family is a large and diverse one containing over 500 species. With such a large range of species the origins of the modern (or globe) onion are a bit blurred.

Sesamum indicum

Sesamum indicum
Plant  | Sesamum indicum  | Sesamum indicum  is an erect tropical annual, original from Africa, but also found abundantly in Suriname; it is growing up to 6 feet tall. The plant is adaptable and drought resistant.

Apium graveolens

Apium graveolens
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Apium graveolens | Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae commonly known as celery (var. dulce) or celeriac (var. rapaceum), depending on whether the petioles (stalks) or roots are eaten: celery refers to the former and celeriac to the latter.

Aleurites moluccana

Aleurites moluccana
Plant | Aleurites moluccana | Aleurites moluccana, the Candlenut, is a flowering tree in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, also known as Candleberry, Indian walnut, Kemiri, Varnish tree, Nuez de la India, Kukui nut tree.

Timonius sericcus

Timonius sericcus
Plant | Timonius Sericcus ( Timun ) | place to grow cucumbers in the form of herb or weak creeping vines and a half crops: after flowering and fruiting plants die. Perbungaannya monoecious (monoecious) with the type of male flowers and hermaphrodite flowers (hermaphrodite).

Citrullus lanatus

Citrullus lanatus
Plant | Citrullus lanatus ( semangka ) | Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.), family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Cengkeh (Syzygium aromaticum, (Linn.) Merr.)

Cengkeh (Syzygium aromaticum, (Linn.) Merr.)
Plant | Cengkeh (Syzygium aromaticum, (Linn.) Merr.) | Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum), including herbaceous plant species that can have great trees and hardwood, clove able to survive tens and even hundreds of years, the height can reach 20 -30 meters and its branches is quite dense.

Palaquium gutta

Palaquium gutta
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Palaquium gutta | Scientific classification : Kingdom: Plantae,(unranked): Angiosperms, (unranked): Eudicots,(unranked): Asterids,Order: Ericales,Family: Sapotaceae,Genus: Palaquium.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Rosa L.

Rosa L.
Plant | Rosa L. | Rose is a shrub of the genus Rosa as well as the name of this plant produced flowers. Wild roses which consists of more than 100 species mostly grown in the northern hemisphere the valve cool.

Vitis vinifera L.

Vitis vinifera
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Vitis vinifera L. | It is cultivated on every continent on Earth except for Antarctica. In Europe, in the central and southern regions;

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Anacardium occidentale

Anacardium occidentale
Plant | Anacardium occidentale | Anacardium occidentale The cashew is a tree in the family Anacardiaceae. Its English name derives from the Portuguese name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi name, acajú. It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.

Phoenix dactylifera

Phoenix dactylifera
Plant | Phoenix dactylifera | Although there are many palms that we call "date palms"; pygmy date palm(Phoenix roebelenii), Senegal date palm (Phoenix reclinata), Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis) are just a few. Kurma Indonesia callled.

Citrus Aurantifolia, Swingle

Citrus Aurantifolia, Swingl
Plant | Citrus Aurantifolia, Swingle | (Citrus aurantifolia) is a citrus species with a globose fruit, 2.5–5 cm in diameter (1–2 in), that is yellow when ripe but usually picked green commercially.

Aloe vera

Aloe vera
Plant | Aloe vera | Aloe vera also known as the true or medicinal aloe, is a species of succulent plant in the genus Aloe that is believed to have originated in the Sudan. Aloe vera grows in arid climates and is widely distributed in Africa, India, Nepal and other arid areas.

Tamarindus Indica Linn

Tamarindus Indica Linn
Plant | Tamarindus Indica Linn | Tamarindus indica is a plant that is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of cold, fever, stomach disorder, diarrhea and jaundice and as skin cleanser.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Piper nigrum

Piper nigrum
PLANT | Piper nigrum | Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning.

Alpinia galanga

Alpinia galanga
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Alpinia galanga | The plant grows from rhizomes in clumps of stiff stalks up to two meters in height with abundant long leaves which bears red fruit. It is native to South Asia and Indonesia.

Mangifera kemanga

Mangifera kemanga
PLANT | Mangifera kemanga | Mangifera kemanga A large evergreen tree, upto 30 m tall, and bole 50-80(-120) cm or more in diameter, crown dome-shaped with massive branches; bark greyish-brown, superficially fissured, containing irritant sap.

Morinda citrifolia

Morinda citrifolia
PLANT | Morinda citrifolia | Morinda citrifolia, commonly known as great morinda, Indian mulberry, nunaakai (Tamil Nadu, India) , dog dumpling (Barbados), mengkudu (Indonesia and Malaysia), Kumudu (Balinese), pace (Javanese), beach mulberry, cheese fruit or noni (from Hawaiian) is a tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae.

Cananga odorata

Cananga odorata
PLANT | Cananga odorata | Cananga odorata An evergreen tree, 10-40 m tall, in cultivation often pruned to 3 m; trunk up to 75 cm in diameter, without buttresses; bark pale grey or silvery, smooth.

Annona squamosa

Annona squamosa
PLANT | Annona squamosa | Herbaceous plant, long-lived (perennial), height 2-5 m. The roots of riding. Stem woody, cylindrical, erect, grayish color, thin skin, rough surfaces, branching simpodial, sloping upward toward the branch.

Vigna mungo

Vigna mungo
PLANT | Vigna mungo | Known as Urad, urad dal, udad dal, urd bean, urd, urid, black matpe bean, black gram, black lentil (not to be confused with the much smaller true black lentil (Lens culinaris)), maas (in Nepali), đậu đen (Vietnamese, literally: black bean) or white lentil, is a bean grown in southern Asia.

Citrus x paradisi

Citrus x paradisi
PLANT | Citrus x paradisi | Grapefruit, the tree, resulted from a cross (no doubt unintentional) between a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and a pummelo (C. maxima). (This knowledge comes not from the historical record, but from genetic analyses conducted many years later.)

Theobroma cacao

Theobroma cacao
Plant | Theobroma cacao | Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is a small (4–8 m tall (15-26 ft)) evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to the deep tropical region of the Americas. There are two prominent competing theories about the origins of the original wild Theobroma cacao tree.

Capsicum annum

Capsicum annum
Plant | Capsicum annum | Capsicum annuum, Chile de Arbol (commonly known as the Mississippi sport pepper) is a domesticated species of the plant genus Capsicum native to southern North America and northern South America.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Tectona grandis

Tectona grandis
Biggest Plant Dictionary | Tectona grandis | A large to very large deciduous tree having height upto 35 meters; bark having brown or grey colour and shallow longitudinal furrows; Leaves simple, opposite, broadly elliptical or obovate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, possessing minute glandular dots; Flowers white, many, small, having pleasant smell, in large erect terminal branched tomentose cymose bladder like calyx; seeds usually 1-3, ovate, marble white. 

Piper betle

Piper betle
Plant | Piper betle | Family : Piperaceae, Genus : Piper,Species : P. betle a height of 2 to 4 meters. Upper leaves are usually oblong-elliptic, oblong-ovate or ovate, 6 to 17.5 cm long, 3.5 to 10 cm wide, mostly 7-plinerved, smooth on both surfaces. Male spikes are subpendulous, slender, 7 to 13.5 cm long, and 2 to 3.5 mm in diameter.

Amorphpophallus titanium

Amorphpophallus titanium
Plant | Amorphpophallus titanium | The kind of this carcass flower often similarize with rafflesia arnoldi flower.