General plants

General plants

Plants in general and their related subjects and terms.

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General plants

Genus of 40 species of woody-based, evergreen perennials, subshrubs, and shrubs from open woodland in South Africa, Madagascar, and S.E. Asia. Hypoestes is grown for its spotted leaves. This plant ...

Hoffmannia

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 100 species of mostly shrubs and herbs from Guatemala and Mexico. The name honours the 18th/19th century Swedish professor of Botany, Georg Franz Hoffman. The leaves are dark velvety ...

Hymenocallis

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 40 species of bulbous perennials, some evergreen, from grassland and rocky habitats from S. US to South America. In spring, summer, or winter, they bear terminal umbels of fragrant ...

Hippeastrum

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 80 species of bulbous perennials from Central and South America. Hippeastrum is often confused with Amarillis. Both plants produce clusters of trumpet-like flowers on thick stalks. ...

Hoya

Plants; General plants

Genus of over 200 species of evergreen, climbing and shrubby perennials, some epiphytic, from coastal bluffs, stram margins, escarpments, and rainforest in the warmer regions.

Drocera

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 100 species of rosette-forming or scrambling, evergreen or herbaceous, insectivorous perennials, also including some annuals, found in poor, acidic, boggy soil throughout the world, ...

Gardenia

Plants; General plants

Genus of about 200 species of evergreen trees and shrubs from open woodland or savanna in tropical regions of Africa and Asia. Gardenia has very exacting growth requirements and numerous problems ...