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☼ sun, part-sun, shade, unknown Water: ◍ wet, moist, moderate, dry, less when dormant Features: ✓ evergreen, deciduous, flowers, fragrance, edible, fruit...

to cup-shaped flowers to 8 cm diameter with five overlapping petals and significant staminal columns typical of the mallow family. Flowers come in red,...

making them particularly attractive. The flowers are produced singly or in racemes of up to 20 on a single flower-head. They are yellow or orange, 3-6 mm...

in diameter, while the showy flowers can be up to 20 cm in diameter. There are a number of different cultivars, the flower colours varying from snow white...

colchica. The flowers are produced in drooping terminal panicles 5-10 cm long, with 5-15 flowers on each panicle; the individual flowers are about 1 cm...

and has escaped cultivation in a number of places.. Its wild origin is unknown but is speculated to be tropical Asia, perhaps India. It is a small shrub...

open by splitting at the front facing the centre of the flower. Deciduous or evergreen. Flowers produced after the leaves. Magnolia delavayi - Chinese evergreen...

Dippel. Allied to A. pictum. Lvs. pilose beneath: fls. and fr. unknown. Doubtful species of unknown origin.—A. amplum, Rehd. Allied to A. longipes. Tree, to...

large (to 65 cm across in the Japanese horse chestnut Aesculus turbinata). Flowers are showy, insect-pollinated, with four or five petals fused into a lobed...

tropical plant grown as a leaf vegetable. Its precise natural distribution is unknown due to extensive cultivation, with the species found throughout the tropical...

628 (all as P. Miqueliana).—"The flowers in autumn are smaller than those of spring, and in each case when the flowers are produced before the leaves or...

of the southeastern United States. The flowers are produced in dense or open whorls on an erect spike, each flower 1-2 cm long, with a typical peaflower...

cordata) Tilia 'Moltkei' (hybrid, unknown origin) Tilia 'Orbicularis' (hybrid, unknown origin) Tilia 'Spectabilis' (hybrid, unknown origin) also Tilia sibirica...

America. The plant is an herb with large nodding, purple, mint-scented flowers. It is sometimes known as "Canterbury Bells" (not to be confused with members...

Europe though its long history of cultivation makes its precise origin unknown, and may possibly be of garden origin. It is also widely naturalised further...

plant in the genus Sesamum. The precise natural origin of the species is unknown, although numerous wild relatives occur in Africa and a smaller number in...

peaches. Axillary buds in threes (vegetative bud central, two flower buds to sides). Flowers in early spring, sessile or nearly so, not on leafed shoots...

ends of their leaves and can reach 3 meters in height. They have showy flowers, distinctive because of their pronouncedly reflexed petals, like a Turk’s...

generally favours dry limestone and chalk soils. The hermaphrodite cream-white flowers appear in May, are insect pollinated, and go on to produce scarlet berries...

pest insects. Visiting flowers is a dangerous occupation with high mortality rates. Many assassin bugs and crab spiders hide in flowers to capture unwary bees...