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Name: Gardenia, Cape jasmineScientific Name: Gardenia jasminoidesGenus: GardeniaFamily: RubiaceaeGardenia jasminoides is...
29/04/2024

Name: Gardenia, Cape jasmine
Scientific Name: Gardenia jasminoides
Genus: Gardenia
Family: Rubiaceae

Gardenia jasminoides is native to parts of south-east Asia, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Laos, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Name: Asian pigeonwingsCommonly known as bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea or Darwin peaScientific Nam...
29/04/2024

Name: Asian pigeonwings
Commonly known as bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea or Darwin pea
Scientific Name: Clitoria ternatea
Genus: Clitoria
Family: Fabaceae

This plant is native to equatorial Asia, including locations in South Asia and Southeast Asia but has also been introduced to Africa, Australia and the Americas.

Name: Castor bean or Castor oil plantScientific Name: Ricinus communisGenus: RicinusFamily: EuphorbiaceaeIts seed is the...
27/04/2024

Name: Castor bean or Castor oil plant
Scientific Name: Ricinus communis
Genus: Ricinus
Family: Euphorbiaceae

Its seed is the castor bean, which despite the term is not a bean (as it is not the seed of a member of the family Fabaceae). Castor is indigenous to the southeastern Mediterranean Basin, East Africa, and India, but is widespread throughout tropical regions (and widely grown elsewhere as an ornamental plant).

Name: Nayan Tara, Vinca or Vinca roseaCommonly known as: Bright eyes, Cape periwinkle, Graveyard plant, Madagascar periw...
26/04/2024

Name: Nayan Tara, Vinca or Vinca rosea
Commonly known as: Bright eyes, Cape periwinkle, Graveyard plant, Madagascar periwinkle, Old maid, Pink periwinkle, Rose periwinkle.
Scientific Name: Catharanthus roseus
Genus: Catharanthus
Family: Apocynaceae

It is grown elsewhere as an ornamental and medicinal plant, and now has a pantropical distribution. It is a source of the drugs vincristine and vinblastine, used to treat cancer.

Name: Litchi TomatoCommonly known: Vila-vila, Sticky nightshade, Red buffalo-bur, The fire-and-ice plant, Litchi tomato,...
26/04/2024

Name: Litchi Tomato
Commonly known: Vila-vila, Sticky nightshade, Red buffalo-bur, The fire-and-ice plant, Litchi tomato, or Morelle de Balbis.
Scientific Name: Solanum sisymbriifolium
Genus: Solanum
Family: Solanaceae

The native range of this species is South Tropical America. It is an annual or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.

Name: Chinese Senna or Sicklepod Scientific Name: Senna obtusifolia Genus: DiallobusFamily: CaesalpiniaceaeIt grows wild...
26/04/2024

Name: Chinese Senna or Sicklepod
Scientific Name: Senna obtusifolia
Genus: Diallobus
Family: Caesalpiniaceae

It grows wild in North, Central and South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. It is considered a particularly serious w**d in many places, used as a ancient medicine.

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