A wonderful, medium-sized, usually solitary Aloe that forms a dense rosette of broad, pale green to bluish leaves that are toothed along the edges. The massive, unbranched inflorescence holds many densely set flowers, mostly hidden by green bracts. It is found on rocky slopes in the dry interior of ..
A beautiful, moderately large, usually solitary Aloe that forms a dense rosette of broad, pale green to bluish leaves that are toothed along the edges. The thick, massive, usually unbranched inflorescence holds many densely set flowers, mostly hidden by green bracts. Aloe broomii var. tarkaensis is ..
A small, perennial, deciduous aroid with attractive, purple spotted leaves and an upright, greenish inflorescence followed by by densely clustered, bright orange red fruits. Arum maculatum is widespread in woodlands in much of Europe to the Black Sea and makes an attractive ornamental, popularly use..
A large tree to 45 m tall, widely distributed from southern Mexico to much of South America. Its reddish brown wood has an unusual, snakeskin-like pattern and is one of the hardest, heaviest and most expensive wood available...
A very attractive perennial commonly forming colonies in grasslands in southern Africa. It forms a cluster of upright, twisted, narrow, pale bluish green leaves and ascending, unbranched flower stalks with star-shaped, bright yellow flowers. Seeds germinate rapidly and Bulbine narcissifolia is easy ..
This attractive plant in the Marantaceae family is a popular ornamental and commonly confused with Heliconia, which the broad, thin-stalked leaves to 2.5 m tall and especially the showy inflorescences resemble. The latter are made up of numerous, closely spaced, yellow bracts that somewhat remind of..
This beautiful, rare Fishtail Palm was discovered and described as recently as 1996 from the tiny islands of Tanna and Aneityum in the Vanuatu Archipelago in the South Pacific between Fiji and New Caledonia. Its most striking feature is the robust leafstalks, distinctly striped or mottled cream and ..
This Sansevieria from rocky, desert-like regions in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe forms open clusters of small fans with cylindrical, attractively banded leaves to about 90 cm tall and upright inflorescences with white flowers. It is hardy to drought and suitable for warm temperate and dry tropical cl..
An attractive climbing shrub to 3 m tall, native to the coastal wood and shrublands of southwestern Australia. It presents dark green leaves and very showy, tri-colored, purple-black-yellow, pea-like flowers. A beautiful ornamental for warm-temperate climates, hardy to USDA Zone 10...
This small fern forms a thin, climbing or creeping rhizome, densely covered with small scales that holds alternating, simple, glossy green, tounge-shaped leaves. It is widely distributed in tropical rainforests from Central America and the Caribbean to Bolivia from low elevations to 1600 m. Microgra..
This evergreen, sparsely branched, upright shrub with red inflorescences and white flowers followed by black, round fruits is originally native to India. It is an important medicinal plant in Asia and contains around 60 different alkaloids...
A vigorously growing African tree that is particularly attractive, covered with its showy, bright orange fruits. Apart from being an exquisite ornamental, it is also appreciated in Africa for a myriad of medicinal uses that range from treating hypertension to epilepsy to tumors to infertility and im..
Salacca wallichiana 'Sakum' is a spineless cultivar of the Salak Palm from Thailand. It is popular there for being much easier to cultivate and harvest as it is lacking the vicious spines of other cultivars...
A spiny palm from swampy habitats in Southeast Asia and Sumatra, prized for its delicious fruits. Sala Sumalee is a cultivar from Thailand, where it is highly esteemed for its excellent fruit quality. It produces smaller, more heavily clustering plants...
A climbing plant in the pumpkin family with deeply lobed leaves and ovoid, red fruits, widely distributed from the Indian peninsula to the Himalayas and Yunnan in western China in evergreen forests and thickets between 700 and 1200 m. It is used in traditional medicine...
A large, tendriled, woody vine in the pumpkin family to 20 m tall with slender shoots, lobed leaves and white flowers with frilliy edges, followed by round, bright red fruits that hold seeds coated in a slimy black mucus. Trichosanthes tricuspidata is widespread in forests from the Himalayas to Chin..
An evergreen perennial in the iris family from South Africa's Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. It produces a tuft of grass-like leaves from an underground corm. The long, delicate inflorescences hold a...
This beautiful and most unusual dwarf cycad is found on poor soils in the undergrowth of dry Eucalyptus woodland above 1400 m (4600 ft.) in northeastern New South Wales, Australia, where it even gets ...