Get to know 15 plants selected from Khorasan-e Jonubi. Discover their scientific names, identifying features and growing needs.
Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa is a fast-growing annual herb with an upright, branching habit. Its leaves are palmately compound, typically with 5-7 lanceolate, serrated leaflets. Small greenish flowers appear in summer and autumn; female plants produce r
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Araucaria heterophylla
An elegant, conical, coniferous tree with distinctive whirled branches of juvenile, fan-like foliage and mature, spiralled foliage. Young plants are often used as houseplants
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Dionaea muscipula
An evergreen, insectivorous perennial with rosettes of leaves spreading to 30cm wide. Each rosette comprises 6 or more leaves with a flat green stalk ending in a hinged trap to 2cm across. This trap is often flushed pink or red inside and e
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Portulacaria afra
A slow-growing, evergreen succulent shrub with small, fleshy, glossy green leaves. Mature stems have greyish bark and young stems are often flushed with red. Clusters of tiny, saucer-shaped pale pink flowers are produced at the tips of the
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Solanum tuberosum
Potatoes are hugely versatile and a staple ingredient of many meals in one form or another – boiled, mashed, chipped or baked. Potatoes are classified as being either earlies or maincrops. Early varieties are ready to harvest much sooner th
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Ficus elastica
Large, tropical evergreen tree, often grown as a houseplant. Large, broadly oval-shaped, glossy dark green leaves, occasionally red-flushed, with bronze-coloured undersides are 30-45cm long. Yellow figs are produced in clusters on mature tr
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Callistephus chinensis
Varies in height from 20 to 70cm, and width from 25 to 45cm. Chrysanthemum-like flowers can be single, semi double or double, 7 to 12cm across and held on branching stems over a long period from late summer into autumn. Colours include ligh
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Opuntia microdasys
O. microdasys is a bushy, perennial cactus with flattened, segmented, oval to round, light to mid-green stems; densely spotted with white areoles, each bearing minute white, yellow or reddish-brown bristle-like spines. Yellow, bowl-shaped f
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Ocimum basilicum
An aromatic tender annual or short-lived perennial, 30-60cm tall and 30cm wide, with bright green, elliptic leaves approximately 5cm long and 2-3cm wide. Many different cultivars available, varying in size and colour. Small, tubular white o
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Tagetes patula
A compact, bushy annual to 30cm tall and wide with aromatic, deeply-divided leaves and single or double flowerheads in shades of yellow, orange, red or brown from summer into early autumn
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Narcissus tazetta
A species daffodil to 35cm, with narrow, upright, bluish-green foliage, and flowering in late winter to early spring. Produces up to 10 fragrant blooms per stem, each 4cm across, with white petals and a short, bright yellow cup
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Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
K. blossfeldiana is a bushy evergreen succulent perennial to 40cm, with fleshy, ovate leaves, and terminal panicles of tubular red flowers spreading lobes in early spring
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Buxus sempervirens
A large, evergreen shrub or small tree to 5m tall, with glossy, dark green leaves to 3cm long, and small, yellowish flowers in clusters, produced in the leaf axils during spring
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Hedera helix
H. helix is a vigorous, self-clinging climber with three- to five-lobed, glossy, evergreen leaves, often with pale green veins, and some reddish or bronzy colours in autumn. Mature plants produce bushy, non-clinging branches with diamond-sh
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Podranea ricasoliana
A fast-growing, frost-tender, evergreen, twining climber to 4m or more. Glossy, dark green leaves are divided into seven to nine, lance-shaped leaflets. Loose clusters of fragrant, trumpet-shaped, pink flowers with darker veining are borne
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