Get to know 15 plants selected from Birzai. Discover their scientific names, identifying features and growing needs.
Taraxacum officinale
An evergreen herbaceous perennial known as the 'dandelion' with upright purple stems and upright or horizontal dark green basal foliage growing from a main taproot. Yellow flower heads change into silvery, wispy tufted seed heads or 'dande
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Prunus padus
P. padus is a large deciduous tree with toothed, ovate leaves turning yellow in autumn, and pendant racemes of frgrant white flowers 1cm wide in late spring, followed by small, bitter black fruits
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Tussilago farfara
Traditionally an ingredient in cough medicine, coltsfoot flowers before its leaves emerge in early spring. Flowers are yellow and similar to dandelions, borne singularly on short scaly stems. Leaves are entire and toothed with a grey tinge.
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Schlumbergera truncata
A cactus with erect stems that then become pendent-forming as a bushy, trailing plant with flattened and toothed, oblong stem segments. Flowers produced at the stem tips in autumn and winter are usually in shades of purple, pink or red
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Aegopodium podagraria
Better known as Ground Elder. A vigorous and invasive clump-forming perennial, it has soft green leaves and white flowers from spring through until the autumn
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Festuca glauca
An evergreen grass which forms small cushions of very fine, inrolled, ice blue leaves, becoming greener in winter. From late spring to summer it bears narrow, bristly blue-green flower plumes that turn golden-brown
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Filipendula ulmaria
A vigorous rhizomatous perennial with pinnately divided leaves, the leaflets strongly toothed and often whitish beneath, and with creamy-white flowers in dense irregular terminal clusters on erect leafy stems in summer
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Phlox subulata
A prostrate, mat-forming evergreen alpine with fine, green needle-like leaves and star-shaped blue, purple, pink or white flowers in spring and summer
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Medicago sativa
Also known as 'alfalfa'or 'purple medic' this herbaceous perennial legume with a deep tap-root and clover-like green foliage produces small purple flowers in the summer followed by flat pea-like fruits. Used in many countries as animal foo
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Codiaeum variegatum, commonly known as croton, is a striking evergreen shrub grown primarily for its bold, leathery leaves. The leaves come in a dazzling array of colors including green, yellow, orange, red, and purple, often with variegate
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Salix purpurea
S. purpurea is a spreading shrub or small tree to 5m, with arching purplish shoots bearing narrowly oblong, blue-green leaves and slender silvery catkins on bare shoots in early spring
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Begonia rex
R. rex is an evergreen perennial to 30cm, with large, obliquely ovate leaves which are metallic green with a silvery zone on the upper surface, reddish beneath; panicles of small pink flowers in winter
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Schefflera arboricola
Schefflera arboricola, commonly known as the Dwarf Umbrella Tree, is an evergreen shrub native to Taiwan. It features palmate compound leaves typically composed of 7-9 leaflets, glossy and leathery. The plant has a compact, bushy habit with
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Linaria vulgaris
L. vulgaris is an erect perennial, spreading by runners, with stiff stems bearing narrow, pale green leaves that are arranged in a spiral. The pale yellow flowers, resembling small snapdragons in dense spikes, appear from late spring to mid
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Nymphaea alba
N. alba is a vigorous aquatic with rounded leaves to 30cm across, and cup-shaped white flowers 20cm wide, with prominent yellow stamens, becoming star-shaped with maturity
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