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Billbergia pyramidalis

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  Botanical Name:- Billbergia pyramidalis Common Name:- Foolproof Plant It is a popular house plant for its minimal maintenance. It prefers a warm and humid environment. It looks like a small torch and a pyramid. The plant’s dense red flowers can last for about a month. Billbergia pyramidalis requires no care whatsover as a landscape plant. in heavy shade, the foliage will be a rich , dark green, while in sun the leaves are a bright yellow green. They are cold- tolerant and usually only damaged if a heavy frost settles on the leaves. When planted in the ground, they quickly create large clumps, and when planted at the base of a tree, will slowly climb the trunk.  Features:- Flower: Flower stalk emerges from the center of the rosette, comprised of small red flowers with purple tips. Bracts are bright red. Plants can survive low light conditions for longer time than most of the other houseplants. Soil: requires a well-drained soil, adaptable to a wide pH range. They...
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Lantana camara

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  Botanical Name:- Lantana camara Common Name:- Red Sage Lantana camara is a perennial flowering plant found in tropical areas. The Lantana plant is known for its clustered flowering form with an aromatic scent. Lantana flowers display bright tinges of yellow, red, pink and orange. It is a very adaptable species, which can inhabit a wide variety of ecosystems. This plant does grow quickly and aggressively so plan its location accordingly. The showy flowers appear from mid-summer until the first frost and come in a wide range of colour from pink, white, yellow, orange, red and purple or mixed colours. Uses and Benefits: 1)    1.  Medicinal properties of the leaves: Lantana Camara has amazing health benefits. Its leaves are used for treating malaria, chickenpox, asthma, ulcer, swelling, eczema, tumour, high blood pressure, bilious fever, sores, measles, fevers, colds and high blood pressure. 2)    2.   A source of essential ...
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Heliotropium indicum

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   Botanical Name:- Heliotropium indicum Common Name :- Indian heliotrope, Indian turnsole It is an annual plant that is a common weed in waste places and settled areas. It is native to Asia. It is widely used in native medicine in Tamil Nadu, India.  Features:- 1)     It grows wildly on roadsides and has a curved arrangement of small flowers and velvety broad green leaves 2)    The plant that can grow to a height of about 15–50 cm. has a hairy stem, bearing alternating ovate to oblong-ovate leaves. 3)     It has small white or purple flowers with a green calyx, five stamens borne on a corolla tube; a terminal style; and a four-lobed ovary. Medicinal uses: 1)The plant has been widely used for centuries to treat warts, inflammations and tumours. 2) It is use to treat numerous skin problems including yaws, urticaria, scabies, ulcers, eczema and impetigo.        3) The fresh juice of the leaves, in...
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Solidago decurrens

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Botanical Name:- Solidago decurrens Common Name:- Goldenrod It is an Asian species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across China, India, Korea, Japan, Indochina, Nepal, Philippines, and other nearby countries. It reaches hights of 35 to 100 centimeters. It occurs in the spontaneous flora or are cultivated as decorative plants.  Raw materials of goldenrods have a long and wide use history in the traditional medicine of different parts of the world. Features:- 1)       Solidago decurrens is a perennial herb up to 100 cm. 2)       One plant produces many small yellow flower heads in a large branching array at the top of the plant. Leaves:- Solidago decurrens has simple leaves that are alternate. Flowers:- Solidago decurrens produces panicles of brilliant greenish yellow many-stellate flowers from April to November.  
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Thunbergia laurifolia

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  Botanical Name: Thunbergia laurifolia Common Name: Blue Trumpet Vine, Blue Sky Vine It is native to India, the species occurs from Indochina to Malaysia.It is locally known as kartuau in Malaysia. Features:- 1)       It bears numerous clusters of gorgeous trumpet-shaped mauve-coloured flowers, up to 8 cm long and 6-8 cm wide, on long pendulous branches.         Though these non-scented, one-day bloomers open in the early morning and close in the same evening, its abundance make it seem to be flowering non-stop for days on end.   Each large flower has a short broad tube, white outside and yellow inside, and frilled with 5 roundish, lavender-blue or pale violet to mauve-coloured petals, one of which is larger than the rest. The plant develops a very tuberous root system. Light: Prefers full sun to light shade. Blooms best with good sunlight and warmth in the day and cool temperatures during the night. Moisture: Water moderately and regula...
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