Belonging to the family Nimphaeceae, a family gathering more than 50 species of aquatic plants, Nymphaea borrowed its name from the Greek “Νύμφη”, a word that means “nymph”. Related to mithology, the word perfectly underlines the sublime fragility expressed by these aquatic plants. Nymphea is also known as Water Lily. Other species belonging to the …
Also known as Paddle Plant, Flapjaks, Desert Cabbage, White Lady, Geelplakkie, Meelplakkie or Plakkie, Khalanchoe thyrsiflora is a part of the Khalanchoe genus native to Madagascar, a genus that gathers more than 200 species, popular especially as garden plant. Khalanchoe thyrsiflora is compound of a stalk that can reach a height of one meter and …
Being a part of the Crassulaceae family, along with other 200 species, the Kalanchoe is a perrenial plant that has its origins in Madagascar. Kalanchoe is mostly an indoor plant very popular in Europe having a small size, dark green leaves and flowers in shapes of stars that can have colors such as red, yellow, …
An impressively numerous genus, the Impatiens genus comprises of more than 900 species of flowers often referred to as balsams or touch-me-nots, even though other names are also used depending on the region. The Impatiens genus originates from the Northern Hemisphere, but the tropical regions are also known to be appropriate for the occurrence of …
Lamium Purpureum, also known as Red Deadnettle or Purple Deadnettle is a flowering plant usually seen as a weed. As it frequently is a host of the leaf-roll virus that affects potatoes, in some areas it is considered to be, an invasive, dangerous weed. Red Deadnettle is seen, not only as a weed, sometimes dangerous …