Ornamental Crop (CHS2501) by Gloria Puyang Bernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707 Diversity of plants en-us 2018-12-06 11:58:48 UTC 2025-11-23 15:55:34 UTC hello@padlet.com gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312473203 Common name: Tower tree Scientific name: Schizolobium parahyba

Characteristics:  The Brazilian fire tree, or Brazilian fern tree, is a tree species from tropical America, notable for its fast growth. It is known one of the most tallest tree among all trees in the world. 

Overall height:  average growth of 6m per year.
 


]]> 2018-12-08 08:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312473203 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312600055 Common name: Gold Mound Duranta
Scientific name: Duranta erecta

Characteristics: Duranta erecta is a beautiful evergreen shrub or small tree with violet flowers in summer. It is widely cultivated in tropical climates around the world. A stunning shrub producing bright gold new foliage that eventually matures to green; pretty lavender flowers in summer are followed by yellow-orange berries; may be shaped into low hedges; a great garden or landscape accent  

Overall height: 5 feet
Spread:  5 feet
 
]]> 2018-12-09 08:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312600055 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312604406 Common name: Royal Palm
Scientific name:  Roystonea regia

Characteristics: The fast-growing royal palm features a long, smooth trunk that tapers as it reaches upward.  This kingly tree serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes and enjoys a rich botanical history, securing its status as a go-to symbol for tropical climates. 

Overall height:  50 to 100 feet, with canopies, spread up to 25 feet. 8-inch long leaflets on 10-foot lengths of glossy pinnate leaves.
 

  ]]> 2018-12-09 09:34:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312604406 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312610857 Common name: Yellow Peanut plant
Scientific name: Arachis pintoi

Characteristics: Pinto peanut is a perennial tropical legume useful for pasture, ground cover and as an ornament.  Leaves are alternate and composed of four leaflets. This cultivar grows well at sites with an annual precipitation of 1,300 mm, but performs best under humid tropical conditions, where precipitation is higher and there are no intermediate dry periods. Once established, this legume tolerates moderate waterlogging and drought, and grows well under shade. Although cultivar Arachis Pintoi adapts to acid soils with high aluminum.

Overall height: 10 to 20cm deep. Stems: smooth, hollow, round stems to about 3mm thick
Leaves: made up of four oval-shaped leaflets, usually 3 to 4 cm long.

]]> 2018-12-09 10:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/312610857 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317148292 Common name: Confederate Rose
Scientific name: Hibiscus mutabilis

Characteristics:  Flowers can be double or single and are 4–6 in (10–15 cm) in diameter; they open white or pink, and change to deep red by evening. The 'Rubra' variety has red flowers. Single blooming flowers are generally cup-shaped. Bloom season usually lasts from summer through fall. Propagation by cuttings root easiest in early spring, but cuttings can be taken at almost any time.

Overall height:
5–6 ft (1.5–1.8 m) high is more typical and provides more flowering.
 

]]> 2019-01-03 03:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317148292 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317149263 Common name: Dumb Cane
Scientific name: Dieffenbachia amoena

Characteristics:  It is a very popular and hardy shade-loving plant. Its leaves are large, oblong, and cream or light yellow with deep green spots and stripes in bands along the veins and border.
This plant usually become an indoor plant.]]> 2019-01-03 03:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317149263 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317149485 Common name: Pigeon orchid
Scientific name: Dendrobium crumenatum

Characteristics: It is an epiphytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae and is native to Asia. It has two rows on leaves along its pseudobulb and relatively large but short-lived, strongly scented white flowers. It usually grows in exposed positions in lowland rainforest and coastal scrub.


]]> 2019-01-03 03:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317149485 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317150345 Common name: False Bird of Paradise
Scientific name: Heliconia rostrata

Characteristics: It grown upright position, yellow and red in one petal of each flowers.  Heliconias are known to those who grow them as a host flower to many birds, especially the hummingbird. Due to its unique characteristics, it is often used as a specimen for tropical gardens. ]]> 2019-01-03 04:15:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317150345 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317150539 Common name: Climbing Oalender
Scientific name: Strophanthus gratus

Characteristics: Climbing Oleander is an evergreen, clambering vine or rambling shrub, to 25 feet. ]]> 2019-01-03 04:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317150539 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317150778 Common name: Staghorn Fern
Scientific name: Platycerium coronarium

Characteristics:  It produces two kinds of leaves: Foliage leaves which are broad and upright in habit, and spore bearing leaves which are narrow, pendulous, lobed and up to fifteen feet (4.6 meters) in length. ]]> 2019-01-03 04:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317150778 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317151415 Common name: Cycad
Scientific name: Cycas revolata

Characteristics:  It known as his very symmetrical plant supports a crown of shiny, dark green leaves on a thick shaggy trunk that is typically about 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter, sometimes wider. The trunk is very low to subterranean in young plants, but lengthens above ground with age. It can grow into very old specimens with 6–7 m (over 20 feet) of trunk ]]> 2019-01-03 04:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317151415 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317151600 Common name: Rose Cactus
Scientific name: Pereskia bleo

Characteristics: Pereskia bleo grows as a shrub and reaches a height of 2 to 8 m with trunks up to 15 cm in diameter. The olive-green to brownish grey branches are smooth. The leaves are arranged alternately on the branches and are distinctly stalked with petioles up to 3 cm long. The leaf blade is 6 to 20 cm long and 2 to 7 cm wide, elliptic to oblong in shape. ]]> 2019-01-03 04:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317151600 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317151985 Common name: Pinwheel plant
Scientific name: Tabernaemontana divaricata

Characteristics:  The large shiny leaves are deep green and about 6 inches (15 cm) in length and 2 inches (5.1 cm) in width. The waxy blossoms are found in small clusters on the stem tips. The (single) flowers have the characteristic 'pinwheel' shape also seen in other genera in the family Apocynaceae.]]> 2019-01-03 04:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317151985 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317152228 Common name: Garlic Vine
Scientific name: Mansoa alliacea

Characteristics: M. alliacea has been exported overseas, and grows in the favourable climates and cultivated in West India.
It is creeper and known ad "forest garlic". It gets its name from the distinct garlic smells produced when the leaves are crushed]]> 2019-01-03 05:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317152228 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317369705 Common name: Bird's-nest fern
Scientific name: Asplenium nidus

Characteristics: Asplenium nidus is an epiphytic species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae, It can survive either as an epiphytal, or terrestrial plant, but typically grows on organic matter. This fern often lives in palm trees or bromeliads, where it collects water and humus in its leaf-rosette.

]]> 2019-01-04 04:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317369705 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317627452 Common name: Foxtail Palm
Scientific name: Wodyetia bifurcata

Characteristics: Wodyetia bifurcata has a solitary, self-cleaning trunk with smooth green crownshaft. Trunk is slender, dark grey to light grey, closely ringed, and slightly swollen at the base. It is a fast growing palm that can get up to 30 ft tall. ]]> 2019-01-06 05:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317627452 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317628428 Common name: Yellow Dancer plant
Scientific name: Heliconia bihai

Characteristics:  It is a herbaceous plant growing about 2 to 4 m tall. Besides, its leaf blades are big up to 60 cm long, paddle-shaped and resemble that of banana plants. 

]]> 2019-01-06 05:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317628428 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317633689 Common name: Hibiscus plant
Scientific name: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis

Characteristics: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is a bushy, evergreen shrub or small tree growing 2.5–5 m (8–16 ft) tall and 1.5–3 m (5–10 ft) wide, with glossy leaves and solitary, brilliant red flowers in summer and autumn. The 5-petaled flowers are 10 cm (4 in) in diameter, with prominent orange-tipped red anthers.]]> 2019-01-06 07:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317633689 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317633852 Common name: Blue Juniper
Scientific name: Juniperus chinensis

Characteristics: Tall tree, small leaves, bush-like tree and the leaves grow in two forms, juvenile needle-like leaves 5–10 mm long, and adult scale-leaves 1.5–3 mm long. Mature trees usually continue to bear some juvenile foliage as well as adult, particularly on shaded shoots low in the crown. ]]> 2019-01-06 07:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317633852 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317634584 Common name: Wild Pepper Leaf
Scientific name: Piper sarmentosum

Characteristics:  This plant is a perennial herb with creeping rhizomes, and a striped stem that grow to 40 cm high. Its leaves are thin, heart-shaped, and 8–10 cm long and 8–11 cm wide, with 5 main veins from the base of the blade, oil glands on the upper surface, and finely pubescent veins on its under side. Its petioles are 2.5–3 cm long. ]]> 2019-01-06 08:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317634584 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317635112 Common name: Bamboo
Scientific name: Bambusa multiplex

Characteristics: It is upright, tight clumping bamboo with gold striped culms. Its upright growth habit and tight clumping nature, makes this bamboo a great screening plant in smaller gardens]]> 2019-01-06 08:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317635112 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317635776 Common name: Bougainvillea
Scientific name: Bougainvillea spectabillis

Characterisics:  It has heart-shaped leaves and thorny, pubescent stems.The flowers are generally small, white, and inconspicuous, highlighted by several brightly colored modified leaves.]]> 2019-01-06 08:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317635776 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317637517 Common name: Moth Orchid
Scientific name: Phalaenopsis blume

Characteristics:  Orchids in the genus Phalaenopsis are monopodial ephiphytic, sometimes lithophytic herbs with long, coarse roots and short leafy stems hidden by overlapping leaf bases. The leaves are usually arranged in two rows, relatively large and leathery, oblong to elliptic and sometimes succulent. ]]> 2019-01-06 09:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317637517 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317648474 Common name: Weeping bottlebrush plant
Scientific name: Melaleuca viminalis

Characteristics: The weeping bottlebrush is a tropical beauty that features scarlet red blooms flower. ]]> 2019-01-06 12:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317648474 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317650841 Common name: Water Lily plant
Scientific name: Nymphea nouchali

Characteristics:  Some varieties have white, purple, mauve, or fuchsia-colored flowers, hence its name red and blue water lily. The flower has four or five sepals and 13-15 petals that have an angular appearance, making the flower look star-shaped from above. ]]> 2019-01-06 12:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317650841 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317651483 Common name: Golden Chain plant
Scientific name: Laburnum anagyroides

Characteristics:  The leaves are generally trifoliate and oval with long petioles, smooth on the upperside and hairy on the underside. ]]> 2019-01-06 12:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317651483 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317653851 Common name: Brazilian Snapdragon
Scientific name: Otacanthus caerulues

Characteristics: Purplish-blue flowers, measuring about 3.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, and having a characteristic of a large flat lower lip.]]> 2019-01-06 13:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317653851 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317654758 Common name: Frangipani tree
Scientific name: Plumeria rubra

Characteristics: Frangipani tree is flushed with fragrant flowers of shades of pink, white and yellow over the summer and autumn.]]> 2019-01-06 13:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317654758 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317655591 Common name: ZZ plant
Scientific name: Zamioculcas Zamiifolia

Characteristics:  It is a herbaceous plant growing to 45–60 centimetres (17.7–23.6 in) tall, from a stout underground, succulent rhizome. It is normally evergreen, but becomes deciduous during drought, surviving drought due to the large potato-like rhizome that stores water until rainfall resumes. ]]> 2019-01-06 13:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317655591 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317656371 Common name: Garden Croton
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum

Characteristics: It is known as "puding plant", tall and has large, thick, leathery, shiny evergreen leaves, alternately arranged. ]]> 2019-01-06 13:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317656371 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317656935 Common name: Bluebellvine plant/ Asian Pigeonwings
Scientific name: Clitoria ternatea

Characteristics: It is known as "bunga telang" in Malay words. Purple in colour and it is an herb and climber plant. Flower and its fruit can be eaten as it bring vitamin to health.]]> 2019-01-06 14:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317656935 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317660972 Common name: Tropical Pitcher plant
Scientific name: Nepenthes alata

Characteristics: Nepenthes species usually consist of a shallow root system and a prostrate or climbing stem, often several metres long and up to 15 m (49 ft) or more, and usually 1 cm (0.4 in) or less in diameter]]> 2019-01-06 14:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317660972 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317661832 Common name: Blackberry Lily
Scientific name: Iris domestica

Characteristics:  The plant grows 60–90 cm tall in full sun and is often found blanketing hillsides; the flowers can range from red to orange to yellow, or mixed, and bloom in summer to early autumn. ]]> 2019-01-06 14:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317661832 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317662219 Common name: Red Sealing Wax Palm
Scientific name: Cyrtostachys renda

Characteristics:  Also known as the red palm, rajah palm, and Malay: pinang rajah, Cyrtostachys renda is a slender multi-stemmed, slow-growing, clustering palm tree. It can grow to 16 metres (52 feet) tall It has a scarlet to bright red colored crownshaft and leaf sheath. ]]> 2019-01-06 15:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317662219 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317714193 Common name: Monkey Pod tree/Pokok Hujan Hujan
Scientific name: Albizia saman

Characteristics: It usually reaches a height of 25 m (82 ft) and a diameter of 40 m. The leaves fold in rainy weather and in the evening, hence the name "rain tree" and "five o'clock tree" (Pukul Lima) in Malay. Several lineages of this tree are available. ]]> 2019-01-07 00:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317714193 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317716407 Common name: Song of India tree
Scientific name: Dracaena reflexa

Characteristics:  While it may reach a height of 4–5 m, rarely 6 m in ideal, protected locations, D. reflexa is usually much smaller, especially when grown as a houseplant. It is slow-growing and upright in habit, tending to an oval shape with an open crown. ]]> 2019-01-07 01:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317716407 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317717268 Common name: Traveller's palm
Scientific name: Ravenala madagascariensis

Characteristics:  The enormous paddle-shaped leaves are borne on long petioles, in a distinctive fan shape aligned in a single plane. The large white flowers are structurally similar to those of its relatives, the bird-of-paradise flowers. ]]> 2019-01-07 01:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317717268 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317718761 Common name: Australian Gold Vine/ Maiden's Jealousy/ Galphimia Vine
Scientific name: Tristellateia australasiae

Characteristics:  Foliage: Its opposite, stalked leaves have somewhat papery leaf blades that are oblong-egg-shaped, and 6-12 by 4-7 cm.
Flowers: Its bright yellow-petal flowers are 2-2.5 cm wide, borne on flowering shoots that are 10-30 cm long.
Fruits: Its star-shaped fruits are 1.5 cm wide, with up to three developing from each flower. ]]> 2019-01-07 01:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317718761 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317720114 Common name: Silver cockscomb
Scientific name: Celosia argentea

Characteristics:  
Foliage: Leaves are elliptic to lanceolate with a smooth to wavy leaf margin.
Flowers: The feathery, reddish purple inflorescence is composed of many, tiny flowers. ]]> 2019-01-07 01:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317720114 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317722126 Common name:  Mempisang
Scientific name: Polyalthia longifolia

Characteristics:  Narrow tree with distinctive weeping, columnar crown. Neat and formal appearance makes it suitable for lining avenues. ]]> 2019-01-07 02:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317722126 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317731129 Common name: Pokok Tebelian / Borneo Ironwood
Scientific name: Eusideroxylon zwageri

Characteristics: It is known as Sarawak's famous tree as used to be timber.  Belian or ironwood is one of the most renowned timbers of Borneo.]]> 2019-01-07 03:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317731129 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317733510 Common name:  Bamboo Palm, Lady Palm, Miniature Fan Palm, Fern Rhapis
Scientific name: Rhapis excelsa

Characteristics:  Growth Form: A densely-clumping, small to medium-sized palm with attractive, segmented fan leaves persisting down the stems. It produces short spikes of cream flowers among the upper leaves, followed by waxy, white fruits. 
Trunk: Stems slender, conspicuously ringed with old base leaf scars ]]> 2019-01-07 04:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317733510 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317733743 Common name:  Chinese Fan Palm
Scientific name: Livistona chinensis

Characteristics: At its peak, the Chinese fan palm can reach thirty to forty feet tall. The shape of its palm is fan-like shaped. Due to that, it is called Fan palm.]]> 2019-01-07 04:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317733743 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317734655 Common name: Swiss cheese plat
Scientific name: Monstera deliciosa

Characteristics:  
Growth Form: Large root climber 
Foliage: Leaves leathery, mid to dark green, 30 - 90cm wide, blades dissected and with perforations. Petioles flattened, to 1m long.  

]]> 2019-01-07 04:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317734655 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317737699 Common name: Setawar
Scientific name: Kalanchoe pinnata

Characteristics:  
Growth Form: Herbaceous succulent shrub, up to 1.8m height.
Foliage: Leaves smooth, glossy, fleshy, with brownish crenate margins, from which plant produces new plantlets. Lower leaves simple, upper leaves compound with 3-7 leaflets held on long petioles. ]]> 2019-01-07 05:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317737699 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317738257 Common name: Fern tree
Scientific name: Filicium decipiens

Characteristics:  
Growth Form: It is a tree, up to 30 m tall with smooth whitish bark.]]> 2019-01-07 05:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317738257 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317740608 Common name: Devil's tongue
Scientific name: Sansevieria hyacinthoides

Characteristics:  The leaves of Sansevieria are typically arranged in a rosette around the growing point, although some species are distichous. There is great variation in foliage form within the genus. All species can be divided into one of two basic categories based on their leaves: hard leaved and soft leaved species. ]]> 2019-01-07 06:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317740608 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317741699 Common name: Brown seaweed
Scientific name: Laminaria hyperborea

Characteristics: It is obviously brown in colour, and Laminaria hyperborea the plants are lighter in colour, the stipe is generally longer, thicker, and snaps easily when bent.]]> 2019-01-07 06:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317741699 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317742001 Common name: Buddha's Belly Bamboo
Scientific name: Bambusa ventricosa

Characteristics: It is from China. Its height is around 6-10m. Typical culm diameter: 6cm. Plus, it needs light condition as full sun to part shade. ]]> 2019-01-07 06:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/317742001 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/318840105 Common name: Mexican Fan Palm
Scientific name: Washingtonia robusta

Characteristics: Washingtonia robusta grows to 25 m (82 ft) tall, rarely up to 30 m (98 ft). The leaves have a petiole up to 1 m (3.3 ft) long, and a palmate fan of leaflets up to 1 m long. ]]> 2019-01-09 15:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/318840105 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/319163814 Common name:  Yellow Creeping Daisy
Scientific name: Sphagneticola trilobata

Characteristics:  
Growth Form: Herbaceous creeping perennial shrub, up to 70cm height, forms dense mounded mats over ground.
Foliage: Leaves glossy green, paler green below, with simple coarse white hairs, serrated margins, sometimes with a pair of lateral lobes.
Stems: Rounded, rooting at nodes, stolons up to 2m in length or more.
Flowers: Borne on solitary or branched inflorescences, ray florets yellow (8-13 per head), central disc florets yellow and tubular, flowers freely produced throughout the year in warm tropics. ]]> 2019-01-10 10:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/319163814 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/319168428 Common name:  Hooker's Arachnis 
Scientific name: Arachnis hookeriana

Characteristics: Petals and sepals are narrow, of equal size and are more yellow in colour towards the clubbed tips. The column is short and stout. The downward curving lateral sepals (claws) together with the dorsal sepal (tail) make the flower resemble a scorpion.]]> 2019-01-10 11:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/319168428 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338937090 Common name: Yellow Creeping Daisy
Scientific name: Widelia trilobata

Characteristics:  It is trailing type,grows very fast and cover the larger area in very short duration. It produces small star like yellow colored flowers which makes it more attractive. Every node produces roots so it is propagated very easily by cuttings and terminal cutting .It stands trimming and can be kept in desired shaped. ]]> 2019-03-07 16:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338937090 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338979608 Common name: The Philippine Phalaenopsis
Scientific name: Phalaenopsis philippinensis

Characteristics: The leaves are oblong-elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate, tapered to the base, obtuse-rounded. Flowers are delicate and membranous. Mature plants can have more than 100 flowers. The petals are white with pale pink suffusion. The lateral sepals have dark red spots at the base. The white lip is accompanied by dark yellow lateral lobes with dark red stripes at the base. ]]> 2019-03-07 17:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338979608 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338992186 Common name: Red Sage
Scientific name: Lantana camara

Characteristics: L. camara has small tubular shaped flowers which each have four petals and are arranged in clusters in terminal areas stems. Flowers come in many different colors including red, yellow, white, pink and orange which differ depending on location in inflorescences, age, and maturity. ]]> 2019-03-07 17:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338992186 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338993836 Common name: White Purple Orchid /  The Wooly Pollina Dendrobium
Scientific name: Dendrobium lasianthera

Characteristics:  Plant grows in warm to hot temperatures with medium amounts of light. Keep plant moist and fertilize during growth season. ]]> 2019-03-07 17:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/338993836 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339158216 Common name: Bluewings
Scientific name: Torenia fournieri

Characteristics:  Flowers are borne on terminal clusters above the foliage. They are trumpet shaped, with partially-fused petals. The top 2 petals are completely fused, and are a lighter blue, with the colour intensifying at the apex of the petal. The bottom 3 petals are partially fused, and are darker coloured (dark purple/purplish-blue). ]]> 2019-03-08 02:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339158216 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339161595 Common name: Yellow Crossandra
Scientific name: Crossandra infundibuliformis

Characteristics:  It is an erect, evergreen subshrub growing to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) with glossy, wavy-margined leaves and fan-shaped flowers, which may appear at any time throughout the year. The flowers are unusually shaped with 3 to 5 asymmetrical petals. ]]> 2019-03-08 02:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339161595 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339162561 Common name: Flamingo Lily
Scientific name: Anthurium andraeanum

Characteristics:  
Growth Form: It is a small and herbaceous evergreen plant which has attractive waxy red spathe and dark green foliage, growing upright to 40 cm tall.
Foliage: Leaves shiny, dark green, heart-shaped, oblong, drooping, measures up to 20 cm long.
Flowers: Axillary, cream-yellow tail-like spadix, flat waxy red spathe, long-lasting. 

]]> 2019-03-08 02:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339162561 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339167080 Common name: Yellow Phalaenopsis orchid
Scientific name: Phalaepnopsis grandiflora

Characteristics:
Phalaenopsis is an single stemmed epiphytes. The thick, upright stem up to 8cm (3 inch) tall carry wide, fleshy, alternate leaves which are limp. The leaves are up to 30cm (12 inch) long and 10cm (4 inch) wide dark green with reddish undersides. ]]> 2019-03-08 03:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339167080 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339174287 Co]]> 2019-03-08 03:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339174287 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339174301 Common name: Pokok Tunjuk Langit
Scientific name: Helminthostachys zeylanica

Characteristics:  The rhizome of this annual plant is short, creeping, underground, and stout. They can bear either a solitary frond or several fronds. Leaves are lanceolate with the margins entire or irregularly serrate. ]]> 2019-03-08 03:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339174301 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339205401 Common name: Bungor
Scientific name:  Lagerstroemia oribunda

Characteristics:  Growth Form: Small to medium-sized tree, with dense bushy, oval to conical-rounded crown, usually 5 - 18m height in cultivation, but may reach up to 35m in native habitat.
Flowers: Tree blooms a few times per year, producing erect terminal panicle-inflorescences up to 50cm in height. Individual flowers (2.5cm across) have ribbed scruffy-brown calyxes (fused sepals) and flower buds. Velvety crinkled petals fade from rich mauve to pale pink to creamy-white with age, making tree appear to produce flowers of different colours all over the crown. 

]]> 2019-03-08 08:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339205401 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339214391 Common name: Merawan Siput Jantan
Scientific name: Hopea odorata

Characteristics: 
 Flowers: Small, yellowish-white flowers are fragrant, bisexual and located in leaf axils or branch tips. They are radially symmetrical with triangular petals that have long ruffled tips.
Fruits: The small, brown fruit is a winged nut. The single-seeded nut is approximately egg-shaped with a pointed tip and may be covered in a shiny resin, measuring about 6 by 5 mm. It has 2 long wings (5.5 cm long) and 3 short wings which promote seed dispersal by wind. ]]> 2019-03-08 09:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339214391 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339215396 Common name: Pokok Sena
Scientific name:  Pterocarpus indicus

Characteristics:  Flowers yellow, faintly fragrant, source of honey for bee pollinators. Periodic mass-blooming triggered by unknown factors, flowers last for a day. Fruits are disc-like pods with papery wings, non-dehisicent (unlike typcial legumes), take up to 6 months to mature ]]> 2019-03-08 09:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339215396 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339218798 Common name: Hop Tree
Scientific name: Arfeuillea arborescens

Characteristics:  
Flowers: Flowers have small, white petals and larger, red sepals (outermost layer of the flower). Flowers are arranged in branched inflorescences.
Fruits: Three-winged fruits are yellowish, papery and contain about 2 egg-shaped black seeds. ]]> 2019-03-08 09:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339218798 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339221194 Common name: Pokok Saga
Scientific name: Adenanthera pavonina

Characteristics:
 Flowers: Small (2 mm), star-shaped, mature from white to creamy yellow to dull orange, held in 7 - 15 cm raceme inflorescences at tips of new shoots. Flowers open from base to tip of inflorescence, faintly scented like orange blossoms. Tree blooms throughout year, peaking in May.
Fruits: Seedpods thin and curved, ripeing from green to woody black and coiling up before splitting to release 8 - 12 seeds. Seeds shiny scarlet red, hard, lens-shaped, with faint "heart line" around margin, eaten and dispersed by birds. ]]> 2019-03-08 09:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339221194 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339223176 Common name: Pokok ara
Scientific name: Ficus symorus

Characteristics: Ficus sycomorus grows to 20 m tall and has a considerable spread as can be seen from the photograph below left, with a dense round crown of spreading branches. The leaves are heart-shaped with a round apex, 14 cm long by 10 cm wide, and arranged spirally around the twig. They are dark green above and lighter with prominent yellow veins below, and both surfaces are rough to the touch. ]]> 2019-03-08 09:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339223176 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339223908 Common name: Pokok tembusu
Scientific name:  Fagraea fragrans

Characteristics:  It grows in an irregular shape from 10 to 25m high. Its leaves are light green and oval in shape. Its yellowish flowers have a distinct fragrance and the fruits of the tree are bitter tasting red berries, which are eaten by birds and fruit bats. ]]> 2019-03-08 09:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339223908 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339225622 Common name: Golden Penda
Scientific name: Xanthostemon crysanthus

Characteristics:  Tropical tree, 8 - 12 m in height under cultivation, but up to 40 m in its native environment. Lance-shaped leaves, 8 - 20 cm x 1.5 - 5 cm, arranged spirally, dark green and leathery. Young flushes appear bronze-red. Flowers bright yellow and bisexual with 5 petals attached to rim of calyx. Yellow stamens about 3 cm, surround centrally located style that is 3 - 4 cm long. Fruits are capsules, turn from green to brown upon maturation. Seeds are dispersed by explosive action. 

]]> 2019-03-08 09:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339225622 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339226197 Common name: Misai kucing
Scientific name: Orthosiphon stamineus

Characteristics:  The plant can be identified by its white or purple flowers bearing long, protruding stamens that resemble cats' whiskers. It is also commonly referred as "Misai Kucing" which means cat whiskers. The herb is popularly known as Java tea and is used widely in the form of herbal tea in Asia.]]> 2019-03-08 09:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339226197 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339228183 Common name: Painted nettle
Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides

Characteristics: Plectanthrus scutellarioides is an upright annual or short-lived perennial plant. It may be as much as 1 m (3 ft) tall, with well branched, more-or-less four-sided stems.

]]> 2019-03-08 10:01:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339228183 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339229328 Common name: Crepe Jasmine
Scientific name: Tabernaemontana divaricata

Characteristics:  
Growth Form: Small shrub with a flat, broad surface, able to grow up to about 2 m tall.
Flowers: White, fragrant 5-petaled flowers are shaped like pinwheels, petal tips are twisted to the left in a counterclockwise direction.
Fruits: Fruit is an inconspicuous dry and hard pod. 


]]> 2019-03-08 10:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339229328 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339230574 Common name: Silver Bismarck Palm
Scientific name: Bismarckia nobilis

Characteristics: 
 Growth Form: Solitary palm, 6-12m tall and up to 5m across under cultivation. 
Trunk: Single, grey, 30-45 cm thick, topped by crownshaft of persistent frond-sheath bases.

Flowers: Plant is dioecious (separate male and female plants). Female plants produce inflorescences of small creamy-white flowers. ]]> 2019-03-08 10:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339230574 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339231454 Common name: Pokok Nibong
Scientific name: Oncosperma tigillarium

Characteristics:
Oncosperma tigilarium grows to 40 feet in height in dense thickets of up to 50 palm trees. The trunks of the palms are covered with long black spines. Oncosperma tigilarium has finely pinnate leaves, with drooping leaflets. ]]> 2019-03-08 10:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339231454 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339232429 Common name: Yellow Palm
Scientific name: 

Dypsis lutescens


Characteristics: Dypsis lutescens grows 6–12 m (20–39 ft) in height. Multiple stems emerge from the base. The leaves are arched, 2–3 m (6 ft 7 in–9 ft 10 in) long, and pinnate, with 40-60 pairs of leaflets. It bears panicles of yellow flowers in summer. Offsets can be cut off when mature enough, as a propagation method. 
]]> 2019-03-08 10:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339232429 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339234791 Common name: Rabbit Foot's Fern
Scientific name: Davallia denticulata

Characteristics:  Growth Form: It is an epiphytic fern that has a stout, long-creeping rhizome (horizontal stem) with numerous brown, toothed scales.
Foliage: Its alternate, stalked, tripinnatifid (secondary leaflets/ pinnules are divided but non-compound) fronds (leaves) have deltoid blades up to 60 cm long and wide. There are false veins (bands of regularly arranged short cells without stomata) present between the true veins.]]> 2019-03-08 10:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339234791 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339241128 Common name: Buluh gading
Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris

Characteristics: Bambusa vulgaris forms moderately loose clumps and has no thorns. It has lemon-yellow culms (stems) with green stripes and dark green leaves. Stems are not straight, not easy to split, inflexible, thick-walled, and initially strong. The densely tufted culms grow 10–20 m (30–70 ft) high and 4–10 cm (2–4 in) thick.]]> 2019-03-08 10:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339241128 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339315865 Common name: Buluh Renek
Scientific name: Pleioblastus fortunei

Characteristics:
Growing to an average height of 2.5 feet, this plant has bold white-on-green variegated leaves. Sometimes growing taller, it can be kept short by mowing or clipping back the foliage to ground level in the spring before the plant sends up new shoots.]]> 2019-03-08 14:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339315865 gloriapuyangbernard https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339348184 Common name: Buluh Putih
Scientific name: Bambusa Heterostachya Varigata

Characteristics: 
A beautiful dense ornamental with cream striped leaves. One of the best hedging bamboos due to the thick and uniform bushy foliage.

Typical height: 3 to 4m 
Typical culm diameter: 2cm 
Minimum temperature tolerance: -2°C 
]]> 2019-03-08 15:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gloriapuyangbernard/glory1707/wish/339348184