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Its most striking feature is the color of its flowers, a vivid deep blue; solitary, with light yellow markings. They are about 4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long by 3 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) wide. Some varieties yield white flowers and pink. The fruits are 5–7 cm (2– 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long, flat pods with six to ten seeds in each pod. They are edible ...
Hardenbergia violacea is a prostrate or climbing sub-shrub with wiry stems up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) or more long. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 30–100 mm (1.2–3.9 in) long and 10–50 mm (0.39–1.97 in) wide on a petiole about 10 mm (0.39 in) long. The leaves are leathery, glabrous and paler on the lower surface.
Hibiscus is a very hardy, versatile plant and in tropical conditions it can enhance the beauty of any garden. Being versatile it adapts itself easily to balcony gardens in crammed urban spaces and can be easily grown in pots as a creeper or even in hanging pots. It is a perennial and flowers throughout the year.
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.
Podranea ricasoliana. Pandorea ricasoliana (Tanfani) K.Schum. Tecomaria ricasoliana (Tanfani) Kraenzl. Podranea ricasoliana, called the pink trumpet vine, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Podranea, native to South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit.
The flowers are erect or spreading (not pendulous like those of Brugmansia), trumpet-shaped, 5–20 cm long, and 4–12 cm broad at the mouth; colours vary from white to yellow and pale purple. The fruit is a spiny capsule , 4–10 cm long and 2–6 cm broad, splitting open when ripe to release the numerous seeds .
Physostegia virginiana. (L.) Benth. Physostegia virginiana, the obedient plant, obedience or false dragonhead, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to North America, where it is distributed from eastern Canada to northern Mexico. [2] Physostegia are known commonly as obedient plants because a flower ...
The leaves are evergreen, 2–4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 2–5 mm (1 ⁄ 16 – 3 ⁄ 16 in) broad, green above, and white below, with dense, short, woolly hair. The plant flowers in spring and summer in temperate climates, but the plants can be in constant bloom in warm climates; flowers are white, pink, purple or deep blue.