Nouns denoting plants

Arizona wild cotton

shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico

 

genus Conradina

small genus of low aromatic shrubs of southeastern United States

 

Passiflora incarnata

of southern United States; having an insipid berry the size of a hen egg

 

order Jungermanniales

large order of chiefly tropical liverworts

 

tribe Bambuseae

bamboos

 

genus Acocanthera

small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa

 

genus Nuytsia

one species

 

genus Cortinarius

the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils)

 

genus Podocarpus

evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae

 

aecium

fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores

 

black felt cup

a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae

 

family Gesneriaceae

large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales

 

Pithecellobium dulce

common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum

 

Hippocrepis comosa

European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints

 

Phyllocladus asplenifolius

medium tall celery pine of Tasmania

 

genus Scolymus

small genus of thistlelike herbs of the Mediterranean region

 

stelis

any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers

 

mesophyte

land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte

 

araucaria

any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds

 

Cocos nucifera

tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics