Chart 392 – Shrubs

Shrubs Chart

Spectrum Chart - 392 : Shrubs

1. Tea Bush – Tea is an evergreen plant that grows mainly in tropical and subtropical climates. A tea plant will grow into a tree of up to 16 m if left undisturbed, but cultivated plants are generally pruned to waist height for ease of plucking. Only the top 1–2 inches of the mature plant are picked. A plant will grow a new flush every seven to 15 days during the growing season.

2. Bougainvillea - Bougainvilleas are popular ornamental plants in most areas with warm climates. It makes an excellent hot season plant and its drought tolerance makes it ideal for warm climates year-round. Its high salt tolerance makes it a natural choice for colour in coastal regions. Bougainvilleas grow best in dry soil in very bright full sun and with frequent fertilisation, but they require little water once established and in fact will not flourish if over-watered.

3. Royal Poinciana (Gulmohar) - Royal Poinciana is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of flowers. In many tropical parts of the world it is grown as an ornamental tree. Royal Poinciana requires a tropical or near-tropical climate, but can tolerate drought and salty conditions. It prefers an open, free-draining sandy or loamy soil enriched with organic matter.

4. Lavender - Lavender is a genus of 39 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native and is found from Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India. Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils.

5. Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) – Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) are large shrubs or small trees, with semi-woody, often many-branched trunks. They can reach heights of 3–11 m. The name angel's trumpet refers to the large, pendulous, trumpet-shaped flowers. They are native to tropical regions of South America, along the Andes from Venezuela to northern Chile and also in south-eastern Brazil.

6. Japanese Barberry - Japanese barberry is a species of Berberis, native to Japan and eastern Asia, though widely naturalised in China and in North America. It is a dense, deciduous, spiny shrub which grows 0.6 to 2.5 m high. It has deeply grooved, brown, spiny branches with a single spine at each shoot node.

7. Japanese Maple - Japanese maple is a deciduous shrub or small tree reaching heights of 6 to 10 m, often growing as an under story plant in shady woodlands. Plant is native to Japan, China, Korea, eastern Mongolia and southeast Russia. Many different cultivars of this maple have been selected and they are grown worldwide for their large variety of attractive forms, leaf shapes and spectacular colours.

8. Hydrangea – Hydrangea is a genus of 70–75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas and Indonesia) and the Americas. Most are shrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees.

9. Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) - Buddleia commonly known as the butterfly bush is a genus comprising over 100 species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa and the Americas. Of the approximately 100 species nearly all are shrubs less than 5 m tall, but a few qualify as trees.

10. Weeping Willow - Weeping willow is a species of willow native to dry areas of northern China, but cultivated for millennia elsewhere in Asia, being traded along the Silk Road to southwest Asia and Europe. Weeping willow trees are used to create many useful items ranging from sports equipment to medicine.

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