Describe the following plants Answer the following habit hab

Describe the following plants:

Answer the following: habit, habitat, life span, throns, spines or prickles, infloresences, leaves (complexity, attachment to stem, arrangement, blade shape, margin, apex, base, venation and trichomes). Other interesting facts.

1. Euphorbia lathyris

2. Fuchsia triphylia

3. Leucaena leucoephala

4. Carissa macrocarpa

5. Lilium longiflorum

6. Peperomia verticiliata

7. Iris hybrid

8. Ceropegia dichotoma

9. Sinningia macrostachya

10. Clorodendrum thomsoniae

Solution

1. Euphorbia lathyris

Habit: Flowers in May-June; seed ripen in Jul - Aug; Suitable for light medium or heavy soils, grow in semi-shade or no shade.

Habitat: Cultivated beds, Shady edge, Woodland Garden, Dappled Shade.

Lifespan, Annual / Bienal

Thorn: Absent

Spines or prickle: Absent

Inflorescence: Cyathus; Petals absent

leaves: Decussate opposite pairs; Lanceolate; Blue-Green with waxy Texture; Midrib- Pale greenish

Other interesting facts: poisonous to humans; Mole repellent; Medicinal properties-Antiseptic

2. Fuchsia triphylla

Habit: Small shrub; 2-3 feet long; Ideal temperature just below 80^oF; preferred pH 6-7; Grow best in semi-shade.

Habitat: Narrow coastal strip from San Diego to Washington. Thrives in well drained soil.

Lifespan: Perineal

Thorn: Absent

Spines or Prickles: Absent

inflorescences: Drooping terminal raceme; Large hypanthium; Sepals- 4, not reflexed; Stamen-4, not exserted;

leaves: Opposite; in threes (hence the name); ovate to broad oblanceolate; Green above, purple below; Glabarate; veins have hairs on the ventral side.

Other interesting facts: Aesthetic value

3. Leucaena leucoephala

Habit: Small fast growing mimosoid tree; Legume plant; Highly invasive species; grow as a weed; Shrub or a tree up to 18m tall;

habitat: Native to Southern Mexico and Central America; Needs warm temperature, therefore, limited to 15-25^o N or S of the equator.

life span: perennial

thorn: Absent

spines or prickles: Absent

inflorescences: 2-6 flower head in leaf axil; each flower head 12-21 mm diameter; 100-180 flowers/ head; Flowers- white; 5-20 pods / head; linear-oblong, acute, or rounded at apex; flat 8-18 seeded; glabrous or slightly lustrous or covered with white hairs.

leaves: Pinnate compound leaf (6-9 pair); 13-21 pair/pinna; asymmetric (slightly); linear-oblong to weekly elliptic.