Submitted to :-
Ar. Ram sharma
Ar. Shruti h.
Ar. Himanshu verma
Submitted by :-
Chandar prakash
suthar
Tree
Melia azadirach
Habit and form
• Fast-growing,
• Deciduous tree
• height of around 45 meters in closed, moist
forests, though it is much smaller in the cooler
and drier regions
• Moist sunny location at elevations up to 2,700
meters in the Himalayas
Flowers
• Round berry with thin fleshy skin, approx. 1.5 cm.
Light yellow
Fruit
• Pod linear flat, broad,, sapwood, glabrous,
greenish tinged purple till ripe..
• Flowering and fruiting time : September -
November
Bark/Leaf
• Dark brown to reddish brown, mature trunks
grooved
• Bipinnate, 25- 60 cm long, leaves ovate to
elliptical, 2 - 5 cm long, dark green, feathered leaf
Culture
• The tree should tolerate storms well, having hard
wood with flexible branches.
• Planting distances of 3 meters x 1 meter on fertile
soil.
• Young seedlings are very slow growing.
Landscape uses
• Avenues and broad streets, parks,
• Squares, cemeteries, large gardens
• grouping or mass plantings
• good accent tree
Liabilities
• Trees will be killed by temperatures falling lower
than about -5°c
• It can succeed with an annual rainfall as low as
600mm.
Fact :-
• Leaves - A bitter flavor, they are
used as a pot-herb, in curries,
soups etc.
• The seed contains up to 40% of
a drying oil
Found In:-
North India, China
Scientific name:- Melia
azadirach
Family:- Meliaceae
Order:- Sapindales
Kingdom:- Plantae
Bead Tree
Tree
Lagerstroemia speciose
Habit and form
• A small to medium - sized tree
• Height- 5-6m.
• Spread-3/3.5m dia.
Flowers
• Blue, very beautiful, in large panicles of many
flowers, pedicels stout, hairy.
• Calyx tubular, hairs white, ribbed with12-14 stout
ridges.
• Petals 6, purple, round ovate, clawed, much wavy
and crumpled, spreading.
Fruit
• Capsules with loculicidal dehiscence
• Seeds.
• Many winged at apex
• The bark, fruit (14 - 17 %)
• The leaves (12 - 13 %)
Bark
• A yellow dye is obtained from the bark smooth
when young, furrowed to scaly when old
• Long internodes
• New stems are somewhat silvery-gray
Culture
• The tree should tolerate storms well, having hard
wood with flexible branches
• Planting distances of 3 meters x 1 meter on fertile
soil
• Young seedlings are very slow growing
Landscape uses
• Cultivated in the gardens and planted on the road
sides.
Liabilities
• Seedlings can flower when only 2 years old
• Temp. Range 18 - 35°c, but can tolerate 6 -
43°c
• Can survive temperatures down to about -2°c
Fact :-
• April – July give beautiful look.
• The tree has a dense and wide
spreading root system
Found In:-
Gujarat,utrakhand
Scientific name: Lagerstroemia
speciose
Family: lythraceae
Order: myrtales
Kingdom: plantae
Pride Of India
Tree
Bauhinia purpurea
Habit and form
• characteristic of mixed deciduous forests, A small
to medium - sized tree
• Simple, roundish, as broad as long, divided into 2
obtuse lobes, stipules long triangular, base
cordate.
• Tree growing to 10 m (32ft) by 9 m (29ft) at a fast
rate
Flowers
• Showy, fragrant, in terminal and axillary
corymbose racemes, bracts triangular, bracteoles
2, below the middle.
• Calyx hairy, dilated upwards, divided at the apex
into 5 short teeth.Petals oblanceolate, long -
clawed, rosy purple with veins
Fruit
• Pod linear flat, broad,, subwoody, glabrous,
greenish tinged purple till ripe..
• Flowering and Fruiting time : September -
November
Bark
• The bark is a source of tannins[ 287 ]. It is also
used for dyeing
• A fiber is obtained from the bark
• The wood is rosy-white in color
Culture
• Planting distances of 3 meters x 1 meter on fertile
soil
• often of a dry type, occurring on hill slopes, in
valleys, and along streams
Landscape uses
• Pest tolerant, Aggressive surface roots possible,
Specimen, Blooms are very showy.
• Use in garden, water side area
Liabilities
• The tree is also known to yield gum.
• The leaves are used as cattle fodder and are
eaten as vegetable or pickle.
• maximum shade temperature of 38 - 46c
Fact :-
• Leaves - cooked and eaten as a
vegetable
• The seeds are fried and eaten.
The gum is edible
Found In:-
Gujarat, Indroda Park,Aranya Van
Scientific name: Bauhinia
purpurea
Family: Fabaceae
Order: Fabales
Kingdom: Plantae
Dev - Kanchan
Tree
Pachira glabra
Habit and form
• evergreen tree
• grow up to 17 metres tall
• Spread in 3-4m dia.
Flowers
• Blue, very beautiful, in large panicles of many
flowers, pedicels stout, hairy.
• Calyx tubular, hairs white, ribbed with12-14 stout
ridges.
• Petals 6, purple, round ovate, clawed, much wavy
and crumpled, spreading.
Fruit
• Capsules with loculicidal dehiscence
• Seeds.
• Many winged at apex
• The bark, fruit (14 - 17 %)
• The leaves (12 - 13 %)
Bark
• A yellow dye is obtained from the bark smooth
when young, furrowed to scaly when old
• Long internodes
• New stems are somewhat silvery-gray
Culture
• The tree should tolerate storms well, having hard
wood with flexible branches
• Planting distances of 3 meters x 1 meter on fertile
soil
• Young seedlings are very slow growing
Landscape uses
• Cultivated in the gardens and planted on the road
sides.
• stays in scale to landscape for long time
Liabilities
• Seedlings can flower when only 2 years old
• Temp. Range 18 - 35°c, but can tolerate 6 -
43°c
• Can survive temperatures down to about -2°c
Fact :
• April – July give beautiful look.
• The tree has a dense and wide
spreading root system
Found In:
Gujarat, uk, north india
Scientific name: Pachira glabra
Family: Malvaceae
Order:Malvales
Kingdom:Plantae
Saba Nut
Tree
Tabebuia rosea
Habit and form
• Tall, erect, deciduous tree.
20 to 25 m tall.
• More than 12 meters wide
• deciduous tree
• rounded or spreading crown
• The straight bole
• Flowers
• Flowers are large, in various tones of pink to
purple
• flowers are visited by many birds such
as tanagers, hummingbirds and orioles
Fruit
• compound leaves of 3-5 leathery leaflets, simple
in young plants
• Bark
• The tree crown is wide, with irregular,
stratified ramification and only few thick branches
• The bark can be gray to brown, in varying
darkness and may be vertically fissured
• Use for cancer.medicine
Culture
• A beautiful tall tree that blooms in flushes in
spring and summer
• Plants are quick to grow.
Starts flowering in 2 to 3 years.
- Leaves fall in winter
• Landscape uses
• creating shade
• Suitable for avenue planting
Liabilities
• temperatures ranging from 20 °C to 30 °C on
average
Fact :-
• decoction of the flowers,
leaves and roots has been
used to reduce fevers and
pain
Found In:-
Central America to Mexico.
Scientific name: Tabebuia rosea
Family: Bignoniaceae or
Jacaranda
Order:Lamiales
Kingdom:Plantae
Basant Rani
Ground cover
Asplenium platyneuron
Habit and form
• Height: 0.50 to 1.00 feet
• Spread: 0.50 to 1.00 feet
• Non-flowering
• Leaf: Evergreen
• leaf
• leaf blade of ebony spleenwort is linear in shape
• sometimes slightly wider in the upper half of the
blade
• measuring from 4 to 50 centimeters
• Culture
• Best grown in gritty, humusy, dry to medium
moisture, well-drained soils in part shade.
• Prefers rocky locations. Tolerates full shade.
Avoid overwatering.
• Needs excellent drainage to minimize risk of
crown rot. Tolerates some drought.
• Landscape uses
• Plant in dryish, rocky, shady areas of rock
gardens (will grow in rocky crevices), native plant
gardens or woodland areas.
• Good for light, airy cover in drier areas than most
ferns can handle.
Liabilities
• temperature ranging from 20 °C to 30 °C on
average
• slow growth, although this can be an asset
Fact :-
• decoction of the flowers
• leaves and roots has been
used to reduce fevers and pain
Found In:-
Massori,uk.
Scientific name:- Asplenium
platyneuron
Family:- Aspleniaceae
Order:- Polypodiale
Class:- Polypodiopsida
Kingdom:- PlantaePlatae
ebony spleenwort
Ground cover
Chrysogonum virginianum
Habit and form
• Height: 0.50 to 1.00 feet
• Spread: 0.75 to 1.50 feet
• Bloom Time: May to October
• low-growing perennial which typically forms a
foliage mat to 3-4” tall spreading to 18" wide or
more
• This perennial or semi-evergreen native plant
grows strong in low mats
Flowers
• Each flower head resembles a yellow or golden
star, and the stems have distinctive spreading,
glandular hairs. It is the only species in this
genus.
• flower is about 1.5” inches in diameter, borne on
flower stems.
Culture
• Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-
drained soils in part shade to full shade.
• Prefers moist, acidic, organically rich soils in sun-
dappled part shade
• Medium to wet soils is the preference of these
rhizomatous plant types
Landscape uses
• Ground cover for woodland gardens, native plant
gardens or naturalized areas.
• Edging for woodland paths. Also may be used in
shaded areas of border fronts or rock gardens.
• it is a great flowering.
• great in rock gardens, shade gardens, and border
fronts.
Liabilities
• temperature ranging from 10 °C to 35 °C on
average
• fast growers, but they also self-seed
Fact :
Found In:
Eastern United States.,new york
Scientific name: Chrysogonum
virginianum
Family: Asteraceae
Order:Asterales
Class:
Kingdom:Plantae
golden knee
Ground cover
Cyrtomium falcatum
Habit and form
• Height: 1.00 to 2.00 feet
• Spread: 2.00 to 3.00 feet
• Bloom Description: Non-flowering
• It grows from crevices, coastal cliffs, stream
banks, rocky slopes, and other moist, stable
areas.
• evergreen fern become deciduous in colder
climates
Culture
• Grow in moist, humus, well-drained soils in
part shade to full shade. Good soil drainage
is essential to protect roots from rotting in
winter. Crowns may be mulched with straw in
winter.
Landscape uses
• Woodland areas and shaded areas of borders
or rock gardens. Border for tree or shrub
areas. May be grown as a houseplant.
• ornamental plant in temperate
climate gardens (zones 7 to 10)
• popular as a house plant.
Liabilities
• Temperature in active growth period –
min 10°C max 24°C (50-75°F)
Found In:
North America, Oceania
Scientific name:- Cyrtomium
falcatum
Family:- Dryopteridaceae
Order:- Polypodiales
Kingdom:- Plantae
japanese holly fern
Ground cover
Daylily
Habit and form
• Height & spread:
• Foliage clumps range from less than 1 foot to 3
feet tall. Flower scopes can be less than 1 foot to
6 feet tall, though most are 3 to 4 feet.
• Shape-classic, graceful trumpet shape or they
may have the slender, reaching petals of spider
varieties
Flowers
• Sunny yellows and blushing pinks to deep
purples and electric greens
• Daylilies come in many shades of color
Culture
• Grow best when planted in full sun (6 hours/day),
on moist, but well-drained soil. In hot climates,
dark-colored cultivars require afternoon shade to
help retain their color
• Housand-year-old chinese paintings showing
orange daylilies that are remarkably similar to the
flowers that grace modern gardens
Landscape uses
• The flowers of most species open in early
morning Use in garden.
• groupings and mass plantings
Liabilities
• Daylilies can quickly spread into larger
clumps
• Daylilies are perennial plants
Fact :-can be eaten and are used
in Chinese kitchen
Found In:
North America China, Korea,
and Japan.
Scientific name: Daylily
Family: Asphodelaceae
Order:Asparagales
Kingdom:Plantae
Despite
Ground cover
Ginger
Habit and form
• 3 to 4 feet tall.
• 10 months to fully grow
• 3ft dia of spread
• Delicious plant
Flowers
• bract encloses a single, small, yellow-green and
purple flower.
• clusters of white and pink flower buds that bloom
into yellow flowers.
leaf
• The leafy stems of ginger grow about a metre
high.
• The leaves are 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 cm) long,
elongate, alternate in two vertical rows, and arise
from sheaths enwrapping the stem.
• The flowers are in dense conelike spikes about 1
inch thick and 2 to 3 inches long
Culture
• grow best when planted in full sun (6 hours/day),
on moist, but well-drained soil.
• In hot climates, dark-colored cultivars require
afternoon shade to help retain their color
Landscape uses
• The flowers of most species open in early
morning.
• use in garden.
• groupings and mass plantings
Liabilities
• Ginger contains about 2 percent essential oil
• The size of the ginger seed, called rhizome
• Avoid over-watering your ginger
Fact : india with 32% of the world
total.
Ginger can cause heartburn and
other side effects
Found in:
China, nigeria, and nepal
Scientific name: Ginger
Family: Zingiberaceae
Order:Zingiberales
Kingdom:Plantae
Despite
Shrub
Grevillea juniperina Molonglo
Habit and form
• Width: - 1 ~ 3 metre
• Height: - 0.4 ~ 0.8 metres
• Evergreen
• Low spreading ground cover
• Needle-like green foliage
Flowers
• Golden flowers with light orange tones, that dot the
plant from autumn through to spring
• He flower heads, known as inflorescences,
appear from winter to early summer and are red,
orange or yellow.
• Birds visit and pollinate the flowers
• Capsule is 10–18 mm
leaf
• Light Green
• The prickly leaves are generally stiff, and are
0.5–3.5 cm (1⁄4–1 3⁄8 in) long and 0.5–6 mm
(1⁄32–1⁄4 in) wide
Culture
• Climate Zone-Warm temperate, Cool temperate,
Mediterranean, Cool
• grows generally on clay-based or alluvial soil
Landscape uses
• Erosion control, Fast growing
• Attracts Wildlife-Bees, Nectar eating birds, Butterflies,
Other insects
Liabilities
• It requires good drainage and a sunny
location.
• grows generally on clay-based or alluvial soil
Found In:-
Australia,,north america
Scientific name: Grevillea
juniperina Molonglo
Family: Proteales
Order:Gentianales
Kingdom:Plantae
Grevillea
Shrub
Helianthemum nummularium
'Dazzler.
Habit and form
• Height: 12-24"
• Spread: 12-24“
• low spreading evergreen perennial with small
showy vivid red blooms in summer.
• Evergreen
Flowers
• Garden jewels of silky magenta-red,
• wild-rose-like blossoms sparkle amid the
evergreen foliage.
leaf
• Light Green
• The prickly leaves are generally stiff, and are
0.5–3.5 cm (1⁄4–1 3⁄8 in) long and 0.5–6 mm (1⁄32–
1⁄4 in) wide
Culture
• Attracts Butterflies
• A choice plant for edging, borders, rock walls and
in Container. Drought tolerant once established
• Plants must have good winter drainage. Best
grown in dry, alkaline, sandy well-drained soil in
full sun.
Landscape uses
• Border
• Container
• Mass Planting
Liabilities
• It requires good drainage and a sunny
location.
• grows generally on clay-based or alluvial soill
• winter injury and twig dieback
• late to leaf out in spring
Found In:
Arlington, Washington
Arlington Heights, Washington
Scientific name: Helianthemum
nummularium 'Dazzler
Family: Cistaceae
Order:Malvales
Kingdom:Plantae
rock-rose
Shrub
Gardenia augusta.
Habit and form
• evergreen flowering plant.
• It reaches 1.8 to 2.5 m (6–8 ft) high and wide.
• Evergreen
Flowers
• greyish bark and dark green, shiny, evergreen
leaves with prominent veins, and white, large,
funnel-shaped flowers blooming in summer and
autumn -and among the most strongly fragrant of
all flowers.
• The leaves are opposite, arranged in whorls,
thick, lustrous
• The flowers are at the top of the branches, very
fragrant, often white, shaped in tubes or funnels.
Leaf
• dark green, shiny, evergreen leaves with
prominent veins. It is characterized by a rounded
habit with very dense branches with opposite
leaves, lanceolate-oblong, leathery or gathered in
groups on the same node and by a dark green,
shiny and slightly waxy foliage.
• Light Green
• The prickly leaves are generally stiff, and are
0.5–3.5 cm (1⁄4–1 3⁄8 in) long and 0.5–6 mm (1⁄32–
1⁄4 in) wide
Culture
• It requires good drainage and a sunny location
Landscape uses
• It is widely used as a garden plant in warm,
temperate and subtropical gardens.
• It can be used as a hedge.
Liabilities
• The latter has a large upright habit and has
been a popular variety good for hedging
Fact :
• The fruit has crocin which is used
as a yellow dye,
• which is used for clothes and food.
• traditional Chinese medicine
Found In:
Southern China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan,
Myanmar, India and Bangladesh
Scientific name: Gardenia
augusta.
Family: Rubiaceae
Order:Gentianales
Kingdom:Plantae
jasmine
Shrub
Goldenrod
Habit and form
Over 5 feet tall
more than 100 different species of goldenrod
Life Span: Perennial
Evergreen
Flowers
Golden-yellow.
flower heads are more cylinder-like, as well.
flower head consists of 9 to 17 yellow ray flowers
surrounding fewer than 10 yellow disk flowers.
Flower heads are less that 1/8-inch wide.
Leaf
Flat, Thin Leaf
Between the Length of a Credit Card and a Writing-
Pen
Edge of Leaf: Serrated
Leaves are alternate (1 leaf per node), narrow,
lance-shaped, tapered at both ends, sharply toothed
around the edge, hairless on the upper surface, and
hairy beneath especially on the veins
trunk
Stem (or Trunk) Diameter: Between The
Diameter of a Pencil and a Broom-
HandleLight Green
Fruit
Single-seeded fruits are orange,
approximately 1/20 inch long, and tipped
with a tuft of white hairs (pappus).
Culture
Flowers are crowded onto numerous
backward-curved stalks that originate at a
central axis and are arranged more or less
horizontally
Landscape uses
It is widely used as a garden plant in warm,
temperate and subtropical gardens. It can be used
as a hedge.
Liabilities
The latter has a large upright habit and has
been a popular variety good for hedging
Fact :
• used as a supplement for
improving urinary health
and reducing inflammation.
Found In:
North America
Scientific name: Gardenia
augusta.
Family: Rubiaceae
Order:Gentianales
Kingdom:Plantae
Canada goldenrod
Shrub
Aster
Habit and form
• Evergreen
• height -8 inches to 8 feet
• September’s birth flowers
Flowers
• starry-shaped flower heads that range in color
from white to blue to purple.
• lowering period: August to October,
rarely until November
• flower color: white, yellow, orange, pink,
red, purple, blue
Leaf
• dark green, shiny, evergreen leaves with
prominent veins.
• It is characterized by a rounded habit with very
dense branches with opposite leaves
• dark green, shiny and slightly waxy foliage.
• Light Green
• The prickly leaves are generally stiff, and are
0.5–3.5 cm (1⁄4–1 3⁄8 in) long and 0.5–6 mm
(1⁄32–1⁄4 in) wide
Culture
• hybrid varieties available in showy pinks, blues,
and purples
• attract bees and butterflies
• A minimum distance of 30 cm should be
maintained between the individual perennials.
Landscape uses
• the plant is versatile and can be used in many
places—borders, rock gardens, or wildflower
gardens, to name a few
• ornamental plants have already faded, the
colorful white wood asters have their great
appearance.
• best suited for white wood asters.
•Fact :
• The name “aster” comes from the
Ancient Greek word for “star”a
reference to the plant’s star-
shaped flowers.
Found In:
600 species in Eurasia and North
America
Scientific name: Aster.
Family: Asteraceae
Order:Asterales
Kingdom:Plantae
perennial flowering
plants
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Creepers
Cucumis sativus
Habit and form
• annual climber growing up to 2 m
• roots in the ground and grows up trellises
Flowers
• Yellow flowers
• 3-5 cm in dia.
• Looks like stars in shape
fruit
• The fruit is roughly cylindrical, elongated with tapered
ends, and may be as large as 60 cm long and 10 cm in
diameter
• crisp texture and juiciness.
• it is very watery
Culture
• originated on the Indian subcontinent. Cucumbers are
members of the cucurbit family and are related to
gourds, gherkins, pumpkins, squash, and watermelon.
• Cucumbers are now grown throughout the world
using fields or greenhouse culture
Landscape uses
• Use for vegetable
• Uses
• common ingredient of salads
• Gardening purpose
• Fact :-
• eaten as a vegetable
• Found In:-
• India,us,china ,etc.
Scientific name: Cucumis
sativus
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Order:Cucurbitales
Kingdom:Plantae
Cucumber, khira
Creepers
Clitoria ternatea
Habit and form
• Type: Evergreen plant
• Care: Easily care and maintained
• Sutable: Outdoor & Shaded Area
• vine plant. It is also applied as a lawn decoration
due to its attractive flowers.
• This plant grows well in both full sun and shade.
Flowers
• Delicate foliage and dangling blue
flowers with yellow cores make blue pea
vine a popular herbaceous plant.
• blue-shaded flowers appear along the
viny stems alone or in pairs.
leaf
• The leaves are compound, made up of five to
seven small, oval leaflets that are light green with
a hint of blue.
Culture
• This plant attracts birds, bees and butterflies
Landscape uses
• It can also be used for hanging basket or as a
specimen container plant with a support to
decorate home garden and balcony.
• The plant is used for ornamental purpose
Uses
• :Decoration and Purpose
• planted in parks and gardens for beauty.
Scientific name: Clitoria
ternatea
Family: Fabaceae
Order:Fabales
Kingdom:Plantae
Aparajita Creeper
Uses
Creepers
Hedera
Habit and form
• Evergreen
• Exceeding 5–20 cm height
• Growth of approximately 50 feet.
• Grows faster and the blooming season is june to
august.
Leaf/fruit
• The green leaves have a tint of red when they
first appear.
• Everal cultivated varieties, with smaller leaves
and shorter tendrils, have been developed to
provide denser coverage.
• The fruit is a greenish-black, dark purple or
(rarely) yellow berry 5–10 mm diameter with one
to five seed
Culture
• This plant attracts birds, bees and butterflies
• The seeds are dispersed by birds which eat the
berries.
Landscape uses
• Covering vine for walls, fences, and trunks of
large trees.
Uses
• :Decoration and purpose
• Planted in parks and gardens for beauty.
FOUND IN
• Central and southern europe,
• macaronesia, northwestern africa and across
central-southern asia
• east to japan
• taiwan.
Scientific name: Hedera
Family: Araliaceae
Order:Apiales
Kingdom:Plantae
ivy
Uses