What plant is growing in more countries, Valeriana or Elaeis guineensis?
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Valeriana Valeriana is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caprifoliaceae, members of which may by commonly known as valerians. It contains many species, including the garden valerian, "Valeriana officinalis". Some species are native to Europe, others to North America and South America (especially in the Andes).
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Elaeis guineensis Elaeis guineensis is a species of palm commonly called African oil palm or macaw-fat. It is the principal source of palm oil. It is native to west and southwest Africa, specifically the area between Angola and the Gambia; the species name "guineensis" refers to the name for the area, Guinea, and not the modern country which now bears that name. The species is also now naturalised in Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Central America, the West Indies and several islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The closely related American oil palm "Elaeis oleifera" and a more distantly related palm, "Attalea maripa", are also used to produce palm oil.
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Syzygium guineense Syzygium guineense (Bambara: "Kokisa" ) is a leafy forest tree of the Myrtaceae family, found in many parts of Africa both wild and domesticated. Both its fruits and leaves are edible; the pulp and the fruit skin are sucked and the seed discarded. It is sometimes called "waterberry", but this may also refer to other species of "Syzygium".
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Berberis valdiviana Berberis valdiviana is an evergreen shrub from Chile, where it is locally known as clen or espina en cruz. It has simple, dark green, pointed leaves, glossy on the upper surfaces, up to 8.5 cm long. The flowers, which appear in May, are grouped in hanging racemes. Individual flowers are orange, 5 - across, and are followed by purplish fruits. It is grown as an ornamental plant, but is not suitable for colder regions.
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Elodea Elodea is a genus of 6 species of aquatic plants often called the waterweeds described as a genus in 1803. "Elodea" is native to North and South America and is also widely used as aquarium vegetation. It lives in fresh water.
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Maerua elegans Maerua elegans is a species of plant in the Capparaceae family. It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Murraya paniculata Murraya paniculata is a tropical, evergreen plant native to southern China, Taiwan, the Indian sub-continent (i.e. Bangladesh, India, Nepal, north-eastern Pakistan and Sri Lanka), south-eastern Asia (i.e. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines and northern Australia (i.e. the northern parts of the Northern Territory, far northern Queensland and northern Western Australia), bearing small, white, scented flowers, which is grown as an ornamental tree or hedge. "Murraya" is closely related to "Citrus", and bears small orange to red fruit resembling kumquats, though some cultivars do not set fruit.
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Eleusine Eleusine is a genus of Asian, African, and South American plants in the grass family, sometimes called by the common name goosegrass. One species "(E. indica)", is a widespread weed in many places. Another species "E. coracana", is finger millet, cultivated as a cereal grain in India and parts of Africa.
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Berberis argentinensis Berberis argentinensis is a shrub in the Berberidaceae described as a species in 1921. It is native to Bolivia (Tarija and La Paz regions) and Argentina (Tucumán and La Rioja Provinces).
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Salvia vasta Salvia vasta is a perennial plant that is native to Hubei province in China, growing on the margins of fields and on hillsides. The plant grows on erect stems, typically 30 to tall, sometimes to 100 cm . Inflorescences are terminal raceme-panicles that are 15 to long, with a yellow or purple corolla that is 2.5 cm .
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Paeonia broteri Paeonia broteri is a perennial, herbaceous species of peony. It is an endemic species of Spain and Portugal. It bears rose-pink flowers about 12 cm wide and glossy green leaves. It reaches up to 40 cm in height. Its common name in Portugal is rosa-albardeira, and in Spain albardera and matagallinas (also used for "Daphne gnidium" and "Solanum dulcamara").
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Coronidium elatum Coronidium elatum, commonly known as the white paper daisy or tall everlasting, is a perennial herbaceous shrub in the family Asteraceae found in open forests in eastern Australia. A woody shrub 0.6 to tall, it has white flowers which appear in spring. It was known as "Helichrysum elatum" for many years until it was finally reviewed in 2008.
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Sphaerophysa salsula Sphaerophysa salsula is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names alkali swainsonpea, Austrian peaweed, and red bladder-vetch. It is native to Asia but it is known in many other parts of the world as an introduced species and often a noxious weed. It grows in cultivated land and disturbed habitat, easily tolerating alkaline substrates. It is commonly seen in areas where alfalfa is grown, because the seeds of the two species look similar and the weed seed is easily imported with the crop seed.
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Grevillea gariwerdensis Grevillea gariwerdensis is a species of the plant genus "Grevillea". It is endemic to Victoria in Australia. The species grows as a low, suckering shrub, between 0.3 and 1 metre in height. Flowers usually appear between October and January (mid spring to mid summer) in its native range. These have perianths and styles which are white to pink.
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Eleiotis Eleiotis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.
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Psychotria capensis The Bird-berry ("Psychotria capensis" ) is a southern African evergreen shrub or small tree. It belongs to a genus which is used medicinally in many regions, 'Psychotria' being from the Greek for 'rejuvenating', in reference to the healing properties of certain species. Kew lists some 2,000 species of "Psychotria" growing throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres, but only two of them occur in southern Africa, namely "P. capensis" and "P. zombamontana".
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Elatinaceae Elatinaceae is a family of flowering plants with ca 35 (to perhaps 50) species in two genera: "Elatine" and "Bergia". The "Elatine" are mostly aquatic herbs, and the "Bergia" are subshrubs to shrubs. "Elatine" species are widely distributed throughout the world from temperate to tropical zones, with its greatest diversity found in temperate zones. "Bergia" is found in temperate to tropical Eurasia and Africa, with two tropical and one tropical to temperate species in the Americas. The center for biodiversity of "Bergia" is the Old World tropics, and this is also the center for biodiversity for the family. Neither genus is found in arctic ecosystems.
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Valeriana californica Valeriana californica is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name California valerian. It is native to Oregon, northeastern California, and Nevada, where it occurs in moist, forested mountain habitat. It is an erect herb up to half a meter tall with whorls or opposite pairs of deeply lobed leaves at intervals along stem. The inflorescence is a cyme of many funnel-shaped white or pink-tinged flowers each about half a centimeter long with three long, protruding stamens. The fruit is a ribbed achene about half a centimeter long which may be tipped with the featherlike remains of the flower sepals.
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Eleiodoxa Eleiodoxa is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family found in Southeast Asia. The only species, Eleiodoxa conferta, is a dioecious, swamp-dwelling plant, commonly called by Malay as asam kelubi or asam paya. While five species names have been published, the other four are usually recognized as synonyms of the lectotype "E. conferta". The genus is named from two Greek words meaning "water" and "glory" and the species name is Latin for "congested", an allusion to the flower spike.
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Salvia bulleyana Salvia bulleyana is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing on hillsides at 2100 to elevation. "S. bulleyana" grows on a few branched stems with ovate to ovate-triangular leaves.
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Salvia adoxoides Salvia adoxoides is an perennial plant that is native to Guangxi province in China, found growing in hillside fields at 200 m elevation. "S. adoxoides" grows on red stems to a height of 11 cm , with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are 2-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes, with a 9 mm white corolla.
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Linaria maroccana Linaria maroccana is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family known by the common names Moroccan toadflax and annual toadflax. It is native to Morocco, but it can be found elsewhere growing wild as an introduced species, such as California. It is a readily available ornamental plant for the flower garden. This is an annual herb growing erect to approach a maximum height of 50 cm , its stem with linear leaves 2 – long. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers occupying the top of the stem. At the base of each flower is a calyx with five narrow, pointed lobes. The flower is 2 – long with five lobes arranged into two lips with a spur at the end. The flower is often purple in color with white near the throat, but flowers of many different colors are bred for the garden. Dwarf cultivars are also available.