Which flowering tree genus is commonly grown as ornamentals in warm regions, Plumeria or Vitex?
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Vitex Vitex is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It has about 250 species. Common names include "chastetree", traditionally referring to "V. agnus-castus" but often applied to other species as well.
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Plumeria Plumeria ( ) is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. Most species are deciduous shrubs or small trees. The species variously are indigenous to Mexico, Polynesia, Central America, and the Caribbean, and as far south as Brazil, but are grown as cosmopolitan ornamentals in warm regions. Common names for plants in the genus vary widely according to region, variety, and whim, but frangipani or variations on that theme are the most common. Plumeria also is used directly as a common name, especially in horticultural circles.
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Vitex altissima Vitex altissima (peacock chaste tree) is a species of woody plant reaching some 20 m in height, in the Lamiaceae family. It is native to countries of the Indo-Malaysian region, namely Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. Its greyish bark becomes scaly with maturity. The leaves are trifoliolate or palmate, compound and opposite. They are elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate in shape with acuminate apex and cuneate base. The margin is serrate or sometimes entire. The inflorescences are in terminal panicles. The corolla is bluish white. The purplish black fruit is a four-seeded drupe.
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Verticordia verticillata Verticordia verticillata, commonly known as tropical featherflower or whorled-leaved featherflower is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to an area in the north of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It is a woody shrub or small tree with relatively long, linear leaves arranged in whorls, and with irregular groups of creamy-white flowers in spring.
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Verticordia densiflora var. pedunculata Verticordia densiflora" var. "pedunculata, commonly known as long-stalked featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with small leaves and mauve-pink flowers which fade to white. It is one of five varieties of the species "Verticordia densiflora" and is distinguished from the others by its much longer flower stalks.
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Bulnesia Bulnesia is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. The wood of some – particularly "B. arborea" and "B. sarmientoi" – is traded as verawood (colloquially "vera") or ""lignum vitae"". They are close relatives of the "true" "lignum vitae" trees of genus "Guaiacum".
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Verticordia chrysantha Verticordia chrysantha, commonly known as yellow featherflower or yellow Morrison, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a small, slow-growing, rather bushy shrub with bright yellow flowers which often turn reddish-brown as they age. It is widespread in the south-west of the state.
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Verticordia fastigiata Verticordia fastigiata, commonly known as mouse featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate or low shrub with small, club-shaped leaves and mouse-scented flowers which vary in colour from golden-yellow and orange to dark red.
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Rhodostemonodaphne Rhodostemonodaphne is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It is a neotropical genus consisting of approximately 41 species occurring in Central America and northern South America. This genus has many species that are valued for timber. The classification of the genus is unclear since the species in the genus fall into a well-supported but unresolved clade that also includes species with unisexual flowers currently placed in the genera "Endlicheria" and part of "Ocotea".
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Aloe barberae Aloe barberae (syn. "Aloe bainesii"), also known as the tree aloe, is a species of aloe native to South Africa northwards to Mozambique. In its native climes this slow-growing tree can reach up to 18 m (54 ft) high and 0.9 m (3 ft) in stem diameter. "Aloe barberae" is Africa's largest aloe. The tree aloe is often used as an ornamental plant. Its tubular flowers are rose pink (green-tipped); it flowers in winter and in its natural environment is pollinated by sunbirds.
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Iris milesii Iris milesii (also known as the "red flower iris") is a species in the genus "Iris", subgenus of "Limniris" and in the Lophiris section (crested irises). It is a rhizomatous, beardless perennial plant, native to the Himalayas, India and China. It has pinkish-violet, or pinkish purple, or pinkish-lavender or pinkish lilac flowers, with a fringed yellow or orange crest (or ridge). It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
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Hoheria sexstylosa Hoheria sexstylosa (long-leaved lacebark or ribbonwood) is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, endemic to New Zealand. It is an evergreen tree or shrub growing to 8 m tall by 6 m broad with glossy green leaves, and white flowers in summer and autumn. This tree tends to have a weeping graceful habit and is sometimes sold by nurseries with the name "graceful lacebark". The Latin term "sexstylosa" means "six styles".
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Vitex keniensis Vitex keniensis (also called Meru oak) is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae.
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Scoparia dulcis Scoparia dulcis is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family. Common names include licorice weed, goatweed, scoparia-weed and sweet-broom in English, tapeiçava, tapixaba, and vassourinha in Portuguese, escobillo in Spanish, and tipychä kuratu in Guarani. It is native to the Neotropics but it can be found throughout the tropical and subtropical world.
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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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Dryas octopetala Dryas octopetala (common names include mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas, and white dryad) is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub forming large colonies. The specific epithet "octopetala" derives from the Greek "octo" (eight) and "petalon" (petal), referring to the eight petals of the flower, an unusual number in the Rosaceae, where five is the normal number. However, flowers with up to 16 petals also occur naturally.
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Caliphruria Caliphruria is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.) The four species grow in tropical areas of South America, with three endemic to Colombia, but are rare in the wild. This genus is closely related with the genera "Eucharis" and "Urceolina," all of them known colloquially as "Amazon Lilies".
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Verticordia albida Verticordia albida is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with one main stem with many branches and spike-like groups of scented, white feathery flowers with a pink centre.
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Mussaenda erythrophylla Mussaenda erythrophylla, commonly known as Ashanti blood, red flag bush and tropical dogwood, is an evergreen West African shrub. The bracts of the shrub may have different shades, including red, rose, white, pale pink or some mixtures. "Mussaenda erythrophylla" grows best in warmly temperate or subtropical areas and is semideciduous in cooler parts. In its natural habitat the shrub may scramble up to 10 m , but is kept compact under cultivation. The star-like flowers of the shrub are 10 mm in diameter and have a single, modified sepal.
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Verticordia tumida Verticordia tumida, commonly known as summer featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an open shrub with very small leaves and clusters of deep pink flowers from late spring to early winter.
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Vauquelinia californica Vauquelinia californica, commonly known as Arizona rosewood, is an evergreen species of shrub or tree, in the rose family Rosaceae.
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Verticordia endlicheriana var. manicula Verticordia endlicheriana" var. "manicula is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually a small, compact shrub with sweetly-perfumed, lemon-yellow flowers which change colour through red to brown as they age.