Plant List 8 Flashcards
African boxwood
Looks like a much healthier boxwood, pinkish red stems. serrated leaf
Myrsine africana
Japanese camellia
Very waxy evergreen leaf, serrated margin
Camellia japonica
Natal plum
Forked spine, latex, red natal plum
Carissa macrocarpa
Oleander
Long follicle capsule, underside of leaf marked
Nerium oleander
Star jasmine
latex, twining stems, low to the ground, dark leaves
Trachelospermum jasminoides
Mirror plant
Waxy & shiny, variable leaves, glands at leaf vein branches
Coprosma repens
Blood-red trumpet vine
2 leaflets & a tendril, triffid tendril, doubley triffid, squared stems, red/orange flower
Amphilophium buccinatorium
Violet trumpet vine
2 leaflets & a tendril, big spiney capsule, violet flower
Bignonia callistegioides
Western catalpa
Huge, 6-12in leaf, big trunk, follicle pod, cordate leaf
Catalpa speciosa
Desert willow
Long follicle seed pods, willow-like leaves
Chilopsis linearis
Jacaranda
Clam pod, individual symmetrical leaflets, bipinnately compound, purple flower
- Jacaranda mimosifolia*
- Not to be confused with Albizzia Julibrissin*
Cape honeysuckle
Varying form, honeysuckle flowers, year round flowering
Tecoma capensis
Hemp tree
Hemp shaped leaf, scented, hypehnated name
Vitex agnus-castus
Coast rosemary
Looks like rosemary, white flower, whorled leaf, blue green color
Westringia fruticosa
Pink jasmine:
Fragrant pink bud, white flower, large terminal leaflet, rippled
Jasminum polyanthum