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Kolkwitzia

Kolkwitzia L

A monotypic genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). A densely branched deciduous shrub with long drooping shoots. Leaves paired, opposite, oval, covered with hairs.

Sequoiadendron giganteum, mammoth tree

Sequoiadendron Buchh.

Monotypic genus of evergreen coniferous trees from the cypress family. The tallest tree with a pyramidal, later conical crown

A late-winter early-fruiting, high-yielding cultivar of the common pear. Fruits are large, uniform in size, elongated-pyriform. Skin thick, dry, russeted, gray-green, turning greenish-yellow at maturity.

Common privet

Ligustrum vulgare

Deciduous or semi-evergreen, oval, pointed, dark green, in autumn – yellowish-green.

Lily-of-the-valley loosestrife

Lysimachia clethroides

Family Primulaceae. Grows in the south of Primorye, in mountain forests and on meadow slopes.

Calla (Bog arum)

Calla palustris

This is a perennial herbaceous plant with creeping or prostrate shoots 10—25 cm high. The rhizome is green, jointed, creeping, hollow and thick; it spreads along the soil surface. It branches; adventitious fibrous roots…

Marsh telipteris

Thelypteris palustris

Rhizome creeping, cord-like. Leaves spaced or clustered, oblong-lanceolate, large (up to 30–60 cm long), twice pinnate.

Spherical ash 'Nana'

Fraxinus excelsior “Nana”

Small tree, height 4-6 m, width 2-4 m, slow-growing, compact, spherical.

Asphodeline

Inflorescences are a dense raceme on an unbranched stem, flowers white or yellow. Perianth segments are turned outward, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, with a single longitudinal vein, fused at the base into a short tube.

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