Plants

Indoor plants

Бовиэя

Boviea

An exotic plant of the family Liliaceae. It is classed among bottle plants because of the shape of its stem — a terrestrial bulb in which nutrients and water accumulate.

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Болбитис Геделоти

Bolbtis hendelotii

Among aquarists, Болбитис Геделоти is an ornamental and popular fern.

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Ваккария

Vaccaria

Annual plant. It has sturdy, knobby, smooth stems with a waxy bloom 47 - 69 cm tall. Leaves narrow.

Deciduous shrubs

Вакциниум

Vaccinium

Evergreen dwarf shrub, naturally occurring in the tundra and forest zone of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Ванкуверия

Vancouveria

Grows in shady, moist ravines of northern California, where beneath the canopy of sequoias and other conifers it forms dense carpets on rocks.

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Дактилосталикс раскрытый

Dactylostalyx ringens

Plant 10 - 20 cm tall, with a thin creeping rhizome. Leaf solitary, basal, ovate, 3 - 6 cm long, 3 - 4 cm wide, petiolate, petiole shorter than the blade.

Deciduous shrubs

Декения

Decaisnea fargesii

Shrub reaching up to 5 m in its native range, up to 3 m here in height, upright and sparsely branched. Flowers in June.

Indoor plants

Драцена маргината биколор

Dracaena marginata Bicolor

This is a perennial plant growing up to 3 m in height, with a thick woody stem that usually branches little and becomes largely bare. Leaves up to 50 cm long, about 1–2 cm wide, glossy, narrowly lanceolate, green with a…

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Зигаденус Нутталля

Z. nuttallii (A. Gray) S. Wats.

Plants 30-60 cm tall, light green, glaucous. Leaves arranged at the base of the stem, 0.6-2 cm wide, folded lengthwise, shorter than the stem, numbering 4-6.

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Камптосорус

Camptosorus

Камптосорус grows on shaded, often mossy rocks, as well as on stumps and tree trunks.

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Комперия

Comperia

Комперия - one of the most unusual and decorative of our orchids, growing exclusively on limestone in only a few localities of the South Coast of Crimea in light juniper, more rarely deciduous and mixed forests, at fore…

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Кроссандра

Crossandra Salisb.

Кроссандра blooms within a few months and flowers from spring through autumn. Кроссандра requires humid air and does poorly if it is not misted daily or surrounded by other plants.

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Ксерантемум or Everlasting

Xeranthemum

Occurs in Crimea, the Fore-Caucasus, southern Western Europe, and the Mediterranean. The plant is an annual herb. Stems erect, strongly branched, 50–60 cm tall. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, arranged alternately.

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Лаурентия

Laurentia

This perennial is indispensable for decorating inner courtyards and terraces. Its flowers have the shape of an elegant little star, reaching 3.5 cm in diameter.

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Лизиелла

Lysiella

Лизиелла is a small plant up to 20 cm tall. Stem with a single oblong-lanceolate leaf, 5-7 cm long

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Лопесия

Lopezia

Grown as a cold-hardy annual. This plant usually surprises with its unusual and charming appearance.

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Лудизия

Ludisia

Лудизии are cultivated for their velvety dark-green or purple leaves with light veins, and together with анектохилусами and макодесами are called "variegated jewels". The genus includes only one species, but in nature t…

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Орбея

ORBEA Haw.

The genus Орбея was only recently separated from the genus Стапелия as a result of a taxonomic revision. Stems are glabrous or slightly pubescent, grey- or olive-green, erect or prostrate, 10-15 cm long, 1-2 cm thick. F…

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Пеллиония Даво

Pellionia

Perennial herbaceous creeping plant. Stems succulent, pinkish, pressed to the ground. Leaves alternate, oval-elongated in shape, thin, purple-brown, with light stripes along the midrib, densely covering the stems.

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Стапелиантус

STAPELIANTHUS Choux

Requires similar growing conditions, but needs higher temperatures. Propagation by seeds and cuttings.

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Траунштейнера

Traunsteinera

Named after the Austrian apothecary and botanist of the first half of the 19th century, Траунштейнера, who studied the plants of Tyrol.

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Тулотис буреющая

Tulotis fuscescens

Тулотис буреющая grows in mixed coniferous-broadleaf, broadleaf and coniferous (mainly pine) forests, and in shrub thickets. It occurs in Western (Altai) and Eastern Siberia, and in the Russian Far East. Outside Russia …

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Тулотис уссурийская

Tulotis ussuriensis

The plant is 18-40 cm tall with subterranean stolon-like organs. In the lower part of the stem there are 2 leaves, oblong, narrowed toward the base, up to 13 cm long. The inflorescence is rather dense, cylindrical.

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Фелиция

Felicia

This annual plant was introduced to Europe from Africa. It reaches only 20–25 cm in height; the stem is strongly branched, so it occupies 40–50 cm in width. The leaves are small, bluish-green.