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Deciduous shrubs
Cotoneaster integerrimus Medic
A species of non-spiny deciduous shrubs of the genus Cotoneaster. A small upright shrub with a spreading crown. Leaves rounded, green, grey-woolly beneath. Flowers small, pink, borne in corymb-like clusters. Fruits near…
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Epidendrum
Genus Epidendrum - genus Epidendrum L. One of the large genera which includes up to 1000 species.
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Epiphyllum
Epiphyllum has flat stems with toothed edges that resemble leaves. Therefore it was formerly often called a leaf cactus, or phyllocactus. This also explains the modern scientific name of the cactus: in Greek "epi" — "on…
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Epipremnum
One of the most common houseplants, which demonstrates how confusion sometimes arises with names.
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Episcia
These are perennial herbaceous plants that are grown in hanging baskets or pots as trailing plants.
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Eranthemum
Eranthemum Watt - Eranthemum wattii - is a branching shrub up to 1 meter tall. Leaves are opposite, petiolate, ovate, pointed at the tip, up to 15 cm long, with a rough surface.
Flowers for the garden
Eranthis
Perennial herbaceous plant with a tuberous-thickened root. Leaves basal, palmately divided, 1–2 in number. Flowers solitary, widely open.
Flowers for the garden
Sparganium erectum
Plants 50-150 cm tall with a creeping rhizome and an erect branched stem. Leaves long, narrow, triangular, sheathing the stem, resembling iris leaves.
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Eremurus
Their favorite habitats are sandy plains, steppes and clayey foothill deserts. Some species ascend into mountains up to 3600 m.
Deciduous trees
В. ermanii Cham.
Light-loving, restative mesophyte, microtherm, mesotroph, edifier of park birch groves and an associate of the stands of coniferous-broadleaved forests.
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Erytrina
Erythrinas are very decorative; they bloom for a long time and abundantly, prized for their magnificent red flowers of curious shapes in large showy inflorescences.
Flowers for the garden
Еrythronium
These are plants of cool and moist light forests, open places (forest edges, meadows), in the temperate and subtropical zones of the Northern Hemisphere; some species ascend to alpine meadows and mountain tundra, inhabi…
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Eschscholzia
Eschscholzia (lat. Eschscholzia) is a genus of plants in the poppy family (Papaveraceae), comprising about ten species distributed in the western part of North America.
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Escobaria
This genus has characteristics that help clarify the stages in the evolution of modern cacti — the mamillarias. In the more primitive cacti the flowers form on the areole, directly above the cluster of spines.
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Chasmanthe aethiopica
It is a tetraploid with a chromosome number 2n=32. The corm is large, rounded, with thin brown tunics.
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Eucalyptus
A beautiful, fast-growing pyramidal tree with bluish-green leaves that seem to be covered with a waxy bloom.
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Eucalyptus gunnii Hook.f.
a species of the genus Eucalyptus of the myrtle family. An evergreen tree up to 30 м in height with smooth, orange or pinkish-white bark that flakes into scales and peels off. Young leaves opposite, glaucous, mature lea…
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Eucharis
A beautiful bulbous plant with snow-white, fragrant flowers gathered in an umbel. The flower is similar in shape to a narcissus. First flowering occurs from October until deep winter. It blooms a second time in spring. …
Flowers for the garden
Eucomis
Eucomis is a bulbous plant. It differs from other lilies by the presence of a cluster of large green or colored bracts without flowers at the top of the scape.
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Eugenia
This is an evergreen shrub that in natural conditions grows up to 6 m in height. Branches are reddish or green, leaves small and glossy. Young leaves are reddish, older ones dark green.
Flowers for the garden
Eulophia turkestanica
The only species of the genus, which includes 50–60 species mainly distributed in tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, and Madagascar, which grows only in Central Asia in the middle reaches of the Amu Darya River, in the Z…
Deciduous shrubs
Euonymus fortunei Blondy
Deciduous shrub with decorative variegated leaves: dark green with a large intense white-yellow blotch in the center. Flowers small, inconspicuous, green-yellow in inflorescences. Blooms in June–July.
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Euonymus japonicus Happiness
A cultivar of Japanese spindle (Euonymus japonicus) from the genus Euonymus of the family Celastraceae. A small evergreen shrub with light yellow-green shoots and leathery dark green leaves. Flowers are pale yellow, bor…
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Euphorbia grandicornis Goeb.
Euphorbia or Large-horned Spurge (Euphorbia grandicornis Goeb.) - species description, photographs, care, cultivation, repotting, pests, propagation - Euphorbia or Spurge
