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Columnea
Columnea
This is an attractive plant with long pendulous shoots; its leaves are small, partly leathery, or soft and covered with hairs. Its tubular flowers are striking, salmon-red or fiery red in color.
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Common myrtle
Myrtus communis
Native to Southern Europe and North Africa. This evergreen tree or shrub grows to about 3 meters in height in natural conditions.
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Conophytum
Conophytum
Conophytums are small plants, usually forming dense but slow-growing colonies.
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Cordyline
Cordyline
These are evergreen shrubs and trees. Cordyline is often mistaken for dracaenas and even for palms.
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Correa
Correa Andrews
A genus of evergreen shrubs with a spreading crown. Leaves are oval, ovate or lanceolate, glossy, dark green. Flowers are fragrant, pendulous, tubular, red, pink or white. Fruits are brown capsules.
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Corynocarpus
Corynocarpus
Native to New Zealand. Grown as a houseplant, or more precisely as a greenhouse plant, is the species - Коринокарпус гладкий - Corynocarpus laevigatus - an evergreen shrub, fairly easy to cultivate with oval-elongated l…
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Coryphantha
Coryphantha
The shape of these cacti is globose or slightly elongated. The stem is solitary, sometimes producing an offset; gray-green or blue-green in color.
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Cotyledon
Cotyledon
Two species are better suited to home cultivation, which are less commonly encountered for sale: the round Cotyledon and the wavy Cotyledon
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Crassula
Crassula
Native mostly to South Africa. This is a large genus of succulent plants, numbering according to various sources about 300–350 species. Among them are small plants (a few centimeters tall) and giants up to several meter…
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Crassula or Money Tree
Crassula arborescens
Crassula or Money Tree - a tree-like plant native to South Africa. It has dark green leaves, sometimes with a red margin along the edge.
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Crinum
Crinum
Native to South Africa. There are about 100 species in the wild. Crinum is a magnificent flowering plant more suitable for cultivation in greenhouses and conservatories than in apartments. Not only because the plants re…
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Cryptanthus
Cryptanthus
Cryptanthus are valued for the multicolored leaf patterns and compact size. As a result of breeding work, plants with leaves in a range of color variations have been produced.
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Ctenanthe
Ctenanthe
Native range - the tropics of the Americas. There are 15 species in the wild. Ctenanthe is often confused with Calathea; they are indeed similar and closely related.
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Cuban Bombacopsis
Bombacopsis cubensis
A small deciduous tree with a tapering trunk, palmately compound leaves and thin, smooth, greenish-gray bark.
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Cuphea
Cuphea
Hyssop-leaved cuphea - Cuphea recurvata - a shrub or subshrub about 50 cm tall. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, lanceolate in shape, about 2.5 cm long and 0.5 cm wide, dark green in color.
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Cupressus macrocarpa "Goldcrest Wilma"
Cupressus macrocarpa "Goldcrest Wilma"
a cultivar of Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) of the genus Cupressus. A small tree with a slender conical crown, branches directed obliquely upwards. Foliage bright, lemon-green, scaly; when crushed emits a lemo…
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Cyanotis
Cyanotis
Cyanotis somaliensis - a small herbaceous plant with creeping stems. Leaves sessile, alternately arranged, with a tubular sheath enclosing the stem.
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Cycas
Cycas
This is an ancient plant; in translation from Greek (Kykas) it means "palm", apparently due to the external resemblance of these plants. Cycads are considered related to both palms and ferns.
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Cyclamen
Cyclamen
Very often one hears that the cyclamen is a very finicky plant, that it is prone to terrible diseases and it is better not to get involved with it.
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Cymbidium
Cymbidium
Native range: India, South and Southeast Asia, Japan, islands of the Malay Archipelago. More than 60 species are known in the wild, growing in rainy tropical forests.
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Cymbidium orchid
Cymbidium
A genus of terrestrial orchids in the Orchidaceae family. Leaves linear or sword-shaped, acute or obtuse, leathery, dark green. Inflorescence — a loose, erect, nodding or pendant few- or many-flowered raceme. Flowers wh…
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Cyperus, or Sedge, Sedge-like plant
Cyperus
This elegant herbaceous plant is generally undemanding. Cyperus does not have a pronounced dormancy period and grows equally well in cool and warm rooms.
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Cypress
Cupressus
Cypress is a coniferous plant and its cultivation and care methods are the same as for Araucaria.
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Cyrtomium
Cyrtomium
Cyrtomium falkatum - a perennial herbaceous plant. Rhizome short, covered with brown scales. Fronds once-pinnately divided, dark green, about 40-50 cm long.