Herbs
Physalis
Physalis Alkekengi
Family: Solanaceae Common names: bladder cherry, Jewish cherry. Pharmacopoeial name: fruits of physalis - Alkekengi fructus (formerly: Fructus Alkekengi).
Plants
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Deciduous shrubs
Physocarpus
Physocarpos
Ornamental, deciduous shrubs, undemanding in soil requirements, poorly tolerant of excessive moisture and especially waterlogging. Shade-tolerant, drought- and air-pollution tolerant.
Herbs
Physostigma (poisonous)
Physostigma Venenosum Balf
Legume family. Pharmacopoeial name: Calabar beans - Calabar semen (formerly: Semen Calabar).
Indoor plants
Piaranthus
PIARANTHUS R.Br.
Creeping small plants composed of numerous ovate jointed stem segments. Stems 4-5-angled, 2.5 to 5 cm tall and 1.25 cm in diameter, smooth, green or greenish-brown, with 4-5 sharp tubercles on each face. Flowers appear …
Deciduous shrubs
Pieris
Floribunda
Pieris (Floribunda) - a brief description of the species for Your Garden
Deciduous shrubs
Pieris japonica
Pieris japonica
Evergreen shrub. Hardiness zone according to western catalogs varies by cultivar: 5-7 or 6-9. A neat, slow-growing shrub clothed with glossy oval or lanceolate leaves.
Indoor plants
Pilea
Pilea
In general Pileas are fairly undemanding, but they exhibit rather untidy growth, so young shoots are pinched to encourage bushiness, and elongated or bare stems are cut back and the plant is rejuvenated by replanting fr…
Deciduous trees
Pin oak
Quercus palustris Muenchh.
A slender tree up to 25 m tall, narrow-pyramidal in youth, later with a broad-pyramidal crown. Young shoots thin, pendulous, reddish-brown.
Conifers
Pine
Pinus L.
A genus that includes about 80 species, found in the Northern Hemisphere from the polar region to the tropics, and here only in elevated areas.
Indoor plants
Pineapple
Ananas
Native to Brazil. Some pineapple species are grown as houseplants; they even form fruits, although small and inedible. The main attraction of pineapples is the beautiful rosette of leaves.
Deciduous shrubs
Pink cotoneaster
С. roseus Edgew.
A species of spineless evergreen shrubs of the genus Cotoneaster. A small shrub with thin purple shoots. Leaves elliptic, green. Flowers small, pink. Fruits rounded, red.
Conifers
Pinus wallichiana (Wallich's pine)
Рinus wallichiana
Family Pinaceae. A beautiful evergreen tree of medium height. Needles long, in bundles of five, bluish-silvery. Cones long, light brown, resinous
Indoor plants
Pisonia
Pisonia
In cultivation, Pisonia umbellifera is common. It is an evergreen tree that reaches 5 m in the wild, with strongly branching shoots.
Fruit trees
Pissardii Cherry Plum
Prunus cerasifera Pissardii
A small deciduous tree with a broadly ovate crown. Leaves elliptical, reddish-brown, glabrous. Blooms in April, before leaf emergence. Flowers large, white-pink, turning dark red by the end of flowering.
Encyclopedia - Plants for ponds
Pistia or Water Cabbage
Pistia
A representative of the aroid family (Araceae). Pistia is a monotypic genus established by Linnaeus in 1753. The genus name is translated from Ancient Greek as "water."
Deciduous trees
Plane tree, chinar
Platanus L.
Plane tree, chinar (Platanus L.) - a brief description of the species on Your Garden
Flowers for the garden
Plantain-leaved Doronicum
D. plantagineum L.
Perennial plant. Flowering stem tall, up to 80-140 cm. Distinguished from other species by its oval-elliptic basal leaves that narrow into a long petiole and have indistinctly toothed margins.
Flowers for the garden
Plantain-leaved hosta
Нosta plantaginea (Lam.) Aschers.
A plant with ovate-rounded, cordate at the base, thin, bright-green, glossy leaves. The leaf blade has 7–9 pairs of veins. Flowers large, up to 12 cm long, white, fragrant; the scape 40–50 cm tall with one or several sm…
Flowers for the garden
Plate-leaved Astilboides
Astilboides tabularis (Hemsl.) Engl.
A low perennial up to 30 cm tall with stiff, springy leaves up to 70 cm in diameter, on long, sturdy petioles.
Indoor plants
Platycerium
Platycerium
This epiphytic fern has an appearance so uncharacteristic for ferns that it stands out sharply against them.
Indoor plants
Platycerium (two-forked)
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C. Chr
Epiphytic plant with two types of leaves — spore-bearing and sterile. The former are gathered in a rosette, slightly glaucous (young ones whitish from dense pubescence), 50-70 cm long, cuneate at the base, widening upwa…
Indoor plants
Pleasant alternanthera
Alternanthera amoena
Perennial low-growing plant 10–20 cm high. Stems grooved, branching from the base, pubescent beneath. Leaves oblong-oval or narrowly elliptic, pubescent beneath.
Flowers for the garden
Pleasant lady's-tresses
Spiranthes amoena
Plant with a shortened rhizome and thin cylindrical tubers. Stem 15–30 cm tall, with 2–4 linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, bluntly pointed leaves in the lower part, 4–7.5 cm long and 0.4–0.7 cm wide.
Indoor plants
Plectranthus
Plectranthus
Plectranthus fruticosus (shrubby plectranthus) is a tall shrub up to 1 m high, with strongly branching pubescent quadrangular shoots. Leaves up to 10 cm long, ovate, with a cordate base and doubly serrated margins.