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Plant #1

Common name: Kangaroo fern


Scientific name: Microsorum pustulatum
Description: Large-leaved native fern, starts out entire and then divides into glossy lobed leaves as it
grows. Dark brown-black stems contrast against the bright leaf colour. Grows alongside Blechnum ferns
in the wild. With the tall of 30cm and the leaves of 15cm long.

Written Description of: N. biserrata (Sw.) Schott (N. acuta Presl).


Rootstock: short, erect, stout, with scaly prop-roots, sending out long stolons, the scales brown, often
dense, entire or irregularly ciliate.
Leaves: the stipes .30 to 60 cm long, nearly glabrous except at the scaly base, .the fronds 0.6 to 2 m long
or more, 20 to 40 cm wide;

Commonly cultivated, not spontaneous; an introduced form here. Cul- tivated in all tropical countries.

Image Comparison:

KANGAROO FERN NEPHROLEPIS BISERRATA

Kingdom Plantae Plantae

Leaves Leaf-like with a glossy finish and Reach 2.5 m tall. The petioles are
the stems are darker, adding a sparse to moderate with reddish to
nice contrast. Grows to a mature light brown hair-like scales. The rachis
height of between 6 to 12 inches has moderately spaced scales of one
(15 to 30.4 cm) tall and 4 feet color. The pinnae reach 23 cm long, 2
(1.2 meters) wide. cm wide, attached to 3.5 cm apart.

Stem an almost black stem that runs Stems ascending to erect, bearing wiry
up into the leaf stolons and sometimes underground
tubers, reach 23 cm long, 2 cm wide,
attached to 3.5 cm apart.
Roots The aerial roots or Rhizomes Orange/brown to pale brown with linear
that grow around the base of the scales having hair like tips. The roots
plants. usually are not deep but form quite
dense mats.

Specimen Comparison:

NEPHROLEPIS BISERRATA
reeping
which have Rootstock short, erect, stout, with
ey look scaly prop-roots, sending out long
an the stolons, the scales brown, often
ferns. The dense, entire or irregularly ciliate.
glossy Fronds erect, or if epiphytic, then
rker, pendulous, tufted, the stipes .30 to 60
cm long, nearly glabrous except at
the scaly base, .the fronds 0.6 to 2 m
long, more, 20 to 40cm wide.
Plant #2

Common name: leafflower


Scientific name: Phyllanthus urinaria
30-40 cm, with angular branches. Leaves are carried on 0.5 mm long stalks. Leaves are alternately,
linear-lanceolate in shape with a color of nature green. Flower are bome in leaf axils.

Written Description of: B. sensitivum ^L.) DC. Macahia (Tag.).


Stems up to 30 cm high, usually shorter. Leaves numerous, crowded at the apex of the stem, 5 to 12
long, the leaflets 8 to 14 pairs, the upper ones gradually increasing in size, 1.5 cm long or less, oblong to
oblong-obovate, often somewhat curved, apex rounded or apiculate. Peduncles numerous, usually
about as long as the leaves. Flowers many, crowded at the apices of the peduncles, shortly pedicelled.
Sepals subulate-lanceolate, striate, about 7 mm long. Petals yellow.

Image Comparison:

LEAFFLOWER BIOPHYTUM SENSITIVUM

Kingdom Plantae Plantae

Leaves The leaves are large at the tip and smaller Leaves are sensitive, pinnately
towards the petiole compound, crowded into rosette
on top of stem, and 5–12 cm
long, with 6–12 pairs of leaflets

Stem Stems are yellowish-brown to greyish-brown, Stem is slender to robust, simple


young stems covered with hairs. and at the apex is covered by
dense thick hair.

Roots Root is stout and woody and stems are often prefer to be very moist to wet
branched at base and angular though, and especially have its
roots in a wet substrate

Flower Flowers are greenish white, minute and Flowers are dimorphic, 8 mm
appear at axillae of the leaves, as well as the across yellow peduncle, many,
seed capsules. Numerous small green-red and up to 10 cm long. Sepals are
fruits, round and smooth, are found along the 5, lanceolate, imbricate, and acute
underside of the stems, which are erect and with parallel nerves.
red.

Specimen Comparison:

LEAFFLOWER BIOPHYTUM SENSITIVUM


Phyllanthus urinaria has no flower Flowers are dimorphic, 8 mm
it has Numerous small green-red across yellow peduncle, many, and
fruits, round and smooth, are up to 10 cm long. Sepals are 5,
found along the underside of the lanceolate, imbricate, and acute
stems, which are erect and red. with parallel nerves.
Plant #3

Common name: Rosas De Baybayon


Scientific name: Catharantos Roseus
this flower we found called rosas de baybayon has brittle stem, the flowers has five petal-like lobed and
the leaves are simple opposite arranged on the stem with leaf margin entire, ovary shape pinnate
venatio, and with a fruit pod like and found to be a pair of a follicle.

Written Description of: J. GRANDIFLORUM L.


A glabrous woody vine reaching a length of 8 m, the branches often pendulous. Leaves odd-pinnate, 6 to
9 cm long. Leaflets about 9, the lower ones shortly stalked, the upper ones sessile, often somewhat
fused, ovate, sharply pointed, 1 to 2 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, few- flowered. Calyx-teeth
very slender, about 7 mm long. Corolla white, the tube slender, nearly 2 cm long, the lobes spreading,
1.5 cm long. Occasionally cultivated, but not spontaneous, fl. most of the year. A native of India.

Image Comparison:

Rosas De Baybayon J. GRANDIFLORUM L.

Kingdom Plantae Plantae

Leaves leaves are simple, entire, opposite The leaves of the plant are ovate, and generally
and decussate, short-stalked and occur in whorls of three.
pinnately veined.

Stem with bushy growth habit and semi- an evergreen vine, or shrub that grows to a
woody branched stem, height

Roots with bushy growth habit and semi- has a white to brown roots
woody branched

Flower Flower colour is pink/white and The flowers can occur in clusters of 3-4 to a
tubular, swollen in the region of bunch of 11-12. It has 8-10 calyx teeth that are 5
anthers, throat of corolla-tube hairy. to 8 mm long and very slender.
Specimen Comparison:

Rosas De Baybayon J. GRANDIFLORUM L.

Catharanthus roseus is an evergreen subshrub It is a scrambling deciduous shrub


or herbaceous plant growing 1 m (39 in) tall. growing to 2–4 m tall. The leaves are
The leaves are oval to oblong, 2.5–9 cm (1.0– opposite, 5–12 cm long, pinnate with 5–11
3.5 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.4–1.4 in) wide, leaflets. The flowers are produced in open
glossy green, hairless, with a pale midrib and cymes, the individual flowers are white
a short petiole 1–1.8 cm (0.4–0.7 in) long; having corolla with a basal tube 13–25
they are arranged in opposite pairs. The mm long and five lobes 13–22 mm long.
flowers range from white with a yellow or red [4][5] In Pakistan, it grows wild in the
center to dark pink with a darker red center, Salt Range and Rawalpindi District at
with a basal tube 2.5–3 cm (1.0–1.2 in) long 500–1500 m altitude.[
and a corolla 2–5 cm (0.8–2.0 in) diameter
with five petal-like lobes. The fruit is a pair of
follicles 2–4 cm (0.8–1.6 in) long and 3 mm
(0.1 in) wide.

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