Stenoglottis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, mostly terrestrial orchids (very occasionally epiphytic), are natives of southern Africa.
Loose arching long stems with dark blue or redish purple flowers, to hang over retaining walls, raised planters or as a pot subject cascading over the rim.
It is a perennial, growing to ~30 cm tall. Flowers are purple and produced in the summer.Its Japanese name Iwatabako is literaly “rock tobacco”, in reference to the resemblance of its leaves to tobacco, and its preference to grow on exposed rock.
Oriental hybrid lillies have very large, fragrant flowers, made up of six petals (tepals) that can be up to 15 cms across. There can sometimes be several flowerheads per stem.
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The plant is best known for the edible flower buds (capers), used as a seasoning, and the fruit (caper berries), both of which are usually consumed pickled. The flowers are complete, sweetly fragrant, and showy, with four sepals and four white to pinkish-white petals, and many long violet-colored stamens, and a single stigma
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Begonia pendula, the pendulous begonia, in particular, is highly appreciated precisely because it is highly decorative: it is a plant whose branches fall gently downwards and for this reason it is frequently cultivated in suspended pots, at home or in open spaces, to create a colorful and fragrant setting to the rooms.
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