BOTANY LAB: IDENTIFICATION OF SCIENTIFIC NAMES

caricature plant

ti plant, palm lily, cabbage palm

Gumamela, Chinese hibiscus, China rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, rose mallow and shoeblack plant

cornstalk dracaena

broadleaf lady palm or bamboo palm

giant taro

bottle palm or palmiste gargoulette

harlequin glorybower, glorytree or peanut butter tree

Lao

white mulberry, common mulberry and silkworm mulberry

screw pine

pomelo

lemon

sweet oranges

grapefruit

Dalanghita, naranghita and sintones

dumbcane or tuftroot

fishbone fern, tuberous sword fern, tuber ladder fern, erect sword fern, narrow sword fern and ladder fern, and herringbone fern

Red Lip, Wild Cinnamon, Australian Brush Cherry, Kelat Paya/Oil, Eugenia oleina

golden dewdrops, pigeon berry

split-leaf philodendron, lacy tree philodendron, selloum, horsehead philodendron, guaimbé

kalamansi, calamondin, Philippine lime, or Philippine lemon

Ming Aralia

lesser bougainvillea or paperflower

great bougainvillea

snake plant, Saint George's sword, mother-in-law's tongue, and viper's bowstring hemp

little ironweed and poovamkurunnila

Tropical Carpet Grass, Wide-Leaved Carpet Grass, Cow Grass, Rumput Parit

Chinese croton, blindness tree, buta buta, jungle fire plant

chamber bitter, gripeweed, shatterstone, leafflower, or stonebreaker

golden cane palm, yellow palm, bamboo palm, areca palm or butterfly palm

Philippine Homalomena or Payau/payaw

spurgecreeper

bakong or knob-fruited screwpine

Banana Boat, Lemon Zest, Siderosticta Sedge, Siderosticta's Sedge and Siderosticta's Fox Sedge

the Fairy

multiflora rose, baby rose, Japanese rose, many-flowered rose, seven-sisters rose, Eijitsu rose and rambler rose

mango

Mangifera, Quadrifida Mango and Four-Lobed Mango

Japanese arborvitae

Narrow-Leaf Alstonia or Pulai Penipu Paya

Moss rose plants or moss-rose purslane

red-edged dracaena or Madagascar dragon tree

common spider plant

Oregano, Spanish thyme or wild marjoram

ji dan hua, nosegay, kalachuchi

Ruffled fan palm, Vanuatu fan palm, Palas payung, Ruffled lantan palm, or Palas palm

brush cherry and native myrtle

Ivory Bamboo, Buluh Gading, Stripe Bamboo

Pandan, Fragrant Pandan, Scented Pandan, Screwpine, Fragrant Screwpine, Indonesian Screwpine, Pandan Rampeh, Pandan Wangi, Daun Pandan

bashō, Japanese fiber banana, hardy fiber banana, hardy Japanese banana

Variegated Spiral Ginger

cat palm, cascade palm, or cataract palm

Bowstring Hemp, Ceylon Bowstring Hemp, Devil’s Tongue, Mother-in-Law’s Tongue

Flame of the Woods; Iron Tree; Ixora; Jungle Flame; Jungle Geranium; Maui sunset; Pendkuli

fire croton, garden croton, or variegated croton

desert horse purslane, black pigweed, giant pigweed

Anahaw, footstool palm

palmier bâtard, palmiste poison, or champagne palm

Narrow Leaved Dracaena

Sleeping Hibiscus

physic nut, Barbados nut, poison nut, bubble bush, purging nut, Tubang-bakod Tubang-bakod (Tagalog); tuba-tuba, kasla

elephant ear, heart of Jesus, and angel wings

minnieroot, fever root, snapdragon root and sheep potato

Gunn's tick-trefoil, Slender tick-trefoil, Southern tick-trefoil

geranium aralia or wild coffee

Devil's Backbone, Japanese Poinsettia, Redbird Flower, Slipper Flower

Dracaena Gold dust, Japanese Bamboo, Gold Dust Plant, Spotted Leaf Dracaena

False Ashoka, False Asoka, Mast Tree, Indian Mast Tree, Weeping Mast Tree, Green Champa, Mempisang

Ivy Tree

balsam, garden balsam, rose balsam, touch-me-not or spotted snapweed

arius

Brush Cherries, Lillipillies

magenta lilly pilly or magenta cherry

Siling Labuyo, Tabasco Pepper, Cayenne pepper, Capsicum, Bird Pepper, and Hot Pepper

common walnut (Great Britain), Persian walnut, English walnut, Carpathian walnut, Madeira walnut

Sander's dracaena, ribbon dracaena, lucky bamboo, curly bamboo, Chinese water bamboo, Goddess of Mercy's plant, Belgian evergreen

Guiana Chestnut, Provision Tree, Shaving-brush Tree, Malabar Chestnut, Water Chestnut, Saba Nut, Fortune Tree, Money Tree, Oje

Song of India, Pride of India, Song of Jamaica

Australian Ivy Palm, Dwarf Hawaiian Schefflera, Dwarf Schefflera, Hawaiian Umbrella Tree, Parasol plant, Umbrella Plant

aji, bishop's hat, orchid pepper

fiery costus or spiral flag

Chinese evergreen

Devil's Ivy; Devil's Vine; Golden Pothos; Ivy Arum; Marble Queen; Pothos; Taro Vine

Rockweed, Artillery plant, Artillery Fern, Gunpowder plant or Brilhantina, Angeloweed, Joypowder plant

arrowleaf elephant ear, tiquizque, macal, nampi, malanga or American taro

mother-in-law’s tongue, piles root, African bowstring hemp

Daun Nisang, Gereneh, Parasol Palm, Palmier Parasol

wild star-apple or satinleaf

Macarthur palm

Walidda, Artic Snow, Milky Way, Snowflakes, Sampaguita, Coral Swirl, Tellicherry Bark

Chinese ixora

white water sedge or whitehead spikesedge

pepper elder, shining bush plant, man-to-man, silverbush, rat-ear, clearweed

Purple Heart

Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra, asana

semarak api, royal poinciana, flamboyant tree or peacock tree

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