Transcript Plant ID #5
Plant ID #5 Horticulture 2 Fittonia verschaffeltii • Nerve Plant – Foliage: Burgundy Veined; Perennial; simple, oval shape with entire margins, alternate arrangement – Height: 6 inches – Spread: 6 to 9 inches – Form: upright – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: container – Exposure: Partial sun – Unique Characteristic: indoor plant, odd colored veins Forsythia x intermedia – Border Forsythia – Foliage: simple, ovate shape with serrate margins; serrations starting 1/4 of the way up the leaf. Up to 3" long. Light green in color; deciduous shrub – Flowers: Yellow, 4 petaled flowers in early March for about 3 weeks before the leaves – Height: 4 to 10 feet – Spread: 4 to 6 feet – Form: round – Landscape Use: Accent, border, hedge, specimen – Exposure: Sun – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Unique Characteristic: Young twigs are square. All twigs have grey lenticels. Flowers before leaves come out. Fuchsia x hybrida • Fuchsia – Foliage: simple, elliptic shape with entire wvay margins; burgundy petiole. Pointy leaf. Slightly serrated; – Flowers: Purple-pink or white-red bell shaped flower – Height: 1.5 to 6 feet – Spread: 1 to 3 feet – Form: shrub/ weeping – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Exposure: Bright but not direct sun – Landscape Use: container, hanging baskets – Unique Characteristic: Often used in containers or hanging baskets; prefers cool temperatures Gardenia jasminoides • Cape Jasmine/ Gardenia – Foliage: Simple, elliptic shape with entire margin – Flowers: blooms in May and June; white – Height: 5-6 feet – Spread: 5-6 feet – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Exposure: Sun or shade – Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge – Unique Characteristic: orange berry fruit, very fragrant Gerbera jamesonii • Gerber Daisy – Foliage: simple, elliptic shape with lobed, serrated margins – Flowers: daisy like, white, yellow, pink – Height: 12 inches plus – Spread: 6 inches plus – Form: bushes at bottom; flower shoots straight up on stalk – Leaf Arrangement: alternate arrangement – Landscape Use: bedding plant, border, cut flower – Exposure: Partial Sun – Unique Characteristic: no serious insect or disease problems; can self seed in some areas Gibasis pellucida • Tahitian Bridal Veil – Foliage: simple, lanceolate shape with entire, wavy margins; purplish tint – Flowers: ¼ inch wide. Tiny white flowers with 3 to 4 petals – Height: 6 inches – Spread: 2 to 3 feet – Form: creeping – Leaf Arrangement: alternating – Exposure: Partial Sun – Landscape Use: container, hanging baskets – Unique Characteristic: very delicate plant, when in bloom; flowers are very noticeable • Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba – Foliage: Simple, medium green and unusually obovate (fan-shaped), up to 3" long, with a petiole that is also up to 3" long; Y veins – Flowers: incomplete flowers – Height: 40-60 feet – Spread: 30-50 feet – Form: upright columnar, sparsely branched, and open growth habit in youth, usually becoming an upright oval to upright spreading growth habit with maturity – Leaf Arrangement: alternating – Exposure: Sun – Landscape Use: shade tree – Unique Characteristic: use only male plants in landscape b/c females put off a foul smell when in bloom Gladiolus x hortlanus • Gladiolus – Foliage: Simple, lanceolate shape with entire margins; long tall spikes shooting up from the ground – Flowers: line flowers; trumpet shaped florets; beginning at the base of the spike and continue upward; yellow, pink, orange – Height: 1 to 6 feet – Spread: 6 inches – Form: upright – Leaf Arrangement: whorled at base – Exposure: Sun – Landscape Use: border, cut flower, edging – Unique Characteristic: used in flower arrangements Gleditsia triacanthos var inermis • Thornless Honeylocust – Foliage: deciduous tree; bright green glossy leaves; pinnately or bipinnately compound leaves – Stems: black bark and zigzag tigs with thorns – Flowers: small, greenish-yellow flowers – Height: 25-35 feet – Spread: 20-25 feet – Form: upright-spreading to arching – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: border, screen – Exposure: sun – Unique Characteristic: looks attractive near water Gynura aurantiaca • Velvet Plant – Foliage: Simple, coarsely-toothed, ovate to elliptic, green leaves (to 8” long) are covered with reddishpurple hairs – Flowers: yellowish, orange spiky flower – Height: 6 inches + – Spread: 6 inches + – Form: upright – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Unique Characteristic: covered with shiny purple hairs – Landscape Use: container, hanging basket – Exposure: Sun Hedera helix English Ivy – Foliage: simple, oval shape with lobed, wavy margins; evergreen; palmately veined; 3-5-lobed; green, yellow or variegated – Flowers: Adult form produces blue-black berries – Height: 50 feet – Spread: 50 feet – Form: Climbing, aerial roots – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Exposure: Part Sun – Landscape Use: Container, hanging basket, interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: house plant REVIEW