With its brush-like puffy flowers that appear throughout the year, the bottlebrush is, without a doubt, one of the best flowering shrubs for full sun. If grown in a cooler zone, bring the bottlebrush plant indoors before the first frost to overwinter it. 11. Marigold Botanical Name: Tagete...
Plant resources gathered from the wild are important sources of livelihood needs, especially for low-income populations living in remote areas, who rely on these plants for food, fuelwood, medicine and building materials. Yadong County is a valley at the
However, again, the results are specific to the local characteristics of urban form and general climate zone. To understand the underlying processes which relate changes in tree cover to changes in climate, local-scale processes need to be characterised and understood. Trees provide shade, blocking...
The use of 112 species of vascular plants as food, seasoning or beverage has been recorded in the Polish countryside since the 18thcentury. They belong to 81 genera from 39 plant families. The list includes 20 species of trees, 23 species of shrubs (including 6 species of dwarf shrubs), 4...
Camellia sinensis belongs to the Theaceae family and has small perennial shrubs widely used to produce green and black teas [131]. Its beneficial properties are attributed to green tea’s polyphenol components (catechins). Epicatechin-3-gallate and epigallocatechin-3 gallate are the two significant ...
The greenish bell-shaped blossoms produced in May are, perhaps, not very attractive, but this is more than compensated for by the highly ornamental fruit, which renders the plant an object of great beauty about mid-September.William Shakespeare...
wereMentha arvensis,Mentha spicata,Zanthoxylum armatum, andJuglans regia. It's interesting to note that all of these species were used both fresh and dried, and they are all aromatic. In order to use these species throughout the year, the locals shade-dried them during the suitable seasons (...