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Misr International University.
Faculty of Engineering.
Department of Architecture.
Course: Landscape
Presented To: Dr.Khaled Asfour, Arch.Vironia Nabil.
Presented By: Ahmed Hesham Saad El Shamarkah.
ID#2005/1687.
Livistona Chinese:
Common Name: Chinese fan palm,
chinese fountain palm.
Family: Arecacea.
Origin: Southern Japan, Taiwan,
South China.
Height: 1.8m – 9m.
Description: it is becoming common
to see young Chinese fan palms used
in masses as ground cover in both
outdoor landscapes and interior
scapes especially shopping malls.
Small specimens looks great in pots
and planters, and it is consider a
good palm for small yards, and they
are tough enough to survive hot city
conditions.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: Low.
Blooming color: Pale yellow.
Blooming time: blooms repeatedly.
www.floridata.com
Ravenala Madagascariensis:
Common Name: Traveler’s palm, Traveler's tree.
Family: Strelitziaceae.
Origin: Islands of Madagascar.
Height: reach 15m.
Description: The traveller's palm is one of nature's most distinctive and remarkable plants. The traveller's palm has been described as being part banana plant and part palm tree. Its long leaf stems and deep green leaves look a lot like those of the banana and extend out from the trunk like the slats of a giant hand fan. The leaves range up to 3 m long and from 25-51 cm in width.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium to well watering.
Blooming time: All year round.
Blooming color: Green.
www.floridata.com
Roystonea Regia:
Common Name: Royal palm.
Family: Arecacea.
Origin: Cuba Banama.
Height: reach 22m.
Description: this palm makes a memorable impression wherever it is grown. Massive and symmetrical with a smoothly sculpted trunk this palm looks almost artificial, like a denizen of an idealized Disney landscape. The trunk of the Royal Palm is swollen at the base. It constricts about halfway up and then bulges again just below the crown shaft creating a dramatic profile. The royal palm has pinnate leaves that can be up to about 3 m long.
Light requirement: Full sun.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Mid Summer.
Blooming color: Pale yellow, Bright yellow, white or near white, Cream.
www.floridata.com
Arica Lutescens:
Common Name: Arica palm.
Family: Arecaceae.
Origin: Madagascar.
Height: reach 9m.
Description: it gives the
tropical look and grow up
quickly, beside being
inexpensive, and it requires
less maintenance, and could
be used as hedges.
Light requirement: Sun to
partial shade.
Water requirement: watering
well.
Blooming time: late spring &
early summer.
Blooming color: Gold
(yellow-orange), &bright
yellow.
www.davesgarden.com
Photo: www.palmco.com
Seaforthia Elegans:
Common Name:
Seaforthia palm.
Family: Arecaeae.
Origin: Australia.
Height: reach 10m.
Description: It’s trunk is
Crown shaft generally
green but occasionally
brownish. Light gray
trunk barely enlarged
at its base.
Light requirement: Full
Sun to Partial shade.
Water requirement:
medium.
www.backyardgardeners.com
www.desert-tropicals.com
Washingtonia Robusta:
Common Name:Washingtonia palm.
Family: Arecacea.
Origin: Mexico.
Height: reach 12m.
Description: this skyscraper of the
palm world is a outstanding sight
when planted at equal intervals
along a avenue or when snuggled
up in groups against high rise
buildings. The gray trunk is ringed
with closely set leaf scars
although usually at least part of
the trunk remains covered with
dead leaves that hang in a thatch.
Light requirement: High (full sun).
Water requirement: Low.
Blooming time: late summer & early
fall.
Blooming color: white or near
white.
www.floridata.com
picture: www.botanypictures.com
Bismarckia Nobilis:
Common Name: Bismarck Palm.
Family: Arecacea.
Origin: island of Madagascar.
Height: reach 18m.
Trunk: Smooth.
Leaves: bright light blue, waxy and its height
up to 3m, star in shape
Stem: 1.8m.
Description: Bismarckia is a magnificent palm
that feature is known for its beautiful color.
Several of these palm when placed together
in a large residential setting can contrast
dramatically providing a wonderful view. A
row of Bismarck palms spaced 5m apart along
each side of any entry road or walkway can
form a dramatic impact.
Uses: -serve as a focal point.
- planted against a dark
backdrop of foliage.
- serve as living sculpture adding
drama to the landscape.
Light requirement: prefers full sun, but in
tolerant of some shades.www.floridata.com
Borassus Flabellifer:
Common Name: Palmyra palm, Sugar palm.
Family: Arecaceae.
Origin: India. Burma & Celon.
Height: reach 12m.
Description: Sugar palm are the most
useful palm in Asia. The fruit and seed is
eaten raw or cook. The leaves is 3 meters
across and strong that a person can
stand or sit on it and the leave are use
for thatching, mats, baskets, fans, hats,
umbrellas, and as writing material. The
black trunk are very large, hard and
strong that use for valued for
construction. The sugar palm is a natural
symbol tree of Cambodia and grows all
over the country. It looks a bit like a
large Washingtonia Robusta , but it has
seeds that nearly match the size of a
coconut.
Light requirement: High (full sun).
Water requirement: Low.
Blooming color: white or near white.
.www.davesgarden.com
Atlas book
Livistona Decipiens:
Common Name: Ribbon Fan Palm.
Family: Arecacea.
Origin: Australia.
Height: reach 12m.
Description: This palm is very
similar to Livistona Australia,
only the fan leaves are even more
finely divided and very droopy. It
is a slightly faster grower , and
has very attractive dark green
leaves when young and in full
sun. However, it fades to a
normal green colour with age.
Light requirement: high (full sun).
Water requirement: Low.
Blooming color: bright yellow.
www.davesgarden.com
Cycas revoluta:
Common Name: Queen Sago, Fern
Palm.
Family: Cycadaceae.
Origin: Equatorial Africa.
Height: reach 6.1m.
Leaves: reach: 2.4m.
Description: small and very slow
growing tree, leaves are feathery
long and dark shiny green leaves.
Leaflets are spine tipped, rolled
down. Fruits are orange and there
seeds are poisonous.
Usage: - Entry Ways.
- Serves as a focal point.
- makes an unusual view.
Water requirement: medium.
Light requirement: medium.
Wind tolerance: High
www.floridata.com
www.palmdoctor.com
Rhapis Exelsa:
Common Name: Lady Palm.
Family: Arecacea.
Origin: Warm forests of
southeast China.
Height: reach 4m.
Leaves: Shiny Green.
Description: it is a specie of
fan palm. The growth rate
vary with the culture and
environment.
Uses: -Create dense screens
- Foundation of the
plantings.
Water requirement: medium.
Light requirement: medium to
high.
www.floridata.com
Washingtonia Filifera:
Common Name: desert fan,
Washington palm, desert palm.
Family: Arecacea.
Origin: Southern California,
Western Arizona, Mexico.
Height: reach 18.3m.
Uses: - Natural and formal
groupings, open areas.
- Streets.
Description: the fan palm is
with a spherical crown. The
stem is cylindrical, wider at
the base and covered with
older leaves, and the leaves
are stiff.
Light requirement: high.
Water requirement: Low.
Wind tolerance: High.
www.floridata.com
Plant Atlas Book.
Syagrus Romanzoffeanum:
Common Name: Queen Palm, Cocas.
Family: Arecacea.
Height: reach 7.5m.
Origin: Brazil, Paraguay, Northern
Argentina.
Description: fast grower,
adaptable to various soils and
climate. During the summer season
the queen decks herself out with
impressive inflorescences (like in
the photo), but in winter orange
fruits appear.
Uses: - Frame views.
- Lining streets.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: Medium.
www.floridata.com
Photos:
www.toptropicals.com
Phoenix Dactylifera:
Common Name: Date Palm.
Family: Areacacea.
Origin: North Africa.
Height: reach 46m.
Description: it is very tall with slim
trunk, its leaves are long, sharp
and pointed, there colors are
green or gray. It blooms date which
are small in size, it blooms dates
which are yellow or red in color,
the palm is blooms during spring
and dates are not formed in cold
places
Uses: - Landscaping large areas.
- Guarding the guarding
the Entrances.
- planting in avenues.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement:Low.
Wind tolerance: High.
www.floridata.com
Phoenix Canariensis:
Common Name: Canary island
date palm.
Family: Areacacea.
Origin: Canary island in the
Atlantic Ocean.
Height: reach 15m.
Description: branches are spread
heavily, the trunk is compacted,
stiff when it is young, and
become thick when grow up,
leaves are long , deep green, it
blooms orange seeds during
spring.
Uses: - used in Big Yards.
- Decorative purpose.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
Wind tolerance: High.
www.floridata.com
Photos:
www.scanpalm.com
Araucaria Excelsa:
Common Name: Norfolk Island
Pine.
Family: Araucariaceae.
Origin: Norfolk island.
Height: reach 67m.
Trunk: medium in size.
Leaves: small.
Climatic requirements: high
humidity like in coastal
countries, and it can’t tolerate
the cold weather.
Soil type: Acidic.
Uses: - Decorative tree could be
used in decorating gardens,
streets and it is considered to
be an eye catcher due to its
unique form.
-its wood used in making
furniture.
Comment: this tree consider to
be a special due to its unique
shape.
Plant Atlas
Senna Surratensis Burm.
Common Name: Cassia
Glauca.
Family: Leguminosae.
Origin: Trop. Asia,
Australia.
Height: reach 5m.
trunk: medium in size.
Leaves: consist of 6-9 pairs
of leaves, small in size.
Bloom color: Yellow.
Blooming period: March,
April, May.
Use: decorative purpose
due to the long time of its
blooming.
Sun exposure: sun to
partial shade.
Reference: Plant Atlas.
Photo:
www.toptropical.com
Araucaria Bidwillii:
Common Name: Bunya-bunya tree.
Family: Araucariaceae.
Origin: Australia.
Height: reach 36.6m.
Description: The bunya-bunya
tree is a distinctive evergreen
conifer with evenly spaced,
horizontal branches arranged
in regular tiers and whorled
around a trunk that continues
to the very tip of the tree.
Young trees are cone-shaped
and beautifully symmetrical.
Light requirement: sun to partial
shade.
Water requirement: medium.
Uses: -Wind breakers.
-In parks and avenues.
- Shading trees.
www.floridata.com
Taxodium Distichum:
Common Name: Taxodium, Bald
Cypress.
Family: Taxodiaceae.
Origin: Southeastern U.S. coastal
plain.
Height: reach 40m.
Description: it has linear leaves,The
leaves of Taxodium spread out on
the branches, and are arranged in
two ranks on opposite sides of the
stem. The branchlets of Taxodium
tend to spread outward. Taxodium
loves water, but it will also grow in
drier areas, but it will grow much
more slowly.
Light requirement: sun to partial
shade.
Water requirement: watering well.
Blooming time: Spring and early
summer.
Blooming color: Green and Bronze.
www.floridata.com
Pinus Pinea:
Common Name: Italian stone
pine, Umbrella pine.
Family: Pinaceae.
Origin: Southern Europe.
Description: It has a very
characteristic umbrella-like
shape, with a short trunk and
very broad, smoothly
rounded to nearly flat
crown. The bark is thick, red-
brown and deeply fissured
into broad vertical plates.
The flexible mid-green leaves
are needle-like, and it is the
source of the pine nuts used
in cooking.
Light requirement: full sun.
Water requirement: low to
moderate.
www.arizonatrees.org
Cassia Fistula:
Common Name: Golden Shower.
Family: Leguminosae ( sub family
of Caesalpinioideae).
Origin: India.
Height: reach 10m.
Trunk: medium in size.
Leaves: oval consist of 4-8
pairs of leaves.
Blooming time: May.
Blooming color: Golden Yellow.
Uses: decorative purpose due
to its beautiful color of the
bloom.
Comment: could be a kind of
special unique tree due to its
sudden blooming with golden
yellow flowers and then
disappear.
www.humanflowerproject.com
Plant Atlas.
photos: www.toptropical.com
Cassia Nodosa:
Common Name: Pink and white
shower.
Origin: E.Himalayas.
Height: 10-15m.
Trunk: short, medium in size.
Leaves: many leaves with long
branches growing horizontally,
which gives the form of the
umbrella.
Blooming color: pink-White in
groups.
Blooming time: starts from
spring till late summer.
Use: decorative purpose due to
its bright color.
Water requirement: High.
Light requirement: High.
Wind tolerance: medium.
Plant Atlas
Bauhinia Variegata:
Common Name: Orchid tree.
Family: Leguminosae.
Origin: India & China.
Height: reach 13m.
Trunk: medium in size.
Leaves: like camel foot its
length about 10-15cm
Blooming color: Purple, Blue,
Light Blue ( star in shape).
Blooming time: Autumn, Spring.
Use: - Decorative purpose.
- Medical purpose.
- its wood used in
manufacturing
agricultural equipments.
.www.jungleseeds.com
Reference: Plant Atlas
Tecoma Stans:
Common Name: Yellow Bells.
Family: Bignoniaceae.
Origin: Fla. And Mex., S to S
Amer.
Height: reach 6m.
Description: Yellow elder
grows as a densely
branched shrub or small
tree and gets its common
name from its superficial
resemblance of its foliage
to that of elderberry , It
has bright green opposite
leaves and sharply toothed
edges
Leaves: rough pointed
leaves (10cm).
Blooming color: Yellow.
Blooming time: Summer,
Autumn.
Use: decorative purpose.
Plant Atlas
Cupressus Sempervirens:
Common Name: Italian Cypress.
Family: cupressaceae.
Origin: East Mediterranean
region.
Height: reach 30m.
Description: Some cultivars of
Italian cypress are remarkably
tall, slender, almost pencil
shaped trees.
Leaves: small in size.
Use: - Decorative purpose.
- Oil extraction.
- Perfume extraction.
- wood is used in
manufacturing.
- Wind breakers.
Comment: consider to be special
due to its form.
Plant Atlas
Melaleuca Ecricifolia:
Common Name: Swamp paper
bark.
Family: Myrtaceae.
Origin: New S.Wales.
Height: reach 9m.
Leaves: small thin (1.5cm).
Description: Melaleuca
Ericifolia is a hardy species
that will tolerate
permanently wet, even salty
ground. Good windbreak or
hedge plant and ideal for
harsh coastal conditions
Blooming color: creamy
white.
Description: very adaptable
and can live in either dry or
wet setting, could resist
water shortage.
Use: decorative purpose.
Plant Atlas
Plumeria Alba:
Common Name: Indian Jasmine.
Family: Apocynaceae.
Origin: Pacific islands, Caribbean,
South America, Mexico.
Height: 3-5m.
Leaves: alternating in the end of
the branches elliptical oblong to
long lanceolades (15-40cm).
Description: Plumeria flowers are
most fragrant at night in order to
lure sphinx moths to pollinate
them. The flowers have no nectar,
and simply dupe their pollinators.
The moths inadvertently pollinate
them by transferring pollen from
flower to flower in their fruitless
search for nectar.
Blooming color: White with Yellow
center.
Blooming time: from mid spring
through fall.
Use: decorative purpose & medical
purpose.www.theflowerexpert.com
www.plantoftheweek.org
Mangifera Indica:
Common Name: Mango tree.
Family: Anacardiadeae.
Origin: SouthEast Asia.
Height: 35-40m.
Description: An alien species,
one of the best known in the
area. A small or medium-sized
tree with a short trunk that
often branches near the
ground. Leaves are long and
narrow, very dark green,
alternate, but clustered
densely at the end of branch
lets.
Leaves: ever green alternate
(15-35cm) are used as floral
decoration at weddings.
Smell: Lily of the Valley.
Use: decorative purpose &
fruity tree.
www.wikipedia.org
Ficus Benjamina:
Common Name: Ficus tree, Fig tree.
Family: Moraceae.
Origin: South and Southeast Asia, Australia.
Height: reach 30m.
Leaves: oval with an acuminate tip.
Light: Full sun.
Description: It is a very popular house plant
in temperate areas , due to its elegant
growth and tolerance of poor growing
conditions; it does best under bright, sunny
conditions but will also tolerate
considerable shade. It requires a moderate
amount of watering in summer, and only
enough to keep it from drying out in the
winter.
The leaves are very sensitive to small
changes in light. When it is re-located it
reacts by dropping many of its leaves and
replacing them with new leaves adapted to
the new light intensity.
Uses: - Shading tree.
- used as skeleton www.floridata.com
www.wikipedia.com
Indian Laurel:
Common Name: Ficus Nitida.
Family: Moraceae.
Origin: India.
Height: reach 20m.
Description: it is a tree
which offers a lot of shade,
its leaves are dark green in
color, it has a vigorous
sculptural trunk. It is used
as a skeleton in order to
emphasis what is in front.
Light requirement: Full Sun.
Water requirement: Low.
Wind tolerance: High.
www.davesgarden.com
Ficus Microcarpa, Chinese
Banyan tree:
Common Name: Ficus Hawaii.
Family: Moraceae.
Origin: China.
Height: reach 12m.
Description: This tree or large
spreading bushes are known for
their tropical looking foliage . They
grow in most soils and are drought-
resistant once established. Hawaii’s
trunk is less in diameter than that of
Ficus Nitida.
Light requirement: Sun to Partial
Shade.
Water requirement: medium.
www.sunnygardens.com
Albizia Julibrissin:
Common Name: Albizia, Silk Tree.
Family: Fabaceae.
Origin: China.
Height: 9-12m.
Description: It has an open, airy,
umbrella like covering often with
multiple trunks. The trunk is smooth and
the branches arch gracefully. The leaves
are about 0.3 m long, held alternately
on the stem and twice compound. Each
featherlike leaf has a central leaf stem
with a dozen or so side branches bearing
the 1.3 cm leaflets. The tiny flowers are
pink and arranged in compound clusters
about 15.2 cm across that look like
feathery silk powder puffs. Their smell
fills the mid-summer air and attracts
honey bees.
Light requirement: Sun to partial Shade.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Spring, Summer, Early
Fall.
Blooming color: Pink.www.floridata.com
Jacaranda Aculifolia:
Common Name: Jacaranda.
Family: Bignoniaceae.
Origin: Brazil and Australia.
Height: 9-12m.
Description: Even before you see it,
you sense its presence. Once in your
field of vision, its sizzling, violet-
blue floral explosion grabs your
attention and holds it fast. The
jacaranda is a large tree with fine
textured, fern like pinnate leaves.
Young trees are upright but assume
an irregular branching pattern that
produces beautifully asymmetric open
crowns as the trees age. the tree
covers itself with showy trumpet
shaped flowers that are arranged in
pyramid shaped clusters that grow
at the tips of branches.
Light requirement: Full Sun.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Spring and Early
summer, mid summer.
Blooming color: Bright Violet.www.floridata.com
Photo: www.infojardin.com
Thevetia Peruviana( tree & Shrub).
Common Name: Yellow Oleander.
Family: Apocynaceae.
Origin: tropical America.
Height: tree reach 6m & Shrub reach 2m.
Seasonality: Ever Green.
Leaves: alternate, nearly sessile.
Description: It is an evergreen tropical shrub
or small tree that bears yellow or oragnge-
yellow, trumpet like flowers and its fruit is
deep red/black in color encasing a large seed
that bears some resemblance to a Chinese
"lucky nut." Its stem is green turning
silver/gray as it ages.
Blooming color: Yellow, Orange.
Blooming period: Seasonal bloomers.
Light: Full sun.
Uses: - Luxuriant tropical effect.
- Decorative purpose.
- Long lasting colors. - Entry ways.
www.arizona.com
Laurus Nobilis:
Common Name: Laural Bay, Sweet
Bay.
Family: Lauraceae.
Origin: Southern Mediterranean
region.
Height: reach 9 m.
Description: It is a pyramid-
shaped tree or large shrub with
aromatic, evergreen leaves and
shiny gray bark. Bay laurel
sometimes produces suckers from
the base. The leaves are elliptic,
7.6-10.2 cm long, rather thick
and leathery, and shiny dark
green.
Blooming color: Yellow, Green.
Blooming period: Late spring,
early summer.
Light: partial shade.
Use: - protect from cold winter
winds.
- source of bay leaves which
used in cooking. www.floridata.com
Caesalpinia Pulcherrima:
Common Name: Peacock flower, Dwarf
Poinciana.
Family: Fabaceae.
Origin: West India, Tropical America.
Height: reach 9m
Description: is a fast growing shrub or
small tree with red to orange flowers
with long showy red stamens. The
flowers are arranged on racemes and
can have as many as 40 flowers per
flower stalk. The stem, branches and
petioles are armed with sharp spines and
the leaves are fernlike and twice
compound, with many small, oval
leaflets.
Light requirement: Sun to partial shade.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: All year round.
Blooming color: Red and Bright Yellow.
Uses: summer colour , tropical effect
background, good in medians. www.floridata.com
Photo: www.wikimedia.org
Chorisia Crispiflora:
Common Name: Folss silk tree.
Family: Bombaraceau.
Origin: Brazil.
Height: reach 20m.
Trunk: spiky.
Description: it is a tree with pale green leaves, The
young trees start out growing fast, straight, and
narrow, then slowly develop broadly spreading
umbrella canopies as they age. The bulbous green
trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular
spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. Silk
floss trees typically drop their leaves just before
they put on their spectacular autumn display of five-
petaled flowers. The petals vary from pale pink to
rose to purple or burgundy at the tips and grade
into ivory with brownish spots or blotches at the
base. The flowers are followed by pear shaped
capsules filled with many seeds embedded in silky
white floss.
Blooming color: Pink, White.
Blooming period: Autumn, Spring.
Uses: decorative purpose.
Comment: consider to be a special, due to its form.
www.floridata.com
Acacia Retinodes:
Common Name: Wirilda, Silver Wattle.
Family: Mimosaceae.
Origin: Australia.
Height: 5m-10m.
Description: Acacia retinodes is a
spreading, tall shrub or small tree.
The leaves are long, narrow and dark
gray- green in colour.
The spherical yellow flower heads
contain 30-40 individual flowers.
Acacia retinodes will grow in well-
drained situations but will also cope
with short periods of water logging.
Light requirement: Sun to partial
Shade.
Water requirement: well to medium
watering.
Blooming time: Summer and Early Fall.
Blooming color: Bright Yellow.
www.davesgarden.com
www.yalloroo.com
common names: for Royal
Poinciana include Flamboyant Tree,
Flame Tree, Mohur Tree and Red Flame.
Origin: Madagascar.
Facts: consistently voted among the top
5 most beautiful flowering trees in the
world. Royal Poinciana deserves its
support. It may be the most colourful
flowering tree in the world as well.
Royal Poinciana
http://www.mgonlinestore.com/RoyalPoinciana/
Ruellia brittoniana:
Common Name: Mexican Petubia.
Family: Acanthaceae.
Origin: Mexico.
Description: The Mexican petunia
is a tender evergreen perennial
that forms colonies of steamy
stalks standing 0.9 m in height
and of indeterminate width. The
strong semi-woody stalks are
distinctly vertical in aspect and
hold attractive dark green,
leaves oppositely at the nodes.
The lance-shaped leaves are to
15.2-30.5 cm in length and 1.3-
1.9 cm wide.
Blooming time: summer, spring,
early fall.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
www.floridata.com
Pictures: www.centralpark2000.com
Hibiscus ( Queen of Shrubs).
Family: Maluaceae.
Origin: China, Japan, Pacific islands.
Description: This large shrub grows in frost-
free climates. The toothed leaves are
arranged alternately and vary a lot, but
tend to be large, dark green, and shiny. This
plant has a coarse texture and may be
upright or broad and spreading. It is often
many-stemmed. Flowers are glorious and
huge at their best. Most are flared and have
a bell shape and may be single or double,
smooth or scalloped. They have a long
central tube with stamens and pistils at the
tip.
Leaves: alternate, spirally arranged, simple
(8-10.5cm).
Blooming color: White, Red, Pink, purple.
Blooming period: all year round, but more in
fall & spring.
Maximum growth: 10m in the wild.
Use: - Decorative purpose. - Juice drink. -
Medinal purpose. www.wikipedia.org
http://infopedia.n/.sg/article/SIP_211_2005-
01-09.html
Yucca Aloifolia:
Common Name: Spanish bayonet, Yucca.
Family: Agavaceae.
Origin: Coastal areas from north Carolina to Mexico,
and West Indies.
Height: 2.4-6m.
Description: has an erect trunk7.6-12.7 cm in diameter.
The trunk is armed with sharp pointed strap like leaves
each about 6cm long. The young leaves near the growing
tip stand erect; older ones are reflexes downward, and
the oldest wither and turn brown, hanging around the
lower trunk like an Hawaiian skirt. Eventually the tip of
the trunk develops a 0.6 m long spike of white, purplish-
tinged flowers, each blossom about 12.7 cm across.
After flowering, the trunk stops growing, but one or
more lateral buds are soon formed, and the uppermost
becomes a new terminal shoot. Any other buds become
branches, but these are usually few, and the plant has
an open, airy habit. Yucca also produces new buds, or
offshoots, near the base of the trunk, forming a thicket.
Light requirement: Full Sun.
Water requirement: Low.
Blooming time: late spring, summer, early fall.
Blooming color: White or near White.
www.floridata.com
www.davesgarden.com
Pennisetum:
Common Name: Dwarf Fountain Glass.
(fox tail).
Family: Poaceae.
Origin: Highlands of Kenya.
Height: 1-4m.
Description: Oriental fountain grass is
an unusually low-growing and compact
fountain grass. It grows in a bank that
expands outward slowly from short
underground rhizomes. The
inflorescence, standing a foot or two
above the arching mound of leaves,
consists of a plume of pearly white or
silvery pink fluff.
Blooming color: Pinkish White, Ivory
white, Light Pink, Almost black, White,
Rose-purple, Red-Purple.
Blooming period: summer and autumn.
Sun exposure: Full sun to light shade.
Use: decorative purpose, make
contrast.http://www.daytonnursery.com/Encyclopedia/Orname
ntal_Grass/Pennisetum.htm
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Lantana Urticodes:
Common Name: Lantana.
Family: Verbenaceae.
Origin: Native to tropical
America.
Height: 1-2m.
Blooming color: Purple,
lavenders, Yellow, Orange,
Red.
Blooming time: all year round.
Sun exposure: full sun to
light shade.
Soil: General.
Water requirement: Low.
Use: Decorative purpose.
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Carissa Grandiglora:
Common Name: Natal plum.
Family: Apocynaceae.
Origin: Africa.
Branches: spiky (3cm).
Leaves: shiny, skinny leaves.
Blooming color: White (star
Shape).
Blooming time: Summer.
Use: decorative purpose &
jam Extraction.
Plant Atlas.
Duranta Erecta:
Common Name: Golden
Dewdrop, Duranta Lemon.
Family: Verbenaceae.
Origin: West Indies, and
central and south America.
Height: 45cm- 1.8m
Description: Duranta erecta
is a extensive shrub, its
leaves are light green,
elliptic to ovate and
opposite to each others.
Blooming color: light blue.
Blooming time: Blooms
regularly.
Light requirement: Full sun.
Water requirement: Regular
watering.
Uses: used as specimen
shrub or as a hedge.
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Amaranthus Hybridus:
Common Name: Amaranthus.
Family: Amaranthaceae.
Origin:
Height: 90-130cm.
Description: Amarathus is a
broad genus of about 60
species of short-lived herbs,
that breed mostly in the
temperate and tropical
regions. leaves are alternate,
ovate in shape, and slightly
notched at the tip of the leaf
blade. Hairs may occur on the
leaf margins and along veins,
especially along the lower leaf
surfaces. Stems also have
short hairs.
Blooming color: Red, Purple.
Blooming time: Mid summer.
Light requirement: Full sun.
Water requirement: Low.
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Euryops Pectinatus:
Common Name: Euryops.
Family: Asteraceae.
Height: reach 1.2m.
Description: Euryops, yellow bush
daisy, or African Yellow Daisy is a
marvelous addition to any garden that
has a well-drained, full sun
situation. This is a plant that provides
sunny, yellow daisy-like flower color
against a mat of appealing finely cut
green or grey-green foliage all
season long to some degree (it does
not flower as much in very hot
conditions, but there will still be a
few blooms). It is a tough plant that
survives all but the most extreme
warm weather conditions including
moderate drought. Sadly, this plant
is not winter hardy except in the most
temperate regions .
Blooming color: bright yellow.
Blooming Time: Blooms repeatedly.
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Bougainvillea:
Common name: Gohanemia, paper flower.
Family: Nyctaginaceae.
Origin: South America.
Height: reach 12m.
Description: The bougainvilleas are mostly
evergreen or semi-evergreen dropping their
leaves for a brief period in winter. Their woody,
thorn-armored canes soar to great heights and
then tend to flop over sprawling across
whatever is adjacent. This can look rather
sloppy so many gardeners trim their plants into
shrubs removing the overly enthusiastically
growing canes as they appear. The heart shaped
leaves are rich green and 3-5 in (7.6-12.7 cm)
long.
Blooming color: purple, yellow, red, orange,
white.
Blooming period: all year round except for a
brief period in winter.
Light: bright sunny.
Uses: - decorative fence.
- indication for Mediterranean style.
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Plumbago Auriculata:
Common Name: Plumbago, sky flower.
Family: Plumbagnaceae.
Origin: South Africa.
Height: reach 2m.
Description: Plumbago is an evergreen
shrub with whip-like semi woody stems
that form a loose, rounded mound
0.9-3 m high with a similar spread.
Plumbago can be pruned to grow like a
vine and scramble over supports, or
pruned into a more compact mounded
shrub, or left to sprawl with its long,
gracefully arching branches.
Blooming color: Pale blue.
Blooming period: flowers freely.
Light: full sun.
Soil: light sandy.
Uses: - Borders.
- Foundation plantings.
- Color massed in beds.
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Protasparagus Densiflorus:
(Ground Cover)
Common Name: Aspargus Fern.
Family: Lily family.
Origin: South Africa.
Height: reach 60cm, branch 1m.
Light: Good bright light, but not
direct light.
Uses: - As ground cover.
- Semi- shady area along
walkways, or under trees.
- In hanging boxes.
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Strelitzia Reginae:
Common Name: bird of Paradise.
Family: Streliziaceae.
Origin: South Africa.
Height: reach 1.4 m
Description: The uniquely shaped
flower of this exotic tropical
perennial resembles a bird's head,
and due to it's brilliant orange
and blue colours and unique
form, it resembles not just any
bird but a bird of paradise.
Blooming time: all year round.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium to
well.
Uses: - used like a small shrub.
- shrubs borders.
- houses and
commercial interiors.
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Pelargonium:
Common Name: Geranium.
Family: Gereniaceae.
Origin: South Africa.
Height: 30cm to 45cm.
Description: pelargonium grows
in every region of the country.
These plant have succulent
leaves and stems, the distinctive
leaves in most varieties are
circular.
Blooming time: late spring,
summer, early fall.
Blooming color: pink, red,
orange, white.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
Uses: - beds and borders.
- excellent in containers.
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Codiaeum Variegatum Gold
Dust:
Common Name: Gold Dust
Croton.
Family: Euphorbiaceae.
Origin: Australia.
Height: 2.4 m –3 m.
Description:Crotons are
known for their colourful,
glossy foliage in addition to
the many leaf variations.
They are usually classified
according to their leaves.
Light requirement: Full sun.
Water requirement: medium.
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Chrysanthemum Morifolium:
Common Name: Arola.
Family: Asteraceae.
Origin: China and Japan.
Height: 30cm-60cm.
Light requirement: Full sun.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Fall.
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Acalypha Wikesiana:
Common Name: Acalypha.
Family: Euphorbiaceae.
Origin: South Pacific.
Description:Under ideal,
frost free conditions
copperleaf grows as a
spreading evergreen shrub
with upright branches that
tend to originate near the
base. Many cultivars are
available with different
leaf forms and colors Use
fences and trees lose
leaves are grown in winter
the whole year. It is used in
mixed hedges and shrub
borders and as a specimen
shrub.
Light requirement: full sun.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: last summer
and earl fall.
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Verbena Hybrida:
Common Name: Verbena.
Family: Verbenaceae.
Origin: Brazil, Argentina.
Height: 15-30cm.
Light requirement: Full
Sun.
Water requirement:
Medium.
Blooming time: Spring and
Fall.
Blooming color: Pink,
Purple and Creamy.
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Cassia Alata:
Common Name: Christmas Senna,
Popcorn Senna, Christmas Candle.
Family: Fabaceae.
Origin: Africa, Southeast Asia,
Pacific Islands.
Height: 1.8m- 9m.
Description: Christmas candle is an
evergreen shrub or small tree in
frost free areas. It has erect waxy
yellow spikes that look like fat
candles before the individual
blossoms open. The large leaves are
two-sided, symmetrical opposed and
fold together at night.
The fruit is a pod, while the seeds
are small and square. Cassia Alata is
a fast grower and will flower in the
first year of planting.
Light requirement: Full Sun.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Summer and Fall.
Blooming colour: Bright Yellow.
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Gerbera Jamesonii:
Common Name: Gerbera.
Family: Asteraceae.
Origin: South Africa.
Height: reach 45cm.
Description: in nature these
flowers range in colors
from yellow to deep orange,
but selected varieties
extend the color palette to
include white, cream, pink,
red, violet.
Blooming time: all year
round.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
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Dodonaea Viscosa:
Common Name: Dodonea.
Family: Sapindaceae.
Origin: Australia.
Height: reach 3 m.
Description: it is an
evergreen shrub, the leaves
are simple elliptical 6-13cm
long and 2-4cm bread. The
flowers are in small
clusters of greenish white
flowers, blooms in every
spring.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: Low.
Uses: - informal hedge.
- patio tree.
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Cassia Didymobotrya:
Common Name: Pop corn
Cassia.
Family: Caesalpiniaceae.
Origin: Eastern Central
Africa.
Height: 2.4m to 3 m.
Description: it is often grown
for its yellow ornamental
flowers which appear over a
long period in warm climates,
its leaves are evergreen and
are about 10-30cm long and
its golden flower is about 2-
5cm wide, are grouped in 10-
20cm inflorescences.
Blooming time: late spring to
early fall.
Light requirement: High( full
sun).
Water requirement: medium.
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Chinese Ixora:
Common Name: Ixora.
Family: Rubiaceae.
Origin: China.
Height: 1.2-2.4m
Description: Ixora is a dense,
multi branched evergreen shrub.
Ixora has a rounded form, with a
spread that may exceed its
height. The glossy, leathery,
oblong leaves are about 10 cm
long, with entire margins, and
are carried in opposite pairs on
the stems. Small tubular,
scarlet flowers in dense
rounded clusters 5-13 cm
across are produced almost all
year long.
Light requirement: Full Sun.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Blooms
repeatedly.
Blooming colour: Pale pink and
Pink.
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Tecomaria Capensis:
Common Name: Tecomaria Capensis.
Family: Bignoniaceae.
Origin: South Africa.
Height: 2-3m.
Description: Tecomaria Capensis is
a shrub with evergreen, opposite
leaves. The diamond shaped
leaflets are toothed and about
5.1cm long, flowers are in red or
orange or yellow in color.
Blooming time: from November to
January.
light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
Uses: - can be used as climbing
vine.
- barrier hedge.
- used as ground cover on
steep slopes or rocky banks.
- forms garden arches.
- Tropical effects for
pools. www.floridata.com
Nerium Olandes:
Common Name: Dafla or
Oleander.
Family: Apocynaceae.
Origin: Northern Africa,
Eastern Mediterranean,
Southeast Asia.
Height: 2.4-3m.
Description: Nerium Oleandes is
an evergreen shrub. It is a
tough, versatile plant with
showy summertime flowers in
white, red, pink in color. Leaves
are leathery, lance shaped are
about 10.2-25.4cm long.
Blooming time: all year round.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
Uses: - Shrubs borders.
- informal hedges.
- beach plantings,
cityscapes.
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Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum:
Common Name: Oxeye Daisy,
Marguerite.
Family: Asteraceae.
Origin: Europe.
Height: 30-40cm.
Description: the flower stem
is slim, straight and may
emerge from the root crown,
leaves are broadly toothed,
alternate, smooth, gloosy,
dark green, the flower
composed of white rays
surrounded a compacted
yellow disc.
Blooming time: Spring &
Summer.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
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Ipomia:
Common Name: Rail Road
Vine.
Family: Convolvulaceae.
Origin: Coasts of U.S
Height: reach 3m.
Blooming color: various
showy colors from pink
to purple.
Blooming time: Spring,
Fall.
Light requirement: Sun to
partial Shade.
Water requirement:
medium.
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Gaillardia Pulchella:
Common Name: Blanket flower, fire
wheel, Indian blanket.
Family: Asteraceae.
Origin: North America.
Height: reach 60cm.
Description: Blanket flower is a
short lived perennial or annual
noted for its brilliant, daisy like
flowers. The large center of the
flower is rose purple and the
dense, frilly petals are yellow,
orange. Flowers appear in summer
and are (5-7.6cm) across and are
held upon (46-91cm) light green
stems.
Blooming time: summer, spring, earl
fall.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: medium.
Uses: - colorful borders, beds.
- Ground covers in
containers.
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Wedelia Trilobata:
Common Name: Wedelia.
Family: Asteraceae.
Origin: West India, Hawaii.
Height: reach 15cm.
Description: low growing
lobed leaves, blooms with
golden yellow flowers,
which are borne singly on
the end of each stem.
Blooming time: spring, Fall.
Light requirement: High
(full sun).
Water requirement: medium.
Uses: excellent ground
cover in warm climates, and
good for soil retention and
erosion control.
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Cestrum Elegance:
Common Name: Night
Elegance.
Family: Solanaceae.
Origin: Mexico.
Height: 2.4m - 3m.
Description: It has an
evergreen foliage, leaves
are evergreen, alternate,
narrow, lanceolate,
simple, with short leaf
stem.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement:
medium to High.
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Catharanthus Reseus:
Common Name: Madagascar Periwinkle,
Rose Periwinkle, Vinka.
Family: Apocynaceae.
Origin: Madagascar.
Height: 15cm-30cm.
Description: Vinka is a semi woody
evergreen lasting, usually grown as
an annual in the flower bed. It
develops a woody stem near the base
and spread out just as wide. As
annuals, they are usually smaller and
more horizontal. Vinca has opposite
glossy leaves about 5.1-7.6 cm long,
borne on fairly rigid stems.
Light requirement: Sun to partial
Shade.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Spring, Summer, Early
Fall.
Blooming color: Pink, Red, White, Rose
Pink.
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Senecio Cineraria:
Common Name: Dusty Miller, Cineraria.
Family: Asteraceae.
Origin: Western and Central of
Mediterranean region.
Height: 15cm-30cm.
Description: It is a mound forming sub
shrub that is grown in areas that
experience wet summers. The leaves are
silver-gray and woolly. They are
shallowly to deeply incised. Cineraria
produces mustard yellow flower.
Light requirement: Full Sun.
Water requirement: medium.
Blooming time: Blooms repeatedly.
Blooming color: Bright Yellow.
Uses: It is excellent for edging borders
and beds. Its silvery-gray foliage
provides a perfect contrast for brightly
coloured annuals. It is often used in
containers and window boxes. Gardeners
everywhere have created their own
original designs with Cineraria.
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Aptenia Cordifolia: (Ground Cover)
Common Name: Israel star.
Family: Aizoaceae.
Origin: South Africa.
Blooming color: red, purple
(star shape).
Blooming time: Spring.
Sun exposure: High.
Use: decorative purpose.
Comment: could be planted in
large areas, as it gives a
good green shape with less
amount of water in compare
with the grass.
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Reference: Plant Atlas.
Euphorbia Lactea Haw:
Common Name: EL-Shama’dan.
Family: Euphorbiaceae.
Origin: India.
Height: reach 5m.
Description: it is an erect
shrub, with succulent
branches 3-5 cm in diameter,
with short spines, leaves are
minute.
Light requirement: High.
Water requirement: Low.
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Agave Americana:
Common Name: Century
Plant.
Origin: Mexico.
Height: 1-2 m.
Leaves height: 120cm.
Leaves: very spiky ended
with a pointed pin.
Sun exposure: High.
Use: - Decorative purpose.
- used in rope
manufacturing.
- medical purpose.
Plant Atlas.
Gasteria Maculata:
Common Name: Thick
Tongue.
Family: Liliaceae.
Origin: South Africa.
Leaves: long triangular
in shape looks like a
tongue (15-20cm), its
width 5cm.
Use: decorative purpose.
Plant Atlas.
Echinocactus Grusoni:
Common Name: Golden Barrel
Cactus, Golden Ball.
Family: Cactaceae.
Origin: Mexico (where it is
endangered in the wild).
Height: could reach 1 meter.
Description: the sharp spines are
long, straight or slightly curved,
and various shades of yellow or
white. Small yellow flowers
appear in summer around the
crown of the plant, but only after
20 years or so.
Light requirement: High (full sun).
Water requirement: Low ( water
generously in summer).
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Grouping 1:
Grouping consists of:
1. Ficus Benjamina.
2. Thevetia. ( ever
Green).
3. Bouganvillea. (ever
Green).
4. Plumbago. (Summer,
Early Fall).
5. Verbena. (Spring,
Fall).
6. Chrysantheum
Morfolium. (Fall).
This Group considered
to be a successful as it
reflects the keyword
cheerful and that
could be seen with in a
bright Context.
Grouping 2:
Grouping Consists of:
1. Ficus Benjamina.
2. Vitex. (Spring).
3. Ruellia Brittoniana.
(spring, Summer).
4. Chrysanthemum
Leucathemum.
5. Cassia Alata. (Summer,
Fall).
6. Osteospermum (African
Daisy).
This Group considered to
be a successful group as
there is harmony between
the group members either
by coloring or by the
leaves and flowers shape.
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Grouping 3:
Group consists of:
1. Roystonea Regia.
2. Cycas revoluta.
This couple of palms is
indicating and reflecting
the keyword Luxury and
richness due to the
formality of each palm
and the good impact that
is reflected on the viewer
and in order to increase
the richness many of
these palms are used
together.
Grouping 4:
Group consists of:
1. Ficus Benjamina.
2. Ficus Hawaii.
3. Pelargonium Zonala.
(Spring, Summer,
Fall).
4. Ipomia. (Spring, Fall).
5. Verbena. (Spring,
Fall).
6. Ixora. (Repeatedly).
This group considered
to be successful due to
the harmony between its
partners either by
color, or by flowers
and leaves shape.
Grouping 5:
Group consists of:
1. Thevetia Puruviana.
2. Tecomaria.
3. Plumbago
Nudiflora.
This group of
shrubs consider to be
a good group due to
the harmony between
its components in the
blooming colors.
Grouping 6:
Grouping consists of:
1. Ficus Benjamina.
2. Ficus Hawaii.
3. Acalypha.
4. Duranta Erecta.
This group considered
as a successful group
due to the harmony
between its members
either by the colors or
by the leaves shape.
The plants also
arranged in a good
manner as a strip
design.
Bazalt:
Usage: Floors and
Walls.
Colors: Red, Black,
Brown, Gray.
Pros: don’t effected
by friction, have high
solidarity, could be
used in forming good
patterns, not very
expensive.
Cons: fading by time
when exposure to the
sun, the size of the
blocks are limited.
Marble:
Usage: Floors and
walls.
Color: Many colors.
Pros: not effected by
friction, available be
many types and prices,
sized according to
orders .
Cons: its color fad
when used directly to
the sun, Need from
time to time to be
polished.
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Granite:
Usage: Floors and
walls.
Color: Many colors.
pros: not effected by
friction, available be
many types and
prices, sized
according to orders .
Concrete Flooring:
Usage: Floors.
Pros: Not affected
by friction, not very
expensive, available in
many colors.
Cons: Fine-color does
not prove the
concrete, its color
fade when exposed to
sun for long time.
Hashma Breaks:
Usage: Floors and
Walls.
Colors: Yellow,
Bright Yellow.
Advantageous:
available by many
types, prices, sizes,
could be reshaped,
high solidarity.
Disadvantageous:
affected by water.
Interlock:
Usage: Floors.
Colors: red, Green,
Yellow, Gray.
Pros: inexpensive,
high resistance and
solidarity.
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