Match Stick Plant

Aechmea are known for beautiful foliage, long lasting color and vivid berry-like fruit.

Aechmea gamosepala (Bromeliaceae -Pineapple family)

 

 

 

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Globe Amaranth  (Gomphrena globosa) Family: Amaranthaceae

Butterfly Ginger Lily

Butterfly ginger lily

(Hedychium coronarium)

Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)Butterfly ginger lily is beautiful and fragrant flower native to East India

Skyblue Clustervine

Jacquemontia pentantha (Jacq.) G. Don Convolvulaceae (Morning glory family)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oleander the flowers grow in cluster at the end of each branch (white, pink and yellow colors are avialable)

Oleander  (Nerium oleander)   

Purple Passion Flower

Purple Passion Flower   (Passiflora incarnata) Its a fast growing climber and an ornamental plant.  

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வெள்ளையிலை Mussaenda  (Mussaenda erythrophylla)   

Mussaenda is an evergreen shrub related to coffee trees and native to Asia. Manily grown as an ornamental plant.

Scotch Broom

English broom , Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius). A common plant along the road side of Kothagiri to Ooty.

Fruit

White Alder

 White Alder (Turnera subulata)



Very good ornamental plant (Picture taken at the SUNGAM  Road, Coimbatore).



Banana Passion Flower

Passiflora tripartita

 Beautiful pendulous red-pink flowers are borne at the ends of a long stalk. Corona is a purple band. Flowers may attract hummingbirds. Ref  :http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Banana%20Passion%20Flower.html

Santa Barbara daisy

Erigeron karvinskianus

Very common along the road side
(Kotagiri to ooty).

Basket Flower

Basket Flower (Hymenocallis narcissiflora) habitat

Flower

 Hymenocallis species contain various alkaloids. It is not recommended that plant parts be eaten or even touched by allergic individuals (J. A. Bauml 1979). Ref:
http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/H/Hymenocallis_narcissiflora/

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Mexican oleander (Thevetia peruviana)    

Mexican oleander is a small tree and very good ornamental plant.

Mexican oleander is native to tropical America and now naturalized in many other countires including India.

Ornamental plant

Portulaca umbraticola, very good ornamental plant.

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 In India Oleander are the most favoured plants for the road dividers, where a plant can withstand against heat, dust, and little water.

Nerium oleander   

Begonia

Common ornamental plant Begonia sp.

Chinese hat plant



Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant  (Holmskioldia sanguinea)   



Close up view of Flowers

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White Gulmohar   (Delonix elata)   is native to India widely planted as avenue tree. Flowers throughout the year. The other species which are commonly seen along the road side is Gulmohar (Delonix regia) with red flowers. 

Indian Shot

Indian Shot (Canna indica)   

This lovely wildflower is common along roadsides and open fields throughout the India, especially near cultivated garden.

One of the most commonly used beads in natural seed jewelry comes from a beautiful wildflower of the Caribbean region and tropical America.
Ref: http://www.flowersofindia.in/catalog/slides/Indian%20Shot.html