Lantana camara (Common Lantana) – Description & Uses
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The Common Lantana or Spanish Flag has excellent and long-lasting flowering, as well as inflorescences that show a variety of colors (yellow, yellow-orange, orange, bright red) at the same time, which attract not only the eye of the observer but also the butterflies - as they are a source of food for them.>>
August 22, 2022
Firecracker Plant (Russelia equisetiformis) – Description & Uses
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It may have gone out of fashion, but it's not going out of style: Firecracker Plant or Fountainbush remains an attractive shrub with "unsubmissive" form and flowering - at its peak - almost cataclysmic. However, apart from the ornamental value of the plant, its medicinal and environmental contribution are also of great interest.>>
May 14, 2022
Platycodon grandiflorus (Balloon Flower) – Description & Uses
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Platycodon grandiflorus (Balloon Flower), the only representative of its genus, is an excellent herbaceous plant, with great ornamental and other practical -therapeutic and edible- properties, whose dominant decorative element is the large blue flowers, both in the phase of formation and in phase of full bloom.>>
April 27, 2022
New Zealand Hebe (Hebe speciosa) – Description and Uses
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The New Zealand Hebe (Hebe speciosa) is a wonderful garden and landscape plant, with excellent aesthetic and functional characteristics - among others -, which almost obliges the always tireless editorial team of "Kalliergeia" to dedicate the following article to this ornamental and its utilization.>>
April 1, 2022
Ethnobotany – Psychotropic Use of Brugmansia Plants
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The plants who belongs in the small genus Brugmansia are of particular ethnobotanical interest for their remarkable psychotropic or entheogenic properties. The following article provides comprehensive all relevant information referring to the traditional psychoactive utilization and use of these plants.>>
February 25, 2022
Blue Potato Bush (Lycianthes rantonnetii), Description-Care-Uses
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Without being very widespread, the Blue Potato Bush (Lycianthes rantonnetii) is an extremely remarkable ornamental plant, whose dominant decorative element is its relatively unusual shade and slightly fragrant blue-violet flowers, which appear in great abundance during the long flowering period of the plant.>>
February 1, 2022
