The spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) is a beautiful and popular indoor plant. It’s a hanging plant with long, slender green leaves streaked with white, creating a striking appearance. It helps purify the air, making it known as “nature’s air purifier.” The spider plant is easy to care for and thrives in low light and low […]
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The Malva plant is a beautiful flowering plant, commonly found in gardens and wild areas. It typically grows 1 to 2 meters tall and has rounded or lobed leaves, green and soft. Its large flowers can be pink, purple, white, or blue, making it a striking sight. It is easy to care for and grows
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The cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao) is a small evergreen tree, whose height is about 6 to 12 meters. This plant is mainly found in tropical regions. Its leaves are long, wide, and shiny. Small pink or white flowers bloom directly on the trunk and thick branches of the cocoa tree, which produce large yellow or
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Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti) is an annual plant, commonly known for its hemp-like fiber. The plant grows up to 2 m tall, and its stems and leaves are covered with soft hairs, giving them a velvety feel to the touch. Velvetleaf leaves are large, heart-shaped, and have long stalks. Its flowers are yellow and small, blooming
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Alkekengi officinarum or Chinese Lantern (Physalis alkekengi), is a beautiful and unique perennial plant. Its most distinctive feature is its red-orange fruits, which look like paper lanterns. The plant is about 40 to 60 cm tall and has green, broad leaves. The flowers of the Chinese Lantern are white, and the fruits are edible, small,
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Musk mallow (Abelmoschus moschatus) is also known as Kasturi Bhindi or Musk Malwa in Hindi. This plant is approximately 1 to 2 meters tall, and its leaves are palm-like, with cut edges. The flowers of Musk mallow are large, yellow in color, and dark in the middle, which look very beautiful. Its seeds have a
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Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) is called Kenaf or Deccan Bhang in Hindi. This plant is tall and green in appearance, and its leaves are dark green, claw-like. Kenaf has bright yellow or pink flowers, which look beautiful. Strong fiber is obtained from its stem, which is used to make rope, paper, and sacks. The kenaf plant
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Gulkhair, also known as Hollyhock or scientifically known as Alcea rosea, is a beautiful flowering plant. This plant grows tall and has large colourful flowers like pink, red, yellow, white, and purple. Gulkhair is planted in gardens and in front of houses for decoration. Its flowers are not only attractive but also attract bees and
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Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus), also known as lady’s finger or bhindi, is a plant of the Malvaceae family that blooms and flowers in warm weather. Bhindi is a tall, erect herbaceous plant with lobed leaves and large, attractive yellow flowers with a darker center. Its sticky pulp is useful as a natural thickener in soups and
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Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is a soft, fluffy natural fiber obtained from the seeds of the cotton plant. It grows on the seed pods of the cotton plant. It is a member of the Malvaceae family. Cotton is native to tropical and subtropical regions and is one of the world’s most important fiber crops. It is
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