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Native to both China and Japan and known as the Japanese Pittosporum, this shrub can grow to 20 feet. The fragrant flowers are white when they open and age to pale yellow.
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Pittosporum tobira
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Pittosporum tobira
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A close-up of a cluster of the creamy yellow star-like flowers. A member of the Pittosporaceae family See also the black Pittosporum--P. tenuifolium 'Irene Patterson' at Wave Hill on March 20.
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Native to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, this member of the Bromeliaceae family has weeping flower stalks with pink bracts and amazing flowers.
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Billbergia nutans
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Billbergia nutans
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Known as Queen's Tears, the genus is named after J. G. Billberg, a Swedish botanist, and the flowers on this species are amazing. Seeing is believing!
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Leaves variegated with silver and tall stalks with moth-like flowers on a Saxifraga in the Conservatory.
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Saxifraga stolonifera
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Saxifraga stolonifera
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Certainly not a rare Sax, but look at the details of the amazing flowers--two long white petals point down and three short white petals with three or four pink spots on each point up.
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A perennial member of the Scrophulariaceae family native to central China. Stalks of pink flowers spotted in the throat, grow to three feet high. Named after Joseph Rehmann, a Russian physician.
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Rehmannia angulata
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Salvia coccinea 'Cherry Blossom'
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A striking Salvia cultivar with pale salmon colored flowers. The species is native to Central and South America.
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A member of the Liliaceae family native to California and also known as Brodiaea ida-maia. The green tips of the Fuchsia-colored buds reflex back revealing the white centers of the flowers
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Dichelostemma ida-maia
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Anisodontea julii
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A member of the Malvaceae family, all of the approximately 20 species are native to the southern part of Africa.
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Crinkly pink petals each with a dark blotch at the base and a golden center blooming on a fairly drought tolerant shrub. A member to the Cistaceae family, C. x purpureus is a hybrid of C. creticus and C. ladanifer and has been around since 1790--wow!
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Cistus x purpureus 'Betty Taudevin'
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Sollya heterophylla
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A member of the Pittosporaceae family-- the second member of that family on this page--this delicate twiggy shrub, native to Western Australia, has small dangling blue bell-like flowers and is easy to overlook, but well worth looking for.
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Moving on to the Alpine House, a large hemispherical mossy cushion covered with white flowers.
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Saxifraga cebennensis
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Saxifraga cebennensis
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A close-up of the white flowers with yellow stamens and centers.
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