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Wineberry
Rubus phoenicolasius
Rubus phoenicolasius, known as the Wineberry, is a vigorous perennial shrub in the rose family. It is native to East Asia and is easily identified by its stems, which are densely covered in reddish-purple glandular hairs. The plant produces small white flowers that develop into bright red, shiny, edible berries. The fruit is encased in a protective hairy calyx until it is fully ripe. It is highly valued for its sweet-tart flavor but is considered an invasive species in many parts of North America due to its rapid growth and ability to form dense thickets.
Sugarcane
Saccharum officinarum
Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) is a large, perennial grass native to Southeast Asia and New Guinea, cultivated for millennia for its succulent stalks rich in sucrose. It forms vigorous clumps with erect, jointed, and fibrous stalks that can exceed 13 to 20 feet (4 to 6 meters) in height, covered by long, narrow, and sharp-edged leaves. It is the world's primary source of sugar and one of the most important agricultural crops on the planet, also used in the production of ethanol, rum, molasses, and unrefined cane sugar. It blooms only when days shorten, producing a silvery, feathery inflorescence known as an "arrow."
Sweet Plum
Sageretia theezans
The Chinese Sweet Plum (Sageretia theezans) is an evergreen shrub from the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae), native to southern China. It is one of the most popular indoor bonsai species, combining fine, glossy foliage, attractive scaly, multicolored bark, and reddish new growth at the shoot tips. In late summer, inconspicuous creamy-white flower panicles appear, followed by small, edible blue-black drupes. In its native habitat, it grows 1 to 3 meters tall, but as a bonsai, it remains significantly smaller through regular pruning.
African Violet
Saintpaulia ionantha
The African Violet is a beloved compact houseplant native to the cloud forests of Tanzania and Kenya. Discovered in 1892 by Baron Walter von Saint Paul, it features velvety, dark green leaves and delicate flowers that bloom in shades of purple, blue, pink, white, and red. With proper care, these charming plants can live up to 50 years and bloom nearly year-round.
Glasswort
Salicornia
Glasswort (Salicornia) is a genus of annual, succulent-stemmed plants in the Amaranthaceae family, adapted to saltwater habitats. Its jointed, leafless, succulent shoots are green, often turning red or orange in the fall. It grows in coastal salt marshes, saline soils, and on the shores of salt lakes, where almost no other plants can survive. Its young shoots are also known as "sea asparagus" or "sea beans" and are a sought-after vegetable worldwide for their crunchy, salty flavor.
Pussy Willow
Salix discolor
Salix discolor, commonly known as Pussy Willow, is a fast-growing deciduous shrub or small tree native to North America. Celebrated for its silky, pearl-gray catkins that emerge in late winter before the leaves, it is one of the first plants to signal the arrival of spring. It thrives in moist to wet soils and is ideal for rain gardens, stream banks, and wildlife habitats.
Dappled Willow
Salix integra
Salix integra is a deciduous shrub in the willow family (Salicaceae), grown mainly for its ornamental foliage rather than its inconspicuous yellow catkins. The widely planted cultivar 'Hakuro-nishiki' (dappled willow) produces slender, lance-shaped leaves splashed with pink, cream and green when they emerge, maturing to green by summer and turning gold in fall. It is fast-growing, cold-hardy, and adaptable to a range of soils, including damp or heavier ground where many other ornamentals struggle.
Dappled Willow 'Hakuro Nishiki'
Salix integra 'Hakuro Nishiki'
The Dappled Willow 'Hakuro Nishiki' (Salix integra) is an ornamental deciduous shrub from the Salicaceae family, renowned for its striking variegated foliage in shades of pink, white, and green. These colors are most vibrant on new growth during spring and early summer. In spring, it produces small, inconspicuous yellow-green catkins. It is a fast-growing plant, often pruned into a low shrub or grafted onto a trunk to create a 'standard' or 'lollipop' form. It is popular in gardens as a specimen plant or in mixed borders, particularly near water features, as it thrives in moist conditions.
Pale Pitcher Plant
Sarracenia alata
Perennial carnivorous plant native to southeastern North America, characterized by tall, slender, tube-shaped traps (pitchers) in pale yellow to white. Thrives in saturated, nutrient-poor soils in longleaf pine savannas, capturing insects to supplement nutrients.
Purple Pitcher Plant
Sarracenia purpurea
Sarracenia purpurea, the purple pitcher plant, is a carnivorous perennial native to bogs and nutrient-poor wetlands across eastern North America. Its rosette of hollow, water-filled pitcher leaves traps and digests insects to supplement the poor soil it grows in. Pitchers range from green to deep red-purple, and the plant produces a single nodding red-purple flower each spring.
Kanna
Sceletium tortuosum
Kanna (Sceletium tortuosum) is a creeping, succulent plant with fleshy leaves native to the semi-desert, quartz-rich regions of South Africa. Its name (derived from the Greek 'skeletos', meaning skeleton) comes from the skeleton-like, veined patterns formed by dried leaves remaining on the stem. Its small, white, pale yellow, or pink flowers, measuring 20-30 mm in diameter, bloom in spring. Kanna is known in the centuries-old traditions of the Khoisan and San peoples as a mood-enhancing, calming plant, traditionally consumed by chewing or fermenting ('kougoed').
False Aralia
Schefflera elegantissima
False aralia (Schefflera elegantissima, syn. Dizygotheca elegantissima and Plerandra elegantissima) is a striking evergreen shrub from the Araliaceae family, native to New Caledonia in the South Pacific. It is prized as a houseplant for its dramatic, deeply serrated, coppery-bronze juvenile leaves that mature to a dark, glossy green with a leathery texture. Young plants have narrow, almost lacy leaflets arranged in a whorled, umbrella-like pattern, while mature specimens develop thicker leaflets and a woody, tree-like trunk that can reach 1.8-2.5 m indoors. False aralia has a reputation for being a bit temperamental compared to other Schefflera relatives, reacting quickly to drafts, sudden temperature swings, and inconsistent watering with leaf drop, so it rewards a stable spot and a steady care routine.
Japanese umbrella pine
Sciadopitys verticillata
The Japanese umbrella pine (Sciadopitys verticillata) is the only living species in the Sciadopityaceae family—a true "living fossil," as its closest relatives are known only from fossil records. Endemic to Japan, it is native to the mountain forests of Shikoku, Kyushu, and the Kii Peninsula, typically growing at altitudes of 700–1400 meters on rocky slopes and in river gorges. Its most distinctive feature is the umbrella-like whorls of flattened, 4–14 cm long needle-like structures (cladodes) at the tips of the shoots, from which its common name is derived. It is an extremely slow-growing evergreen tree: in its homeland, centuries-old specimens can reach 30–40 meters in height, while in garden cultivation, it may only reach a few meters even after several decades.
Black Salsify
Scorzonera
Scorzonera is a perennial root vegetable in the Asteraceae family, native to southern Europe and Central Asia. It produces long taproots with distinctive black skin and white flesh, prized for their delicate oyster-like flavor. In the second year, plants bear bright yellow dandelion-like flowers that are also edible.
Chayote
Sechium edule
The chayote (Sechium edule) is a vigorous herbaceous climbing vine in the Cucurbitaceae family, native to Central America, whose vines can exceed 32 to 49 feet (10 to 15 meters) in length when well-supported by trellises, fences, or arbors. It produces light green fruits with smooth or prickly skin, heart-shaped leaves, and small greenish-white flowers. It is a fast-growing, highly productive plant that blooms between summer and fall and bears fruit just a few months after planting. All parts of the plant are edible—fruit, shoots, leaves, seeds, and even the tuberous root—making it both a versatile vegetable and an ornamental plant for pergolas and walls.
Spikemoss
Selaginella
Selaginella is a diverse genus of over 700 species of primitive vascular plants in the family Selaginellaceae, commonly known as spikemosses or little club mosses. Though not true mosses, they resemble them with their delicate, scale-like foliage and low, spreading growth habit. Found worldwide — predominantly in humid tropical and subtropical environments — they are prized as ornamental plants for terrariums, shaded gardens, and ground covers. Certain species, notably Selaginella lepidophylla (the resurrection plant), can survive near-complete desiccation and rehydrate fully when watered.
Krauss's Spikemoss
Selaginella kraussiana
Selaginella kraussiana, commonly known as Krauss's Spikemoss or African Clubmoss, is a primitive vascular plant that resembles a delicate moss. Native to Africa, it forms a dense, creeping mat of vibrant green, branching foliage. It is a popular choice for terrariums, indoor gardens, and as a groundcover in shady, damp areas where other plants might struggle to thrive.
Martens' Spikemoss
Selaginella martensii
Selaginella martensii, known as Martens' Spikemoss, is a stunning lycophyte native to Mexico and Central America. Despite its fern-like appearance, it belongs to an ancient lineage of vascular plants — neither a true moss nor a fern, but a fern-ally or lycophyte. Its feathery, overlapping scale-like leaves create a lush, emerald carpet, with some varieties displaying striking white-tipped variegation. It thrives in high-humidity environments, making it a favorite for terrariums, paludariums, and moisture-rich indoor spaces.
Night-Blooming Cereus
Selenicereus grandiflorus
Selenicereus grandiflorus is a climbing, epiphytic cactus native to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, prized for its enormous, intensely fragrant white flowers that bloom for only one night each year. Its long, sprawling, ribbed stems climb trees and rocks using aerial roots, and by dusk on a single summer evening the plant unfurls a spectacular blossom up to 30 cm wide before it withers by morning.
Moonlight Cactus
Selenicereus validus
The Moonlight Cactus (Selenicereus validus) is an epiphytic cactus native to Mexico and Central America, celebrated for its long, pendant cylindrical stems and spectacular nocturnal white and yellow flowers. It belongs to the family Cactaceae and thrives in tropical and subtropical forests, climbing trees and rocky outcrops.
Giant Sequoia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is an evergreen conifer native to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in California. It is renowned as one of the largest and longest-lived trees on Earth, with bluish-green scale-like foliage and thick, fire-resistant reddish bark.
Sinningia
Sinningia
Sinningia is a genus of tuberous flowering plants native to Brazil, belonging to the family Gesneriaceae. Known for their stunning bell-shaped flowers in shades of purple, pink, red, and white, they are prized as ornamental houseplants worldwide. The most famous species, S. speciosa, is commonly called Florist's Gloxinia. Plants are deciduous, entering dormancy in winter and re-emerging each spring from their tubers.
Florist's Gloxinia
Sinningia speciosa
Sinningia speciosa, commonly known as Florist's Gloxinia or Brazilian Gloxinia, is a tuberous perennial native to the rocky slopes and forests of Brazil, in the family Gesneriaceae. It is celebrated for its large, velvety, trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of purple, violet, red, white, and pink. It blooms in spring and summer, then enters a dormancy period before returning the following season.
Cat Greenbrier
Smilax glauca
Smilax glauca, commonly known as Cat Greenbrier or Sawbrier, is a thorny deciduous climbing vine native to the woodlands and thickets of Eastern North America. It is recognized by its ovate to cordate leaves with a distinctive bluish-white waxy bloom on the undersides, giving the species its name "glauca". The stems are armed with sharp prickles. It produces small greenish-yellow flowers in spring to early summer, followed by clusters of dark blue-black berries that are an important wildlife food source.
Beautiful Sobralia
Sobralia decora
Sobralia decora is a medium-sized terrestrial or epiphytic orchid with bamboo-like reed-stem canes reaching up to 75 cm tall. Native to parts of Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua) and Mexico (Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz), it grows on damp hillsides and shaded ravines in lower-elevation rainforests, between 50 and 1700 meters. It produces large, fragrant flowers ranging from pink to lavender, often with a white-tipped lip and a yellow-to-brown throat. Each flower lasts only a single day, but the plant blooms in succession for weeks.
Golden Torch Cactus
Soehrensia spachiana
Soehrensia spachiana, formerly known as Echinopsis spachiana, is a columnar cactus that branches from the base and can reach up to 2 meters in height. It is famous for its spectacular, large white flowers that bloom at night. Its stems are lime green with well-defined ribs and golden-yellow spines that turn gray with age. It is a highly valued species in xeriscaping due to its hardiness and shrubby growth habit.
Philippine Ground Orchid
Spathoglottis plicata
Spathoglottis plicata, commonly known as the Philippine Ground Orchid, is a stunning terrestrial orchid native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands. Unlike most orchids that grow on trees, this species thrives in the ground, forming lush clumps of pleated, strap-like leaves topped by tall flowering spikes bearing up to 40 vibrant pink to purple blooms. It is one of the most accessible and rewarding orchids for tropical and subtropical gardens.
Clawed Ground Orchid
Spathoglottis unguiculata
Spathoglottis unguiculata, commonly known as the Clawed Ground Orchid, is a terrestrial orchid native to Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. Unlike most orchids that grow on trees, this species thrives in the ground, producing elegant flowers in shades of yellow and purple. Its distinctive claw-like lip gives it its name and makes it stand out among ornamental orchids.
cannonball fungus
Sphaerobolus stellatus
Sphaerobolus stellatus, commonly known as the cannonball fungus or artillery fungus, is a unique species of fungus known for its explosive spore dispersal mechanism. It produces tiny, star-shaped fruiting bodies that contain a single dark spore mass (peridiole). When internal pressure builds up, the fungus forcibly ejects the peridiole toward light sources, often sticking to surfaces like house siding or cars.
Starfish Flower
Stapelia hirsuta
Stapelia hirsuta is a striking South African succulent known for its velvety, four-angled stems and extraordinary star-shaped flowers that can reach up to 15 cm across. The flowers range from dark red to purple-brown and are covered in fine hairs, producing a foul odor to attract fly pollinators — a fascinating evolutionary adaptation. Native to the Cape Province of South Africa, it thrives in rocky, arid conditions and makes a rewarding houseplant for succulent enthusiasts.
Mexican Organ Pipe Cactus
Stenocereus griseus
Stenocereus griseus, commonly known as the Mexican Organ Pipe Cactus or Dagger Cactus, is a tall columnar cactus native to Mexico and the Caribbean. It can grow up to 9 meters tall, producing white nocturnal flowers pollinated by bats and edible red fruits prized across the Caribbean. Extremely drought-tolerant, it thrives in arid landscapes and desert gardens.
Stevia
Stevia rebaudiana
Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) is a perennial subtropical herb from the Asteraceae family, native to Paraguay and Brazil. It grows to a height of approximately 60 cm, has small ovate to elliptical leaves with a finely serrated edge, and in summer produces small white tubular flowers in racemose inflorescences. The leaves contain steviol glycosides – a natural sweetener up to 300 times sweeter than sugar, which is why the plant is cultivated worldwide as a sugar alternative.
Cape Primrose
Streptocarpus
Streptocarpus, also known as Cape Primrose, is a genus of ornamental plants native to South Africa, belonging to the Gesneriaceae family. Highly valued as an indoor plant, it produces vibrant tubular flowers in shades of purple, lilac, white, pink, red, and blue for much of the year. Its long, velvety, and slightly wrinkled leaves form an elegant rosette. It is an easy-to-grow and very rewarding plant for those seeking prolonged flowering in indoor environments.
Cape Primrose
Streptocarpus rexii
Streptocarpus rexii, commonly known as Cape Primrose, is a stunning stemless herb native to the rocky coastal forests and stream banks of South Africa. It produces rosettes of long, strap-shaped leaves and bears delicate trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of white, blue, lilac, and violet from spring through autumn. It thrives as a houseplant in bright indirect light.
African violet
Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia
African violet (Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia, formerly genus Saintpaulia) is a compact, rosette-forming perennial from the Gesneriaceae family, native to the Eastern Arc Mountains and coastal forests of Tanzania and Kenya. Prized for its fuzzy, deep-green leaves and near-continuous clusters of purple, pink, blue, or white flowers, it is one of the most popular flowering houseplants worldwide.
Persian shield
Strobilanthes dyeriana
Strobilanthes dyeriana, commonly known as Persian Shield, is a stunning tropical evergreen subshrub native to Myanmar. It is highly prized for its lance-shaped leaves that feature a brilliant iridescent purple sheen with silver highlights and dark green veins. The underside of the foliage is a deep maroon. While it can produce small violet flowers in winter, it is primarily grown for its spectacular foliage which adds a dramatic touch to any plant collection.
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