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Baheda or Terminalia bellirica, also known as Bibhitaki, is the second of the Myrobylans triad or triphala of ayurveda fame. Bibhitaki or Baheda is a large deciduous tree found throughout India reaches height up to 30 meters.

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Native to South America, Pink Snakeweed is a perennial herb or nearly a shrub 1-2 m tall. Stems are stout, branched, densely velvet-hairy or bristly throughout.

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Buddha Coconut is a tall tree, which gets is name from its coconut like fruit. Leaves are carried on 3-10 cm long stalks, crowded towards the ends of branches.

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Java Olive is a tall, straight tree. Originally from East Africa and North Australia, it grows freely down the West of the Peninsular, in Burma Ceylon and South India. The grey bark is smooth, spotted with brown and faintly ridged.

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Climbing Oleander is an evergreen, clambering vine or rambling shrub, to 25 feet or more from West Africa. It has shiny leathery olive green, oblong to elliptical leaves, up to 6 inches long.

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Beautiful blooming trees, the Tabebuias are small, 15 to 25-foot tall, evergreen trees with silvery foliage and deeply furrowed, silvery bark on picturesque, contorted branches and trunk.

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Hispaniolan Rosy Trumpet Tree is yet another Tabebuia from latin America. It comes from the island of Hispaniola near Cuba. It is a small tree with obovate leaflets 5-12 cm long. Leaflets are hairless, thick and pointed.

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Callistemon rigidus or Stiff Bottlebrush is an Australian native shrub that can get 3-8′ tall with a 6-10′ spread at maturity.

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Calophyllum inophyllum also known as Sultan Champa is a beautiful large evergreen tree native to southern coastal India, East Africa, Malaysia and Australia. It is a low-branching and slow-growing tree with a broad and irregular crown.

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Red cassia is a graceful tree with spreading, drooping branches appearing to be overweighted by its wealth of clustering orange-red blossoms.

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Red cassia is a graceful tree with spreading, drooping branches appearing to be overweighted by its wealth of clustering orange-red blossoms.

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A lesser known cousin of the more famous night blooming jasmine (cestrum nocturnum) Cestrum diurnum's clusters of tubular white flowers have a modest sweet fragrance, a chocolate scent - nothing like the intoxicating aroma of C.

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Sea Mango is a small evergreen coastal tree growing up 12 m tall. The shiny dark-green leaves are alternate, ovoid in shape.

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Erythrina umbrosa or Shady Coral Tree is a medium size tree from South America, where it is a favorite tree for providing shade to coffee and cocoa plantation. It has large trifoliate leaves.

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Epipremnum aureum commonly called golden pothos or devil’s ivy is native to the Solomon Islands. It is a climbing vine that produces abundant yellow-marbled foliage.

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Large, handsome and spreading, the Rain Tree is easily recognized by its umbrella-like canopy of evergreen, feathery foliage, and puffs of pink flowers.

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Duabanga is a tall deciduous fast growing tree, indigenous to the Eastern Himalayas. So it is found in the North Eastern states of India.

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Elephant face formed on Ficus benjamina's branch. One can see the curve of elephant's head, dots formed as eyes and a branch is forming its long trunk.

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Magnolia liliifera, commonly known as egg magnolia, is a flowering tree native to the Indomalaya ecozone. It bears white to cream-colored flowers on terminal stems.

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A rare tropical ornamental bush or small tree with exotic cut palmate compound variegated leaves that have a leathery surface. Makes a great indoor plant for sun to deep shade. It requires a minimum temperature of 40 degrees.

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This is a curious member of the Sunflower family. It is a creeper which finds it difficult to climb without support. So, the slender stems climb up and then fall down beautifully over a wall or railing.

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Texas Olive is an evergreen tree, growing to 20 ft tall, native to North America. The tree spread to 10-15 ft. This small tree is very rarely found and believed to be close to extinction.

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The tamarind, a slow-growing, long-lived, massive tree reaches, under favourable conditions, a height of 80 or even 100 ft (24-30 m), and may attain a spread of 40 ft (12 m) and a trunk circumference of 25 ft (7.5 m).