Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

 An introduce small tree native to Central America . Introduced in to Sri Lanka in the late 18th Centaury. Cultivated for its seeds which u...

 An introduced shrub or tree native to West Indies . Introduced in 1814 and cultivated occasionally in home gardens as an ornamental plant.

 An introduced liana native to Southern China, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan and Myanmar .  Cultivated in home gardens. 

  An introduced annual herb with origin uncertain (Probably  Africa  or  India ). Widely cultivated and also naturalized along roadsides, wa...

An introduced decumbent or erect herb grows on open, frequently wet places such as margins of paddy fields. Native to tropical and sub tropi...

 An introduced tree native to tropical Asia. Cultivated in home gardens, along roads and also as fence posts and boundary trees for demarcat...

 An introduced liana native to South America . Cultivated for fermented pods which contains vanilla of commerce. The flowers need to be poll...

 An ornamental unarmed climber native to Brazil . Widely cultivated and perhaps occasionally naturalized.

An introduced small tree or shrub cultivated in the hill country. Native to the American tropics.  

  Large prickly herb native to West Africa . Cultivated as an ornamental plant and also possibly escaped and naturalized in the hill country...

 An introduced small shrub native to the Philippines, Borneo,  Java and the Lesser Sunda islands . Cultivated in home gardens

  Native tree of  South America,  introduced to Sri Lanka in 1876   by the British colonial rulers. Since then widely cultivated in plantati...

The root ginger of commerce which is widely used as a spice or as a medicine in traditional medicine. Country of origin unknown. Cultivated ...

An introduced scandent or climbing shrub native to  montane cloud forest of coastal Brazil . Cultivated as an ornamental. Also escaped and n...

 An introduced herb or subshrub native to Mexico and South America . Cultivated in home gardens and occasionally escaped and naturalized. 

  An introduced  trailing or climbing tall annual herb widely cultivated in all climatic zones.  The wild ancestor of this species is native...

 An introduced ornamental shrub native to South America. Cultivated in home gardens. 

  An introduced sub-erect or twining herb with uncertain origin . Cultivated since long. Naturalized in the moister areas than Vigna radiata...

  An introduced shrub with country of origin unknown. Also found in tropical East Africa . Widely cultivated as a hedge plant in the upper m...

 An introduced shrub native to China , Philippines and Malaysia . Often planted along tea plantations and near houses in the hill country.