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Showing posts with label Native Flora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native Flora. Show all posts
Saturday, August 10, 2024
කොර කහ/Blue-Mist(Memecylon umbellatum)
An indigenous large shrub or small tree common mainly in the dry zone forests and scrublands. Leaves yields a yellow dye.
Monday, August 5, 2024
එනසාල්/රට එනසාල්/කරඳමුංගු (Elettaria cardamomum)
An indigenous large herb widely cultivated. Wild specimens rare. The seeds provide the cardamom of commerce.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
ලාවුළු (Donella lanceolata [Syn: Chrysophyllum roxburghii])
An indigenous common tree of primary and secondary wet evergreen forests from 30 to 900 m elevations, often by river banks.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Stellaria pauciflora
An indigenous annual herb rare in shaded, moist places in lower montane zone from 915 to 1220 m elevations. Flowering in April.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Clinopodium umbrosum
An indigenous herb fairly common in wet patanas, along borders of marshy lands and slopes of tea plantations close to water courses of the wet up country from 2000 to 3600 m elevations. Flowering all the year round.
Flower Size: 0.4 - 0.6 cm across
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Peperomia tetraphylla
An indigenous perennial herb locally common on mossy rocks and trees in montane forests above 1000 m altitudes.
Monday, January 15, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Monday, October 23, 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023
Ceylon Spider Lilly/වල් ලූනු (Pancratium zeylanicum)
An indigenous herb rather common in lowlands. Often cultivated. Flowering more or less throughout the year.
Friday, September 1, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
බට දඹ/දිය දඹ/කොබෝ මල් (Syzygium nervosum [Syn: Cleistocalyx operculatus, Syzygium operculatum])
An indigenous tree locally common, especially in ravines and along river banks of wet and intermediate zone forests up to 800 (-1300) m elevations.
Monday, August 28, 2023
බල (Nothopegia beddomei)
An indigenous small to medium-sized tree of wet lowlands to hill country forests. Rather common in the intermediate zone and occurs also in the Ritigala hill. Flowering from March to July.
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Fox-tail Orchid/Batticaloa Orchid (Rhynchostylis retusa)
An indigenous epiphyte rather rare usually on trees by streams in grasslands in Uva and Eastern provinces.
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Sunday, June 11, 2023
ඉඳි (Phoenix pusilla)
An indigenous small palm widespread in the wet and dry lowlands up to 500 m elevations. Flowering in May and June.
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