Tropical trees and shrubs
Justicia brandegeana ‘Red Flowers’ (Acanthaceae)
~~Brazilian subshrub. Highly clumping species. Stems thin, reddish. Leaves ovate-lanceolate with a subcuneate base, pubescent....
Hibiscus boryanus (Malvaceae)
Shrub, up to 8 m in height. Leaves oval, dark green in colour, crenate at margin. Flowers red, solitary, axillary similar to those of...
Ipomoea arborescens (Convolvulaceae)
Fast-growing shrub, 5-15 m high. The trunk can reach 50 cm in diameter. Leaves lanceolate, with protruding venations. Flowers...
Russelia juncea (Plantaginaceae)
Shrub with thin, very numerous, pendulous, green branches. Almost leafless. Flowers numerous, tubular, 3 cm long, red, in cymes of 3....
Pavonia praemorsa (Malvaceae)
~~Small shrub with roundish leaves. Flowers yellow-pink, 3-4 cm in diameter. Soil well drained but rather moist in Summer. Full sunshine or...
Bartlettina sordida (Asteraceae)
~ Shrub, up to 3 m high. Stems densely red-downy, glabrous with age. Leaves 10 cm long, widely ovate, rough above, toothed at margin....