This presentation is helpful for identification of climbers and shrubs with their family and uses.

1. PRESENTATION
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Identification of different climbers and shrubs
By
Sunita Kumari

2. Botanical Name - Acalypha hispida
Common Name - Chenille plant
Family - Euphorbiaceae
Use -Multi-coloured foliage with drooping catkins.

3. Botanical Name - Acalypha wilkesiana
Family - Euphorbiaceae
Use -
Copperleaf is a popular outdoor plant that provides colour throughout
the year.
It is used in mixed hedges and shrub borders and as a specimen shrub

4. Botanical Name -Acanthus montanus
Common Name -Bear's Breech or Mountain Thistle
Family -Acanthaceae

5. Botanical Name - Adenium obesum (syn. A.coetanum)
Common Name - Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea, impala lily, desert rose.
Family - Apocynaceae
Use -suitable for pot plant and ideal for rockery.

6. Botanical Name - Achania malvaiscus
Common Name - Chinese lantern
Family - Malvacea
Use - as attractive foliage

7. Botanical Name - Aerva tomentosa
Common Name - Kapok Bush Or Desert Cotton
Family - Amaranthaceae
Use - It is suitable for pots, shrubbery and herbaceous border.

8. Botanical Name - Aesculus parviflora
Common Name - Bottlebrush Buckeye, Dwarf Horse Chestnut
Family - Hippcastanaceae
Use - the shrub suitable for

9. Botanical Name - Aglaia odorata
Family - Meliaceae
Use - Suitable for shrubbery as a hedge lts perfume is using a dried
flowers, people can use to produce perfume for clothes and mix it into
cigarettes.

10. Botanical Name - Allamanda cathartica
Common Name - Allamanda
Family - Apocynaceae

11. Botanical Name - Allamanda neriifolia
The flower smaller than A.Cathartica and rich in yellow colour

12. Botanical Name - Allamanda violaceae

13. Botanical Name - Angelonia grandiflora
Family - Plantaginaceae

14. Botanical Name - Barleria cristata
Common Name - Barleria
Family - Acanthaceae
Use -dwarf shrub good for sunny areas

15. Botanical Name - Bauhinia tomentosa
Common Name - Yellow bauhinia ,Yellow Bell Orchid Tree
Family - Fabaceae
Use -

16. Botanical Name - Bauhinia acuminata
Common Name - Dwarf white bauhinia, white orchid-tree and snowy
orchid-tree

17. Botanical Name - Bauhinia galpinii
Common Name - Orchid Tree, Red Bauhinia, Nasturtium Bauhinia,
African Plume, Red Orchid Bush

18. Botanical Name- Bougainvillea glabra,
Common Name - lesser bougainvillea or paperflower
Family - Nyctaginaceae

19. Botanical Name - Brunfelsia grandiflora
Common Name - royal purple brunfelsia, kiss-me-quick, yesterday-
today-and-tomorrow
Family - solanaceae
Use - it is used in traditional medicine to treat fever, rheumatism,
syphilis and arthris

20. Botanical Name - Brya ebenus
Common Name - Jamaican rain tree, cocus wood, cocuswood,
and coccuswood
Family -Fabaceae
Use - for bonsai trees, and for its valuable wood.

21. Botanical Name - Buddleia asiatica Syn.(B. needma )

22. Botanical Name - Buddleia madagascriensis

23. Botanical Name - Caesalpinia gilliesii
Common Name - bird of paradise bush, desert bird of paradise, yellow
bird of paradise
Family - Leguminosae

24. Botanical Name - Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Common Name - Peacock Flower, Red Bird of Paradise, Mexican Bird
of Paradise, Dwarf Poinciana, Pride of Barbados
Family -Fabaceae

25. Botanical Name - Calliandra
Common Name - powder-puff, powder puff plant, and fairy duster
Family - Leguminosae
Use -good for shrubbery and also planting as specimen plant

26. Botanical Name - Callicapra cana
Family -Verbenaceae
Use - Cut Flower, Landscape, Mass Planting, Specimen or Focal
Point

27. Botanical Name - callistemon spp.
Common Name - Bottle brushes
Family - Myrtaceae

28. Botanical Name - Cainpsis grandiflora (syn. Tacoma grandiflora)
Common Name - Chinese Trumpet creeper, Morning Calm
Family - Bignoniaceae

29. Botanical Name -Trachelospermum jasminoides
(syn Chonemorpha macrophylla)
Family -Apocynaceae
Use - hage mature climber, topiary

30. Botanical Name - Clematis paniculata
Common Name - Virgin flower
Family - Ranunculiaceae
Use - White flower in July- August

31. Botanical Name - Clerodendrum splendend
Common Name - glorybower, bagflower and bleeding-heart
Family - Verbenaceae

32. Botanical Name - Combretum comosum
Common Name - Bushwillow trees
Family - Combretaceae

33. Botanical Name - Congea tomentosa
Common Name -Wooly Congea, Shower Orchid, or Shower of Orchid
Family -Verbenaceae
Use -Whole branches with their flowering clusters are useful in
cut flower arrangements.

34. Botanical Name -Cryptostegia grandiflora (syn. Nerium grandiflorum)
Common Name - Chabuk chari, rubber vine
Family - Asclepiadaceae

35. Botanical Name - Delima sarmentosa
Family - Dilleniaceae

36. Botanical Name - Echites caryophllata
Common Name - Malati lata, star climber
Family - Apocynaceae

37. Botanical Name - Ficus repens
Common Name - Creeping fig, Indian Ivy
Family - Moraceae
Use - foliage beauty

38. Botanical Name - Gloriosa superba
Common Name - Climbing Lily, Glory Lily, Flame lily, Creeping
lily, Gloriosa lily, Tiger Claw and Fire Lily
Family - Liliaceae
Use - This species is the national flower of Zimbabwe and state
flower of Tamil Nadu

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