DESIGN FOR A GREEN LIFE

The name derives from the Greek "dry" adíantos, used by Theophrastus in the Historia Plantarum, probably to mean that the water flows on...

Alchemilla from the Arabic alkemelych passed into the Latin akhymía, to indicate that the plant was used by alchemists. The genus...

The Japanese name of the plant. This genus includes shrub-like twining species, half-second in a mild climate, originating in China and...

The name of Ajuga derives from the Greek to privative and from the Latin jugum «yoke», due to the lack of the upper lip. Genus of...

The name of the Aglaonema derives from the Greek aglaós «lucente» and néma «filo», probably with reference to the shining stamens of the...

The name indicates that the leaves are similar to those of Abelia. The genus includes only one species from Korea, the Abeliophyllum...

The name derives from that of its discoverer, the English doctor and diplomat Clarke Abel. The latter, staying in China in 1816-17,...