Essays on Flowers

In order to fully understand what exotic flora is, one must understand the definition of each word. First off, the word “exotic” means of foreign or alien origin. Second, the word ” flora” usually refers to plants or flowers that are from a particular region....

Calla lily (Zantedeschia spp.), a genus of the Araceae family, is a perennial flowering plant and grows naturally in Middle and South Africa (Wei et al., 2017). This genus consists of two sections. The first group is Zantedeschia aethiopica that known as white calla lily...

Flowering plants (angiosperms) have ovules and seeds completely enclosed within carpels. The term angiosperms is derived from two Greek words angeion, meaning “vessel”, and sperma, meaning “seed”. The vessel is the carpels that become ovaries that become fruits. There is one phylum of flowering plants...

Germination is the process in which a seedling starts to grow and develops and sprouts into a new plant. Germination is used in many places around the world and it is a small step to improving and growing the natural environment around us. Seedlings tend...

Orchids show several forms of growth such as terrestrial, epiphytic and some are lithophytes. About 70% of orchids in the world are epiphytic. Majority of the temperate orchids are terrestrial while tropical orchids are epiphytic or lithophytic. Epiphytic orchids grow and attach themselves to host...

Orchidaceae / Orchid Family Perennial rhizomatous green herb with small white or creamy light yellow, orange speckled flowers. Shoots are about 2-3 dm tall, caulix present at the base of the stem. The leaves (multiple) are alternately cauline, arising from a virgate stem. The leaves...

The announcement by Kenya’s national carrier, Kenya Airways, that it would start cargo flighs to USA in December remains one of the most iconic developments for the Kenyan flower industry that has for years made spirited efforts to capture one of the most promising markets...

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Isolation, identification and frequency of fungi associated with infected lilium with root and bulb rot Two hundred and thirty-seven fungal isolates belonging to five genera and nine species were recovered from diseased lilium showing root and bulb rot symptoms collected from different...