This document provides information on various climbers and shrubs, listing their botanical name, common name, family, and in some cases use. It includes over 30 plants, including Acalypha hispida, Acalypha wilkesiana, Acanthus montanus, Adenium obesum, Achania malvaiscus, Aerva tomentosa, Aglaia odorata, Allamanda cathartica, Barleria cristata, Bauhinia tomentosa, Brunfelsia grandiflora, Brya ebenus, Calliandra, Cainpsis grandiflora, Clematis paniculata, Clerod

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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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