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Showing posts with label Flora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flora. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2024
Sunday, April 14, 2024
ලාවුළු (Donella lanceolata [Syn: Chrysophyllum roxburghii])
An indigenous common tree of primary and secondary wet evergreen forests from 30 to 900 m elevations, often by river banks.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Stellaria pauciflora
An indigenous annual herb rare in shaded, moist places in lower montane zone from 915 to 1220 m elevations. Flowering in April.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Clinopodium umbrosum
An indigenous herb fairly common in wet patanas, along borders of marshy lands and slopes of tea plantations close to water courses of the wet up country from 2000 to 3600 m elevations. Flowering all the year round.
Flower Size: 0.4 - 0.6 cm across
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Peperomia tetraphylla
An indigenous perennial herb locally common on mossy rocks and trees in montane forests above 1000 m altitudes.
Saturday, March 9, 2024
ගල් වෙරළු (Elaeocarpus glandulifer)
An endemic tree common in lower montane zone from 1000 to 2000 m elevations. Flowering from September to March and fruiting from June to December.
Friday, March 8, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Robiquetia virescens
An endemic epiphyte on branches of trees in sub montane to montane wet evergreen forests up to 2150 m elevations.
Flower Size: 4mm across and 1.2 cm long
Monday, January 15, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
තෙල් තල [Thel Thala]/Gingerlly (Sesamum indicum)
An introduced annual herb with origin uncertain (Probably Africa or India). Widely cultivated and also naturalized along roadsides, waste lands and abandoned fields in the dry zone. Flowering from May to August and possibly throughout the year. Seeds edible.
*Cultivated Plants usually have white flowers >>
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Ardisia gardneri
Friday, November 24, 2023
Mecardonia procumbens
An introduced decumbent or erect herb grows on open, frequently wet places such as margins of paddy fields. Native to tropical and sub tropical America. A recent introduction to Sri Lanka and naturalized in some places in the Knuckles Range.
Monday, October 23, 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023
Ceylon Spider Lilly/වල් ලූනු (Pancratium zeylanicum)
An indigenous herb rather common in lowlands. Often cultivated. Flowering more or less throughout the year.
Friday, September 1, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
බට දඹ/දිය දඹ/කොබෝ මල් (Syzygium nervosum [Syn: Cleistocalyx operculatus, Syzygium operculatum])
An indigenous tree locally common, especially in ravines and along river banks of wet and intermediate zone forests up to 800 (-1300) m elevations.
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Cyanotis ceylanica
An endemic decumbent perennial in shade or partial shade of forest floor and near streams from 750 to 1220 m elevations.
Monday, August 28, 2023
බල (Nothopegia beddomei)
An indigenous small to medium-sized tree of wet lowlands to hill country forests. Rather common in the intermediate zone and occurs also in the Ritigala hill. Flowering from March to July.
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