REPORT

ON

PLANTS

SUBMITTED BY:
DEEPTI CHAUHAN
I SEM – I YEAR
M.LANDSCAPE

GANGA INSTITUTE OF ARCH AND TOWN PLANNING

KABLANA, H.R., INDIA
 1. Sago Palm

Common name: Sago palm, King sago

palm, Sago Cycad, Japanese sago palm

Botanical name: Cyacas revoluta

Morphological Features:
•Sago palms have become very popular landscape plants in
modern, classy Indian gardens.
•But most people do not realize that these are not palms at all,
despite the name and appearance. Sago palm is actually a cycad.
Cycads are a group of plants that are very primitive in their
origins. Fossils have been found on almost every continent on
the planet.
•Sago Palms have erect, sturdy trunks that are clustering, up to 9
inches in diameter, texture is patterned with old leaf base
remnants, older specimens sometimes develop branching
trunks.
•The leaves are pinnate, up to 3-5 feet long, dark green waxy
and very stiff leaflets.
•Sago palms are very slow growing plants.
•Cycads do not produce true flowers - cones
emerge from the top of the plant.
•Fruit is 1-3 inched in length, oval, brown.
 2. Ashok Tree

Common name: Ashok, False Ashok,

Mast Tree, The Buddha Tree

Botanical name: Polyalthia longifolia

Morphological Features:
•Evergreen tree is native to India and Sri Lanka.
•Indigenous to India, Burma and Malaysia,
•Slow-growing, erect tree, small and evergreen,
with a smooth, grey brown bark.
•It is a columnar shaped tree.
•The crown is compact and shapely.
•The leaves are in the shape of lance, dropping,
•The young leaves are translucent and red in colour
also remain pendent even, after attaining full size.
• The bark is smooth and dark greyish-brown.
•Each of the 30 cm. long leaves has four, five or six
pairs of long, wavy-edged leaflets.
•The straight or scimitar shaped pods are stiff,
leathery, broad about 20 cm are red and fleshy
before ripening.
•Flowers are star shaped.
•Highly esteemed as an avenue tree.
•It is generally grown at a distance of 3mts.
•Branches are hanging (pendulous habit).
•Flowers are yellowish green in colour and appear
in the month of february-april.
•Fruit is born in clusters of 10-20, initially green
but turning purple or black when ripe
 3.Champa

Common name: Champa, Gulchin

Botanical name: Plumeria Alba

Morphological Features:
•White Frangipani is well-known for its intensely fragrant lovely, spiral-
shaped blooms which appear at branch
tips June through November.
•The leaves are clustered near the tips of the branches. They are large,
6-22 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, and have a characteristic obovate shape
and the tip of the leaf is rounded, rather than pointed as it is in other
species .
• Branches droop not showy typically multi-trunked thorns.
•The flowers of this species are born in clusters that form at the ends
of the branches on a long thick stalk.
•Flowers contain five petals that are fused at the base in a short
funnel-shaped tube which gradually widens as the lobes of the petals
are spread out.
•The fruit of this species is a dry follicle.
which splits along one side to release the
winged seeds.
 4 .Green -aloe

Common name: Giant Cabuya,

Mauritius Hemp, Green-aloe

Botanical name: Furcraea foetida

Morphological Features:
•A large plant forming a cluster of fleshy leaves up to 2 m tall and 2.5-
3.5 m wide.
•These very large elongated leaves (up to 2.5 m long and 20 cm wide)
have a sharp brown spine (4-8 cm long) at the tip.
•The main stem or trunk at the base of the plant is quite short (i.e. less
than 1 m tall and often only 20-30 cm tall) and is usually hidden below
the leaves. The large flowering stems are green, hairless (i.e.
glabrous), and very robust.
•.Greenish white flowers are arranged in a branched cluster known as
a terminal panicle. The flowers are heavily fragrant and are produced
during autumn and winter.
•Fruit are generally not produced. What might appear to be fruit are
actually large plantlets (i.e. bulbils) 1-16 cm long. The true fruit, which
are rarely if ever seen in Australia, are large capsules up to 8 cm long
and contain numerous black, flattened, seeds .
 5 .Money plant

Common name: golden

pothos, hunter's robe, ivy arum, money
plant, silver vine,
devil’s vine

Botanical name: Epipremnum aureum

Morphological Features:
•E. aureum is an evergreen vine growing to 20 m (66 ft) tall, with
stems up to 4 cm (2 in) in diameter, climbing by means of aerial
roots which adhere to surfaces.
•. The leaves are alternate, heart-shaped, entire on juvenile plants,
but irregularly on mature plants, up to 100 cm (39 in) long and
45 cm (18 in) broad.
•The flowers are produced in a spathe up to 23 cm (9 in) long.
• This plant produces trailing stems when it climbs up trees and
these take root when they reach the ground and grow along it.
• The leaves on these trailing stems grow up to 10 cm (4 in) long
and are the ones normally seen on this plant when it is cultivated as
a potted plant.