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You are now in the page of ‘DO YOU KNOW?’ where you can solve the curiosity that you have been wondering when you are buying, planning to buy or already bought our products! For your information, our products uses the technique of preserving real plant specimens before processing them into handmade accessories. There are also some of our products which uses ready dry flowers which helps us to skip the process of preserving the plants! By using this 2 ways, here comes the products that you are to buy or have bought from us! Now, let’s not talk much and skip to the point. Here, we are going to share some plant species that we have use to create those attracting and awesome accessories…
Informations on all plants species used in production of our products
A) Real nature picked or grew plant:
1. Melinis repens (wild) zizka
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Source: IDAO, online computer aided Identification
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Common name :
Rose Natal grass, or simply Natal grass, and Natal red top
Types of plants:
Annual or perennial plant
Distinguishing feature:
=>A short-lived or long-lived grass forming tussocks with upright flowering stems up to 1 m tall
=>Its open seed-heads are usually a distinctive reddish colour when young
=>These seed-heads turn pink and then whitish in colour as they mature.
=>Numerous flower cover in silky hairs that give the seed head a fluffy appearance
=>Growth rate depend on surrounding temperature
Habitat :
Very common weed in the roadsides, railways, parks, disturbed site, waste area and crop at tropical and subtropical region.
2. Lantana camara
Common name:
Big sage, wild sage , white sage , red sage, tickberry
Description:
It is a flowering plant within Verbenaceae, that is native to the American tropic. Small perennial shrub which can grow to around 2 m tall and form dense thickets in a variety of environments. Lantana camara has small tubular shape flower which each have four petals and are arranged in clusters in terminal areas stems. Flowers come in many different colours including red, yellow, white, pink and orange which differ depending on location in inflorescences, age, and maturity.
Habitat:
L. camara has a wide environmental tolerance and occurs in variety of habitat. These include wastelands, rainforest edges and beachfronts. It also grows well in disturbed areas such as roads, railways and areas recovering from fire or logging. This species can tolerate some shade but grows best in open unshaded regions. It cannot directly colonise intact forests but instead grows at forest edges and spreads when gaps are created.
3. Vemonia cinerea
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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shanfari/6113379847
Common name:
Little ironweed and poovamkurunnila
Description :
It is an annual herb which grows up to 75 cm in height.
The stem of the weed is slender, grooved and ribbed.
The leaves is simple, alternate, variable in shape, broadly elliptic or lanceolate.
Flowers is usually pinkish and purple, rounded or flat-topped corymbs.
Fruits of the Vemonia cinerea is oblong achenes, slightly narrowed base, white hairs on one side.
Flowers and fruits only appears during August-April.
Habitat:
Frequently occurs in wet and dry soil and on the rock cervices.
During the rainy season, this plant will erect and robust up to 1m tall. After rains in the month of February-April or summers, it shows reduction in size forming small diffuse habit.
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B) Dry flowers:
1. Gypsophila paniculata
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Source: https://www.thehunt.com/shops/i.imgur.com
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Common name:
Baby’s breath, million stars and common gypsophila
Description:
It is an herbaceous, perennial growing to 1.2 m (4 ft) tall and wide, with mounds of branching stems covered in clouds of tiny white flowers in summer.
Habitat:
Plants flourish in the well-drained sandy or gravelly soils of vacant lots and along fencelines, establishing unsightly infestations.
2. Chamaemelum nobile
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Source: http://www.perennials.com/plants/chamaemelum-nobile.html
Common name:
Chamomile, Roman chamomile, English chamomile,
garden chamomile, ground apple, low chamomile, or Whig plant.
Description:
Daisy-like white flowers and procumbent stems.
The leaves are alternate, bipinnate, finely dissected, and downy to glabrous.
The solitary, terminal flower heads, rising 20–30 cm (8–12 in) above the ground; consist of prominent yellow disk flowers and silver-white ray flowers.
The flowering time is June and July.
Its fragrance is sweet, crisp, fruity and herbaceous.
Habitat:
It can be found in habitats such as grassy roadsides, sandy lawns in commons areas, and sandy pastures.
Roman Chamomile is still cultivated in flower and herbal gardens; from where it occasionally escapes, but rarely persists.
Areas with a history of disturbance are preferred.
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