Common name: Saucer Magnolia, Magnolia Tulip Tree
Botanical name: Magnolia x soulangiana Family: Magnoliaceae (Magnolia family)
Saucer Magnolia is probably one of the most popular magnolia. It originated as a hybrid of two Asian magnolias, China's ivory-white Yulan Magnolia (M. denudata) pollinated by Japan's Lily Magnolia (M. liliiflora). It was named after Etienne Soulange-Bodin (1774-1846), a Napoleonic soldier who survived the defeat at Waterloo, & who afterward became director of The Royal Institute of Horticulture near Paris, where he raised his hybrid seedlings. It is a deciduous small tree which grows up to 30 ft tall, with upright and spreading branching, and rounded to irregular habit, with multi-trunked or low main branches. Deciduous leaves are 3-7 inches long, half as wide. Leaves are elliptical with a sharply-pointed tip. Flowers are white, pink, or purple, large, cup-like. The tree blooms in mid- to late April. The flowers are also fragrant. The tree flowers at a young age, and is typically a heavy bloomer. That probably explains its popularity.
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Common name: Thulo Tarshing • Nepali: Thoolo tarsing
Botanical name:  Beilschmiedia roxburghiana Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Synonyms: Beilschmiedia fagifolia
Thulo Tarshing is a trees, 10-15 m tall. Branchlets are blackish brown, compressed, prominently angled, sparsely velvety or smooth. Terminal buds are small, densely gray-brown velvety. Leaves are opposite, sometimes alternate, carried on 1.5-2 cm long, slender stalks. Leaves are elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic-lanceshaped, 9-14 × 3.5-5 cm, papery or somewhat leathery, minutely gland-dotted on both surfaces. Base is broadly wedge-shaped or round, tip blunt or pointed acute, or round. Flowers are borne in cyme-like panicles or racemes, in leaf axils or at branch ends, short, 5-15 cm, wholly densely gray-yellow velvety. Flower-stalks are about 1 mm. Flowers are small. Tepals are ovate, about 1.5 mm. Fertile stamens are 9. Fruit is ellipsoid, 4-5 × 2-3 cm, smooth, rounded at both ends, tip mucronate. Fruiting stalks are robust, 5-20 mm, up to 7 mm in diameter, always brown maculate. Thulo Tarshing is found in E. Himalaya, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Indo-China, at altitudes of 250-2000 m. Flowering: August.
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Common name: Duthie's Bay Tree • Nepali: माहिलो काउलो Mahilo kaulo
Botanical name: Persea duthiei Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Duthie's Bay Tree is a medium sized evergreen tree, with oblong to oblong-lancelike pointed leaves. The leaves are glaucous beneath. Greenish-yellow flowers appear in branched clusters at the end of branches. Flowers are 6-10 mm across, finely hairy, with oblong-linear petals. Fruit is spherical in shape. Duthie's Bay Tree is found at altitudes of 1500-2700 m, from Pakistan to East Nepal. Flowering: April-May.
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Common name: Fragrant Bay Tree • Nepali: सेतो कौलो Seto Kaulo
Botanical name: Persea odoratissima Family: Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Synonyms: Machilus odoratissimus
Fragrant Bay Tree grows up to 16 m tall and 90 cm in trunk diameter. Bark is dark grey. Branchlets are hairless smooth. Terminal bud large with many glabrous, somewhat fimbriate, bud scales. Leaves are smooth, leathery, lancelike to oblong-oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 2.5-7 cm wide and 7.5-18 cm long, acute or acuminate, base shortly acute or rounded. Both surfaces are microscopically pitted. Leaf stalks are slender, 1-2 cm long. Yellow flowers are borne in many-flowered panicles almost at the end of branches, up to 12 cm long. Flowers are 6-10 mm across, with 4-5 mm long stalks. Petals are oblong-linear sharp-tipped petals. Stamens slightly shorter, filaments pilose near the base. Fruit ellipsoid, up to 7 x 15 mm, sepals reflexed, oblong, 8 mm long; pedicels thick, often pinkish. Ripe fruit is purple. Leaves which have a pleasant orange smell, are used for silkworm cultivation. The leaves are collected as fodder for domesticated animals while the bark is used as a red dye. The wood of the trunk is burned as firewood, and the better sections are used in house construction and for furniture. Fragrant Bay Tree is found in the Himalayas at altitudes of 1500-2100 m. Hence visible in various hill station in north India. Flowering: March-April.
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Common name: Devil's Tongue, Voodoo Lily, Corpse Flower, Snake Palm • Kannada: kaadu choorna gedde, kaadu kande gedde • Marathi: Ran-suran • Sanskrit: amalavela, atyamlaparni
Botanical name: Amorphophallus bulbifer Family: Araceae (Arum family)
Synonyms: Arum bulbiferum
Devil's Tongue is a very interesting Aroids, native to NE India. The foliage will reach 3 feet in 6 inch pots. Leaves are digitately divided into leaflets. The dark green leaf and spotted stems make quite an attractive plant. Devil’s Tongue probably get its name from its spathe which is 8 inches long with greenish lines and spotted pink outside, rose in the throat and becoming flesh colored upward inside, spadix is shorter, the sterile appendage pinkish, 3 inches long. Devil's Tongue thrive in a rich loamy soil in partial shade. Compost should consist of 2 parts loam to 1 part peat moss to 1 part sand. Keep the plant evenly moist all through the growing season. Fertilize monthly with a houseplant fertilizer diluted to ½ the strength recommended on the label. Water should be gradually withheld starting in October until the leaf withers. Devil's Tongue is propagated by division of offsets or by seed. Flowering: March-April.
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Common name: Striped Cobra Lily
Botanical name: Arisaema costatum Family: Araceae (Arum family)
Striped Cobra Lily is a distinctive cobra lily with a dark purple hood with white stripes, 8-12 cm long. The blade is down-curved ending in a tail-like tip, 1-4 cm long. A long thread-like appendage comes out of the throat, 15-45 cm long. The three large leaflets have numerous parallel veins. They are elliptic to ovate, 10-20 cm long. The flowering stem is greenish, up to 40 cm tall, shorter than the leaves. Striped Cobra Lily is found in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 2000-2600 m. Flowering: May-June.
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