"not normally produced on the potato plant: this was due to the cool weather in July that year. Potato fruit The potato fruit is the part of the potato plant that after flowering, produces a poisonous green cherry tomato-like fruit. After flowering, potato plants produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing about 300 seeds. Like all other parts of the plant except the tubers, the fruit contain the toxic alkaloid solanine and are therefore unsuitable for consumption. All new potato varieties are grown from seeds, also called ""true potato seed"", ""TPS"" or ""botanical seed"" to distinguish"
"of Britain (including some in woods on boulder clay in East Anglia), are expanding and showing increased vigor, perhaps as a result of deeper shade in woodlands where coppicing has ceased. The plant's common name derives from the plant's resemblance to the unrelated ""Chenopodium bonus-henricus"" (Good King Henry, also known as mercury, markry, markery, Lincolnshire spinach). Since ""Mercurialis perennis"" is highly poisonous, it was named ""dog's"" mercury (in the sense of ""false"" or ""bad""). It has also been known as boggard posy. There are separate male and female plants (the species is dioecious). the plants are born at the base"
"grass in the most exposed regions, with a succession of plants following on as the marsh becomes more established: first sea aster, then mainly sea lavender, with sea purslane in the creeks, and smaller areas of sea plantain and other common marsh plants. Six previously unknown diatom species were found in the waters around the point in 1952, along with six others not previously recorded in Britain. European glasswort is picked between May and September and sold locally as ""samphire"". It is a fleshy plant which when blanched or steamed has a taste which leads to its alternative name of"
"the same species, which is usually achieved by insect pollinators. Cultivars: Musk strawberry The musk strawberry or hautbois strawberry (Fragaria moschata), is a species of strawberry native to Europe. Its French name ""hautbois"" strawberry may be anglicised as hautboy strawberry. The plants are hardy and can survive in many weather conditions and are cultivated commercially on a small scale, particularly in Italy. The fruit are small and round; they are used in the gourmet community for their intense aroma and superb flavour, which has been compared to a mixture of regular strawberry, raspberry and pineapple. Popular cultivated varieties include 'Capron'"
"Plum, Blueberry, Passion Fruit, Blackberry, Raspberry, Strawberry-Banana, Mango, Melon, Tropical Punch, Green Apple, Blue Raspberry, Watermelon, Mixed Berries & Cream, Peaches & Cream, Orange Cream, and Strawberry & Cream. Europe and the United States also has the ""Sour"" assortment, which includes Apple, Cherry, Pineapple and Raspberry, as well as Strawberry Mix. As of early 2010 it was decided that Strawberry was the most popular flavor in the United Kingdom. Lime is also very popular within this demand. Starburst in the UK is vegan, its packaging and website clearly stating ""Suitable for Vegetarians"", and also does not contain any artificial colors"
"in Ferndown, Dorset by M. Barthelemy and 'Castlewellan', which originated from a single mutant tree in the Castlewellan estate arboretum in Northern Ireland. This form, widely propagated from the 1970s, was selected by the park director, John Keown, and was named ""Cupressus macrocarpa"" 'Keownii', 1963. Other forms include 'Douglas Gold', 'Drabb', 'Emerald Isle', 'Ferndown', 'Golconda', 'Golden Sun', 'Gold Rider', 'Grecar', 'Green Spire', 'Grelive', Haggerston 3, Haggerston 4, Haggerston 5, Haggerston 6, 'Harlequin', 'Herculea', 'Hyde Hall', 'Irish Mint', 'Jubilee', 'Medownia', 'Michellii', 'Moncal', 'Naylor's Blue', 'New Ornament', 'Olive's Green', 'Robinson's Gold', 'Rostrevor', 'Silver Dust', 'Variegata', 'Ventose' and 'Winter Sun'. The taxonomic status"
"Musk strawberry The musk strawberry or hautbois strawberry (Fragaria moschata), is a species of strawberry native to Europe. Its French name ""hautbois"" strawberry may be anglicised as hautboy strawberry. The plants are hardy and can survive in many weather conditions and are cultivated commercially on a small scale, particularly in Italy. The fruit are small and round; they are used in the gourmet community for their intense aroma and superb flavour, which has been compared to a mixture of regular strawberry, raspberry and pineapple. Popular cultivated varieties include 'Capron' and 'Profumata di Tortona'. Musk strawberries grow wild to a limited"
"Blitum bonus-henricus Blitum bonus-henricus (syn. ""Chenopodium bonus-henricus""), also called Good-King-Henry, Poor-man's Asparagus, Perennial Goosefoot, Lincolnshire Spinach, Markery, English mercury, or mercury goosefoot, is a species of goosefoot which is native to much of central and southern Europe. Good-King-Henry has been grown as a vegetable in cottage gardens for hundreds of years, although this dual-purpose vegetable is now rarely grown and the species is more often considered a weed. It is an annual or perennial plant growing up to 400–800 mm tall. The leaves are 50–100 mm long and broad, triangular to diamond-shaped, with a pair of broad pointed lobes near"
"the product in a globalised marketplace. In 2008, the supermarket chain Asda revived the original Opal Fruits in the UK for a period of 12 weeks starting 10 May 2008. On 6 October 2008 Mars acquired Wrigley, and it transferred Mars' non-chocolate candy brands, including Starburst, to the Wrigley subsidiary. The original flavours are now branded ""Original Fruits"", and Starburst now comes in several assortments: Limited Edition Retro Fruits, Tropical, Baja California, Sour, Strawberry Mix, Berries & Creme, Very Berry and Fruity Slushies. Among the additional flavors are Strawberry Lemonade Chill, Citrus Slush, Cherry Splash, Blue Raspberry Rush Kiwi, Banana,"
"the presence of a population of the True Service-tree (""Sorbus domestica"") growing on the cliffs. This tree is nationally rare in Britain, and this site hosts the largest known population in England. Other notable species of ""Sorbus"" here are the whitebeams ""Sorbus eminens"" and ""Sorbus anglica"", both of which are also nationally rare in Britain. The nationally scarce Large-leaved Lime (""Tilia platyphyllos"") also occurs, and herbs include Field Garlic (""Allium oleraceum"") and Pale St. John's-wort (""Hypericum montanum""). The saltmarsh vegetation, which lies at the base of the cliff, is predominantly made up of Sea Aster (""Aster tripolium"") and English Scurvygrass"
"purple throughout summer. They are generally half-hardy, and can be grown from seed or cuttings, or purchased as young plants to be planted out after all danger of frost has passed. The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:- Argyranthemum Argyranthemum (marguerite, marguerite daisy, dill daisy) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. Members of this genus are sometimes also placed in the genus ""Chrysanthemum"". The genus is endemic to Macaronesia, occurring only on the Canary Islands, the Savage Islands, and Madeira. ""Argyranthemum frutescens"" is recorded as a food plant of"
"have pink-purple stalks with dark purple anthers. It is native to much of Europe and Asia, but is cultivated and naturalized elsewhere. Several cultivars are available for garden use, of which 'Mrs Kendall Clark' and 'Plenum violaceum' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Meadow cranesbill is its most common name, although other names include 'meadow crane's-bill' and 'meadow geranium'. Geranium pratense Geranium pratense, the meadow crane's-bill or meadow geranium, is a species of flowering plant in the family Geraniaceae, native to Europe and Asia. Forming a clump roughly tall and broad, it is a herbaceous perennial"
"a type characterised by the widespread occurrence of Sweet Vernal Grass (""Anthoxanthum odoratum""), Crested Dog's-tail (""Cynosurus cristatus""), Cowslip (""Primula veris"") and Green-winged Orchid (""Orchis morio""). A total of 74 different species have so far been recorded. This site is one of only 3 localities in Britain in which the grass ""Gaudinia fragilis"" is a prominent feature of the sward. Barrington Hill Meadows Barrington Hill Meadows () is a 16.1 hectare (39.5 acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, England, notified in 1987. Barrington Hill Meadows, 2 km west of the A358, midway between the villages of Windmill Hill"
"to rosy-red. The fruit is a cylindric aggregate of follicles 6–18 cm long. Fossils of ""Magnolia sprengeri"" have been described from the fossil flora of Kızılcahamam district in Turkey, which is of early Pliocene age. It is grown as an ornamental tree for its flowers. Several cultivars have been named, including 'Diva', 'Lanhydrock', and 'Wakehurst'. The cultivars 'Burncoose', 'Copeland Court', and 'Eric Savill' have all won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The species and its cultivars are hardy to roughly USDA hardiness zone 6. A number of hybrids with other Magnolias have also been developed. Magnolia sprengeri"
"and cooked like spinach. Blitum bonus-henricus Blitum bonus-henricus (syn. ""Chenopodium bonus-henricus""), also called Good-King-Henry, Poor-man's Asparagus, Perennial Goosefoot, Lincolnshire Spinach, Markery, English mercury, or mercury goosefoot, is a species of goosefoot which is native to much of central and southern Europe. Good-King-Henry has been grown as a vegetable in cottage gardens for hundreds of years, although this dual-purpose vegetable is now rarely grown and the species is more often considered a weed. It is an annual or perennial plant growing up to 400–800 mm tall. The leaves are 50–100 mm long and broad, triangular to diamond-shaped, with a pair of"
"are still grown for personal consumption, and many hybrids of the Dancy are grown commercially. Until the 1970s, the Dancy was the most widely grown tangerine in the US; the popularity of the fruit led to the term ""tangerine"" being broadly applied as a marketing name. Florida classifies tangerine-like hybrid fruits as tangerines for the purposes of sale and regulation; this classification is widely used but regarded as technically inaccurate in the industry. Among the most important tangerine hybrids of Florida are murcotts, a late-fruiting type of tangor marketed as ""honey tangerine"" and Sunbursts (an early-fruiting complex tangerine-orange-grapefruit hybrid). The"
"names, only 10–16 are generally cited as being accepted by the vast majority of botanical authorities. ""Morus"" classification is even further complicated by widespread hybridisation, wherein the hybrids are fertile. The following species are accepted by the Kew Plant List as of August 2015: Black, red, and white mulberry are widespread in southern Europe, the Middle East, northern Africa and Indian subcontinent, where the tree and the fruit have names under regional dialects. Jams and sherbets are often made from the fruit in this region. Black mulberry was imported to Britain in the 17th century in the hope that it"
"to as ""snowball bush"". The shrub is also cultivated as a component of hedgerows, cover plantings, and as part of other naturalistic plantings in its native regions. It is naturalised in North America, where it is called ""European cranberrybush"" (although it is not a cranberry). The cultivars 'Compactum', 'Roseum' and 'Xanthocarpum' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The fruit is edible in small quantities, with a very acidic taste; it can be used to make jelly. It is however very mildly toxic, and may cause vomiting or diarrhea if eaten in large amounts. The term cramp"
"hottest and driest areas"". In contrast, in England the lack of sharp winters and hot summers makes ""Cornus florida"" very shy of flowering. Other ""Cornus"" species are stoloniferous shrubs that grow naturally in wet habitats and along waterways. Several of these are used along highways and in naturalizing landscape plantings, especially those species with bright red or bright yellow stems, particularly conspicuous in winter, such as ""Cornus stolonifera"". The following cultivars, of mixed or uncertain origin, have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017):- The species ""Cornus mas"" is commonly cultivated in southeastern Europe for its"
"Hampton Court Palace. Gerard said it was to be found in the gardens ""of such as love rare and dainty plants"". The appreciation of the early acid-yellow flowers is largely a 20th-century development. The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017):- Cornus mas Cornus mas (Cornelian cherry, European cornel or Cornelian cherry dogwood) is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae native to Southern Europe and Southwestern Asia. It is a medium to large deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5–12 m tall, with dark brown branches and greenish"
"variety would be named. The trees grow upright, but often have branches bent or broken by heavy fruiting at the ends. It is widely grown in Florida, where it matures in January to March. Citrus scab and alternaria fungus disease attack Murcotts. The Murcott is one parent of the Clementine-like hybrid variously called the Afourer, Nadorcott or W. Murcott cultivar, the other parent being unknown. Murcott (fruit) The Murcott (marketed as: Honey Tangerine) is a tangor, or mandarin–sweet orange hybrid. The Murcott arose out of citrus pioneer Walter Tennyson Swingle's attempts to produce novel citrus hybrids. Its seed parent has"
"Stout Silver Medal winners can be seen on the AHS website. In the UK the following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:- The flowers of ""Hemerocallis citrina"" are edible and are used in Chinese cuisine. They are sold (fresh or dried) in Asian markets as gum jum (金针 in Chinese; pinyin: jīn zhēn) or yellow flower vegetables (黃花菜 in Chinese; pinyin: huáng huā cài). They are used in hot and sour soup, daylily soup (金針花湯), Buddha's delight, and moo shu pork. Daylily A daylily is a flowering plant in the genus Hemerocallis . Gardening enthusiasts"
"competition that won him £5. The four original flavours were strawberry, lemon, orange, and lime. Opal Fruits were introduced in the United States in 1967 as M&M's Fruit Chewies and later, in the late 1960s, Starburst. Originally, Starburst came in the same flavours as Opal Fruits. Subsequently, its first variant, Sunshine Flavors, was released and was later renamed ""Tropical Opal Fruits"". In Europe, lemon and lime were combined to become ""Lemon and lime"" to make room for a blackcurrant flavour. The brand name ""Opal Fruits"" was phased out in the UK, followed by Ireland in 1998 in order to standardize"
"it is not closely related to the true bluebells), and the southern European ""Campanula medium"", commonly known as Canterbury bells (a popular garden plant in the United Kingdom). As well as several species occurring naturally in the wild in northern Europe, there are many cultivated garden species. The cultivars 'Misty Dawn' and 'Kent Belle' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. The species ""Campanula rapunculus"", commonly known as rampion bellflower, rampion, or rover bellflower, is a biennial vegetable which was once widely grown in Europe for its spinach-like leaves and radish-like roots. The Brothers Grimm's tale Rapunzel"
"in the field to produce its first crop of fruit, and seven years to attain full maturity. Because of the cold-weather requirement, no members of the genus ""Prunus"" can grow in tropical climates. Cherries have a short growing season and can grow in most temperate latitudes. Cherries blossom in April (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the peak season for the cherry harvest is in the summer. In southern Europe in June, in North America in June, in England in mid-July, and in southern British Columbia (Canada) in June to mid-August. In many parts of North America, they are among the"
"in the UK away from this coast. They may occur alongside scarce species including lesser centaury, curved hard-grass and sea pearlwort, with soft hornwort in the dykes. Grasses such as sea couch grass and sea poa grass are important in the driest areas of the marshes, and on the coastal dunes, where marram grass, sand couch-grass, lyme-grass and red fescue help to bind the sand. Sea holly and sand sedge are other specialists of this arid habitat, and petalwort is a nationally rare bryophyte found on damper dunes. Bird's-foot trefoil, pyramidal orchid, bee orchid and carline thistle flower on the"
"Kingdom for hedging, especially in coastal districts. Its red berries are attractive to a wide variety of British birds. The plant continues to grow wild in UK hedgerows. On 15 January 2003, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs launched a project to improve the regulations protecting traditional countryside hedgerows, and specifically mentioned Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree as one of the species to be found growing in hedges located in Suffolk Sandlings, Hadleigh, Bawdsey, near Ipswich, and Walberswick. Importation of mature ""Licium barbarum"" plants into the United Kingdom from most countries outside Europe is illegal, due to the"
"Merit. It has become naturalised widely. In some regions (such as the United Kingdom and the Pacific Northwest of North America), this species can be an invasive plant. Its rapid growth, coupled with its evergreen habit and its tolerance of drought and shade, often allow it to out-compete and kill off native plant species. It is spread by birds, through the seeds in their droppings. The species is found in woods and in shrubbery places as an escape in Northern Irelandand commonly planted in parks and gardens. The foliage is also used for cut greenery in floristry. According to Dr."
"Murcott (fruit) The Murcott (marketed as: Honey Tangerine) is a tangor, or mandarin–sweet orange hybrid. The Murcott arose out of citrus pioneer Walter Tennyson Swingle's attempts to produce novel citrus hybrids. Its seed parent has been identified as the King tangelo; the pollen parent remains to be identified. About 1913, he gave a hybrid tree he had produced at a US Department of Agriculture planting to R. D. Hoyt at Safety Harbor, Florida. Hoyt in turn would pass on budwood to his nephew, Charles Murcott Smith, who grew the resulting trees in Baywood, Florida from 1922, and for whom the"
"parks and gardens, for summer bedding schemes, borders, containers, wildflower gardens, prairie-style plantings and cut flowers. Numerous cultivars have been developed, of which 'Indian Summer' and 'Toto' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Other popular cultivars include 'Double Gold' and 'Marmalade'. Gloriosa daisies are tetraploid cultivars having much larger flower heads than the wild species, often doubled or with contrasting markings on the ray florets. They were first bred by Alfred Blakeslee of Smith College by applying colchicine to ""R. hirta"" seeds; Blakeslee's stock was further developed by W. Atlee Burpee and introduced to commerce at"
"forms are known including; 'White Grape', 'Blanka' and 'Versailles Blanche' (syn ‘White Versailles’), and 'White Pearl'. The cultivar 'White Grape' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. There are also cultivars with yellow and pink fruit, called respectively yellow currants and pink currants. The bushes can suffer from pests such as gooseberry sawfly and birds. White currant berries are slightly smaller and sweeter than red currants. When made into jams and jellies the result is normally pink. The white currant is actually an albino cultivar of the red currant but is marketed as a different fruit. White"
"full sun with neutral or alkaline soil. Teucrium fruticans Teucrium fruticans (common name tree germander or shrubby germander) is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to the western and central Mediterranean. Growing to tall by wide, it is a spreading evergreen shrub with arching velvety white shoots, glossy aromatic leaves and pale blue flowers in summer. The specific epithet ""fruticans"" means ""shrubby"" or ""bushy"". The cultivar 'Azureum', with darker blue flowers, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It is hardy in milder areas, where temperatures do not fall below . It"
"(Justicia californica, J. candicans and J. sonorae), Damianita (Chrysactinia Mexicana). Mediterranean Conservatory: Kangaroo paws (Anigozanthos flavidas), Sweet garlic (Tulbaghia fragrans), Society garlic (Tulbaghia violacea), ‘Orange Drop’ fotnight lily (Dietes cultivar),Peacock flower (Dietes bicolor), Large wild iris (Dietes grandiflora), Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus), Cape mallow (Anisodontea x hypomandaum), Grey-leaved Rockrose (Cistus albidus), Rockrose (Cistus x hybridus), Sunset rockrose (Cistus x pulverulentus “Sunset”), Rockrose (Cistus x verguinii), Bottlebrush (Callistemon citrinus), Natal plum (Carissa grandiflora), Oleander (Nerium oleander ‘Sister Agnus’), Pride of Madeira (Echium fastuosum), Jasmine (Jasminum odoratissimum), Island snapdragon (Galvezia speciose), Monkeyflower (Mimulus cardinalis), Monkeyflower (Mimulus longifolius), Goodwin Creek Gray Lavender (Lavandula spp.),"