Seasonal Interest

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Kewa bowkeriana (Sond.) Christenh.

Balchik

Season: Summer

Balchik

Season: Summer

Balchik

Season: Summer

Balchik

Season: Spring

Balchik

Season: Spring

Echeveria setosa Rose & Purpus

Balchik

Season: Winter

Tulipa saxatilis 'Lilac Wonder'

Balchik

Season: Spring

Chimonanthus praecox (L.) Link.

Balchik

Season: Winter

Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.

Balchik

Japanese medlar is an evergreen large shrub or tree belonging to the Rosaceae family. It originates from the hilly regions of China, but has long been transported and acclimatized throughout the Mediterranean area. Exotic fruit tree is often used in the exterior of buildings, parks and gardens. It can grow up to 5-8 m. ... [more]

Season: Autumn

Diospyros lotus L.

Balchik

Season: Autumn

SATUREJA MONTANA L.

Balchik

Season: Summer

Cycas revolute Thunb.

Balchik

Season: Summer

Paeonia “Canary Brilliants”

Balchik

Season: Spring

Gossypium arboreum

Balchik

Season: Spring

Aloe castanea Schönland

Balchik

Aloe castanea (Cat's Tail Aloe). This aloe can grow into a small tree (8 to 12 feet tall) with a single main trunk at ground level with several spreading branches higher up or can be pruned to enhance lower branching to form a dense shrub-like mass 6 to 10 feet tall. The leaves are up to 5 feet long with the older leaves ... [more]

Season: Winter

Aloe africana Mill.

Balchik

Aloe africana is a solitary plant, bearing an erect stem up to 2 m high (exceptionally up to 4 m), with a skirt of dry leaves. Its leaves, crowded in a dense, apical rosette, are gracefully spreading to recurved, firm linear-lanceolate, up to 0.65 m long, with a grey-green surface, and its margins armed with small, ... [more]

Season: Winter

Zanthoxylum armatum DC

Balchik

Zanthoxylum armatum DC is an evergreen bush or small tree from Rutaceae family. Rutaceae includes decorative, herbal and essential oil plants. It is distributed from India, through Southeast Asia to Japan. The leaves and seeds can be used as herbs and аs condiment. There are many ways to be implemented. The seeds can ... [more]

Season: Winter

Echinocereus leucanthus N.P.Taylor

Balchik

Season: Summer

Eulophia petersii

Balchik

Season: Summer

Opuntia azurea Rose

Balchik

Opuntia azurea Rose is native to Mexico and Texas the range there is from deserts to mountain grasslands from 600 to 1900 meters above sea level. Common names are Coyotillo and Blue Prickly Pear, the specific epithet is after the Latin adjective, azureus, "pure deep blue," in reference to the stem ... [more]

Season: Summer

Echinocereus pectinatus (Scheidw.) Engelm.

Balchik

Echinocereus pectinatus (Scheidw.) Engelm.is wide-ranging species distributed in the northern Mexico, and Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Habitat and Ecology: The species grows at altitude range 400 to 1,900 metres above sea level in xerophyllous scrub, limestone hills and grasslands, is common in the ... [more]

Season: Spring

Aloe jacksonii Reynolds

Balchik

Aloe jacksonii is a very attractive, dwarfgrowing species. It has short, erect or procumbent stems up to 20cm long which branch freely from the base forming clumps that can be up to 50cm or more across. Its leaves are spotted, narrowly tapering with a rough spotted surface and short teeth on the margins. Its species was ... [more]

Season: Winter

Ferocactus peninsulae (A.A.Weber) Britton & Rose

Balchik

Origin and Habitat: Ferocactus peninsulae is the common barrel cactus through the states of Baja California and North West Mexico. Altitude: From sea level to 450 metres above sea level. Habitat and Ecology: The species occurs in rocky places, in sandy areas and hillsides together with Mammillaria dioica, Cochemiea setispina, ... [more]

Season: Spring, Summer, Autumn

Brugmansia arborea (L.) Steud.

Balchik

Brugmansia arborea commonly known as angel’s trumpet, is a species in the genus Brugmansia which contains approximately 11 to 16 species and belongs to the family of the Solanaceae (Nightshade Family). The trees have a rounded to broadly spreading canopy and reach heights of 2 to 4 metres. Brugmansia ... [more]

Season: Autumn

Aloe pruinosa Reynolds

Balchik

Aloe pruinosa Reynolds is a South African endemic from KwaZulu-Natal province. Short Aloe is no more than 15 cm high. It blooms in the end of the summer with dusty pink tubular flowers. Its leaves are short, spotted and toothed. This is a vulnerable species because of the rapidly expanded urban area, with only ten known locations. Aloe pruinosa can be seen in the exhibition greenhouse in the University botanic garden of Balchik.

Season: Autumn

Haemanthus albiflos Jacq.

Balchik

Haemanthus albiflos Jacq. or Paint Brush in English, is an evergreen bulbous perennial geophyte with small white flowers in dense umbels in family of the Amaryllidaceae (Amaryllis Family). The whole plant grows to 20–30 cm tall when in flower by 15 cm wide. Fruits: If pollinated, it produces clusters of ... [more]

Season: Summer

Cereus jamacaru DC.

Balchik

Cereus jamacaru reach heights of 3 to 9 metres and it is native to Brazil. It is a protected species according to the Washington Convention (CITES). The trees prefer a sunny situation on dry soil. They tolerate temperatures down to -7°C Cereus jamacaru produces solitary white funnel-shaped flowers. The cactus produce edible berries. The juice of the plant is used for treating scurvy, lung and skin disease, also it is applied topically to treat ulcers. In University botanic garden – Balchik Cereus jamacaru can be observed in collection inside our permanent greenhouse.

Season: Summer

Solidago canadensis L.

Balchik

Solidago canadensis is a species in the family of the Asteraceae. The perennials reach heights of 30 to 150 centimetres. Solidago canadensis produces panicles of yellow many-stellate flowers from August to October. Solidago canadensis is native to eastern Canada, the Rocky Mountains, the northern Prairie ... [more]

Season: Summer

Chasmanthium latifolium (Michaux) H.O.Yates

Balchik

Season: Summer

Pachypodium geayi Costantin & Bois

Balchik

Season: Summer

Crambe maritima L.

Balchik

Season: Spring

Albuca spiralis L.f.

Balchik

Season: Spring

Leucaena leucocephala - (Lam.) De Wit.

Balchik

Season: Spring

Trichodiadema densum Schwantes

Balchik

Season: Spring

Bryophyllum delagoense (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Druce

Balchik

Bryophyllum delagoensis is a succulent plant native to Madagascar. In common with some other members of its genus, B. delagoensis is notable for vegetatively growing small plantlets on the distal ends of its phylloclades. The perennials reach heights of 50 to 200 centimetres. The simple leaves are ... [more]

Season: Spring, Winter

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Season: Winter

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