Practical Illustrated Guide to Landscape Plants, Issue 3: Vining Plants, Coconut Plants - 182 Species

Author: Xue Congxian
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: Climbing plants, also known as trailing plants or vines, refer to plants whose stems and branches are easily elongated and cannot stand independently. They must rely on their tendrils or climbing stems to wrap around or cling to other objects, or even crawl along the ground to grow normally. This includes both herbaceous and woody climbing plants. They are divided into three types:
1. Climbing vines with tendrils or adventitious aerial roots, such as gourds, figs, and ivy, which can wrap around other objects to grow;
2. Twining vines, such as morning glories, clematis, black-eyed Susan, and honeysuckle, whose stems can twine around other objects to grow;
3. Creeping vines, such as rattan and creeping marigolds, whose stems can spread horizontally along the ground, easily rooting where they touch the soil.
Additionally, there are climbing shrubs, such as bougainvillea, jasmine, yellow trumpet honeysuckle, and glory vine. These plants are originally shrubs, but after their branches elongate, they become semi-climbing or vine-like, capable of growing independently or clinging to other objects.
Climbing plants are used in landscaping for arbors, trellises, fences, shade structures, or as potted plants. Once their stems and vines climb the structures, they can bloom for ornamental purposes, creating shaded areas beneath the structures for rest and relaxation. Their applications are quite specialized. This book collects a total of 111 commonly used climbing plants in the gardening industry, including newly introduced varieties in recent years.
Coconut palms refer to the palm trees in the family Arecaceae within the class Liliopsida, native to tropical or subtropical regions and serving as important economic crops in tropical areas. The plants are evergreen trees, shrubs, or vines. Their stems are solitary or clumped, usually unbranched and cylindrical. The leaves are clustered at the top of the stems, with pinnately compound or palmately divided leaves. Their elegant and graceful forms make them important ornamental plants. This book includes over 70 species, with a few that are difficult to cultivate due to poor adaptation to local climate and soil conditions. The photos of these species were taken abroad and are provided for reference only.