UMBRELLA PLANT


Meaning of UMBRELLA PLANT in English

any of several unrelated but similarly leaved plants. Cyperus alternifolius (family Cyperaceae), also called umbrella palm and umbrella sedge, is widely cultivated in water gardens and as a potted plant. It grows up to 1 m (3 feet) high. Native to Madagascar, Runion, and Mauritius, it is widely naturalized in the tropics and subtropics. Eriogonum alenii, native to the western United States, is a white woolly member of the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae). It grows to 50 cm (20 inches). Another umbrella plant, in the family Saxifragaceae, is Peltiphyllum peltatum; its leaves are about 25 cm (10 inches) across, with 1015 lobes. It grows well in wet places, reaching about 2 m (6 feet) in height.

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