Plants Found at Houghton Garden

Today, I went to Houghton Garden and walked around the trial for approximately 40 minutes in total. There was a mid-seventies weather and there was not much wind. The sun was vibrant and shining without clouds blinding its sight. At the beginning of my walk, I saw a few vertical wood-like roots that had thin, forked branches where simple, small brown leaves grew in what appeared to be a circling motion around the branch. This plant had a few spider webs in it. Then, I found tall, vertical plants with wide leaves that seemed to have a circular shape. The plant itself had long stems appeared to rise in order to get sunlight. I had the chance to observe various plants along the trial that had flowers with white, thin, long petals and light brownish flower heads that were found superior to the petals and had a starry-like shape. After a few minutes, I came across a plant in which its stem was green and had leaves branching off in a zig zag pattern on from the stem and from the middle of the leaf the venation patterns were diagonal. These leaves were green, relatively big in size and long from the stem to the tip of the leaf. Nearby, I encountered a plant that had green heart shaped leaves with a curved venation pattern. The edges of the leaf had zig zagged shaped indentations that made the leaves have triangular-like tips. I, then, came across a few plants with a red stem that had long, relatively big, narrow leaves with curved venation that extended from the top of the stem and were positioned in such a way where a yellow seed was found in between the leaves that were surrounding it. Later on, I found a plant with bright, glossy green leaves that turned yellowish towards the center. This plant had a few circular white clumps of flowers growing around the stem that was mostly found on top of where the leaves were branching. As I kept walking, I encountered a plant that was a bright, light green color and it had a stem with lots of branches that branched out diagonally. I found this color and shape to be very peculiar as I had not seen anything like it before, especially in this garden. I also saw a plant with green leaves on the inferior and purple leaves on the superior part that had curved venation and had slightly curved edges. Then, I saw some small plants with light green leaves that were small and curved with a tip. There was a thin green stem that elevated from which a small pink flower rose, which looked like a clump of light pink cotton at first glance. Finally before leaving the trial, I encountered a plant with big, long, elliptic shaped leaves with a curved venation and slight indentations along the edges. This plant had small, thin light green stem that had small, circular like flowering branching out. Overall, I encountered a variety of different plants, some of which were very interesting to observe.

Posted on October 16, 2021 11:18 PM by floresak