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Evergreen shrub originating in Japan, it can reach 6 m in height and grows slowly. Its leaves are dark green on top and paler on the underside. There are numerous cultivated varieties in white, pink and red, and single, semi-double and double flowers.

Climbing plant typical of the tropical rainy zone that stretches from southern Mexico to southern Panama, but extended by cultivation to other tropical and subtropical areas. It has a thick stem and can reach 20 m in height; in the wild it climbs up trees. Its characteristic leaves are heart-shaped, 25 to 90 cm long and 25-75 cm wide. The adult leaves are lobed.

A shrub with evergreen foliage originating in southern Japan, it can reach 3-6 m in height. It has a spiral leaf arrangement, and leaves measure from 20 to 50 cm long with a 50 cm petiole. Ostensibly palmate, they usually have between 7 and 9 lobes. They are glossy dark green in colour.

Woody creeper, native to Southeast Asia. Its stems are relatively narrow and it can reach 7 or 8 m with the help of a prop. Its flower is white, measuring 1 to 2 cm, and has a pleasant, intense scent. It is a plant appreciated for its spectacular flowering, but it also has beautiful foliage. Its leaves are an intense green colour, lance-shaped and up to 10 cm long.

Palm typical of the Garraf Massif and one of the few European palms in existence. It is only found near the sea, and not in the interior. Its height usually does not exceed 2 m, since it grows in poor soils, where the ground does not retain water. However, well cared for in parks it achieves a more arboreal and elegant aspect, being able to grow up to 6 metres. It has large fan-shaped leaves, with strong, downward-pointing thorns on the petiole. This protection hinders the passage of any small animals attempting to climb up in search of the sweet, juicy apical shoots. It is usually a dioecious species (having separate, unisex flowers) with yellow, grape-shaped flowers.

A tree brought from the Southeast United States in the early 18th century. It is one of the oldest plant species still on Earth, in terms of evolution. This tree of corpulent evergreen leaves can grow 25 m tall, and has smooth grey bark and a conical crown. Its leaves are oval, about 10 to 20 cm long, bright green above and reddish below. The flowers are of white or yellowish colour, very large, up to a hand-span wide, with a pleasant scent; they wither in just a few days.

Perennial tree, corpulent, up to 20 metres tall, has a wide, dense and more or less rounded crown, and its grey bark has shallow cracks. Its leaves are small, between 3 and 7 cm, green above and white below, with an elliptical shape and with a tough, leathery layer that prevents water evaporation. Its flowers are feminine and masculine, small and not particularly showy.

Palm native to central and eastern China, but planted as an ornamental in all temperate zones, with a notable presence in Mediterranean countries. Its trunk can grow 12 m high and is covered by the bases of fallen leaves, giving it a hairy appearance. Its fronds have a leaf blade about 50 cm long by 75 cm wide, with petioles with serrated edges somewhat longer than the blade

Palm tree with fan-shaped leaves, native to the western part of North America, usually reaches 20-25 m in height. Its trunk is not of woody consistency, as in typical trees, being rather a very fibrous and hardened herbaceous stem, in this case cylindrical and somewhat enlarged at the base. It has a greyish tone with some bluish hues. The leaves are grouped in an apical rosette, that is, at the top of the stem, and are palmate, with a round or fan-shaped contour, strongly lobed, with filaments at the edges of the lobes (to which the specific epithet filifera alludes in the full name: Washingtonia filifera). The leaves are quite large (up to 2 m diameter). Its flowers are small, whitish and not especially attractive; they are grouped in inflorescences that hang facing downward toward the ground.


Palm native to North Africa and Southwest Asia, but as it was widely cultivated to obtain prized dates, it is difficult to determine the area where it is really autochthonous. It arrived in Spain thanks to the Arabs. It can grow up to 30 metres high and its trunk is covered with the fallen leaves that give it bulk. Its leaves are bluish-green, up to 4 metres long, divided into segments folded lengthwise. It has strong, aggressive thorns at the base of the frond. The date palm is dioecious, which means there are male individuals (male flowers) and female individuals (female flowers), which are the ones that give the dates.