Plants Database

Common Box

Buxus sempervirens

• Family: Buxaceae
• Growth: Slow
• Layer: Shrubs
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Apple

Malus domestica

• Family: Rosaceae
• Edible: True
• Layer: Trees
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2024-08-25

Description: An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated ...

Fig

Ficus carica

• Family: Moraceae
• Growth: Medium
• Edible: true
• Layer: Trees
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Description: The fig, or Ficus carica, is a species of flowering plant in the mulberry family. It is native to th...

Chinese chestnut

Castanea mollissima

• Family: Fagaceae
• Growth: Medium
• Edible: true
• Layer: Tall trees
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Osage orange

Maclura pomifera

• Family: Moraceae
• Growth: Medium
• Layer: Trees
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Description: Sometimes calles "Maclura pommifera" (with two M).

Butterfly bush

Buddleia davidii

• Family: Buddleiaceae
• Growth: Fast
• Layer: Shrubs
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Cucamelon

Melothria scabra

• Family: Cucurbitaceae
• Layer: Vines
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2023-09-22

Description: Corn, Sunflowers and any other high growing plant, can act as a trellis.

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Bay tree

Laurus nobilis

• Family: Lauraceae
• Growth: Slow
• Edible: true
• Layer: Trees
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Pineapple guava

Acca sellowiana

• Family: Myrtaceae
• Growth: Slow
• Edible: true
• Layer: Trees
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Silverberry

Elaeagnus commutata

• Family: Elaeagnaceae
• Growth: Medium
• Edible: true
• Layer: Shrubs
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Beech

Fagus sylvatica

• Family: Fagaceae
• Growth: Medium
• Edible: true
• Layer: Tall trees
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28

Description: Beech is a tree that is native to Europe, Western Asia, and North America. It is known for its smoot...

Giant reed

Arundo donax

• Family: Poaceae or gramineae
• Growth: Fast
• Edible: true
• Layer: Herbs
• Type: Plant
• Last Modified: 2025-05-28