This bamboo was brought by the Polynesians to Hawaii for use in canoe building. It is yellow with green stripes. Clumping bamboo has underground stems that sprout vertical shoots much closer to their parent plants that runner types. Clumpers tend […]
Schizostachyum brachycladum ( Bamboo )
Clumping bamboo that grows in tight clumps and has drooping tips. Sometimes has yellow striped leaves and green streaks on its culms. Clumping bamboo has underground stems that sprout vertical shoots closer than runner type bamboo. Shoots grow slowly outward. […]
Schizopetalon walkeri ( Schizopetalon )
Erect, branching annual with lance-shaped, pinnatifid leaves. Racemes of fragrant, star-shaped, white flowers bloom from summer to early fall. Scent smells like almonds. Good container or bedding plant.
Schizanthus pinnatus ( Sweet Lips Poor Man’s Orchid )
Erect and somewhat bushy annual with almost fern-like, lance-shaped, light-green leaves, up to 5 inches long. Sweet Lips bears large, tubular flowers that are in terminal, open cymes, and come in dark shades of pink and red. A winter-spring annual […]
Schizanthus pinnatus ( Hit Parade Poor Man’s Orchid )
Erect and somewhat bushy annual with almost fern-like, lance-shaped, light-green leaves, up to 5 inches long. Flowers of Hit Parade are clear pink and usually have various markings. A winter-spring annual in California, summer annual in the Northwest, this plant […]
Schizanthus pinnatus ( Angel’s Wings Poor Man’s Orchid )
Erect and somewhat bushy annual with almost fern-like, lance-shaped, light-green leaves, up to 5 inches long. Angel’s Wings bears large, tubular flowers that are in terminal, open cymes, and come in shades of pink, red, and purple. A winter-spring annual […]
Schisandra rubriflora ( Chinese Magnolia Vine )
Woody, deciduous climber with shiny, toothed, dark green leaves that turn yellow in fall. Single, dark red flowers bloom from late spring to summer followed by, on female plants, pendent, fleshy red fruit. Ideal for pergola or wall.
Schisandra chinensis ( Chinese Magnolia Vine )
Woody, deciduous climber with shiny, toothed, dark green leaves. Small clusters of cream to light pink flowers bloom from late spring to summer followed by on female plant, pendent, red or pink fruit. Ideal for pergola or wall.
Schinus molle ( Peruvian Mastic Tree )
Broad evergreen tree with slim, pendent branches. Leaves are pinnate and composed of many narrow, elliptic, toothed, shiny green leaflets. Panicles of white to yellow flowers bloom from late winter to summer; rosy pink fruit follows blooms.
Schima khasiana ( Schima )
Evergreen tree or shrub that is broad and conical in habit. Oblong to oval leaves are long, papery or leathery, shiny, toothed and dark green with red veins. Single, cup-shaped, fragrant white flowers are borne from buds with red tints. […]
