Plants that Start with C

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Plants that Start with C

Hundreds of medicines available in the market come from plants, herbs and trees. Each time scientists discover a new property of a plant, they apply it to medicine. It is important to have some knowledge about plants as some of them can be very poisonous. The following are some categories for plants that start with C.

Herbs that start with C

Cajan pea: -tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics.

– I wonder why cajan peas are named pigeon’s peas.

Centaurium: genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers.

– Centaurium herb is used as medicine to purify the blood and kill worms in the digestive track.

Cicer: chickpea plant; Asiatic herbs.

– The cicer has many health uses. It has anti-fungal and antibacterial properties.

Climbing boneset: – of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees.

-The class is taking an herbal course. This week they learned about the climbing boneset and its properties.

Flowers that start with C

Caladenia cairnsiana: orchid with reddish linear leaves and panicle of purple-marked pale-yellow flowers with deep red or purple lip; southwestern Australia.

– The caladenia cairnsiana is a very pretty flower. It resembles me an elegant ballerina.

Centrosema virginianum: large-flowered weakly twining or prostrate vine of New Jersey to tropical eastern North America, sometimes cultivated for its purple and white flowers.

– The centrosema virginiaum is a natural treasure of Ohio.

Cephalanthera: small genus of temperate Old World terrestrial orchids.

– The cephalanthera is no other than an orchid.

Cinquefoil: any of numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties.

– The garden was painted in yellow with all those cinquefoils.

Cleistes rosea: orchid of central and northern South America having 1- to 3-blossomed racemes of large showy rose-colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia.

– The artist only paints clesites roseas. They are his favorite flowers and inspiration.

Trees that start with C

Cabbage tree: elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand.

– It’s very funny that cabbage tree looks more like a palm than as a cabbage.

Ceiba tree: massive tropical tree with deep ridges on its massive trunk and bearing large pods of seeds covered with silky floss; source of the silky kapok fiber.

– If you look a picture of the Amazon rainforest, you’ll se ceiba trees for sure.

Chinchona: any of several trees of the genus Cinchona.

– Also called fever tree, chinchona has many uses like reducing fever, relieving pain and calming nerves.

Clusia: an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers.

Wow! clusia trees are unique; you can write on its leaves and the mark will remain there for years.

Jungle and swamps that start with C

Calla palustris: plant of wetlands and bogs of temperate regions having small greenish flowers partly enclosed in a white spathe and red berries.

– I’m a calla’s huge fan, even if calla palustris grow in dirty swamps.

Ceratopteris: water ferns.

– The ceratopteris is a 100% aquatic fern.

Climbing maidenhair: tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida.

-The climbing maidenhair covered the house pipes completely.