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Butea-Monospera

Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and western Indonesia.

Scientific name: Butea monosperma
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Order: Fabales
Kingdom: Plantae

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Deloxin-Regia

Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar. It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers over summer.

Scientific name: Delonix regia
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Order: Fabales
Kingdom: Plantae

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Fox-Brush-Orchid

Aerides, known commonly as cat's-tail orchids and fox brush orchids, is a genus belonging to the orchid family. It is a group of tropical epiphyte orchids that grow mainly in the warm lowlands of tropical Asia from India to southern China to New Guinea.

Scientific name: Aerides
Family: Orchidaceae
Order: Asparagales
Kingdom: Plantae

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Ganges-Primrose

Asystasia gangetica is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is commonly known as the Chinese violet, coromandel or creeping foxglove. In South Africa this plant may simply be called asystasia.

Scientific name: Asystasia gangetica
Family: Acanthaceae
Subfamily: Asystasia
Order: Lamiales
Kingdom: Plantae

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Hibiscus

Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world.

Scientific name: Hibiscus
Family: Malvaceae
Order: Malvales
Kingdom: Plantae
Tribe: Hibisceae

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Marigold

Tagetes is a genus of 50 species of annual or perennial, mostly herbaceous plants in the family Asteraceae. They are among several groups of plants known in English as marigolds. The genus Tagetes was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.

Scientific name: Tagetes
Family: Asteraceae
Order: Daisy family
Kingdom: Plantae

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Pansy

The garden pansy is a type of polychromatic large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower. It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanium of the genus Viola, particularly V. tricolor, a wildflower of Europe and western Asia known as heartsease.

Scientific name: Viola tricolor var. hortensis
Family: Violaceae
Order: Malpighiales
Kingdom: Plantae

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Zinnia

Zinnia is a genus of plants of the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae. They are native to scrub and dry grassland in an area stretching from the Southwestern United States to South America, with a centre of diversity in Mexico.

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