Paris polyphylla chinensis (Paris polyphylla chinensis)
Description
Paris polyphylla is an Asian species of plants native to China, Taiwan, the Indian Subcontinent, and Indochina. It produces spider-like flowers that throw out long, thread-like, yellowish green petals throughout most of the warm summer months and into the autumn. In the fall, the flowers are followed by small, scarlet berries. It is a perennial, which slowly spreads, is fully hardy in Britain, and survives in leafy, moist soil in either complete or partial shade.This flowering plant usually grows up to 90 cm. 3 ft high and spreads out about 30 cm. 1 ft wide. Its leaves grow in a single whorl below a flower growing in two whorls.It is used as an ornamental plant for woodland gardens or for planting under deciduous trees.
Taxonomic tree
-
Domain: Eukarya
-
-
Kingdom: Plantae
-
-
Phylum:
-
-
Class: Liliopsida
-
-
Order: Liliales
-
-
Family: Melanthiaceae
-
-
Genus: Paris
-
-
-
-
-
-
