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Alternative names: Plants

Q: Which plant is sometimes/alternatively known as (the) … ? A:
Thorntree or wattle; or, erroneously, mimosa Click to show or hide the answer
Monkshood or wolfsbane Click to show or hide the answer
Saintpaulia Click to show or hide the answer
Jamaica Pepper Click to show or hide the answer
Belladonna lily Click to show or hide the answer
Windflower, thimbleweed, or smell fox Click to show or hide the answer
Cuckoo–pint, lords & ladies, wake–robin Click to show or hide the answer
Purple rock cress Click to show or hide the answer
Meadow saffron or naked lady Click to show or hide the answer
Alligator pear Click to show or hide the answer
Elephant's ears Click to show or hide the answer
Whortleberry, whinberry, blueberry (USA), blaeberry (Scots) Click to show or hide the answer
Convolvulus Click to show or hide the answer
Wild hyacinth Click to show or hide the answer
Ash–leaved maple Click to show or hide the answer
Butterfly bush Click to show or hide the answer
(Clove) pink; gillyflower (to Shakespeare, Chaucer and Spenser) Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Irish moss (seaweed) Click to show or hide the answer
Nepeta Click to show or hide the answer
Custard apple (shrub native to highland Andean valleys, with a green edible fruit) Click to show or hide the answer
The gean or mazzard (fruit or tree) is a wild variety of Click to show or hide the answer
Crab cactus Click to show or hide the answer
Traveller's Joy and Old man's Beard are wild varieties of; Nelly Moser is a variety of Click to show or hide the answer
Aquilegia (common garden plant) Click to show or hide the answer
Knitbone Click to show or hide the answer
Lady's Smock Click to show or hide the answer
Lent lily Click to show or hide the answer
Peeping Toms: early–flowering Click to show or hide the answer
Belladonna Click to show or hide the answer
Larkspur Click to show or hide the answer
Dumb cane Click to show or hide the answer
Judas Tree (some believe that Judas Iscariot hanged himself from one) Click to show or hide the answer
Common name for plants of the genus Bergenia (native to central Asia) Click to show or hide the answer
Cranesbill (name comes from the Greek for a crane) or (incorrectly) pelargonium Click to show or hide the answer
Maidenhair tree (a very old species, used in medicines and as a source of food) Click to show or hide the answer
Sword lily (most common name is the diminutive of the Latin word for a sword) Click to show or hide the answer
Jack–go–to–bed–at–noon (flowers only come out in the morning) Click to show or hide the answer
Scottish bluebell Click to show or hide the answer
May (tree) Click to show or hide the answer
Erica Click to show or hide the answer
Woodbine (genus Lonicera) Click to show or hide the answer
Common name for the Polemonium, from the configuration of its leaves Click to show or hide the answer
Japanese quince Click to show or hide the answer
Chinese gooseberry (native to China, introduced to New Zealand early 20th century, exported from there since the 1950s) Click to show or hide the answer
Golden chain or golden rain Click to show or hide the answer
May bells, Mary's tears, or Our Lady's tears Click to show or hide the answer
Linden tree: better known in Britain as the Click to show or hide the answer
Amaranthus Click to show or hide the answer
Oregon grape (shrub) Click to show or hide the answer
Kingcup Click to show or hide the answer
Philadelphus Click to show or hide the answer
Chile pine or Pehuén (Latin name Araucaria araucana) Click to show or hide the answer
Ipomoea Click to show or hide the answer
Traveller's joy Click to show or hide the answer
Kumquat Click to show or hide the answer
Wild Marjoram Click to show or hide the answer
Heartsease Click to show or hide the answer
Mexican flame leaf, Christmas star, winter rose, noche buena, Pascua Click to show or hide the answer
Polyanthus is the common name for a type of (distinct from the primrose; note also that polyantha is a type of rose) Click to show or hide the answer
Torch lily Click to show or hide the answer
Fireweed, Egyptian cottonweed, or bombsite plant Click to show or hide the answer
Aaron's beard (garden shrub) and althaea (Syrian shrub) Click to show or hide the answer
Mountain ash Click to show or hide the answer
Oyster plant (said to taste like oysters) Click to show or hide the answer
Pincushion flower (genus in the honeysuckle family) Click to show or hide the answer
Red chickweed, poor man's barometer, poor man's weather glass, shepherd's weather glass, shepherd's clock (most of these because its flowers only open in sunshine) Click to show or hide the answer
Wellingtonia Click to show or hide the answer
Fair maids of February, Mary's tapers, Candlemas bells, white ladies, little sister of the snows, snow piercers, dingle–dangle, flower of hope, death's flower Click to show or hide the answer
Cape primrose Click to show or hide the answer
Sea pinks (genus) Click to show or hide the answer
Japanese horseradish Click to show or hide the answer
Aconite or monk's hood Click to show or hide the answer

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