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| Alternative Names Plants |
| Q: Which plant is sometimes/alternatively known as (the) … ? | A: | |
| Thorntree or wattle; or, erroneously, mimosa |
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Acacia |
| Monkshood or wolfsbane |
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Aconite |
| Saintpaulia |
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African violet |
| Jamaica Pepper |
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Allspice |
| Belladonna lily |
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Amaryllis |
| Windflower, thimbleweed, or smell fox |
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Anemone (common or wood) |
| Cuckoo–pint, lords & ladies, wake–robin |
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Arum (lily) |
| Purple rock cress |
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Aubretia |
| Meadow saffron or naked lady |
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Autumn crocus |
| Alligator pear |
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Avocado |
| Elephant's ears |
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Begonia |
| Whortleberry, whinberry, blueberry (USA), blaeberry (Scots) |
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Bilberry |
| Convolvulus |
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Bindweed |
| Wild hyacinth |
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Bluebell |
| Ash–leaved maple |
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Box elder |
| Butterfly bush |
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Buddleia |
(Clove) pink; gillyflower (to Shakespeare, Chaucer and Spenser)
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Carnation |
| Irish moss (seaweed) |
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Carragheen |
| Nepeta |
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Catmint (or catnip) |
| Custard apple (shrub native to highland Andean valleys, with a green edible fruit) |
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Cherimoya |
| The gean or mazzard (fruit or tree) is a wild variety of |
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Cherry |
| Crab cactus |
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Christmas cactus or Easter cactus |
| Traveller's Joy and Old man's Beard are wild varieties of; Nelly Moser is a variety of |
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Clematis |
| Aquilegia (common garden plant) |
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Columbine |
| Knitbone |
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Comfrey |
| Lady's Smock |
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Cuckoo flower |
| Lent lily |
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Daffodil |
| Peeping Toms: early–flowering |
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Daffodils |
| Belladonna |
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Deadly nightshade |
| Larkspur |
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Delphinium |
| Dumb cane |
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Dieffenbachia |
| Judas Tree (some believe that Judas Iscariot hanged himself from one) |
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Elder |
| Common name for plants of the genus Bergenia (native to central Asia) |
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Elephant's ears |
| Cranesbill (name comes from the Greek for a crane) or (incorrectly) pelargonium |
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Geranium |
| Maidenhair tree (a very old species, used in medicines and as a source of food) |
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Ginkgo |
| Sword lily (most common name is the diminutive of the Latin word for a sword) |
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Gladiolus |
| Jack–go–to–bed–at–noon (flowers only come out in the morning) |
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Goatsbeard |
| Scottish bluebell |
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Harebell |
| May (tree)
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Hawthorn |
| Erica |
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Heather |
| Woodbine (genus Lonicera) |
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Honeysuckle |
| Common name for the Polemonium, from the configuration of its leaves |
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Jacob's ladder |
| Japanese quince |
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Japonica |
| Chinese gooseberry (native to China, introduced to New Zealand early 20th century, exported from there since the 1950s) |
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Kiwifruit |
| Golden chain or golden rain |
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Laburnum |
| May bells, Mary's tears, or Our Lady's tears |
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Lily of the valley |
| Linden tree: better known in Britain as the |
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Lime tree |
| Amaranthus |
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Love–lies–bleeding |
| Oregon grape (shrub) |
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Mahonia |
| Kingcup |
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Marsh marigold |
| Philadelphus |
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Mock–orange |
| Chile pine or Pehuén (Latin name Araucaria araucana) |
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Monkey puzzle |
| Ipomoea |
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Morning glory |
| Traveller's joy |
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Old man's beard |
| Kumquat |
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Orange |
| Wild Marjoram |
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Oregano |
| Heartsease |
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Pansy |
| Mexican flame leaf, Christmas star, winter rose, noche buena, Pascua |
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Poinsettia |
| Polyanthus is the common name for a type of (distinct from the primrose; note also that polyantha is a type of rose) |
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Primula |
| Torch lily |
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Red hot poker |
| Fireweed, Egyptian cottonweed, or bombsite plant |
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Rosebay willow herb |
| Aaron's beard (garden shrub) and althaea (Syrian shrub) |
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Rose of Sharon |
| Mountain ash |
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Rowan |
| Oyster plant (said to taste like oysters) |
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Salsify |
| Pincushion flower (genus in the honeysuckle family) |
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Scabious |
| 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) |
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Scarlet pimpernel |
| Wellingtonia |
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Sequoia (redwood) |
| 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 |
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Snowdrop |
| Cape primrose |
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Streptocarpus |
| Sea pinks (genus) |
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Thrift |
| Japanese horseradish |
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Wasabi |
| Aconite or monk's hood |
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Wolfs–bane |
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