Traditional Christmas Plants
1. Blandfordia Grandiflora
Common Name: the Large Christmas Bell
Blooming in mostly December and January, this flower grows all year round. It has a long cylindrical pipe shape with an inverted cup shape at the end and is one of just four Blandfordia species.
This species of flower was adorned on the Australian stamps released in 1960 and Christmas 1967.
2. Hellebore:
Common name: Hellebores
Different types of this flower are found in Europe as well as Asia. However, the most common occurrence for this variety is found in the Balkans.
This variety of flowers has five “petals” (in reality sepals) encompassing a circle of small, containers like nectarines (petals re-organized to contain nectar).
3. Schlumbergera:
Common name: Christmas cactus, Thanksgiving Cactus, Crab Cactus and Holiday Cactus
Schlumbergera is a petite variety of cacti with six types, found in the elevated areas of the south-eastern Brazilian shoreline. These plants develop on trees or boulders in a moist and damp environment secluded from sunlight.
4. Amaryllis:
Common Name: belladonna lily, Jersey lily, naked lady, Amarillo, Easter lily in Southern Australia or, in South Africa.
Amaryllis is a semi-spherical plant, with each sphere measuring around 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) in diameter.
5. Ceratopetalum gummiferum:
Common name: gummiferum
Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Also known as the New South Wales Christmas Bush, is a lanky shrub or short tree frequently grown for its sepals that change into bright red-pink during the Christmas period.
6. Holly:
Common name: Christ’s thorn
Holly is a variety of 400 to 600 types of flowering plants in the group Aquifoliaceae, and the only living type in that family. These flower types are perennial and deciduous trees, bushes, and creepers found in all zones worldwide.
7. Alstroemeria psittacina:
Common names: Peruvian lily, Parrot flower, Parrot Lily, Lily of the Incas, and Princess Lily.
This plant is local to the plant of the Cerrado and Pantanal growth in Brazil and Argentina.
It is a well-known and commonly used decorative plant in New Zealand, where it usually comes to blossom around Christmas. This is the reason why this Christmas flower is also called the New Zealand Christmas bell.
8. Poinsettia:
Common name: Christmas plant
The poinsettia is a socially and economically key plant variety of the many types of spurge commonly found in Mexico and Central America. It gets it common English name from the first United States Minister to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett who brought it into the United States in 1825
9. Helleborus Niger:
Common name: Christmas Rose or Black Hellebore
Helleborus Niger is a perennial plant with dark thick leaves held on stems 9–12 in (23–30 cm) high. The big spread flowers, carried on stout stems from midwinter to early spring usually range from white in color to pink.
10. Mistletoe:
Common name: obligate hemiparasitic plants
Mistletoes connect and enter the branches of a tree or shrub by a formation known as the haustorium, which allows them to siphon water and nutrients from the supplying plant.
11. Camellia sasanqua:
Common name: Sasanqua camellia
Camellia sasanqua is a variety of Camellia common in China and Japan. It typically a flourish up to a height of 900 meters. It’s a perennial shrub that can to reach about 5 meters in height.
12. Hedera:
Common name: ivy
Hedera is a type of 12–15 varieties of perennial creepers or ground-crawling woody vines in the group Araliaceae, common only to western, central and southern Europe, Micronesia, north-western Africa and through central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan.
13. Hydrangea:
Common name: hydrangea or hortensia
Hydrangea is a type of 70–75 varieties of blossoming plants specific to southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. It has the most variations in eastern Asia, especially China, Japan, and Korea.
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