industrial plant grow on all of the world ’s continent . Although some are low and mundane in appearance , others provide us food or construction materials , while others seem to only bring home the bacon visual delight . Broadly address , an decorative plant is one that has at least one visually attractive feature film . Beauty is subjective . yield and tone trees and food crops can be visually arresting and cosmetic , but are usually labeled for their specific design .
Plant Form/Habit
The outgrowth habit of plants can be considered ornamental . Narrow - grow trees , which have a columnar or fastigiate habit , can create a pleasing silhouette . Likewise , a gigantic , sprawling plant like an oak tree can be visually interesting because of its rounded canopy . Some plants resemble triangle in shape , while others are humble , release - like tuft .
Specific grow shapes of plants can be control for design constituent in a garden landscape . Prostrate and crying branch juxtapose with penetrating , good trunk or leaves can heighten the optic knockout of a garden piece .
Flowers
Perhaps the most celebrated prospect of a industrial plant is its prime . Although a plant may look mundane or even surly , a visually colorful or unambiguously work flower with a delicious odor can define that plant as cosmetic . flush need not be beautiful , they can also be ugly or unknown , as someone can see visual interest and thus mark the plant as have got ornamental quality .
Some plants are farm merely for their prime , such as roses and tulips . Whereas other plant , like some cherries and apples , are develop for their edible fruits but also expose an attractive springtime bloom . blossom are admired for being singular and heavy as well as being midget but legion .
Fruits and Seeds
Just as a plant can be rather average until it shows off its flower , other plant life may not become cosmetic until their fruits or seed are form . brilliantly colourise yield and seeds , or those that have a unique shape can find favor with humans . The tropical sausage tree or baobab tree has fruits that front like rats hung by their stern . The seeds of sweetgum are circular and thorny while those of a maple are winged and " helicopter - similar . " The colorful yield of holly are particularly appreciated in wintertime .
Edible food crop can also have decorative features . The Fuji orchard apple tree is multicolored , but usually more look up to for its yummy taste . Wheat grain cum head are architecturally beautiful and can be used in dried flower musical arrangement .
Foliage Shape and Color
plant life leaves have a farsighted length in the growing time of year . The form and color of a folio can deliver a plant ornamental , as can the folio ’s glossiness or matt-up - similar texture . Maple leaves are quickly recognized by their human body , the glossy southern magnolia leafage has a fuzzy coppery underside and some waterlily leaves have mottlings of green , burgundy and purple .
colour of leafage can vary across the year , including experience a icteric or pinkish color when first emerging in spring , to having motley unripe and white foliage in summer , and vibrant yellow , red or orange color in autumn , brought on by shortened day and parky night .
Bark and Structure
There is tremendous variety in bark among tree diagram and shrubs , from thick and corked to Methedrine - like and even spotted like the skin of leopards and serpent . Once bloom , come and foliage melt in wintertime , the barque and overall structure of works can make them specially ornamental . writhed branches , or a matrix of twigs with thorns that catch snow , or red and brown striped barque are aesthetically pleasing . Shrubs may reveal barque that is exfoliate , or shedding in peel strips , or that is vibrantly colored .
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