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Morchella esculenta.
Family: Morchellaceae.
Common name: Common Morel, Yellow morel.
Vern: Guchi.
Kashmiri: Kan Gitch.

Guchi is one of most readily recognized of all the edible mushrooms having numerous medicinal properties.

Gazania rigens.
Synonym: Gorteria rigens.
Family: Asteraceae.
Common name: Treasure Flower.
Flowering period: March-October.
Native: Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland.

Treasure Flower is a perennial herb or subshrub having flower heads banded with a dark zone around the central disc.

Picris hieracioides.
Synonym: Picris hieracioides subsp. alinoorii.
Family: Asteraceae.
Common name: Hawk W**d.
Flowering period: July- October.
Native: Temperate Eurasia.

Hawk W**d is a biennial herb covered with stiff hooked hairs. Leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate and flower heads yellow with RAY florets only

Veronica persica.
Synonym: Pocilla persica, Veronica areolata.
Family: Plantaginaceae.
Common name: Persian Speedwell.
Flowering period; March-April
Native: Caucasus to N. Iran.

Persian Speedwell is a small annual prostrate and spreading herb, with sky-blue flowers.
Note: Veronica persica is similar to V. polita but former has larger flowers and the calyx lobes of V. persica taper gradually to an acute and rounded point whereas calyx lobes of V. polita come to a sharp point.

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Mirabilis jalapa

Kingdom: Plantae

Clade:
Tracheophytes, Angiosperms , Eudicots.

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Nyctaginaceae

Genus:Mirabilis

Species: M. jalapa

Binomial name :Mirabilis jalapa

Comman Name: Four o clock flower

*Beauty of the Night*

Botanical Name : Ipomoea nil
Common Name : Morning Glory
Genus : Ipomoea
Kingdom : Plantae
Clade : Tracheophytes
Order : Solanales
Family : Convolvulaceae

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Trichodesma indicum.
Synonym: Borago indicum, Boraginella indica.
Family: Boraginaceae.
Common name: Indian Borage.
Native: Afghanistan to Thailand, Philippines.

Indian Borage an annual herb with spreading and densely hairy branches
grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

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Melia azedarach

common Names :- chinaberry tree, pride of India, bead-tree, Cape lilac, syringa berrytree, Persian lilac, Indian lilac, or white cedar,
a species of deciduous tree in the mahogany family, Meliaceae

Dianthus chinensis
common names :- Rainbow pink or China pink is a species of Dianthus native to northern China, Korea, Mongolia, and southeastern Russia.
It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 30–50 cm tall.

The leaves are green to greyish green, slender, 3–5 cm long and 2–4 mm broad. The flowers are white, pink, or red, 3–4 cm diameter, produced singly or in small clusters from spring to mid summer.
Growing in the form of a bush, the flowers are often together in pairs, and ornamental varieties could accommodate up to 15 flowers in a cymose inflorescence.
Cultivation
It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant. .