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Wandering Jew - Tradescantia zebrina

Wandering jew is a trailing perennial grown for its foliage. The fleshy leaves have two silvery stripes and purple undersides. Flowers bloom intermittently throughout the year. It often causes skin irritations in humans, and dogs kept in yards containing wandering jew have developed rashes. Due to their wonderful appearance, wandering Jew plants are primarily kept in homes and gardens as ornaments. They are perfect for hanging baskets or pots. Their exquisite deep purple, emerald green, and silver stripes provide every room in your house a unique flavor.

Water Hyacinth - Eichhornia crassipes

It has dark shiny green leaves in rosettes with distinctive, swollen, bladder-like petioles. Pale violet or blue flowers in 8-10 flowered spikes appear from November to April. This aquatic plant invades dams and slow-moving rivers. Water hyacinth is reported to have anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antibacterial functions. Furthermore, it can be used as a hair fragrance, to treat cholera, sore throat, and snake bites. Water hyacinth is used to treat waste water from dairies, tanneries, sugar factories, pulp and paper industries, palm oil mills, distilleries, etc.

Whin plan - Ulex europaeus

Ulex is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species of thorny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are native to parts of western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia. Gorse has never played much of a role in herbal medicine, though its flowers have been used in the treatment of jaundice and as a treatment for scarlet fever in children. The seed is said to be astringent and has been used in the treatment of diarrhea and stones.

Wormwood - Artemisia vulgaris

It is commonly known by a large number of common names including mugwort, wild wormwood, and felon herb, is an upright rhizomatous herbaceous perennial which grows 2-4′ (less frequently to 6′) tall but spreads in the landscape by rhizomes, often aggressively, to 6′ wide or more. Wormwood is used for various digestion problems such as loss of appetite, upset stomach, gall bladder disease, and intestinal spasms. Wormwood is also used to treat fever, liver disease, and worm infections; to increase sexual desire; as a tonic; and to stimulate sweating. Wormwood is widely used among North Africans.

Weeping Bottlebrush - Callistemon viminalis

Callistemon viminal is Weeping bottlebrush (formerly Melaleucaviminalis, also known as Weeping Bottlebrush, is a shrub or small tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to the states of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia where it often occurs along watercourses. It grows up to 8 meters in height and has pendent branches with leaves which are 3 to 7 cm long and 3 to 7 mm in width. The bright red flower spikes, which are 4 to 10 cm in length and about 3 to 6 cm in diameter, occur between spring and summer.

Wax Tree - Toxicodendron succedaneum

The wax tree is a deciduous tree growing up to 10m in height. It flowers in July and the seeds ripen from September to November. The flowers are dioecious, which means that individual flowers are either male or female, but only one sex is found on any one plant, so both male and female plants must be grown if seed is required. The flowers are pollinated by bees.

Water Poppy - Hydrocleys nymphoides

Water poppy is a floating aquatic plant with heart-shaped leaves and delicate light-yellow flowers with three-petals. This tropical American plant can compete with indigenous water lilies and large infestations can block out sunlight to the detriment of other aquatic organisms. Poppy seeds are often said to offer various other benefits, including promoting digestion, boosting skin and hair health, and treating headaches, coughs, and asthma.

Wolf's Claw plant - Lycopodium clavatum

The dry, finely powdered spores of club moss are used to promote healing by drying excess moisture that can cause skin irritation and itching in eczema, much like cornstarch or colloidal oatmeal. These antibiotic spores are are non-toxic, unlike the leaves and stems of the plant that contain two poisonous alkaloids, lycopodine and clavadine. Club moss was used as a whole herb in traditional Chinese medicine, and in homeopathic amounts in the West.

Water Lettuce - Pistia stratiotes

Water lettuce is a floating herb in rosettes of grey-green leaves, rosettes occurring singly or connected to others by short stolons. Perennial, mat-forming, usually free-floating aquatic plant, seldom exceeding 150-200 mm in diameter; plants consist of a rosette of leaves with a tuft of long, fibrous roots beneath and resemble floating lettuces

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