I.

Plants with pointed Leaves

1. Yucca filamentosa Golden Sword) - This easy to grow evergreen yucca bears
dramatic, sword-shaped yellow leaves with a dark green edge. Not as staunchly
upright as some yuccas, its leaf tips sometimes droop with age. Its foliage color is best
from fall to spring.
2. Agave - it is a succulent plant species of the genus Aloe. It grows wild in tropical
climates around the world and is cultivated for agricultural and medicinal uses.
3. Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag, yellow iris, water flag, lever) - is a species in the
genus Iris, of the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest
Africa. Its specific epithet, meaning "false acorus," refers to the similarity of its leaves
to those of Acorus calamus, as they have a prominently veined mid-rib and sword-like
shape.

II. Plants with bad smell

1. Titan Arum - This huge plant is often referred to as the corpse flower. Its three
meters tall when fully grown and emits a horrible stench that people flock to from
around the world. It takes a long time to reach full size and when it gets there it will
begin to heat up to somewhere around human body temperature. This helps to
intensify its smell, which attracts pollinators.
2. Rafflesia - This is the largest flower in the world and it grows on the floor of
rainforests. It doesnt have the usual parts such as leaves, roots or stem. It gives of
a stench of rotting flesh, which attracts carrion flies. In the Philippines, Rafflesia can be
found in Antique.
3. Dead Horse Arum Lily - This ornamental plant is native to the Mediterranean region
and gives of a smell of carrion to attract blowflies and other insects. Its a rare
thermogenic plant, which means it can raise its temperature to attract even more
insects.

III. Plants with sticky sap

1. Aloe vera it is a succulent plant species of the genus Aloe. It grows wild in tropical
climates around the world and is cultivated for agricultural and medicinal uses
2. Snakeplant - It is an evergreen perennial plant forming dense stands, spreading by
way of its creeping rhizome, which is sometimes above ground, sometimes
underground. Its stif leaves grow vertically from a basal rosette.
3. Common Milkweed it is a clonal perennial herb growing up to 2.6 m tall. Its ramets
grow from rhizomes. All parts of common milkweed plants produce white latex when
broken. The simple leaves are opposite or sometimes whorled; broad ovate-lanceolate;
up to 25 cm long and 12 cm broad, usually with entire, undulate margins and reddish
main veins. They have very short petioles and velvety undersides

IV. Plants with fine hairs

1. Fringed Loosestrife - Fringed yellow-loosestrife is an erect to sprawling, often
branched perennial, usually 1-2 ft. tall, forming large masses of pale-green, lance-
shaped foliage. An erect stem, unbranched or branched, bearing yellow flowers rising
on stalks in axils of opposite leaves; leafstalks fringed with spreading hairs.
2. Downy Phlox - A mounded perennial, downy phlox grows 1-2 ft. tall and bears
clusters of fragrant, pale pink to lavender flowers. The petals of the showy flowers are
joined at their bases into an elongate tube. Stems and narrow, paired leaves are
covered with soft hairs.
3. Silky lupine - This perennial herb produces erect stems from a woody caudex and
deep root system. The stems reach up to 50 centimetres (20 inches) tall and may
branch or not. They are coated in silvery or reddish hairs. The leaves have up to 9
lance-shaped leaflets each up to 6 centimetres (2.4 inches) in length. They are coated
in silky hairs.

V. Plants with thorns

1. Roses - "Every rose has it thorn," the saying goes. The meaning is that even the most
beautiful things in the world can have a difficult, even painful, side. Roses are the
queen of flowers, but they can be hard to take care of with their sharp thorns that are
on the stems, not to mention the many pests and diseases that tend to attack them.
2. Agave - On the edges of those leaves are sharp thorns, giving the impression that
they are not plants to tangle with. After many years of growth, agaves send up a flower
stalk that may reach 20 feet in height, putting on a final extravagant display before
 setting seed and dying. Excellent drainage is essential; plant agaves in sandy soil, if
possible, and do not water or fertilize.
3. Brambles - Brambles refers to plants in the rubus genus, including raspberries,
blackberries and their many relatives - most of which have stems covered in thorns.

JOHN LEE F. ESPARAGOZA

IV-EMERALD