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Indian Laurel Fig
Zone 8
Tree, simple dark green, low light tolerant, also can have full light, used a lot as a street tree, topiary, tolerant of urban issues. Grows 25-30' tall and wide.
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Ficus pumila
Creeping Fig
Zone 8
Subtropical vine, very agressive. Grows 40-50' long.
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Gardenia jasminoides
Gardenia
Zone 7
Very fragrant white flower, shrub, glossy dark green leaves, blossoms fade to yellow, need acidity and humidity.
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Gelsemium sempervirens
Carolina Jasmine
Zone 7
Super fragrant, vine, twining, yellow spring blooming flower. Grows 20' long.
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Leptospermum scoparium
New Zealand Tea Tree
Zone 9
Xeric, needle-like foliage, little rosette flowers, comes in: pink, red and white. Flowers year round with biggest bloom period in the summer. Grows 5-10' high and wide.
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Nerium oleander
Oleander
Zone 8
Pink-red blossoms, summer blooming, xeric, super common, large willow like leaves, screening and massing, very toxic. Grows 10-12' high and wide.
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Olea europaea
Olive
Zone 8
Grey tones, xeric, specimin for habit, edible, really nasty mess, in landscape non-fruiting trees or male trees, very allergenic. Grows 30' high and wide.
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Pittosporum tobira
Mock orange
Zone 8
Shrub simple leaf, kind of propeller shaped, massing, hedging, screening, white flowers in spring, varigated forms. Grows 10' high and wide.
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Plumbago auriculata
Plumbago
Zone 9
Viney shrub, baby blue or white blossom, leaves cluster together, yr. round flowers, best flower show summer-fall. Grows 10-15' long as a vine and 5' high and wide as a shrub.
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Podocarpus macrophylla
Podocarpus (Yew Pine)
Zone 8
Large leaf, dense and full, dark green folliage, low light tolerant, conifer, berry cone, nickle sized yellow berry cone. Grows 20-30' tall and 10' wide.
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Podocarpus gracilior
Fern Podocarpus
Zone 8
Pendulous habit, graceful tree. Same foliage and cone as yew pine. Grows 40-50' tall and 20-30' wide.
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Dietes bicolor
Fortnight lily/African iris
Zone 9
Looks like iris kind of , comes in with or yellowish flower color, blooms year round, long erect folliage. Grows 3' high and wide.
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Calliandra californica
Fairy duster
Zone 9
Xeric, one-sided flate fan bottlebrushish flower, red blossom, blooms year round. Grows 5-6' high and wide.
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Succulent spp.
Succulent
Zone 4-10
Plants store water in the leaf, tissue is rubbery and fleshy, is not thorny.
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Euphorbia spp.
Euphorbia
Zone 3-11
Looks like a cactus, but is not. May or may not have thorns, thorns come in 2's and are woody-like and branch in a v pattern. Stem structure is usually squarish, tiny button knobby flower, angular sides, bleeds white sap.
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Cactus spp.
Cactus
Zone 4-10
Thorns! Thorns come out in groupings, and there are usually lots of thorns, beautiful flowers that come in all colors, new world plant found natively only in the western hemisphere.
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Aloe spp.
Aloe
Zone 9
Large fleshy leaves, thorns are not sharp, blooms pretty warm toned flowers, can be any form from groundcover-trees. sz. varies on the species.
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Agave spp.
Agave
Zone 8
Very fibery-Cna make rope out the fibers, sharp thorns at the leaf tip and down the side, super hard leaves, monocarp, blooms every 100 years, scarring on leaves from being pressed together during growing.
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