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Bougainvillea glabra Choisy Nyctaginaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
جهنمية

It is an evergreen, climbing shrub with thick, thorny stems and drooping branches that are glabrous or sparsely hairy. The leaves have a 3–10-millimetre-long stem. The leaf blade is ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed or briefly pointed, 5 to 13 centimeters long and 3 to 6 centimeters wide, sparsely fluffy hairy on the underside and bald on the top. The leaf-like bracts are purple, oblong or elliptical, pointed, 65–90 mm long and about 50 mm (2 in) wide. 
The tree is native to Brazil.

Khaya senegalensis (Desr.) A. Juss. Meliaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
الكايا

Dense crown trees up to 35 m high, with pinnate shining leaves, petals and staminal tube cream-colored. Growing in the main street going parallel to Faculty of Science (Assiut). 
The tree is native to Senegal, Sudan and Uganda

Thuja orientalis L. Cupressaceae

Faculty
العلوم

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Arabic Title
التويا

Evergreen bushy conifer, up to 15 m high, with scale-like leaves. Growing every where in Assiut University.
The tree is native to China, , Japan and Korea

Sphagneticola trilobata (L.) Pruski Asteraceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
الوديليا

mat-forming perennial herb up to 30 cm in height. Has rounded stems up to 40 cm long, rooting at nodes and with the flowering stems ascending. Leaves are fleshy, hairy, 4–9 cm long and 2–5 cm wide, serrate or irregularly toothed, normally with pairs of lateral lobes, and dark green above and lighter green below. The flowers are bright yellow ray florets of about 8-13 per head, rays are 6–15 mm long; disk-corollas 4–5 mm long. 
The tree is to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
 

Matthiola incana (L.) W.T. Aiton Brassicaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
المنثور

The plants are starry, with whitish hairs. The leaves are rounded and ash-coloured. The fragrant flowers are white, cream yellow, pink, red, purple or blue. Leaves whole or slightlysinuate, lanceolate, attenuated on a short petiole. Pedicels are 10–12 mm in anthesis, 12–17 mm in fruiting, erect-patents. Sepals are around 11–14 mm, with narrow scarious margin, subtle, green or somewhat purple. Petals are 25–30 mm, with a nail almost as long as the limb. Seeds are 2–3 mm, suborbicular, with a whitish wing. The flower is supported by a 10–20 mm stalk. 

It is native to  southern Europe, from the Balearics to the former Yugoslavia, and is naturalized in the western part of the Mediterranean region

Duranta erecta L. Verbenaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
الدورانتا

It is a sprawling shrub or a small tree. It can grow to 6 m tall and can spread to an equal width. The leaves are light green, elliptic to ovate, opposite, and grow up to 7.5 cm long and 3.5 cm broad, with a 1.5 cm petiole.The flowers are light-blue or lavender, produced in tight clusters located on terminal and axillary stems, The fruit is a small globose yellow or orange berry, up to 11 mm diameter and containing several seeds.
It is native to Mexico to South America and the Caribbean.

Rosmarinus officinalis L. Lamiaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
الروز ماري

Is an aromatic evergreen shrub with leaves similar to hemlock needles. The plant flowers in spring and summer in temperate climates, but the plants can be in constant bloom in warm climates; flowers are white, pink, purple or deep blue. Rosemary also has a tendency to flower outside its normal flowering season; it has been known to flower as late as early December, and as early as mid-February (in the northern hemisphere).
It is native to the Mediterranean and Asia, but is reasonably hardy in cool climates.
 

Ocimum basilicum L. Lamiaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
الريحان

It is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints). It is a tender plant, and is used in cuisines worldwide. basil can be grown as a short-lived perennial or biennial in warmer horticultural zones with tropical or Mediterranean climates. 

The plant is native to tropical regions from Central Africa to Southeast Asia.
 

Mentha viridis L. Lamiaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
النعناع البلدي

Spearmint is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is 30–100 cm tall. The leaves are 5–9 cm long and 1.5–3 cm broad, with a serrated margin. The stem is square-shaped, a defining characteristic of the mint family of herbs. each flower pink or white in colour, 2.5–3 mm long and broad.  

It is native to  Europe and southern temperate Asia, extending from Ireland in the west to southern China in the east.
 

Tropaeolum majus L. Tropaeolaceae

Faculty
العلوم
Arabic Title
أبو خنجر

The flowers are 2.5–6 cm in diameter, mildly scented, with five petals, eight stamens, and a 2.5–3 cm long nectar spur at the rear; they vary from yellow to orange to red, frilled and often darker at the base of the petals. The fruit is 2 cm broad, three-segmented, each segment with a single large seed 1–1.5 cm long. 
It is native to Andes from Bolivia north to Colombia
 

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