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• A plant genus within the Moraceae family. Made up of mainly tropical trees, shrubs, and woody vines of the mulberry family that have deciduous or evergreen leaves, often begin life as epiphytes, and include some (such as F. benjamina) grown as houseplants and others (such as F. carica) cultivated for their oblong or pear-shaped edible syconium fruit.

• Family of flowering plants, most of these are herbaceous plants, but the family also includes some woody shrubs and a genus of small tropical trees. The family is outstanding for its many garden ornamentals and pharmaceutically important plants. Most species are found in the Northern Hemisphere.

Use for: poppy, poppies

• genus of herbaceous plants of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), mostly native to south-central Asia. Several species are grown as highly prized ornamentals for their attractive flowers.

• A family of herbs, shrubs, or trees (order Polygonales) chiefly of the north temperate zone having mostly entire leaves with stipules forming a sheath round the stem and flowers that are spicate and apetalous and including the buckwheats.

• A genus of European and Asiatic annual plants (family Polygonaceae) having the achene much exceeding the perianth but otherwise resembling members of the genus Polygonum.

• Gentianaceae, the gentian family (order Gentianales) of flowering plants: annual and perennial herbs and, rarely, shrubs. Members of the family are native primarily to northern temperate areas of the world, though many are also found in tropical and subtropical regions. Flowers of certain members of these genera display some of the purest blues in the plant kingdom, and many are cultivated as garden ornamentals.

Use for: Seaweed

• Restricted exclusively to saline or brackish ocean environments.
• Marine algae live naturally in seas and oceans around the world. They include seaweeds and tiny plants suspended in the water. They can look like green flakes, greenish bundles or brownish dots.

Use for: Medallions

• 1: a small usually metal object bearing a religious emblem or picture
• 2: a piece of metal often resembling a coin and having a stamped design that is issued to commemorate a person or event or awarded for excellence or achievement

• 1a: a substance or preparation used in treating disease
• 2a: the science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease
• 3: a substance (such as a drug or potion) used to treat something other than disease