• Cut flowers

  and South America. It is a bulb plant from the large family of the Amaryllidaceae, the narcissus family. The Hippeastrum comes from America, from northern [...] Important types are: Rose: The rose belongs to the genus Rosa from the Rosaceae family. The flowers of the plant are also called rose. There are more than a hundred [...] The freesia is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant from the Iridaceae family. The cultivated freesias are graceful funnel-shaped hybrids, descended from

• Caterpillars

  of all lepidopteran families. Most adults of this family are nocturnal. The caterpillars mostly pupate in the ground. Another family containing several [...] several species that damage greenhouse crops is the leafroller family, the Tortricidae. The name ‘leafroller’ refers to the fact that the caterpillars often live

• Flowering potted plants

  around Christmas. Begonia is a perennial flowering plants and belongs to the family of Begoniaceae . The genus consists of 1,795 different plant species. Some [...] flowering plant and a genus that consists of about 125 species belonging to the family of Crassulaceae . Hibiscus is well known for its large, ornate flowers which

• Mealybugs and scales

  scales? Mealybugs (family Pseudococcidae), soft scales (family Coccidae) and armoured scales (family Diaspididae) form three important families within the s

• Lettuce

  About Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) belongs to the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is a hardy annual that is easy to cultivate and most often grown for its leaves

• Leaf miners

  belong to the order Diptera (the true flies ) and form the family Agromyzidae. This is a family of small flies whose larvae tunnel into the leaves of plants [...] universal among the Agromyzidae. Of the approximately 2,500 species in this family, only eleven are truly polyphagous. The species that cause most damage all

• Lyprauta

  flies Lyprauta cambria, Proceroplatus trinidadensis and Lyprauta chacoensis (family Keroplatidae) have been associated with root damage in potted orchids, [...] not be confused with the actual potworms which are small earthworms of the family Enchytraeidae. Damage symptoms The symptoms are superficial damage on roots

• Blackberry

  a wide range of species belonging to the genus Rubus that is part of the family of Rosaceae , but also from hybrids within the Rubus subgenus, and hybrids

• Pepino mosaic virus

  problems in tomato cultivation, other plants of the Solanaceae family (night shade family) such as eggplant, black nightshade, some potato and pepper varieties [...] virus (PepMV) is a single-stranded RNA-virus (Potexvirus genus, Fexiviridae family) that was originally isolated from pepino ( Solanum muricatum ), a South

• Tomato russet mite

  destructor and Phyllocoptes destructor in older publications) belongs to the family Eriophyidae. It does not produce galls but lives freely (vagrant) on tomato [...] in tomatoes in all areas where they are grown. Other members of the plant family Solanaceae may be affected to a lesser extent. Damage symptoms Damage is