While Michelia is of the genus of flowering plants, what is Houttuynia?
Houttuynia Houttuynia is a genus of two species in the Saururaceae native to Southeast Asia. One species, "H. cordata", is widely cultivated as a culinary herb. The genus was originally described in 1783 by Carl Peter Thunberg when he formally described "H. cordata" as the only species. It remained a monotypic genus until 2001 when Zheng Yin Zhu and Shi Liang Zhang discovered and described a second species native to China, "H. emeiensis".
Leucosidea Leucosidea sericea, commonly known as ouhout in Afrikaans, is an evergreen tree or large shrub that grows in the Afromontane regions of southern Africa. It is the sole species in the genus Leucosidea. The English name "old wood" is simply a direct translation of the Afrikaans words "ouhout" or "oudehout", meaning the same thing.