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Common Name: False Aralia Scientific Name: Dizygotheca elegantissima Family: Araliaceae Native to New Caledonia and Polynesia; often mistaken as the marijuana (Cannabis sativa) plant for its similar palmately compound leaves with slender and toothed leaflets; used as single- or multi-stem specimen plants often elegant; low humidity and saline root medium may cause leaf drops; propagated by seed, air-layering, or stem cuttings; susceptible to mealybug and spider mites. |
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Weeping Fig (Indian Laurel) Scientific Name: Ficul benjamina Family: Moraceae Native toIndia and south east Asia, this tropical tree grows up to 15 to 20 feet tall. Well adapted to containerized culture, this plant is one of the most popular indoor trees. It requires bright to indirect ligh conditions and warm temperature. Plants grown outdoors or greenhouse must be acclimitized before brought into indoors to prevent leaf drops by low light conditions. Water stress also causes defoliation. Plants are easily propagated by cuttings. The variegated plant on the left is F. benjamina variegata. |
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African Violet Scientific Name: Saintpaulia ionantha Family: Gesneriaceae One of the most common flowering indoor plants. Requires medium to hight light conditions. Keep the growing medium moist but not wet. Avoid irrigating with cold water, since it will form ring spots on the foliage. |
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Common Name: Giant Bird-of-Paradise Scientific Name: Strelitzia nicolai Family: Strelitziaceae Also called Bird-of-Paradise Tree; can be as tall as 18 feet; durable and tolerant to low light conditions; rarely blooms indoors; susceptible to mealybug.
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Umbrella Tree Scientific Name: Brassaia actinophylla Family: Araliaceae Native to New Guinea; also called Schefflera; requires medium to high light conditions; avoid dry hot conditions; relatively easy to grow; plants may become as tall as 15 feet.
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Common Name:
Dragon Tree
of Madagascar
Scientific Name: Dracaena marginata Family: Agavaceae Native
to Madagascar; prefers high light; tends to drop lower leaves and
become
spindly under low light conditions; has attractive stem and bark color;
shows
leaf tip burns when water contains a high level of fluoride.
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Common Name:
Norfolk Island Pine
Scientific Name: Araucaria heterophylla Family: Araucariaceae Native to Norfolk Island; an attractive specimen tree with symmetrical branches; can be as tall as 10-12 feet indoors (200 feet in native habitat); relatively easy to grow with high-medium light intensity; needles drop when water-stressed; susceptible to spider mites. |
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Common
Name:
Peace Lily or White
Flag Scientific Name: Spathiphyllum clevelandii Family: Araceae Note
Native to tropical South America; very tolerant to low-light
conditions;
flowers indoors showing the white-colored "spath," typical of the Arum
family; easy to maintain but avoid heavy watering.
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Common Name: Giant Dumbcane Scientific Name: Dieffenbachia amoena Family: Araceae Native to tropical America, this plant is one of the many dieffenbachia species that are used widely as durable, coarse textured indoor plants. The name "dumbcame" came from the fact that one can be painfully and temporarilly speechless by chewing the leaves, which contain calcium oxalate crystals. Keep root medium between waterings. Propagated by cuttings, air-layering, or placing stem sections (canes) horizontally on the growing medium for rooting. |
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Common Name: Snake Plant, or Mother-in-Law’s Tongue Scientific Name: Sansevieria trifasciata Family: Agavaceae Native to Southern Africa, Sansevieria plants are among the most durable plants, well adapted to indoor conditions. Grown as a rosette of long, upright strap-like leaves with short, thick rhyzomes; tolerates low light, lack of moisture, and hot or cold air; produce fragrant flowers; propagated by leaf cuttings. The variegated form (S. trifasciata laurentii, right) is a periclinal chimera and needs to be propagated by division. |
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Common Name: Chrysanthemum Scientific Name: Dendranthema grandiflorum Family: Asteraceae Native to China, chrysanthemums have been cultivated over 1500 years in Asia. This herbaceous perennial is grown as cut-flower, potted flowring plant, or garden plant for autumn. Chrysanthemums are typically short-day plants that initiate flower buds when days are shorter than 12 hours of photoperiod. Plants are propagated by stem cuttings and it takes 7 to 12 weeks from the onset of short-day condition to blooming, depending on cultivar. |
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Common Name: Shrimp Plant Scientific Name: Justicia brandegeana Family: Acanthaceae Native to Mexico; also
called
Shrimp Bush; also known as Beloperone guttata in earlier publications;
high
light needed for flowering; easy to take care of; one of a few plants
that
bloom year round. |
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Common
Name: Chinese
Evergreen Scientific Name: Aglaonema commutatum Family: Araceae Native to Philippine Islands; prefers high temperature; highly tolerant to low light intensity; slow growing; relatively easy to grow; many different cultivars exist; exhibited here is A. commutatum maculatum (Silver Chinese Evergreen).
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Common
Name: Peacock Plant Scientific Name: Calathea makoyana Family: Marantaceae Native to Brazil, South
America; grows well in soils high in organic matter; prefers bright
indirect light; attractive leaf pigmentation is enhanced by bright
lights; very sensitive to fluoride which caused leaf margin burns;
avoid using salty water for
irrigation and cut down fertilizer during winter. |
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Common Name: China Doll Scientific Name: Radermachera sinica Family: Bignoniaceae Native to South East Asia; small tree (up to 10 feet), fast-growing under high light conditions; tolerates low light; prone to leaf drops when exposed to ethylene gas; highly susceptible to mealybug; easy to grow; used for the fine-textured foliage in interiorscaping. |
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Common
Name: Rainbow Bush Scientific Name: Portulacaria efra variegata Family: Portulacaceae This herbaceous plant grows like a tree. Naturally shaped like a bonsai plant, Rainbow Bush can be easily pruned to any desired form. It requires high light intensity to stay in a compactly branching form. Some pruning is required to keep the plant like a bosai tree. Propagated easily by cuttings.
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Common Name:
Variegated Balfour
Aralia Scientific Name: Polyscias balfouriana Family: Araliaceae Native to India to Polynesia, Balfour Aralia grows 5-6 feet tall; plant requires warm temperature; prefers evenly moist soil and moderate humidity conditions; leaf drop may occur on moving the plant to darker and drier places. |
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Common Name: Janet Craig Dracaena Scientific Name: Dracaena deremensis 'Janet Craig' Family: Agavaceae Native to Upper Guinea, Janet Craig Dracaena is one of the many dracaena species which have become the mainstays in the foliage plant industry. Growing to a height of 10 feet and 4 feet wide indoors, this plant can be spindly when grown under low light. Leaf tip burs occur when water high in fluoride is used. Propagated by cuttings, air-layering, or stem sections. Plant polish can be used on this plant. |
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Common Name: Kentia Palm or Century Palm Scientific Name: Howea forsterana Family: Arecaceae Native to Australia; grows
to
60 feet height in native habitat; used as landscape plant in southern
California and Florida; suited as container plant or specimen for
indoors; slow-growing and durable; tolerant to low lights; seed
propagated; prefers well drained medium; does well when
pot-bound; spider mite problem under low humidity; leaf tip burns with
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Common Name: ZZ Plant Scientific Name: Zamioculcas zamiifolia Family: Araceae Native to Africa, zz plant or aroid palm resembles a cycad and has very dark green, shiny foliage. Plant produces 2'-3' long pointed spears line with alternating shiny dark leaves. Plant grows from an underground tuber. Has tolerated subfreezing temperatures down to 24 degree F outdoors and returned the following spring. Plants grow well in containers under most indoor conditions and tolerate low humidity, low light, and need little water and little fertilizer.
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