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Rose-Painted Calathea - Calathea Dottie

Rose-painted Calathea - Calathea dottie

Common Name: Rose-painted Calathea

Scientific Name: Calathea dottie

Height: 6 - 36 Inc (15- 36 cm)

Span: 12 - 24 Inc (30 – 60 cm)

Growth Rate: Fast

Sun Tolerance: Shade

ABP Index: 2.0 (Aesthetics 2.0, Solidarity 2.0)

The Calathea Dottie is native to Tropical America - mainly in Brazil, Guyana, Colombia and Nicaragua. The elliptical, almost rubbery leaves can achieve diameters of 20 to 25 cm and are fat and oval. The leaves are black in colour which is rare for most plants and what make this plant unique. The plants height may range 6-36 in (15-90 cm). The leaves of some varieties of Calathea may be patterned with interesting colorful lines, blotches or spots. Some leaves varies in colour from rose, yellow, olive or white. Although Calathea develops flowers, they are typically very small and insignificant. It blooms white flowers in late summer. It is grows well in shade.

Calathea dottie black Leaves

Calathea dottie black Flower

Calathea dottie black Ornamental plant

Calathea dottie black

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Crepe Ginger - Variegated Cheilocostus Speciosus

Crepe Ginger - Variegated Cheilocostus speciosus

Common Name: Crepe Ginger

Scientific Name: Variegated Cheilocostus speciosus

Height: 6.5-10 ft (2-3 m)

Span: 3.3-6.5 ft (1-2 m)

Growth Rate: Fast

Sun Tolerance: Shade

ABP Index: 2.5 (Aesthetics 4.0, Solidarity 1.0)

Cheilocostus speciosus 'Variegatus' common name is Variegated Crepe Ginger. It is native to Tropical Asia. It is one of the spiral gingers and this species grows some of the best spirals in the group. It is an evergreen fast growing plant. The plant can grow in full sun or shade but well grow in the shady places. It grows 2-3 m (6.5-10 ft) in height. Most striking are the long pointed, glossy green leaves that grow spirally around the trunk. Some stalks grow upright; others turn into a spiral, which makes the appearance of this plant really interesting. The buds open into a large, tissue-paper-like flower over 3 inches in diameter. Flowers open singly or a few at a time through the summer. They are white and look as they were made of thin crepe paper. The flower is the reason this is sometimes called the Crepe Ginger.

Crepe Ginger

Crepe Ginger Leaves

Crepe Ginger Flower

Crepe Ginger cutting planing

Crepe Ginger

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Oyster Plant - Tradescantia Spathacea Variegata

Common Name: Oyster Plant

Scientific Name: Tradescantia Spathacea Variegata

Height: 8-13 in (20-35 cm)

Span: 1-2 in (3-5 cm)

Growth Rate: Fast

Sun Tolerance: Shade

ABP Index: 2.5 (Aesthetics 4.0, Solidarity 1.0)

Tradescantia spathacea commonly known as Oyster Plant and also known as Rhoeo. It is native to southern Mexico and Central America. Dark-green, lance-shaped leaves with purplish-red undersides make this a beautiful house plant year-round. Flowers are numerous, small, white and clustered. It blooms any time of year. It has been introduced as an ornamental and houseplant in many tropical regions.

Oyster Plant beautiful Leaves

Oyster Plant Flower

Oyster Plant Flowers

Oyster Plant Bark

Oyster Plant

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Corpse Flower - Rafflesia Arnoldii

Corpse Flower - Rafflesia arnoldii

Common Name: Corpse Flower

Scientific Name: Rafflesia arnoldii

Height: up to 3 ft (up to 1 m)

Span: 12 - 24 Inc (15 – 30 cm)

Growth Rate: Slow

Sun Tolerance: Shade

ABP Index: 3.0 (Aesthetics 3.0, Solidarity 3.0)

Rafflesia arnoldii, commly known as corpse flower. It is noted for producing the largest individual flower on earth. It is eafless, stemless, rootless and nonphotosynthetic, these plants live as parasites inside a host plant, a woody vine related to grapes. It is one of the three national flowers of Indonesia. It was recognized as a national “rare Flower”. It grows up to 3 ft (1m) in diameter and weight up to 11 KG. Its color is reddish-brown. . It has even been proposed that they are not flowering plants at all, but fungi. The fruit produced are round lots filled with smooth flesh including many thousands of hard-coated seeds that are eaten and spread by treeshrews.

Corpse Flower Before Bloom

Corpse Flower Blooming

Corpse Flower inside the flower

Corpse Flower old flower

Corpse Flower

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Tricolor - Stomanthe Sanguinea

Common Name: Tricolor

Scientific Name: Stomanthe sanguinea

Height: 2–3 ft (60 – 90 cm)

Span: 1–2 ft (30 – 60 cm)

Growth Rate: Fast

Sun Tolerance: Shade

ABP Index: 2.5 (Aesthetics 4.0, Solidarity 1.0)

Stomanthe sanguinea common name is Tricolor. It is native to Brazil. It is mainly rain-forest plant. It is a very attractive and wonderful plant, so people like to plant it in their house indoor or outdoor houseplant. It grows 2-3 ft (60-90 cm) in height. The dark green leaves are variegated in shades of pink, red, white, or green. Each leaf has a mechanism for orienting the blade toward or away from the sun. The leaves fold up at night, making the rosy pink undersides more noticeable. But in the morning they face to the east so they will catch more of the early morning sun, and in the midday, they move to a more upright position so less of the blade is exposed to the intense sun. It blooms pink flowers in spring.

Tricolor Leaves

Tricolor Flowers

Tricolor in garden

Tricolor as ornamental

Tricolor in tub

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Bird's Nest Fern - Asplenium Nidus

Bird's Nest Fern - Asplenium nidus

Common Name: Bird's nest fern

Scientific Name: Asplenium Nidus

Height: 1–2ft (28 - 60 cm)

Span: 3–5ft (0.5 - 1m)

Growth Rate: Fast

Sun Tolerance: Shade

ABP Index: 3.5 (Aesthetics 4.0, Solidarity 3.0)

The Bird's nest fern or Asplenium nidus, is a native to tropical southeastern Asia, eastern Australia, Hawaii and eastern Africa. It has large green simple fronds that are visually similar to banana leaves, with the fronds growing to 20 – 60 inches (50-150 cm) long and 3 – 8 inches (10-20 cm) broad. It loves the shade and is found nesting on trees, where the wind blows their spores to. The Bird’s nest fern reproduces from spores that are under the fronds that create V-shaped brown patterns. People do plant them on their garden’s trees and in pots.

Bird's Nest Fern

Leaves of Bird's Nest Fern

Leaves with spores of Bird's Nest Fern

Bird's Nest Fern

Bird's Nest Fern : Top View

Bird's Nest Fern in Ground

Bird's Nest Fern in garden

Bird's Nest Fern On tree

Bird's Nest Fern in Wild

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Crested Molded Wax Agave - Echeveria Agavoides

Echeveria Agavoides 'Ebony'

Common Name: Crested Molded Wax Agave

Scientific Name: Echeveria Agavoides

Height: below 1 ft (9 – 18 cm)

Span: 6 – 12 ins (15 – 30 cm)

Growth Rate: Medium

Sun Tolerance: Shade

ABP Index: 4.0 (Aesthetics 4.0, Solidarity 4.0)

Echeveria agavoides known as Crested Molded Wax Agave. It is native to rocky and higher elevations areas of Mexico, notably the states of San Luis Potosi, also some species found from as far north as southern Texas and several species occurring as far south as Bolivia, Peru and possibly Argentina. It is a small, succulent stemless plant, 9 – 18 cm (below 1 ft) tall and 15 – 30 cm span. This is a star-shaped rosette of fat leaves up to 30 cm in diameter and leaves are dark green with deep red edge (tips) and some forms have slightly red to very red margins. A full plant looks like a water lily. It is often solitary, but old plants in good condition grow offsets. E. agavoides blooms Red and Yellow flowers in spring-summer. This is a relatively common species, and quite fast for an Echeveria. It has also been widely used in hybridizing. People like it very much to decorate their room.