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Week 8. Hort I House Plants. Maranta leuconeura var. kerchoviana. Common Name: Prayer Plant Habit: Horizontal, Pendulous Origin: South America Form: Oval - horizontal Texture: Medium - coarse Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant. Form : Simple Arrangement: Alternate - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Week 8
Hort IHouse Plants
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Maranta leuconeura var. kerchoviana
• Common Name: Prayer Plant• Habit: Horizontal, Pendulous • Origin: South America • Form: Oval - horizontal • Texture: Medium - coarse • Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant
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• Form: Simple • Arrangement: Alternate • Texture / venation: Soft flexible, Pinnate
venation• Shapes: Oblong • Apices: Acute, Rounded, Truncate • Bases: Obtuse • Margins: Entire
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• Raceme White Flower• No Fruit
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• The Prayer Plant gets it’s name for it’s unique habit of raising their leaves to an upright position at night time. The leaves fold together like hands during prayer!
• plant prefers bright indirect sunlight, but is generally tolerant of lower light areas.
• Propagation by division mainly
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•NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA cv.• Neff – row – LEP – iss
ex – all – TAH – tah• Common Name:Boston Fern
• Family: Polypodiaceae
• Native: Tropical America
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• Life Cycle: Annual•Growth Habit: House plant• Leaf Arrangement: Basal• Leaf Shape: Linear• Leaf Margin: Crenate•Vein Pattern: Pinnate• *Leaves are called Fronds
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• Flower: None - gymnosperm• Fruit: None - produces spores• Roots: Fibrous• Growth: Medium• Light Exposure: Part shade to
shade• Zone: Tropical
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Philodendron scandens var. oxycardium
• Common Name:Parlor Ivy/Heart Leaf Philodendron
• Family: Araceae• Native: Puerto Rico
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• Life Cycle: Annual• Growth Habit: Vine• Leaf Arrangement: Alternate• Leaf Shape: Cordate• Lear Margin: Entire• Vein Pattern: Pinnate• Simple
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• Flower: Insignificant• Root: Fibruous & Aerial• Environment: Shade• Growth: Medium• Zones: 10-11
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DESCRIPTION• New leaf will be enclosed in bronze sheath
that will hang loose on new growth and fall off on old growth
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Plectranthus australis
• Common Name: Swedish Ivy
• Key ID Features: Trailing plant with opposite, ovate, veiny, dark green leaves on long petioles with stipules at the base.
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• Habit: Pendulous, Dense, Spreading• Origin: Australia / New Zealand • Form: Mounded, Weeping • Texture: Medium – coarse• Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container
planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant
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• Form: Simple • Arrangement: Opposite • Shapes: Ovate • Apices: Acute • Bases: Attenuate • Margins: Crenate• Palmate Veins• Flowers are on spikes
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• Propagation by stem cuttings
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•SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA
• Saint – PAUL – ee – ah eye – on – NAN – thuh
• Common Name: African Violet• Family: Gesneriacae•Native: Tanganyika, Africa
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• Life Cycle: Annual• Growth Habit: House Plant• Leaf Arrangement: Rosette
(stairstep)• Leaf Shape: Ovate• Leaf Margin: Entire• Vein PatternPinnate• Simple
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FLOWER
• Purple, White, Red, or Pink• Head Shape
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• Stems: Pubescent
(as well as leaves)• Roots: Fibrous• Growth: Slow• Light Exposure: South Facing
Window
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CULTURAL PRACTICES
• Water from the underneath so it won’t rot
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Schefflera arboricola
• Common Name:Dwarf Schefflera
• Family: Araliaceae• Native: Tropical
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• Life Cycle: Annual• Classification: House plant• Leaf Arrangement: Alternate• Leaf Shape: • Leaf Margin: Entire• Vein Pattern: Pinnate• Leaf Type: Compound
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LEAF
• Length 8” to 12”• Width 6” to 8”
PLANT Height 4’ - 5’ Width 3’ - 4’ Upright
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• Flower Color: Insignificant• Root: Fibrous• Fruit: None• Environment: Part shade-shade• Growth: Medium• Zones: 10
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DESCRIPTION• Has 8 - 9 leaflets• cv. Form with creamy white variegated foliage
available
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CULTURAL PRACTICES
• 55° F. night• Propagate by seed or air layer• Semi-shade
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•SPATHIPHYLLUM cvs.
• spa – thi – FIL – lum• Common Name: Peace Lily
• Family: Aracaea
• Native: Amazon Valley
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• Life Cycle: Annual•Growth Habit: House Plant • Leaf Arrangement: Basal• Leaf Shape: Elliptical• Leaf Margin: Entire (wavy)•Vein Pattern: Pinnate• Simple
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FLOWER• Flower is white to green with green line on
back• Green to white spadix
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• Root: Fibrous• Fruit: Spadix will be cluster
of seeds.• Growth: medium• Light Exposure: Shade • Zone: Tropical
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Tradescantia Zebrina
• Purple Wandering Jew