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Week 4 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 • Texture / venation: Soft flexible, Pinnate venation • Shapes: Oblong • Apices: Acute, Rounded, Truncate • Bases: Obtuse • Margins: Entire • Raceme White Flower • No Fruit • 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 •NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA cv. • Neff – row – LEP – iss ex – all – TAH – tah • Common Name:Boston Fern • Family: Polypodiaceae • Native: Tropical America • Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: House plant • Leaf Arrangement: Basal • Leaf Shape: Linear • Leaf Margin: Crenate • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • *Leaves are called Fronds • Flower: None - gymnosperm • Fruit: None - produces spores • Roots: Fibrous • Growth: Medium • Light Exposure: Part shade to shade • Zone: Tropical Philodendron scandens var. oxycardium • Common Name: Parlor Ivy/Heart Leaf Philodendron • Family: Araceae • Native: Puerto Rico • • • • • • • Life Cycle: Annual Growth Habit: Vine Leaf Arrangement: Alternate Leaf Shape: Cordate Lear Margin: Entire Vein Pattern: Pinnate Simple • Flower: Insignificant • Root: Fibruous & Aerial • Environment: Shade • Growth: Medium • Zones: 10-11 DESCRIPTION • New leaf will be enclosed in bronze sheath that will hang loose on new growth and fall off on old growth 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. • • • • • Habit: Pendulous, Dense, Spreading Origin: Australia / New Zealand Form: Mounded, Weeping Texture: Medium – coarse Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant • • • • • • • • Form: Simple Arrangement: Opposite Shapes: Ovate Apices: Acute Bases: Attenuate Margins: Crenate Palmate Veins Flowers are on spikes • Propagation by stem cuttings •SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA • Saint – PAUL – ee – ah eye – on – NAN – thuh • Common Name: African Violet • Family: Gesneriacae • Native: Tanganyika, Africa • Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: House Plant • Leaf Arrangement: Rosette (stairstep) • Leaf Shape: Ovate • Leaf Margin: Entire • Vein PatternPinnate • Simple FLOWER • Purple, White, or Pink • Head Shape • Stems: Pubescent (as well as leaves) • Roots: Fibrous • Growth: Slow • Light Exposure: South Facing Window CULTURAL PRACTICES • Water from the underneath so it won’t rot Schefflera arboricola • Common Name: Dwarf Schefflera • Family: Araliaceae • Native: Tropical • • • • • • • Life Cycle: Annual Classification: House plant Leaf Arrangement: Alternate Leaf Shape: Leaf Margin: Entire Vein Pattern: Pinnate Leaf Type: Compound LEAF • Length 8” to 12” • Width 6” to 8” PLANT Height 4’ - 5’ Width 3’ - 4’ Upright • Flower Color: Insignificant • Root: Fibrous • Fruit: None • Environment: Part shade-shade • Growth: Medium • Zones: 10 DESCRIPTION • Has 8 - 9 leaflets • cv. Form with creamy white variegated foliage available CULTURAL PRACTICES • 55° F. night • Propagate by seed or air layer • Semi-shade
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