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Spider Plant
SPIDER PLANT
HERBACEOUS
Chlorophytum comosum
Spider Plant
SPIDER PLANT
HERBACEOUS
Chlorophytum comosum
Family Anthericaceae
Origin South Africa
small white flowers
arranged in clusters
Description A tufted perennial herb growing up to 60 cm tall 19. It prefers light to medium,
well-drained, moist soils in protected, shaded areas. It is drought and frost tender 1.
Stems/Leaves Erect, slender, wiry stems arching over when the small plantlets develop 1.
Linear, basal leaves usually striped with green and cream 8.
Flowers Small, white flowers in clusters of 1-6, flowering in summer 19.
Fruit/Seed Triangular capsule with smooth, flattened, glossy black seeds
germinate easily from summer to autumn 8.
19
. Seeds
Root system Fibrous roots often with tubers 19.
Removal techniques
erect, wiry stems
Manual Remove plantlets by hand. Also cut out rhizomatous crown. Take care
to disturb as little as possible or thousands of seedlings will result 8.
Chemical Chemical control is probably a better solution than manual 8. Spray
the weed with glyphosate at a ratio of 1:75 with surfactant 22.
Notes
After soil disturbance, seed germination is high. Rhizomes re-grow after fire events 8.
stems arch where small
plantlets develop
linear leaves striped with
green and cream colours
fibrous root system
A.Slotwinski (2002)
A.Slotwinski (2002)
Chlorophytum comosum
SPIDER PLANT
Chlorophytum comosum
A.Slotwinski (2002)
Spider Plant
SPIDER PLANT
HERBACEOUS
Chlorophytum comosum
A.Slotwinski (2002)
Spider Plant
HERBACEOUS