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Chlorophytum comosum
Common name: Spider plant
Leaf
Pattern – radial from base
Shape – linear, strap-like
Margin – entire
Length – 6 to 12 inches
Family: Liliaceae
Fruit
Flower
Bisexual, regular with six
tepals.
Inflorescence
Flowers usually abort
before forming fruit
and are replaced by
vegetative plantlets.
Raceme
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Chlorophytum comosum
Spider plant is clumpforming and is usually
grown in hanging baskets
to allow the stolons to
hang from the pot.
Stolons
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Chlorophytum comosum
Greenhouse production of spider plant in hanging baskets.
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Chlorophytum comosum
Leaves are strap-like and arching.
The cultivar „Vittatum‟ has a white
interior and is a popular indoor
plant.
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Chlorophytum comosum
Spider plant naturally
reproduces from plantlets
that form at the end of
flowering stolons.
This allows the plant to
“move” and colonize specialty
niches in the environment.
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Mother
plant
Stolon
Daughter
plants
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Chlorophytum comosum
Flowers are produced along the arching stolons, but the flowers usually
abort before forming fruit and are replaced by vegetative plantlets.
Plantlets
Flowers
Plantlet
Plantlets
Flower
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Chlorophytum comosum
Spider plant usually reproduces by vegetative plantlets.
Plantlets
Plantlets
Flower
Roots
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