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Lively House Plants for Indoors: Boston Fern, Swedish Ivy, & More

Explore vibrant indoor plants such as Boston Fern and Swedish Ivy with unique characteristics, care tips, and propagation methods. Discover the beauty of Saintpaulia ionantha and Philodendron scandens var. oxycardium in your home.

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Lively House Plants for Indoors: Boston Fern, Swedish Ivy, & More

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  1. Week 8 Hort I House Plants

  2. Marantaleuconeura var. kerchoviana • Common Name: Prayer Plant • Habit: Horizontal, Pendulous • Origin: South America • Form: Oval - horizontal • Texture: Medium - coarse • Landscape Uses: Hanging basket, Indoor plant

  3. Form: Simple • Arrangement: Alternate • Texture / venation: Soft flexible, Pinnatevenation •  Shapes: Oblong • Apices: Acute, Rounded, Truncate • Bases: Obtuse • Margins: Entire

  4. Raceme White Flower • No Fruit

  5. 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

  6. NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA cv. • Neff – row – LEP – iss ex – all – TAH – tah • Common Name:Boston Fern • Family: Polypodiaceae • Native: Tropical America

  7. Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: House plant • Leaf Arrangement: Basal • Leaf Shape: Linear • Leaf Margin: Crenate • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • *Leaves are called Fronds

  8. Flower: None - gymnosperm • Fruit: None - produces spores • Roots: Fibrous • Growth: Medium • Light Exposure: Part shade to shade • Zone: Tropical

  9. Philodendron scandens var. oxycardium • Common Name:Parlor Ivy/Heart Leaf Philodendron • Family: Araceae • Native: Puerto Rico

  10. Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: Vine • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate • Leaf Shape: Cordate • Lear Margin: Entire • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • Simple

  11. Flower: Insignificant • Root: Fibruous & Aerial • Environment: Shade • Growth: Medium • Zones: 10-11

  12. DESCRIPTION • New leaf will be enclosed in bronze sheath that will hang loose on new growth and fall off on old growth

  13. Plectranthusaustralis • Common Name: Swedish Ivy • Key ID Features: Trailing plant with opposite, ovate, veiny, dark green leaves on long petioles with stipules at the base.

  14. Habit: Pendulous, Dense, Spreading • Origin: Australia / New Zealand • Form: Mounded, Weeping • Texture: Medium – coarse • Landscape Uses: Bedding plant, Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant

  15. Form: Simple • Arrangement: Opposite • Shapes: Ovate • Apices: Acute • Bases: Attenuate • Margins: Crenate • Palmate Veins • Flowers are on spikes

  16. Propagation by stem cuttings

  17. SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA • Saint – PAUL – ee – ah eye – on – NAN – thuh • Common Name: African Violet • Family: Gesneriacae • Native: Tanganyika, Africa

  18. Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: House Plant • Leaf Arrangement: Rosette (stairstep) • Leaf Shape: Ovate • Leaf Margin: Entire • Vein PatternPinnate • Simple

  19. FLOWER • Purple, White, Red, or Pink • Head Shape

  20. Stems: Pubescent (as well as leaves) • Roots: Fibrous • Growth: Slow • Light Exposure: South Facing Window

  21. CULTURAL PRACTICES • Water from the underneath so it won’t rot

  22. Schefflera arboricola • Common Name: Dwarf Schefflera • Family: Araliaceae • Native: Tropical

  23. Life Cycle: Annual • Classification: House plant • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate • Leaf Shape: • Leaf Margin: Entire • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • Leaf Type: Compound

  24. LEAF • Length 8” to 12” • Width 6” to 8” PLANT • Height 4’ - 5’ • Width 3’ - 4’ • Upright

  25. Flower Color: Insignificant • Root: Fibrous • Fruit: None • Environment: Part shade-shade • Growth: Medium • Zones: 10

  26. DESCRIPTION • Has 8 - 9 leaflets • cv. Form with creamy white variegated foliage available

  27. CULTURAL PRACTICES • 55° F. night • Propagate by seed or air layer • Semi-shade

  28. SPATHIPHYLLUM cvs. • spa – thi – FIL – lum • Common Name: Peace Lily • Family: Aracaea • Native: Amazon Valley

  29. Life Cycle: Annual • Growth Habit: House Plant • Leaf Arrangement: Basal • Leaf Shape: Elliptical • Leaf Margin: Entire (wavy) • Vein Pattern: Pinnate • Simple

  30. FLOWER • Flower is white to green with green line on back • Green to white spadix

  31. Root: Fibrous • Fruit: Spadix will be cluster of seeds. • Growth: medium • Light Exposure: Shade • Zone: Tropical

  32. TradescantiaZebrina • Purple Wandering Jew

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