Week 4

Hort IHouse 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