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Botanical Name: Araucaria Heterophylla

This handsome indoor pine plant reaches a recorded height of 200ft. in it native habitat. As a household plant it will grow to a much more manageable 2 to 6ft. It is a slow grower and after reaching this height is past its best. The Norfolk Island pine is appealing because of its tiered branches covered with pale green needles. Pruning is not recommended, although this will encourage bushier growth if the plant becomes straggly. The lower branches can be cut off when they become bare. Araucaria requires a bright well lit position and will enjoy a spell outdoors on mild days. It likes freely circulating air but, not central heating. In summer it needs a lot of moisture, so mist frequently. Indoors it should last for many years. It can also be used as a Christmas tree.

Botanical Name: Chrysalidocarpus Lutescens

Areca Palm is a slow growing member of the palm family that has graceful yellowish green feather like leaves and number of slender greenish stems. Areca Palm needs bright light but indirect sun light and warmish, humid conditions. It can with stand cool temperatures, but this will hinder growth. Avoid dry air and mist frequently. As a household plant, in right conditions, it can grow up to 20cms/8inch a year, reaching up to 6 ft. as a mature plant. It should last for many years.

Botanical Name: Bambusa Vulgaris

This most exotic looking houseplant is a relative newcomer. It is grown from a section of bamboo Culm which produces a profusion of delicate pale green leafy fronds, giving the appearance of a standard plant. Bamboo grows freely in the tropical climate but it has recently being adapted as a houseplant. It like bright, sunny conditions and in summer does well outdoors. A mature plant will grow to about 1m/39 in high and the Culm is 6-8 cm/2-3 in diameter. It is not particularly long-lasting, and will probably have to be replaced after a couple of years.

This massive tropical palm commands attention wherever it is grown. The Bismarck palm's stout trunk and symmetry of the huge crown lends a formal note while the startling blue green foliage amplifies the visual impact of this big beauty. It grows a single trunk that is smooth on mature specimens but young individuals retain old leaf bases. This palm may reach an ultimate height of 40-70 ft., with a spread of 10-15 ft or more. These palms cannot be missed in the landscape due to the very striking frond color and texture. The flower stalks are four feet long and produce many 1.5-inch-long fruits. Several of these palms placed together in a commercial or large residential setting can contrast dramatically with existing vegetation, providing a wonderful relief from the greens so common in most landscapes. Single specimens are also attractive and well suited for most residential-sized landscapes. A row of Bismarck Palms spaced 15 feet apart along each side of an entry road or wide walkway can create a dramatic impact. Even if you do not collect palms, this one should be considered when planning a landscape.

Botanical Name: Bambusa Ventricosa

Buddha Belly Bamboo so called because of the characteristic dark olive culms swollen between internodes, especially in pot grown clumps, otherwise may grow upto 50ft. high, leaves to 18 cm long. Planted adjacent to palaces and Buddhist temples in china and India.

Botanical Name: Aspidistra

Aspidistra comes from Himalayas, where it grows in poor, marshy soil and tolerates a range of temperatures, bar frost. It has been a popular house plant since a decade because it flourishes in dark and droughty conditions. It is now enjoying huge popularity because it is attractive, easy to look after and able to withstand most conditions. It is a slow grower, each year producing only a few elegant, arched shiny dark green leaves of between 30 – 46 cm. Occasionally small purple, bell shaped flowers will appear at soil level. Aspidistra can tolerate periods of dryness, but dislike sunlight, soggy soil and frequent repotting. It is recommended to clean the leaves with a damp sponge. It will benefit from a spell outdoors in summer. The cultivar ‘Variegata’ has leaves alternately striped green and white in varied widths. Plants will tend to lose these stripes if planted in rich soil. Aspidistra is virtually an everlasting houseplant.

Botanical Name: Juniperus Chinensis

Juniperus Chinensis grows into a narrow cone shape when young, and then opens up as the plant ages. Although the main body of its foliage is as thick as if it had been sheared, delicately twisted, upright branches emerge gracefully all around the plant, in almost a flame-like manner. It may grow to 15 feet tall in 15 years, perhaps leaning to one side in a picturesque manner. Do not expect a row of them to provide a uniform shape since crown form varies.

Botanical Name: Washingtonia Filifera

Washingtonia Filifera which means “thread-bearing” in Latin. This genus name honors George Washington, the first States. This palm grows up to 40 to 50 ft but capable of soaring to 80 feet in good growing conditions. Washingtonia Filifera Palm is better suited to the home landscape since it grows more slowly and is shorter. This also allows it to be used in more garden applications, such as containers or grouped together as a mass planting. The leaves have a petiole up to 2 m long, bearing a fan of leaflets 1.5-2 m long, with white, thread-like fibers between the segments. When the leaves die they bend downwards and form a skirt around the trunk. Washingtonia filifera can live from 80 to 250 years or more.

Botanical Name: Ficus Lyrata

Ficus Lyrata is one of the easiest plants that can be grown in the house. This imposing fig has a single stem with large, glossy, bright green violin-shaped leaves of upto 12 inches in length. It looks striking in a large room, though it will need to be firmly staked while growing. As a house plant it will reach a substantial 20 ft if it has good light and warm conditions, similar to those it enjoys in its native habitat. It will withstand central heating, but does not like droughts. The foliage must be kept dust-free and leaves should ne sponged individually with tepid water. Trim the new shoots occasionally to thicken the plant. It should not need pruning except to reduce growth. It is a sensitive plant, so if a leaf or stem is damaged or torn, cover the “wound” with petroleum jelly to seal it. Ficus Lyrata has been a popular houseplant since the eighties and should live for upto 12 years.

Botanical Name: Caryota Urens

This clump-growing group of palms has medium green leaf blades which are divided into many segments, each of which resembles the tail of a fancy goldfish. Rarely exceeding 25 feet in height, number of species of fishtail palms produces suckers from the base creating a very attractive specimen palm. Its neat habit makes it ideal for use at poolside, in urns or other containers, and it is often seen in well- lit interiorscapes where its distinct form lends a tropical effect. It can be used as a house plant in large homes with plenty of light. This palm can be planted in the container or above-ground planter; suitable for growing indoors; near a deck or patio; screen; specimen. Fishtail Palms can thrive in light conditions from full sun to deep shade, requiring only that its soil be well-drained and reasonably fertile. It has a moderate to rapid growth rate and should be located outdoors in sheltered location protected from cold.

Botanical Name: Syngonium podophyllum

Syngonium are quite easy household growing plants. These plants have large white leaves with green edges. An unusual feature of Syngonium is the changing shape of its leaves, which are oval, becoming lobed as they mature. This pretty climber can be found growing in trees using its aerial roots to cling on to whatever it is climbing. Indoors, it will do well if it is trained up a moss pole from which it will also gather moisture of a vigorous grower it needs repotting often. As in its native habitat it needs a good humidity level so mist frequently by placing the pot over damp gravel or pebbles. There it has beautiful white flower as but these do not appear in the pot plant. As a house plants it will grow up to 4-5ft. And should last for several years.

Botanical Name: Livistona Chinensis

Livistona Palm reaches to 50 ft. but usually seen at 30 ft with a 10 to 12-ft spread. Livistona Palm has a single straight trunk and large, 6 ft long leaves which have drooping tips. The divided leaves have long, tapering, ribbon-like segments which gracefully sway beneath the leaves, creating an overall fountain-like effect. Although Chinese Fan Palm has long been used as a container palm, it’s neat leaf habit and interesting form make it ideal for landscape uses, such as in staggered groupings or used as a freestanding specimen, or street tree. They form a closed canopy when planted about ten feet apart along a walk or street. The palm is self-cleaning of old leaves and will require little or no pruning.

Botanical Name: Nolina Recurvata

Nolina, a member of the Agavaceae family, is a slow-growing plant that doesn’t require constant care, so it’s ideal for those who want a long-lasting houseplant, even in the absence of a green thumb. Commonly known as ponytail palm, Nolina bears narrow, gray-green or dark green foliage that arches out from a large bulb like trunk, causing it to some- what resemble a palm. In addition, the leaves emanate from a central point like a ponytail, thus the name. Although it may take years to do so, this plant could grow to as tall as 8 feet indoors.

Botanical Name: Phoenix Roebelenii

One of the finest of the dwarf palms, Phoenix Roebelenii slowly reaches 6 to 12 ft in height and has an upright or curving, single trunk topped with a dense, full crown of gracefully arching, 3 ft long leaves. The insignificant flower clusters, hidden by the foliage, are present periodically throughout the year and produce small, jet-black dates which ripen to a deep red. Pygmy Date Palm is quite popular as a specimen planting or in containers, especially attractive at poolside. It is usually used as a single specimen although it is also effective in groups of three or more.

Botanical Name: Raphis Excelsa

One of the most popular palms of India, Raphis palm has delicate heads of fan-shaped leaves. Raphis Palm grows happily in the tropical and shoddy areas receiving little or no sunlight. Raphis Excelsa likes good air circulation and can look very decorative in staircase, in warm patios in summers, providing it receives little sun. It makes an excellent greenhouse plant.

Botanical Name: Cycas Revoluta

This exotic palm is extremely slow growing with stout and pineapple shape stem which projects feathery evergreen fronds of pinnate to 3ft. The plant will usually produce one of these a year. Its mature height is around 6ft. and it will last 50 or 60 years. Cycas likes bright, indirect sunlight, thrives in normal room temperature and doesn’t need much humidity. Mature plant benefit from a spell outdoors in summer if conditions are warm even so it will not flower.

Botanical Name: Neodypsis decaryi

The exotic Triangle Palm Tree is native to South African Island of Madagascar and that is why it is also called Madagascar palm. The Triangle Palm Tree is named because of the irregular trunk shaped like a triangle. The Triangle Palm Tree is a recent palm brought into the United Stated and is a good container plant grown or it can grow to 25 feet in the ground. The feather-like leaves of the Triangle Palm are 15 feet in length and grow upwards at a 45° angle and arch downward slightly. The Triangle Palm grows best in sandy soil, full sun and needs regular watering. The triangle shape of the leaf bases makes the triangle palm trees from the island of Madagascar, a popular palm tree in the nursery trade. The Madagascar palm thrives in full sun and is cold hardy to below freezing temperatures. The Triangle palm will turn heads to attention when grown and planted at outside restaurants and cafes in containers. The Triangle palm is one of the most bizarrely formed plants ever grown and offered to buy at a nursery, because of the oddly shaped trunk and red clusters of cells on the underside of the blue-green leaves. The dark brown trunk with contrasting glowing, gray leaf scars are exotic in any office container planting.

Botanical Name: Zamia Furfuracea

The rigid, woody, medium-green foliage of cardboard plant emerges from a large underground storage root and forms a loose, spreading, symmetrical rosette. Providing a tropical landscape effect, cardboard plant’s mounding growth habit is ideally suited for use in containers or as a specimen. Several can be planted together for a lush, tropical effect. They also create a dramatic effect when mass-planted in a shrub border, eventually reaching to 6 or 8 ft tall. Plant on three to five-foot-centers to create a mass planting.