Native to China and Eastern Asia and is now grown ornamentally in the United States. The berries are employed as a “yin” tonic in traditional Chinese medicine for a wide variety of conditions,...
Indoors we find Dizygotheca elegantissima as a short, finely textured, bush-type plant in 6- to 10-inch pots. The dark greenish-brown leaves have saw-toothed edges. Plants have little branching and...
A houseplant with dramatic and tropical spathe-and-spadix flowers and green foliage. Spathes can be red, yellow, or green. Likes partial shade or light shade. In winter, temperatures of 60 to 65...
When we are looking for a plant to use indoors one of the requirements is flexibility. There are quite a few plants that offer flexibility Rhapis Palms, Sansevieria, Aspidistra, Dracaena,...
There are over 600 species of Ficus, most of them tropical and evergreen, although some, most notably F. carica, the common fig, are deciduous. Ficus produces a unique "fruit" which is actually an...