Calathea is a herbaceous perennial from the Tropical Americas like Brazil, Guyana, Columbia and Nicaragua. The handsome leaves are the attraction for tropical gardeners and indoor plant lovers as...
Short-stemmed, creeping plant with fleshy leaves heavily marked with yellow. ...
A medium-sized, evergreen tree with a very dense crown of dark green, glossy foliage. It occurs in rainforest in northern Queensland (Australia), from where it extends to New Caledonia and the new...
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...
Also called Swamp Maple, A. rubrum in nature is a tree, 60 to 75 feet tall. Young trees are often pyramidal or elliptical and are fast growers with strong wood. Older trees develop ascending branches,...