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Plant Id – Horticulture II. 1. Parlor Palm 6.01. Botanical Name Chamaedorea elegans Growth Habit Slow growing Maturity height 2’tall Plant Use Interior/ Tropical. Parlor Palm. Palm-like leaves Grown for its tropical look Need good drainage Mist leaves
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1. Parlor Palm 6.01 • Botanical Name • Chamaedorea elegans • Growth Habit • Slow growing • Maturity height 2’tall • Plant Use • Interior/ Tropical
Parlor Palm • Palm-like leaves • Grown for its tropical look • Need good drainage • Mist leaves • Underwatering can cause yellowing leaves • Brown leaf tips dry air need to mist
2. Amaryllis • Scientific Name • Hippeastrum hybrida • Grown from a bulb • Popular Christmas gift • Stem is hollow
Amaryllis • Flower looks similar to a lily
3. Gloxinia • Scientific Name Sinningia speciosa • Popular gift plant • Bright, indirect light or filtered light through a screen indoors
Gloxinia • Large velvety-textured leaves • Large tube shaped flowers • Supplement the humidity in their grow rooms with pebble trays or a humidifier to grow Gloxinia year-round
4. Gladiolus • Scientific Name • Gladiolus communis • Gladiolus is Latin for small sword and refers to the shape of the leaves • perennial corms
Gladiolus • Leaves are shaped like swords • Flowers on long spikes with florets • Used in flower arrangements
5. Plume Asparagus Fern • Scientific Name • Asparagus plumosus • Compact plant with gracefully spreading branches • Leaves are dark green feather-like • Horizontal branchlets on wiry stems
Plume Aspargus Fern • Temperature: Average warmth -- minimum 50°F at night. Constant high temperatures can be harmful. • Light: Can adapt to bright or semi-shady conditions. Keep away from direct sunlight. • Water: Water regularly from spring to autumn. Occasionally water from below. Water sparingly in winter. • Air Humidity: Mist occasionally, especially in winter if room is heated. • Repotting: Repot in spring every year. • Propagation: Divide plants at any time of the year. Sow seeds in spring.
6. Croton • Scientific Name • Codiaeum variegatum pictum • Foliage color • Red, orange, yellow • Needs high humidity
Croton • Grown for their foliage • Looses its brilliant color if it does not receive enough light
7. Snapdragon • Scientific Name • Antirrhinum majus • Perennial treated as an annual bedding plant
Snapdragon • Flowers on long stalks • Flower colors include white, yellow, burgundy, red, pink,orange and bronze • Flowers are snappable, open-faced or double forms • Used in floral designs
8. Peony • Botanical name: • Paeonia sp. • Grows 3-5 feet • 1 leaf cut to 3 • Purplish red in stems
Peony • Flowers range in color from white, cream, and yellow to pink, rose and scarlet • Flowers are 3” to 6” in diameter • Extremely fragrant
9. Arrowhead Vine • Scientific Name • Syngonium podophyllum • Interior plant • Keep moist • Mist leaves regularly • Juvenile leaf form are arrow-shape & adult leaf forms leaves become lobed
Arrowhead Vine • Adult plants produces aerial roots and a moss stick makes an excellent support for the climbing plant
10. Rotundifolia Holly 6.02 • Ilex crenata ‘Rotundifolia’ • Roundleaf Japanese Holly • Medium evergreen shrub • 4-6 ft. tall, 4-6 feet wide
Rotundifolia Holly • Dark green oval leaves • 1” long and ½ “ wide leaves • Alternate • Crenate margins
11. Norway Maple • Botanical name • Acer platanoides • Large deciduous tree • 60-80- feet tall • 50-70 feet spread • Simple, opposite, lobed leaves, 4-7 inches wide • Deep green foliage that turns yellow in fall
Norway Maple • Greenish-yellow flowers in early spring before it has leaves • 2” to 3” winged samara fruit
12. Grape Ivy • Scientific Name • Cissus rhombifolia • Interior plant • Vine-climbs with the aid of tendrils. • Each leaf is made up of 3 leaflets • 3” to 4” leaflets
Grape Ivy • Hairy brown branches and shiny green leaves that have fuzzy, white undersides
13. Clematis • Deciduous vine, leaf stalk twines giving the plant support • Compound leaves • flowers are showy, having four (sometimes five to eight) petal-like sepals (no true petals)
Clematis • Flowers vary in color • Often used on mailbox posts or lamp posts
14. Wintergreen Barberry • Scientific Name • Berberis julianae • Evergreen shrub • 4-6’ tall, 2-5’ wide • 2” long ¼” wide leaves • Leaves alternate in rosettes
Wintergreen Barberry • ½” blue-black berries • 1 1/2” sharp thorns • Flower yellow • Fruit bluish-black • Used as specimen, hedge, border, or background material, traffic control.Impenetrable because of thorns.
15. Sasanqua Camellia • Scientific name • Camellia sasanqua • Large evergreen shrub 7-12’ tall & 5-7’ wide • White, pink, red or variegatedflowers 1 ½” - 2”
FRUIT Sasanqua Camellia • Flowers in October and November • Foliage glossy, dark green, alternate, 4”long FLOWER BUD
16. Fucshia • Scientific Name • Fucshiahybrida • Shrub with reddish twigs • Bell-shaped flowers ranging from red to white • Dark, glossy-green 2” -3” leaves with reddish edges and veins
17. Sycamore • Scientific Name • Platanus occidentalis • Large deciduous tree • 70-100’tall & 60-80’wide • Bark – upper, green-gray; inner, white; lower, brown-gray • Peels
Sycamore • 6” long and 4” wide medium-green leaves • Leaves have 3 to 5 pointed lobes • 1” – 1 ½” fuzzy round fruit
18. Japanese Photinia • Scientific Name • Photinia glabra • Common name Red Tip • Large evergreen shrub 6-10’ tall & 4-5’ wide
Japanese Photinia • Red new growth • Dark green 2” long 1” wide mature leaves • Leave alternate
19. Southern Red Oak • Scientific Name • Quercusfalcata • Dark green large leaves • Leaves have round base • 3 to 5 lobes with bristle tips
20. Japanese Boxwood • Scientific Name • Buxus microphylla japonica • Medium-evergreen shrub • 4-5’tall & 3-4’wide • Glossy yellowish-green new leaves
Japanese Boxwood • Opposite, simple, entire leaves • ½” to 1” long and ¼” to ½” wide medium-green mature leaves
21. Cape Jasmine • Scientific Name • Gardenia jasminoides • Medium evergreen shrub 4-6’tall; 4-5’ wide • Zones 8,9 interior plants elsewhere
Cape Jasmine • Dark-green 3” long and 1 ½” wide leaves • 3” white and very fragrant flowers
22. Ginkgo • Scientific Name • Ginkgo biloba • Biloba means two-lobed • Deciduous tree • 40-70’tall & 20-40’wide
Ginkgo • Bright green becoming bright yellow in fall 3” fan –shaped leaves • 3” petioles • Foul-smelling berries with seeds on female trees
23. Hetzi Holly • Ilex crenata ‘Hetzi’ • Medium evergreen shrub • 4-6’ tall, 5-7’ wide • 1” long and ½ “ wide leaves
Hetzi Holly • Alternate and cupped leaves are dark green • ¼” black berries in fall
24. Candytuft • Scientific Name • Iberis sempervirens • Perennial • Grows 6-8” tall • White 1” flowers • Blooms in early spring
Candytuft • Grow in sun • Often used in rock gardens