It was a long search that took me more than ten years. But finally I found it - the indoor house plant that will brighten up the end of a corridor 5 meters from my front door. The Aspidistra, commonly known as the Cast Iron plant, has graced the drawing rooms of many an otherwise drab Victorian English manor, and now graces my suburban Sydney brick home.
Many gardening experts describe the Aspidistra as one of the toughest and most adaptable house plants. Its long blades of slender dark green or variegated dark green and white leaves shoot straight out from the soil but in clumps and up to 75 cm in height and 15 cm wide.
It is such a low maintenance plant much like an even-tempered woman who does not need any fussing over but still maintains its sweet nature. It needs very low light, average temperature and humidity and just occasional watering.
Other plants that do not need much light
Low-light plants are usually defined as those that can survive in 25 to 75 foot candles - that is, a spot that is 4 to 5 metres from a bright window, just enough light to read by comfortably, but where artificial lighting switched on by day would give a brightening effect.
You can easily find the Aspidistra in your local garden center nursery. In addition, five other plants that will suit very low light situations are the following:
Aglonema (Chinese Evergreen) which are among the few plants that prefer only moderate light and adapt well to low light. It has large dark green oval then tapering leathery leaves later developing a caney base.
Drachaena deremensis varieties (also know as Happy or Fortune Plants) which are slender leafed and usually white variegated. The Drachaena family are caney plants crested with decorative rosettes of straplike foliage.
Holly fern which adapts to low light and Boston fern a fishbone type of fern that will remain in low light for many months but need a spell in brighter light to rejuvenate.
Neanthe Bella or Parlor Palm which is more suited to low light situations than most palms.
Sanseviera (also known as Mother-In-Law’s Tongue) which stands low to very bright light has waxy, erect straplike leaves usually with cream-colored margins and an unusual banding of the grey-green center.
If you are finding it difficult to find a plant that will brighten up that dark corner, why not try one of these hardy and lovely favorites of mine?
source: http://www.garden-center-nursery.com
6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark
The origin of the Tulip
You know Tulip flowers come from? This interest was not from Holland but from Turkey. Tulip was brought into the Netherlands in the 17th century and since then, considered as an official interest in the land of windmills.
Unfortunately, the flower can not grow in Indonesia. Why? Tulip can not live in the open like in the tropics because it requires low temperatures. Therefore, these plants need winter to be able to grow.
Tulips can be forced to bloom earlier than normal when put in a place where temperature is set to be higher.
Tulips can be planted in two ways, using tubers or seeds. Tulips grown from tubers took a year to be able to generate considerable interest.
Now we compare with ordinary crops. Plants grown from seed take between 5-7 years to bloom. Much, much longer, right?
Well, now you know, Tulip grown where?
source (Kidnesia / Annisa)
Know Sansevieria Plant Flowers
Sansevieria is a genus of ornamental plants that are quite popular to decorate the inside of the house because these plants can grow under conditions of little water and sunlight. Sansevieria have hard leaves, succulent, erect, with a tapered tip.
Sanseviera known as the plant because of its sharp tongue. Sanseviera not only as an ornamental plant, but also has benefits to nourish hair, treat diabetes, hemorrhoids, to malignant cancer. While fiber is used as clothing material. In Japan, sanseviera used to remove the smell of home furnishings in the room.
Compared to other plants, sanseviera has a privilege to absorb toxic substances, such as carbon dioxide, benzene, formaldehyde, and trichlorethylene.
Sansevieria is divided into two types, namely the type that grows extends upward by 50-75 cm size and type of short-leaved rosette circular in shape with a length of 8 cm and 3-6 cm wide. The group has long pointed leaves like the sword, and because of this there is a call Sansevieria plants as sword-traders.
This thick-leaved plants and has a water content of succulent, so drought resistant. But in damp or wet conditions, sansiviera can flourish.
Sansevieria leaf colors ranged from dark green, light green, green, gray, silver, and white color combination of yellow or green yellow. Motif grooves or lines contained in the leaf blade varied, with some who follow the direction of leaf fibers, irregular, and there is also a zig-zag.
The specialty of this flower is to have a high adaptability to the environment. NASA research in collaboration with ALCA has found evidence that these plants are naturally capable of reducing the pollution.
Judging by type Sansevieria there are two types namely the first one is Sansevieria descendants of the original / species while the second is a kind of hybrid / hybridization that can be called a kind of hybrid Sansevieria.
From this hybrid form of Sansevieria will be created with the physical character and distinct from its parent or often called a hybrid or a species of Sansevieria hybrid. Sansevieria Mutations can also occur from propagation through leaf cuttings.
Types of Plants Flowers Bag ( Sulawesi )
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- Nepenthes eymae
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- Nepenthes glabrata
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- Nepenthes gracilis
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- Nepenthes maxima
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- Nepenthes hamata
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- Nepenthes mirabis
- Nepenthes pitopangii
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- Nepenthes tentaculata
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- Nepenthes tomoriana
On the island of Sulawesi there are at least nine species of flowers natural bags five of them is a plant endemic to this island. Meanwhile, four other types, although the original can be found on Sulawesi, but the other islands.
Here is a list of plants flower bag (Nepenthes) which is a plant endemic to Sulawesi.
Nepenthes eymae (endemic to Central Sulawesi).
Nepenthes glabrata (endemic to Central Sulawesi).
Nepenthes hamata (endemic to Sulawesi)
Nepenthes pitopangii (endemic Lore Lindu National Park)
Nepenthes tomoriana (endemic to Sulawesi)
Here is a list of plant species flower bag (Nepenthes) native Sulawesi but can be found elsewhere (not endemic).
Nepenthes gracilis. There is in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra), Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak), Singapore, and Thailand.
Nepenthes maxima. There are in Indonesia (Papua, Maluku, Sulawesi) and Papua New Guinea.
Nepenthes mirabilis. There is in Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Indonesia (Papua, Kalimantan), Laos, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak); Papua New Guinea, the Philippines; Thailand, and Vietnam.
Nepenthes tentaculata. There are in Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sulawesi) and Malaysia.
In addition to the Sulawesi plant flowers scattered pockets on the island of Sumatra (37 species), Borneo (36 species), Papua (11 types), as well as on the island of Maluku (4 species), and Java (3 species). Besides Indonesia, carnivorous plants are also found in some other countries such as Australia, Brunei Darussalam, China, Philippines, India, Laos, Malaysia, Micronesia, Myanmar, Madagascar, Misool, Palau, New Selaindia, Singapore, Ceylon, and Seychelles. Total plant species flower bags reached more than 129 types.
Sulawesi and other islands in Indonesia became the center of different species of flowering plant bag. And we should be proud of it. Hopefully we pride can we bequeath to our grandchildren someday.
References and pictures: www.iucnredlist.org and wikipedia
Lotus ( Water plants with Enchanting Flowers )
Lotus Flower
Lotus is a common name for the genus Nymphaea that is a water plant. Lotus plants characterized by leaves that float on the surface of still water. Lotus plants also produce flowers which have a dazzling variety of colors.
In some areas in Indonesia lotus is known by several names are almost similar like the lotus, and Terate. In English, the flower of the genus Nymphaea is known as a water-lily or waterlily.
There are more than 50 kinds (species) of lotus in the world that spread from the tropics to the subtropics. It is said the lotus tropical species originating from Egypt.
The characteristics. Lotus plants growing on the surface of still water. Lotus plants have leaves that grow floating on the water surface. Lotus flowers are also found in surface water, lotus flowers and leaves from the stalk coming out of the rhizomes in the mud at the bottom of a pond, river or swamp.
Lotus stalks are in the middle of the leaf. Leaves round or oval shape that the width of the cut on the fingers toward the stalk. Leaf surface does not contain a layer of wax so that the water that falls onto the surface of the leaves do not form water droplets.
Lotus flower grows on a stalk which is an extension of the rhizome. Nymphaea flower diameter bergenus
is between 5-10 cm.
Type of species diversity. Several different types of lotus plants, among others:
Nymphaea alba - European White Water-lily (white lotus)
Nymphaea amazonum
Nymphaea ampla
Nymphaea Blanda
Nymphaea caerulea - Blue Egyptian Water-lily
Nymphaea calliantha
Nymphaea candida
Nymphaea capensis - Cape Blue Water-lily
Nymphaea citrina
Nymphaea colorata
Nymphaea elegans
Nymphaea fennica
Nymphaea flavovirens
Nymphaea gardneriana
Nymphaea gigantea - Australian Water-lily
Nymphaea heudelotii
Nymphaea jamesoniana
Leibergii Nymphaea - Water-lily Dwarf
Nymphaea lotus - Egyptian White Water-lily (lotus small)
Nymphaea lotus var. termalis
Nymphaeae lutea
Nymphaea macrosperma - Native to Australia's Top End
Nymphaea mexicana - Yellow Water-lily
Nymphaea micrantha
Nymphaea nouchali - Red and blue water lily (National flower of Sri Lanka)
Nymphaea odorata - Fragrant Water-lily
Nymphaea pubescens - Hairy water-lily (National flower of Bangladesh)
Nymphaea rubra - India Red Water-lily (red lotus)
Nymphaea rudgeana
Nymphaea stellate
Nymphaea stuhlmannii
Nymphaea sulfurea
Nymphaea tetragona - Pygmy Water-lily (lotus dwarf)
Nymphaea thermarum
The benefits. Lotus plant widely used as an ornamental plant. But other than as an ornamental plant, lotus plant also has efficacy as traditional medicines, among others, can treat diseases, diarrhea, dysentery, leucorrhoea, nasopharynx cancer, fever, insomnia; hypertension, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, coughing up blood, heart disease; Give give, headache, diarrhea and blood urine, anemia, premature ejaculation.
Not lotus Lotus. Some people still confuse and assume the same between the lily (genus Nymphaea) and lotus (genus Nelumbo). Even once considered to be closely related. In fact the two are very different. Different from the lotus flower lotus. In Nelumbo, there are flowers above the water (not floating), pink petals (lily white to yellow), a full circle-shaped leaves and rhizome usually consumed.
Scientific Classification: Kingdom: Plantae; Subkingdom: Tracheobionta (vascular plants); Super Division: Spermatophyta (seed Produce); Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants); Class: Magnoliopsida (two pieces / dikotil); Sub Class: Magnoliidae; Order: Nymphaeales ; Family: Nymphaeaceae; Genus: Nymphaea; Species: see the article.
Reference: id.wikipedia.org / wiki / Lotus; commons.wikimedia.org
