Monstera

Jan 28, 2012 No Comments by manager

Monstera – a beautiful evergreen related to vines. This is one of the most common houseplants. Young leaves are entire, perforated with age, and then completely split. The plant is not capricious and is growing rapidly, taking 3-4 years for half the room. Therefore, Monstera more would fit for cultivation in offices or other facilities [...]

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Hoya (wax ivy)

Jan 21, 2012 No Comments by manager

Hoya (wax Ivy) – curly or with creeping stems are evergreen plants, shrubs. Leaves ovate, oval, entire, moderately fleshy, leathery. Inflorescences axillary. Flowers in umbels, corolla globose-pyatichlenisty, fleshy, thick crown of five, flat, convex, bidentate and dissected bars. Distributed on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, partly in India and in tropical Australia. In-kind 200 [...]

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Phalaenopsis Orchid Care

Jan 21, 2012 No Comments

Orchids – orchid genus name comes from Greek. phalaina – moth, butterfly, opsis – similarity: the flowers on the Worm resemble a butterfly. About 70 species distributed in south and southeast Asia, on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, Philippines, New Guinea and northeast Of Australia. Phalaenopsis or “moth orchid”. This epiphytic plants of tropical [...]

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Medinilla

Jan 21, 2012 No Comments

Medinilla great Medinilla magnifica – large shrub to 2 m tall. Woody stems are quadrangular form, leaves large, opposite arrangement, up to 30 cm long, oval in shape. Leaf surface is smooth, dark-green with lighter veins, slightly wavy at the edges. The underside of the leaf is lighter. Pink flowers are collected in many-flowered racemose [...]

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Ehmeya

Jan 21, 2012 No Comments

Ehmeya belongs to the family Bromeliaceae, a native of Brazil. In the family there are about 170 species of Aechmea, many of which leaves have jagged edges, sometimes with spines. For others – are decorated with dots or transverse stripes, and why does the name mean plant aichme risk point, as in Greek – the [...]

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Agave

Jan 16, 2012 No Comments

Agave (Latin from Greek Agáve. Αγαυε – name of the daughter of Cadmus, Pentheus mother) – genus of plants of the family Agavovye (Agavaceae). Motherland from South America to the southern U.S. states. Very beautiful ornamental plants, but most species because of their large size suitable for decoration only flower beds and flower gardens. At [...]

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Dieffenbachia

Dec 30, 2011 No Comments

Among the ornamental plants that are popular among fans of indoor plants, many originally from the subtropical forests of South America. We are so accustomed to their green pets that do not pay attention to this fact of special significance. Meanwhile, and especially care, breeding and grafting is directly related to the origin of plants, [...]

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Zamiokulkas

Dec 26, 2011 No Comments

Zamiokulkas zamielistny (Zamioculcas zamiifofia Engl.), Belonging to the family Araceae, came to us from the African deserts, where he found his ability, common to all succulent, meaty accumulate moisture in the stems and leaves. His name is unusual, yet very expensive and rare plant with us, was because of the similarity with zamiey – gymnosperms, [...]

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