(Peace Lily)

A native of the rain forests of Guyana, Jamaica, the West Indies and Suriname, Spathiphyllum blandum is a tropical evergreen peace lily rarely in cultivation. It is a robust species with large, glossy, lance-shaped leaves of dark green with sunken leaf veins. Each flower has a spoon-shaped green spathe surrounding a knobby white spadix. The flowers may bloom year round if growing conditions are favorable but are most prevalent from early spring to summer.

Spathiphyllum is a genus...

(Peace Lily, Spathe Flower)

A native of the rain forests of Trinidad, Spathiphyllum cannifolium is a tropical evergreen peace lily with exceptionally pretty foliage and flowers. It is a robust species with large, glossy, oval leaves of dark green with sunken leaf veins. Each flower has a large, ivory to pale yellow spathe, which folds backwards to expose a slender, knobby, ivory spadix. The flowers may bloom year round if growing conditions are favorable but are most prevalent from early spring to summer. This species...

(Peace Lily)

The large leaves and flowers of this tropical beauty can't be beat. Native to the rain forests of Mexico and Central America, Spathiphyllum cochlearispathum is a low-growing but bold peace lily ideal for tropical landscapes and interiorscaping. Each bushy plant has huge lance-shaped leaves with sunken leaf veins. Each spoon-shaped flower has a very large yellowish spathe, which folds around a knobby, tan to green spadix. The flowers may bloom year round if growing conditions are favorable...

(Peace Lily)

Bearing some of the largest blooms of its tribe, this large-flowered "peace lily" is a tender evergreen perennial native to Indonesia and the Philippines. It spreads slowly by underground rhizomes to form dense clumps of shiny dark green elliptic leaves held on long-sheathed petioles (leaf stems). The leaves are corrugated by indented veins. The blooms comprise a creamy-white finger-like floral structure (spadix) surrounded by a broad erect white petal-like bract (spathe). The blooms are long lasting...

(Peace Lily)

The bold leaves and white to greenish yellow flowers of snow flower are beautiful in their own right. Native to the rain forests of Panama, Columbia, Ecuador and Venezuela, Spathiphyllum floribundum is a low-growing peace lily ideal for tropical landscapes and interiorscaping. Each bushy plant has relatively large lance-shaped leaves with sunken leaf veins. Each spoon-shaped flower has a large yellowish-green spathe, which folds around a knobby, tan to ivory spadix. The flowers may bloom...

(Peace Lily)

Rarely in cultivation, Spathiphyllum patinii is a markedly elegant peace lily with finer leaves and small, elegant spathe and spadex flowers of white that rise from long, slim stems. Native to the rainforests of South America, it is a low-growing perennial ideal for container culture. The bushy plant has slender lance-shaped, dark green leaves with sunken leaf veins. Each flower has a lance-shaped, backward-arching spathe of white, and long, slender, greenish spadix that points upwards....

(Peace Lily)

Rarely in cultivation, Spathiphyllum phryniifolium is a pretty peace lily with notably green flowers. Native to the rain forests of Panama, it is a low-growing peace lily ideal for container culture. The bushy plant has elliptical, deep green leaves with sunken leaf veins. Each spoon-shaped flower has a greenish spathe that surrounds a yellow to greenish tan spadix. The flowers may bloom year round if growing conditions are favorable but are most prevalent from early spring to summer.

Spathiphyllum...

(Peace Lily)

Displaying large leaves with pleated veins, this large-flowered peace lily is one of the most ornamental of the Spathiphyllum genus. A tender evergreen perennial native to the humid forests of Colombia and Venezuela, Spathiphyllum wallisii spreads slowly by underground rhizomes to form dense clumps.

The glossy, medium green, elliptical leaves of this lush tropical are held on short, sheathed petioles (leaf stems). Leaf edges are gently wavy. The leaves have corrugated indented...

(Ground Orchid, Penang Beauty Ground Orchid)

The Penang Beauty groundorchid bears flowers atop tall wiry stems year round that are colored like dessert sherbet - yellow, salmon-peach and pink. This vigorous but cold-tender terrestrial orchid is a hybrid resulting from the cross of Spathoglottis plicata with Spathoglottis gracilis, both native to southeastern Asia. Resembling very wide blades of grass or the segments of a feather-fronded palm, the long pleated broadly sword-shaped leaves arise from a cluster of short swollen...

(Ground Orchid)

Beautiful when blanketing the ground with its lush evergreen foliage, this vigorous but cold-tender terrestrial orchid from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands is also prized for its year-round succession of lovely purple-pink flowers. Resembling very wide blades of grass or the segments of a feather-fronded palm, the long pleated broadly sword-shaped leaves arise from a cluster of short swollen bulb-like stems. The leaves arch gracefully. In warm humid weather plants send up tall stalks that...