(Aglaonema, Chinese Evergreen, Nicole Chinese Evergreen)

Valued for their large, handsome evergreen leaves and tough constitution, aglaonemas are among the most familiar shade-loving houseplants. The lance-shaped, glossy, dark-green leaves of the hybrid cultivar 'Nicole' are strikingly decorated with broad jagged silvery midveins. Ornamentally insignificant flowers with small white spathes appear sporadically.

Aglaonemas like warmth, humidity, bright shade, and moist, well-drained soil, but will settle for less. They work well as an indoor container...

(Aglaonema, Chinese Evergreen, Peacock Chinese Evergreen)

Valued for their large, handsome evergreen leaves and tough constitution, aglaonemas are among the most familiar shade-loving houseplants. The silvery, lance-shaped leaves of the hybrid cultivar 'Peacock' are strikingly decorated with dark green flecks and yellowish midribs. Ornamentally insignificant flowers with small white spathes appear sporadically.

Aglaonemas like humidity, bright shade, and moist, well-drained soil, but will settle for less. 'Peacock' is less sensitive to cold and thus...

(Aglaonema, Chinese Evergreen, Silver Bay Chinese Evergreen)

Silver Bay Chinese Evergreen is a clump-forming tropical perennial prized for its uniquely patterned foliage. The leaves are lance-shaped, broad, glossy and colored a pale, silvery green between the veins. The edge of the leaves is dark green with silver markings. This tropical does bloom and produces small, rather uninspiring white spathes (sail-shaped flowers)among or just below the foliage.

Chinese evergreen prefers partial to heavy shade outdoors and moderately fertile, moist, well-drained...

(Aglaonema, Chinese Evergreen)

This bushy tropical is a popular houseplant and garden plant for warm shade gardens and container plantings. In its native Philippines and Indonesia it grows thickly to create a lush groundcover under large shade trees. It is a fully evergreen tender perennial with large, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves and lovely silver blotching. The upright plants spread slowly from fleshy rhizomes (underground stems) to form substantial clumps.

This thick, leathery leaves alternately clasp the stem with...

(Aglaonema, Chinese Evergreen, Emerald Beauty Chinese Evergreen)

The name ‘Emerald Beauty’ says it all. This compact, well-branched tropical evergreen has dark green leaves blotched with lighter green-gray markings.

This bushy tropical is a popular houseplant and garden plant for warm shade gardens and container plantings. In its native Philippines and Indonesia it grows thickly to create a lush groundcover under large shade trees. It is a fully evergreen tender perennial with large, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves and lovely silver blotching. The upright...

(Aglaonema, Chinese Evergreen)

The showy, tropical Aglaonema nitidum is a popular small houseplant or landscape plant for shaded, frost-free gardens. Its lovely evergreen foliage is dark green blotched and streaked with creamy white markings. This Southeast Asian native is a true tropical forest dweller that thrives in the understory of hot and humid locations. It is rhizomatous and will spread over time.

The long, lance-shaped, leathery leaf blades of Chinese evergreen are dark green marked with lighter green or...

(Chinese Evergreen, Painted Drop Tongue, Silver Queen Painted Drop Tongue)

The dense, upright leaves of 'Silver Queen' are bright green with marbled silvery markings on top and smooth green undersides. It is a favorite foliage plant for interior-scaping as well as tropical landscaping and has been given an Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society.

The showy, tropical Aglaonema nitidum is a popular small houseplant or landscape plant for shaded, frost-free gardens. Its lovely evergreen foliage is dark green blotched and streaked with creamy...

(Coyore, Macaw Palm)

This small, graceful, but heavily armed palm tree is found in rain forests and seasonally dry woodlands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the Lesser Antilles.

Borne atop a single, slender, gray to tan trunk that brandishes numerous long black spines, the enormous, arching, ferny leaves have numerous narrowly lance-shaped leaflets. The leaflets arise from a long central axis known as a rachis. The rachis and the undersides of the leaves are also heavily armed, as is the long leaf stem ("petiole")....

(Begonialeaf Alangium, Chinese Alangium)

Lovely green leaves with short pointed lobes adorn the zig-zagged branches of Chinese alangium. Blooming in early summer and again in mid-autumn, the small oval fruits turn dark blue in autumn, too. A large shrub to small tree that is evergreen in frost-free climates but deciduous elsewhere, it is native to a large expanse of southern Asia's Himalayas eastward into the highlands of southeast Asia. Natural variant forms can also be found in eastern Africa.

The leaves are rounded when young, having...

(Alcantarea)

No tropical garden is complete without a giant alcantarea! Larger than a bushel basket, the rosette of strappy light green leaves eventually forms a towering red flower stalk with curving yellow bracts and ivory flowers. This evergreen perennial bromeliad is a lithophyte (growing among and upon rocks) native to the montane cliffs in extreme southeastern Brazil.

Each leaf is light green, occasionally with speckles or a casting of gray, and strap-like. It tapers to a soft point while the base...