(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, White Lance Chinese Evergreen)

Chinese evergreen ‘White Lance’ is a clump-forming tropical perennial prized for its unique foliage. The leaves are very narrow, lance-shaped, long and glossy. They tend to grow upright and arching and are pale, silver with a very narrow irregular dark green edges. The leaf stems are pale green with dark green blotches. This selection readily produces suckers and forms large clumps more quickly than other aglaonemas. Blooms are produced and are small, rather uninspiring white spathes (sail-shaped...

(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...

(Chinese Evergreen)

Chinese evergreen is a small, upright, evergreen perennial native from South China to North Thailand. It is grown for its attractive, lance-like, glossy dark green leaves with wavy margins. Displays insignificant greenish white spathe and spadix flowers appear sporadically throughout the year.

This plant prefers well drained soils and is tolerant of very low light conditions. In temperate regions it may be planted as a tropical tender perennial and makes a lovely houseplant. Where hardy, it makes...

(Aglaonema)

Aglaonema is a genus of more than 20 species and many cultivated varieties and hybrids. The members of the genus are naturally distributed across the warm, humid, tropical forest of Asia. The cultivated varieties are highly prized as easy, tough indoor plants, selected for their striking leaves and used as houseplants, conservatory specimens, container plants, or bedding plants where growing conditions are favorable.

These plants are evergreen, tender perennials. Most grow fleshy stems...

(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")....

(Allamanda)

Allamanda is a small genus of 12 species of evergreen climbers and shrubs native to the tropical areas of Central and South America; however it has escaped cultivation and naturalized throughout the tropics.

Habit varies from species to species. Allamanda can have a shrubby habit, long and arching branches or be twining woody vines. The bark is commonly brown, furrowed on mature stems and yellow-green on younger branches. These emit a milky irritating sap when broken. The leaves...