ID of houseplant please. Calathea?
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
4 months ago
I thought this was a calathea. Can't figure out what plant this is that I just bought! It's driving me crazy! Help!
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4 months agonewhostalady Z6 ON, Canada thanked ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5Related Discussions
Houseplant ID please?
Comments (13)Rhino, I'm surprised to hear you say it's fussy! Perhaps it will go berserk on me soon, but to date -- I wish all plants were this easy. It's very striking -- loud, almost -- but no matter where I put it, it doesn't seem to care much and keeps growing. It was next to my Calathea which had developed fungus gnats, and as a precaution, I threw both of them outside in the SF weather, and for a few days, they both experienced lows of 45-50 overnight. The dumb calathea has returned all flustered and not knowing what to do with itself whereas this zebra plant is like, "Dude, that was fun. Now what?" (Note: they don't actually talk to me. Well, I don't actually hear them, to be more accurate.) Leafhead - are you certain? Googling both Janet Craig and Pleomele compacta, I now think this plant looks like neither. Not identical, anyway. I've attached a closeup of this plant (excuse the hardwater stains; I'm in the process of removing them but no matter how many times I wipe them down, it's just not coming off as easily as one would hope) -- the branch structure seems different from Pleomele. Or is my plant just too young? I have a mystery plant, at last?? :-)...See MoreHouseplant, please ID
Comments (5)Thanks for the help, guys! Appreciate it. We have bigger cuttings of the same plant at home, this is just cuttings I made for my office. The leaves on the plant at home seem a little bigger than the ones at the office, probably because there's enough light at home vs just fluorescent light at the office. My mom now knows not to cut off the spurs....See MoreHouseplant ID please
Comments (4)It does seem like it's a Morning Glory. There's a lot of species and cultivars. I've always considered them as more of an outside plant. But I've never heard of any of them being toxic. Many of them have tubers that are edible, like Sweet Potato....See MoreID please for the houseplant
Comments (9)Those dried stipule, leaves venation made me think it is Ficus, there are too many species (creeping, shrub, tree) Where is the geographical location, is it natives there, is it common or rather a collector kind of plants For ficus identification, do you see root on those vine?, can you show tip of plant, (ficus has cap-stipule), does it bleed white sap if you cut leaves/stem If it in my area I would suggest Ficus Sagitata (quite variable in leaves morph and size) also could be F. vilosa (usually more hairy, but it is variable also) the fruit will also needed for figs ID, but most fig fruits only after mature and with specific wasp....See Morenewhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
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