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Plant ID #4 Horticulture 2 Dieffenbachia maculata • Dumbcane – Foliage: simple; entire margin; ovate; pinnate; evergreen; 8 to 12 inches; variegated – Height: 1 to 3 feet – Spread: 1 to 3 feet – Form: upright – Leaf Arrangement: opposite – Exposure: Light Shade – Landscape Use: container; interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: indoor plant in NC Dizygotheca elegantissima • False Aralia – Foliage: palmately compound; lobed; doubly serrate margins; oblong; evergreen; 8-12 inches long; 5-7 leaflets – Flowers: white – Height: 1-4 feet – Spread: 1 to 3 feet – Form: upright – Leaf Arrangement: alternating – Landscape Use: Container; interiorscape – Exposure: Light shade – Unique Characteristic: house plant Dracaena cincta • Red Edge Dracaena – Foliage: simple, linear shape with entire margins; dull green and with purplish-red margins; rosette at top of the stem; up to 3 feet long and up to 7.5 cm wide – Height: 4 to 12 feet – Spread: 6 feet – Form: upright; like a palm tree – Leaf Arrangement: rosette – Exposure: Partial Sun – Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: Usually single stem Dracaena deremensis • Warneckii Dracaena – Foliage: simple, linear shape with entire margins; whorled arrangement – Height: 8 to 12 feet – Spread: 6 feet – Form: upright; open – Leaf Arrangement: spiral – Exposure: Partial Sun – Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: house plant in NC Echinaceae pupurea – Foliage: Rough textured leaves that become small toward the top of the stem; dark green leaves are coarse and sandpapery, usually lance shaped, and 38 in long – Flowers:Pink, Magenta (Pink-Purple), Violet/Lavender, Purple, White/Near White; singly atop the stems – Height: 2-3 feet – Spread: 2-3 feet – Form: upright – Leaf Arrangement: – Exposure: Full sun – Landscape Use: foundation, beds, mixed borders, or in the native wildflower patch – Unique Characteristic: perennial Elaeagnus pungens – Thorny Elaeagnus – Foliage: simple, oval shape with entire, wavy margins; evergreen shrub; silver tint; undersides of leaves are silver in color with bronze spots – Flowers: cream colored, bell shaped – Height: up to 15 feet – Spread: 20 feet – Form: symmetrical mound; shrub – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: border, screen – Unique Characteristic: stems or "canes" bend to form great arcs if unsupported; drought tolerant Epipremnum aureum cv • Golden Pothos – Foliage: simple, cordate shape with wavy margins; irregularly spaced yellow bands and green bands; ovate to broadly ovatelanceolate – Height: 6 inches – Spread: 25 feet – Form: climber; vine – Landscape Use: container; interiorscape – Exposure: sun – Leaf Arrangement: alternating – Unique Characteristic: often with aerial roots; house plant Euonymus alatus • Winged Euonymus/ Burning Bush – Foliage: simple, obovate leaves; 1 to 3" long; finely serrated; excellent red fall color – Flowers: Non-showy yellow-green flowers; 0.5 to 0.3" red fruit in fall – Height: 5-6 feet – Spread: 5-6 feet – Form: Upright mound; horizontal branches; flat top – Leaf Arrangement: Opposite – Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: corky winged branches Euonymus japonica • Evergreen Euonymus – Foliage: evergreen; simple, oval shape with serrated margins; 1 to 3" long – Height: 10 to 15 feet – Spread: 5 to 6 feet – Form: Dense, oval mound; stiff – Leaf Arrangement: Opposite – Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge – Exposure: sun – Unique Characteristic: major problem with scale; must spray Euphorbia pulcherrima • Poinsettia – Foliage: simple, obovate shape with lobed margins; with or without teeth on the margin; showy red, pink, or cream leafy bracts – Flowers: cup-shaped "flowers" in a cluster above bracts – Height: 2 to 10 feet – Spread: 1/2 to 6 feet – Form: shrub – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: container, interiorscape – Exposure: sun – Unique Characteristic: common at Christmas; poisonous; house plant; red veins in leaves; red “flowers” are actually red bracts, bracts can be white to pink to red to yellow in color Ficus benjamina • Weeping or Benjamin Fig – Foliage: simple, ovate shape with wavy edge; long-tipped, glossy – Height: 1 to 30 feet – Spread: 1 to 45 feet – Form: evergreen tree or shrub with drooping branches – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Landscape Use: container, interiorscape – Exposure: Sun – Unique Characteristic: poisonous; house plant; loses leaves when moved or in drafts; drips a white sap when cut Ficus elastica ‘Decora’ • Decora Rubber Plant – Foliage: simple, elliptic shape with entire margins; large glossy leaves; Shiny, leathery, oblong; leaves are enclosed, when buds, in rosy sheaths, which soon fall. – Height: 8 to 10 potted; up to 100 feet in Hawaii – Spread: 60 feet or more because of aerial roots – Form: tree – Leaf Arrangement: alternate – Exposure: Sun – Landscape Use: container, interiorscape – Unique Characteristic: Elastica leaves and stems and even wood 'bleed' white sticky sap when broken or damaged from which rubber can be made. 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