Transcript Plant Identification

Plant Identification
Week 20
Emerald Ripple Peperomia
Peperomia caperata
• Mound shaped plant
• Heart shaped leaves with brown
stems
• Tiny white flowers on long thin
brown spikes
• Foliage colors range from
metallic green to dark emerald
green
Phalaenopsis (Butterfly) Orchid
Phalaenopsis cv.
• Flowers borne on simple or
branched stems with
rounded or ovate shaped
petals and a protruding
lower lip
• Thick, broad, flat, semidrooping leaves
• Flower colors – white,
cream, yellow, pink, purple,
green, striped, with
colored/marked throats and
lower lips
Friendship Plant
Pilea involucrata
• Compact, thick-clustered,
creeping perennial
• Nearly stalkless rosettes of
ovate, deep green leaves with
deeply-grooved bronze surfaces
with light green toothed
margins
Polyanthus (Primrose)
Primula x polyanthus cv.
• Compact, rosette-forming perennial
• Broadly ovate, wrinkled leaves
• Large, colorful, blossoms appear on
very short stalks with up to 20
flowers
• Flower Colors – white, pink, yellow,
orange, red, blue, purple, some bicolored