Waxy Succulent Leaf With Baby Plants on Border

While there are thousands of plants that tin can be grown indoors, the ones that are perennially popular are sold at nurseries and garden centers for a reason. Some are potent despite your lack of a green pollex while other more sensitive specimens may crave certain plant nutrient, merely the right lighting, and a special kind of container.

Name of Plant	Characteristics
Alpinia Galanga	This pretty plant (Alpinia galanga) is a class of ginger and is frequently used in Thai and Indonesian cooking. Likewise known as Galangal, Greater Galangal, or Thai Galangal, this increasingly popular house plant grows from edible rhizomes that produce stalks with long, thin, green leaves. Because it hails from tropical climates, Galanga prefers humidity.
Anthurium	Anthurium plants actually grow in the forests of tropical regions like Hawaii, although they are in containers within in many areas of the U.Southward. Also known equally Flamingo Flowers or Tailflowers, Anthuriums produce shiny, waxy flowers in white, coral, pink, rose, or deep red with long, cone-similar yellow centers. When not in bloom, Anthurium can nevertheless exist identified by its bright greenish, sleeky oblong, heart-shaped leaves.
Bromeliad	Indoor gardening enthusiasts honey the iii,000+ species of Bromeliads for their colorful and varied flowers and leafage. Sometimes referred to every bit Urn Plants or Pineapple Plants, Bromeliads produce vivid rosette-shaped flowers that become fountain-shaped as they abound, surrounded by leaves that can be strappy, wide and toothed, or variegated. While Bromeliads are monocarpic, meaning the blossom of a stunning flower indicates the plant's life is ending, most produce offsets.
Chinese Evergreen	Although Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonemia modestum) produces minor, light-green-white flowers that resemble Calla Lilies, this tropical Asian plant is admired for its broad leaves with white centers and green stripes on the edges. It grows in clumps to well-nigh iii feet high and wide and is easy to grow.
Clubmoss	Resembling vivid green, ruffle-edged gourmet lettuce, Clubmoss (Selaginella kraussiana) is a tropical business firm found that is ideal for glass terrariums. Also chosen Frosty Fern and Fasten Moss, it has apace spreading, creeping stems with branching, lacy foliage and light green or white tips that look "frosted".
Creeping Fig	While information technology doesn't produce bodily figs, Creeping Fig (Ficus pumila) has a climbing, almost invasive habit in nature as information technology attaches to walls and fences. Independent every bit an indoor plant, Creeping Fig makes an attractive indoor hanging establish, with trailing stems and oval leaves. 'Varigata' has flossy white and light-green leaves.
Croton	Big, leathery leaves in whatever combinations of green, yellow, pink, red, white, and orange make Crotons (Codiaeum variegatum) a colorful interior emphasis. Croton's glossy leaves can be oval or long and narrow, with edges that vary from smooth to lobed.
Dabble Leaf Fig	Dabble Leaf Fig (Ficus lyrata) trees are tall, broad-leafed plants that are enjoying a resurgence in popularity, thank you to an abundance of blueprint websites and social media. Nurseries in larger cities can't go on them in stock. Why? They look expert with a variety of pattern styles and their large (up to xv inches long), fiddle-shaped, circular leaves add personality and structure to a room and are adequately easy to grow.
Fishhook Constitute	A abaft succulent, Fishhook Plant (Senecio radicans) is a hanging found with tiny banana-shaped "leaves" that likewise goes by the name of String of Bananas and Banana Vine.
Fishtail Palm	Picture the tail of a goldfish and you can understand how Fishtail Palm (Caryota) got its mutual proper noun. With dark green plumage palms, its leaves are divided and make leaflets that are flattened and split at the ends. Indoor plants usually abound to nigh 10 feet high.
'Janet Craig' Dracaena	Many species of Dracaena make ideal houseplants, only, they don't all look alike. 'Janet Craig' Dracaena (Dracaena deremensis) grows on tall stalks and produces clusters of dark green sword-shaped leaves. A smaller version is Dracaena compacta.
Kalanchoe	Sold everywhere from garden centers to florists to grocery stores, these tiny-bell-shaped flowered houseplants are actually succulents that bloom in an array of colors similar yellowish, white, pinkish, red, and orange. Their dark dark-green leaves are fleshy and moist with edges that are shine or lobed. Kalanchoes usually bloom in wintertime and early spring.
Lucky Bamboo	The name alone entices even non-plant lovers to buy i. Lucky Bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana), aka Ribbon Establish or Chinese Water Bamboo, is an easy-to-grow found that is non a true bamboo. Stems are upright or twisting, with light-green, thin, strappy leaves that are light to medium light-green.
Madagascar Dragon Tree	A fellow member of the Agave family unit, (Dracaena marginata) is as well known equally the Money Tree -- who wouldn't want 1 of those growing in their house? Dragon Tree is noted for its slender upright or spreading stems with clusters of bract-shaped leaves that range from deep olive to variegated green with yellow and scarlet or ruddy tipped. The more colorful varieties are 'Colorama' and 'Tricolor'.
Ming Aralia	A tropical-looking tree-like house establish from Polynesia, the leaves of Ming Aralila (Polyscias fruticosa) are divided and redivided into lots of serrated sections. This upright-growing houseplant likes frequent misting.
Mother Fern	Mother Fern (Asplenium bulbiferum) features light light-green, svelte nevertheless leathery fronds that are finely cut. Tiny plantlets grow on the long fronds; these "babies" can be removed and propagated in fresh soil for new plants.
Mother-in-law Natural language	The unforgettably named Mother-in-Police force Tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata) is also known as Snake Plant and is a fellow member of the Agave family. While some varieties are dwarf, its thick, stiff, upright leaves that are striped or patterned are unmistakable. Colors range from unlike shades of greenish to xanthous, white, and cream.
Ponytail Palm	While the dark green leaves of this tropical found are attractive, it'southward the large bulbous base that helps to identify this Mexican native. Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea recurvata) is a fellow member of the lily family unit and non an actual palm. The bases and trunks of older specimens can mensurate several feet across and can have on a sculptural quality. Its long, strappy leaves tin be trimmed if it gets likewise "wild" looking.
Peace Lily	While a Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum) produces thin white flowers with yellow centers (spadix) that resemble thin Calla Lilies, it'due south when the plant is in its non-blooming state that it'due south harder to identify. About varieties produce a profusion of long, night, glossy green elliptical leaves on slender stalks that together form a fountain-like shape.
Polka Dot Establish	Polka Dot Plant, or Freckle Face up (Hypoestes phyllostachya), is like shooting fish in a barrel to spot considering of its light-to-medium pink or white and dark green spotted leaves. Oval, 2- to 3-inch leaves abound on slender stems and spots are irregular. A petite constitute that rarely grows beyond 10 inches alpine, Poka Dot looks all-time if tip-pinched to encourage fullness. Freckle Face will be happiest growing in a loose, peat soil mixture.
Reddish Aglaonema	Although it's often pink and greenish, Red Aglaonema has reverse heart-shaped leaves that are spotted, variegated, and edged in various shades of pink, rose, red, yellow, and green. One of the easiest house plants to grow, Red Aglaonema can tolerate rooms with poor lighting.
Safe Tree	Noted for its large, leathery, night green or variegated ruddy, green, and white leaves, Ficus elastica is also known as Prophylactic Fg, Rubber Bush, Safety Plant, Indian Rubber Bush, and Indian Safety Tree. Condom Tree stalks are stiff, upright, and oft ruddy.
Parlor Palm	Long agone, Parlor Palms (Chamaedorea elegans) provided some greenery in the parlors of houses. Parlors were individual rooms in homes of the more well-to-do, and were spaces where families might hold special meetings, weddings, or funerals. The plants are still popular for their archetype, feathery arching fronds that grow on single stems.
Schefflera	Schefflera, or Hawaiian Schefflera, is a tropical institute with shiny, round, palmate green or cream and green variegated leaves and woody stems. Schefflera grow on long stalks and class finger- or petal-similar leaflets that tin be dark or light green or variegated.
Spider Establish	Spider Plants (Chlorophytum comosum) become their name from the clumps of grass-similar blades that wait like the legs of a spider. Best as hanging plants, Chlorophytum usually have green and white striped leaves and produce "babies" with roots at the ends of long stems.
Strawberry Firetails	This hanging houseplant hails from the South Pacific has fuzzy, chenille or caterpillar-shaped red blooms. Strawberry Firetails (Acalypha hispida) has bright green middle-shaped leaves with toothed edges and literally spills from its container. It'south also chosen Foxtails, Monkey Tail, and Scarlet-Hot Cat'due south Tail.
Succulents	Sometimes referred to as hens and chicks, succulents embrace more than 50 genera and share the ability to store h2o in their fleshy leaves, stems, and roots. Succulents can be establish in a diversity of shapes, colors, and sizes, but smaller varieties brand excellent houseplants, specially those without spines. Types include Echeveria, Euphorbia (like the Poinsettia), Aeonium, and Cotyledon.
Swiss Cheese Found	With random holes in its monstrous leaves, there's no question why this is called Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera deliciosa). A relative of Philodendrons, Swiss Cheese Plant has huge, dark sleeky green tropical looking leaves that are securely cutting with holes or perforations. Younger leaves are brighter green and uncut. Inside, Monstera can climb to 15 anxiety in top.
Weeping Fig	Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) is a longtime favorite for indoor trees. Also known as Benjamin Tree or Benjamin Fig, it produces green or variegated green and white oval-shaped leaves with pointed tips that abound on downwards dropping stems. Some specimens feature braided trunks.
Zanzibar Precious stone	Zanzibar Jewel (Zamioculcas zamiifolia), or ZZ Plant, resembles a cycad or palm but is a relative of the Calla Lily. Long leafstalks have six to viii pairs of shiny, waxy, oval-shaped nighttime green leaves.