It is difficult to find an apartment in which there were no indoor plants. And if most of the green inhabitants of window sills are easy to recognize, then there are among them those whose name you can’t guess right away. It is worth considering unusual exotic plants from the tropics and other rare indoor flowers.
Fancy Indoor Plants
The list of unusual cultures is quite large. Exotic home flowers are one of the most interesting and beautiful.
Tillandsia blue (Tillandsia cyanea)
The name of the plant is not simple. Care for him will be required not at all ordinary. Tillandsia is part of the Bromeliad family, and another name for the culture is "tropical star."
Variety of indoor plants
The homeland of the flower is the tropics. Needs a warm temperature year-round. In summer, the room should be 25-28 ° C above zero, and in winter at least 18-20 ° C.
Good to know! Tillandsia loves fresh air, in the warm season it can be carried outside. At the same time, it is important not to allow the plant to fall under the cold draft.
Ordinary garden soil is not suitable for an exotic indoor plant. Special land is purchased at a store or a substrate is used for flowering orchids. With independent production of soil, you need to stock up:
- sheet land - 1 part;
- peat - 1 part;
- chopped sphagnum - 1 part;
- charcoal - a small amount;
- fir bark;
- humus;
- the sand.
Tillandsia blue
The resulting mixture must necessarily have a loose consistency. But the pot is used the most common.
On a note! The flower is not sprayed when it begins to bloom actively.
Euphorbia tirucalli (Euphorbia tirucalli)
Africa and Madagascar are the two main habitats of this unusual home plant. Today you can meet with milkweed in almost all tropical countries where it was brought as the main livestock feed. A poisonous culture is a fact, but cows can eat it without harm to health.
In the wild, spurge grows to 9 meters in height. Its other name is "pencil cactus."
Worth to know! If you forget about regular crop pruning, the plant will grow to 6 meters.
This plant is one of the most poisonous, and therefore, when carrying out any work with it, maximum care must be taken, and gloves should be used to protect hands. Upon contact of the skin with the juice of a pencil cactus, the place of contact is washed with a large amount of running water.
Euphorbia tirucalli
Hypocyte naked (Hypocyrta glabra)
Compared with other plants, it is difficult to call a hypocirrh the most popular home flower. Observing all the rules of care, nothing complicated with the cultivation of a "goldfish" or "humpback flower" will arise.
The duration of flowering of hypocirrhea is 120 days, the color of the flowers depends on the variety, but most often they are pink, yellow or red-orange.
Hypocytosis nude
Helpful information! When caring for a plant, the golden mean between temperature and humidity must be observed. With lowering the temperature in the room and decreasing air humidity - watered a "humpback flower" less often.
Lachenalia aloeid (Lachenalia aloides)
The Hyacinth family includes this plant, which does not leave indifferent lovers of home crops. In the wild, lashenalia can only be found in South Africa, in one single region.
Those who want to get this culture should remember that the plant does not tolerate:
- the heat;
- stagnant air;
- strong odors;
- tobacco smoke.
Lashenalia
Calathea
Refers to perennial rhizome plants, whose homeland is the tropics of America. The leaves of the culture are interesting in that they have bright veins or spots, sometimes they can be of complex geometric shape. There are a huge number of varieties and varieties of calathea.
Interesting! The most capricious plant from the group is saffron calathea, and the most unpretentious is considered to be makoya kalatea.
Saffron Calathea
Exotic Tropical Potted Flowers
This class includes the so-called exotics:
- gusmania;
- dope;
- an orchid;
- passionflower.
Gusmania
Some gardeners call the culture of Guzmania, and it belongs to the Bromeliad family. There is a flower in Brazil, Venezuela, Florida, the West Indies.
The peculiarity of guzmania is that flowers appear once in a lifetime. Some plant lovers have to wait several years for flowers to appear on the bush. If there are children, they are transplanted, but the parent bush still awaits death.
Dope
The homeland of the poisonous flower is in the tropics and subtropics. In regions with a cool climate, it is grown as an annual crop. Despite the danger that dope poses to humans, it is used for medicinal purposes. With proper handling, a flower can be the highlight of a presentation.
Dope bloom
The beauty of the buds is admired after the sun goes down or in cloudy weather since the flower is nocturnal.
Orchids
This exotic representative is familiar to all lovers of indoor plants. Each variety of orchids is unique and original. Before breeding such a culture, you should decide on the variety, find all the information about it. There are a huge number of nuances, without the knowledge of which it is easy to destroy a tropical beauty.
Passionflower
Luxurious flowers and a simple appearance is all about passionflower. The culture has delicious fruits with medicinal properties. The best known name for sweets is passion fruit.
Passionflower flower
There are several varieties of crops that are successfully grown at home:
- blue
- edible;
- incarnate;
- royal star;
- maestro;
- giant.
The rarest indoor flowers
It is worth considering the most rare house flowers grown in apartment conditions.
Pseudolithos (Pseudolithos)
It is a succulent plant and belongs to the Dovnevy family. If you translate the name of the exotic into Russian, it will sound like "false" or "fake stone."
Leaf plates in pseudolithos are absent. For shoots, plexus into a ball is characteristic. Faces appear on the surface. The skin of the shoots can be brownish-green, olive or grayish. Pink and silver varieties are also found.
False stone
During flowering, flies pollinate the plant. Exotic indoor flowers have a peculiar smell similar to rotting meat. The "fake stone" blooms from late summer to November.
Raffleza Dyschidia (Dischidia rafflesiana)
Australia, India, Polynesia and their rainforests are habitats of a spreading vine. Nutrition of the culture occurs due to the juices of plants to which it attaches. Today, more than a hundred varieties of creepers are known, but you can only grow them as a houseplant:
- ovate dischidia;
- dischidia russifolia;
- scallop dyschidia;
- vidical dischidia;
- rafflosis dischidia.
Trichocaulon
The culture has a spherical or cylindrical stem. It can be light green, brown or bluish. The formation of flowers occurs at the top of the stem, the petals are rounded or spiky.
The plant is characterized by endurance in extreme heat (spring and summer months). With the onset of autumn, the green pet is moved to a room with a temperature regime of +12 ° C, so that the trichocaulon has a rest period. An exotic flower needs it.
Trichocaulon
Trachyandra or Trachyandra
The plant belongs to perennials, but it is interesting in that the leaves are curls of a dark-angled color. The unusual shape of the leaves makes the culture relevant for home growing.
Important! Abundant watering is fatal for this plant. Excess moisture leads to the fact that the leaves lose their ability to form curls.
Before buying unusual indoor flowers, it is worth remembering that the culture will need specific care, otherwise it is easy to ruin the plant.
