Another SE Asian species, this one unfortunately did not come with more precise locality data. It’s lobed leaves come out very green and very fuzzy, slowly reaching about 4″ in length. I’ve not had it very long so cannot say for certain this is its mature size. Flowers are magenta and diminutive.
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: flower, purple, se asia, sonerila
This lobe type Sonerila is from Borneo, and so far has only attained a leaf size of about 4″. New leaves come out bright pink and very very slowly grow out into longer lobed leaves. Mine flowered shortly after I received it, but the seed pods were already dry. If anyone has experience with collecting seeds of this species and cares to share their experiences, please post below or contact me.
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: asia, flower, green, se asia, sonerila
This stunning species hails from China and possesses velvety leaves and a hardy constitution. It looks rather delicate, but in the terrarium at least, has proven to be a vigorous grower with little care. It blooms often. The undersides of the leaves are bright reddish-pink and visible when viewed directly from the front due to the growth habit of the plant. Somewhat versatile in its coloration, taking on red leaf venation in some conditions, and other times with more silvery […]
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: asia, begonia, cathayana, china, flower, large, white, white flower
This small Melastome is a wonderfully polite Melastome for the terrarium, only reaching about 12″ tall, with slow growing, compact rosettes. It can be propagated by taking a cutting containing a few leaves and at least two inches of stem, in sphagnum. I’ve tried taking smaller cuttings, leaf cuttings, putting them in potting soil, and it hasn’t worked at all. While not all that challenging to keep alive, it is a more difficult plant to flower and grow to a […]
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: Ecuador, flower, melastome, purple, small
This trailing Gesneriad makes an excellent house plant as well as vivarium plant, and blooms often. The flowers and white with tattered edges. Is a very easy species that can grow as a foreground plant or in a hanging basket, where it will grow long pendant vines. It is found in Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Peru.
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: african violet, alsobia, brazil, Costa Rica, dianthiflora, flower, gesneriad, mexico, Peru
This is the easiest orchid I know of! I’ve not had good success in the past growing orchids but this one is really hard to kill. It is equally well suited to life as a house plant as a terrarium plant and is tolerant of a wide variety of conditions. If grown as a terrarium plant it likes to be mounted to treefern without much or any sphagnum. If grown as a house plant, a well drained pot of sphagnum […]
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: epidendrum, flower, noid, orchid
This Episcia is native to French Guiana and does wonderfully in terrarium conditions. It will grow partially up a wood surface or over substrate. The leaves are under 4″ when full grown, and flowers are fringed white with purple in the center.
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By the time I’d noticed this plant, it was close to blooming size, probably grown from seed on an order of plants from Ecuaflora. In person the leaves look a bit more bronze than they do here. So far it has been easy to grow and it flowered within a few months of germinating. It is a vigorous grower and a big enough plant will flower more or less constantly. It’s reached about 9″ for me but may get larger […]
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: Diastema, flower, gesneriad, hitchhiker
This Dircanopygium was a lucky replacement for another Dicranopygium I ordered from Ecuaflora, the original I don’t even remember now. It has stayed under 18″ tall, and has been tolerant of a wide range of conditions. Currently it’s growing atop a piece of wet wood, with its roots bundled in sphagnum and other plants. The leaf is forked about 1/3 the way up, the forked halves remaining close together for the entire leaf. The fragrance is strong, and even though […]
Categories: Blog, Plant Photo Library • Tags: dicranopygium, Ecuador, ecuaflora, fake palm, false palm, flower, fruit, gilberto, palm
