As with more or less all plants, houseplants are blessed with a number of different names. It all depend which part of the world - or even which part of your country you live. It may even depend upon which generation you belong to!
The botanical names of houseplants are always (?) correct, but of course they are mostly Latin, and not easy to remember. Neither are they particularly descriptive - unless you can speak Latin!
Common names such as 'Creeping Jinny' are much easier to remember. The problem occurs when a specific plant is blessed with two - maybe three common 'nicknames'!
Do you know 'Flaming Katy' for instance!
A
Angels Wings Caladium
Aluminium Plant
B
Busy Lizzie - New Guinea
Blushing Bromeliad
Boston Fern
Button Fern
Butterwort
Bamboo Palm - Reed
Palm Chamaedorea
C
Cabbage Palm Tree
Christmas Cactus
Coral Berry
Croton
Clover
Care of Houseplants
D
Delta Fern - Maidenhair
Elephant Ears Plant - Alocasia
macrorrhyza
F
Flamingo Flower
False Aralia
Fiddle Leaf Plant
Flaming Katy
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G
Good Luck Plant - Tree
Good Luck Clover - Oxalis
tetraphylla
Goldfish Plant
Golden Shrimp Plant
H
Hot Water Plant - Achimenes
I
J
K
Kentia Palm
- Howea
L
Lady's Slipper Orchid
Living Stones
Lipstick Vine Plant
Lucky Clover
M
Maidenhair Fern - Adiantum Delta Fern
N
O
P
Peacock Plant
Painted Net Leaf
Pepper
Polka Dot Plant
Ponytail Plant
Pests of Houseplants
Pouch Flower
- Calceolaria
Prickly Pear
Poinsettia - for Christmas
Q
S
Spider Plant
Spotted Laurel
Silver Nerve Plant
Scarlet Star
Sensitive Plant
Slipper Plant
: Pouch Flower
Stags horn Fern
Starfish Plant
- Cryptanthus
Swiss Cheese Plant
T
U
Urn Plants - Bromeliads
V
W
X Y
Z
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