Identification: What are we?

Discussion in 'Indoor and Greenhouse Plants' started by sparticl3, Dec 10, 2008.

  1. sparticl3

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    Hello,
    I am new to this forum, but have done a bit of reading on other posts and have kind of identified a couple of these, but the others have stumped. I'm sure it will take you all of 30 seconds to figure out what these are. I have collected these from friends and that can't seem to keep anything alive, and I love the green they add to the space. Anyway, the only one of these to flower is the one in image 193. It took about 8 years for it to flower indoors, and it had a spadix type flower. The one in image 191 has been with me for about a year now and was very skimpy when I got it, more water and fertilizer seemed to help it quite a bit, and I am planning on re potting it shortly. I have seem similar ones on posts, but didn't want to hazard a guess. The one in image 192 is my oldest, at 12 years it has always been very hardy and I recently trimmed a LOT of mass off this one. I have noticed cats are drawn to it even though it appears to have small thorns on the stems (sorry no pic of that). The twins in 194 hare pretty new as well, I also think they are of a lilly type similar to 193?? 195 is another one of my old plants that originally had 4x 8-foot "arms" that I trimmed back to 2x 4-foot arms.. I am debating on what this plant it and whether I should trim back shorter to get more stems?

    Any help you all could provide would be great!

    Thanks.



    PS.. Images are 191 - 195 from left to right. :)
     

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    saltcedar Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    Ficus elastica, Asparagus densiformis 'Sprengeri', Agalonema, Spathaphyllum, Epipremnum pinnatum.

    HTH
    Chris
     
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    Wow, that was fast, lol. Thanks!
     
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    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    For the Epipremnium, trimming it back won't necessarily make it more bushy. However, you can root whatever trimmings you make and it will gain a fuller look that way. Your other options are to hang it from the ceiling or train it to grow up your wall. My experience with Epis is that they really really really want to climb.

    You can get more blooms out of your Spathyphyllum and your Agalonema by giving them a bit of fertilizer. Other than that, everything looks very healthy.

    And don't worry too much about kitty's attraction to the asparagus. That's totally normal and munching it won't cause her any harm. I keep one around to keep my cat out of the Dieffenbachia and away from my roses.
     

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