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Sensitive Plant Seeds, also known as Mimosa pudica. This is a really fasinating plant. With the slightest touch the leaves shut and fall towards the stem. It is a tropical plant for containers. Please bring it indoors for the winter.
Sensitive Plant Heirloom Seeds 80 Seeds
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Understanding the flowering plants of any region begins with the recognition of families. This remarkable volume, created to serve students, professionals, and other plant enthusiasts, covers 130 temperate to tropical families common in North America with detailed illustrations and modern referenced commentaries. Each family discussion includes a diagnosis and summary of characteristics, distribution data, important economic members, and pollination ecology. The book’s most striking feature is Zomlefer’s 158 original pen-and-ink plates depicting intricate dissections of 312 species.
The content of the family discussions is geared to readers who have completed one introductory biology course. For readers less familiar with botanical terminology, Zomlefer provides an illustrated glossary of 551 terms with more than 300 drawings. Other important tutorial features are twenty-two detailed charts that compare pertinent characteristics of certain related plant groups and a general chart that summarizes the salient features of the families covered in the text. Both amateurs and professionals will particularly enjoy the chapter on examining, dissecting, and sketching live material.
Guide to Flowering Plant Families
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GYNURA SARMENTOSA, Purple Passion Vine or Velvet Plant is chiefly prized for its soft, hairy, velvety purple leaves. Gynura is usually grown as a houseplant having purple hair on the both upper and lower surfaces of the leaves, stems and flower heads. Younger leaves are a deeper purple than the mature leaves. The leaves are 3-4″ long with coarse-toothed edges.
Being a `vine’ the plant twines or trails. This plant is especially effective when kept in hanging baskets or is otherwise permitted to trail so as to exhibit to the fullest extent the colour and beauty of its foliage.
Very bright, indirect light (and even some sun) everyday is necessary for growth and vividly coloured foliage. Water moderately, just enough to keep the soil from drying up. Apply liquid soluble fertilizer, high in nitrogen, to promote lush leaves.
Gynura grows easily from cuttings and should be pinched back regularly to encourage dense bushy growth. Propagation is through tip cuttings. Insert four to five tip cuttings in a 3″ pot. Ideally, several young plants should be kept in a single container and should be nipped regularly to encourage bushy growth.
With adequate warmth Gynura will produce small orange flowers.
Purple Passion 6″ Hanging Basket -EROTIC-Gynura-Indoors