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2. Make Your Home a Jungle With These 10 Tropical Plants - AOL

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   Sophia Kaplan, co-founder of the botanical company Leaf Supply, says that the Swiss cheese plant is hardy and fast growing “in areas with a moderate amount of bright, direct light." Catherine ...

3. Tropical garden - Wikipedia

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   The large leaves that feature in tropical plants require the soil to be humid at all times, so irrigation is essential for some gardens. Over-watering causes the roots to rot, killing plants. A tropical plant that is not cold-hardy should be brought indoors during the winter and returned to the garden for the summer.

4. Taraxacum - Wikipedia

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   Many Taraxacum species produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent plant. [10] In general, the leaves are 5–25 centimetres (2.0–9.8 in) long or longer, simple, lobed-to-pinnatisect, and form a basal rosette above the central taproot.

5. List of largest seeds - Wikipedia

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   It can reach about 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, and weigh up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds). The coco de mer, which produces a giant, dark brown seed, [4] has been protected by the government of the Seychelles because of its rarity [5] – the tree can grow up to 31 m (102 ft) tall, with leaves measuring 6 m (20 ft) long and 3.6 m (12 ft) wide.

6. Tropical horticulture - Wikipedia

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   Tropical horticulture includes plants such as perennial woody plants (arboriculture), ornamentals (floriculture), vegetables (olericulture), and fruits including grapes (viticulture). The origin of many of these crops is not in the tropics but in temperate zones. Their adoption to tropical climatic conditions is an objective of breeding. Many ...

7. Tropical agriculture - Wikipedia

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   Many tropical food plants are propagated by cuttings. Seeds are necessary for plant embryos to survive the winter and other harsh conditions such as drought. However, where the weather is normally conducive to growth year-round, plants reproducing plants through means other than seeds is often advantageous. By bypassing the seed stage, plants ...