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Aphelandra squarrosa (commonly but ambiguously called "zebra plant") is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae, which is native to Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil. This plant is often used as a house plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Aphelandra is a genus of over 200 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. They are evergreen shrubs growing to 1–2 m (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in) tall, with opposite, simple leaves 5–30 cm (2–12 in) long, often with white veins.
Aphelandra sinclairiana [1] is a plant species commonly called coral aphelandra, orange shrimp plant, Panama queen [2] or Sinclair's aphelandra. [3] It is a shrub up to 3 m (10 feet) high, native to Central America, specifically Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. It is also cultivated in warm locations elsewhere, with pink, red, orange ...
Zebra plant is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Alocasia zebrina, in the family Araceae; Aphelandra squarrosa, in the family Acanthaceae; Calathea zebrina, in the family Marantaceae; Haworthiopsis attenuata, in the family Asphodelaceae; Haworthiopsis fasciata, in the family Asphodelaceae
Acanthaceae (/ æ k æ n ˈ θ eɪ s iː ˌ aɪ,-s i ˌ i /) is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes.
The Cara cara navel orange, or red-fleshed navel orange, is an early-to-midseason navel orange noted for its pinkish-to-reddish-orange flesh.. It is believed to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a "standard" Washington navel orange tree.
Wild plants have pink to purple flowers, often with yellow lips. Most 8 to 30 short stalked flowers are in an inflorescence together; the inflorescence axis is glandular hairy. The crown is 25 to 45 (rarely to 70) millimeters long and in different colors (red, pink, orange, yellow, white). The "maw" of the crown is closed by protuberance of the ...
Selenicereus undatus, the white-fleshed pitahaya, is a species of the genus Selenicereus (formerly Hylocereus) in the family Cactaceae [1] and is the most cultivated species in the genus. It is used both as an ornamental vine and as a fruit crop – the pitahaya or dragon fruit. [3]