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Aspidistra elatior, the cast-iron-plant [3] or bar-room plant, also known in Japanese as haran or baran (葉蘭) [4] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Japan and Taiwan.
Aspidistra elatior, the "cast-iron plant", is a popular houseplant, surviving shade, cool conditions and neglect. It is one of several species of Aspidistra that can be grown successfully outdoors in shade in temperate climates, where they will generally cope with temperatures down to −5 °C (23 °F), being killed by frosts of −5 to −10 ...
Aspidistra elatior prefers dappled shade and may struggle if exposed to direct sunlight. “If they are planted in a spot where they get too much sun, the leaves can scorch,” Naumuk warns. For ...
Cast-Iron Plant. The cast-iron plant (scientifically termed Aspidistra elatior) is native to Asia and gives back a million times more than it receives.Seriously, you can forget to water it for ...
Aspidistra elatior (cast iron plant) Begonia species and cultivars; Bromeliaceae (bromeliads, including air plants) Calathea, Goeppertia and Maranta spp. (prayer plants) Chlorophytum comosum (spider plant) Citrus (compact cultivars such as the Meyer lemon) Ctenanthe burle-marxii (fishbone prayer plants) Cyclamen; Dieffenbachia (dumbcane ...
Aspidistra elatior, the cast-iron plant, grows in the understorey. Acrocercops mantica, Chrysocercops castanopsidis, and Lymantria albescens [4] larvae of these Asian moths likely mine the leaves. Amantis nawai, a small praying mantis species native to Eastern Asia is known to live around C. sieboldii where it eats insects.
Aspidistra is a plant genus (from the Greek aspidion, a small round shield). Aspidistra may also refer to: Aspidistra elatior, an Aspidistra species used as a houseplant; Aspidistra (transmitter), a radio transmitter codenamed Aspidistra and used by Britain in the Second World War to beam propaganda to Germany; An Aspidistra in Babylon, novel ...
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