The color in Philodendron bipennifolium is absolutely gorgeous. This teal green highly reflexive is so charming, thanks nature winter is over down here in Brazil and we can have full growth again. Just waiting for the rains, even if la niña promisses lower rainfall this end of year.
The caladium bicolor under it just popped there and serves well to compare the color of the leaves. I'll repot it as soon as the rains start around here. Also I'm feeling like filling this pot soil with more organic matter and do some magnesium fertilization.
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A typical M. cristata leaf and this one that came out weird. Could that be mosaic virus? I'll wait to see how this will develop, maybe just some bad leaf pigment formation.
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Winter is ending, miss my little cat. Poor Mingau went missing and I'm feeling super bad lately because of that. Couldn't keep his sassy ass at home and had to keep popping over neighborhood's roofs.
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Fire rose blooms, during south hemisphere winter XOXO
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Hello! I just saw your post about your succ that you'd sprayed and the bugs just dropped dead. I have some very rude mealybugs very much overstaying their welcome. Could you share your super mealybug killer?? Thx~
Sorry that I took some time to see this, but I do a mixture of 1/3 water, rubbing alcohol and vinegar, I can powder a bit of sulfur in the mixture too sometimes.
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suas suculentas são LINDAS 💖
Obrigado
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Begonia soli-mutata is my baby, seriously look at those colors, the texture and everything else about this plant. Super common okay but damn. It can be used as a bedding plant for a truly gorgeous composition. Grows all year round if you don't get snow over it but it's quite an adaptative grower. Seems to do well in subtropical climate so must have above average hardness.
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Sparkling shine begonia flowers
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Dry winter, brazilian Savannah on the loose...
There will be some months before any rain catches up those hills again.
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Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum young leaves, native around here. It is said that indigenous people used to eat the fruits just like monstera deliciosa. But may take a while to see that one flowering. Specially because it turns to be a huge, massive plant when adult and I'm not sure I can afford that kind of space, but we'll manage.
Mine still young but as one can see the "trunk" like structure is arealdy forming, a very specific characteristic of the genus. No other philodendron can produce a structure like this, only those species of thaumatophyllum that developed and divided from other philodendron in an early evolution stage.
Now I'll be waiting for it to develop more leaves and become larger. Later those plants start to look like huge snakes with the winding trunk of theirs as they lose the older leaves and just keep the crown ones like a palmtree of sorts.
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Philodendron acutatum is a common yet beautiful foliage from brazilian rainforests. Usually found in the Atlantic Forest, but also the Amazon. Has a red border and leaves can grow in many sagitated shapes. It's a hemiepiphyte herb that once it climbs can produce several aerial roots which were traditionally used by local indigenous people as source of several crafts like baskets and others.
This leaf is quite small yet, but an adult plant can reach something around 20 inches or more. The leaves are sparse right now as this one was clustered with other four ones and I moved it to climb a wood pallet that is in the background there. Watering the pallet will increase the chances of the roots adhering over it.
I'll bring more posts about individual tropical plant species and talk about them. What do you guys think about it?
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Philodendron beauty
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Brazilian native convolvulaceae species, cute plant, but actually pretty small flower. Drought resistant, it sports several flowers if grown as a bush.
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Philodendron "Burle Marx" is truly weird... Not the best climber out there and nobody saw it's inflorescence as it seems. So it's not known if it is a hybrid or a true species. I juts made this cutting and left it to climb a wall, let's see how far it can go, and if in good humidity I can make it climb.
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