Plants

Indoor plants

Asparagus

Asparagus

As houseplants, fern-like asparaguses with needle-like "leaves" are common: Asparagus plumossus - a compact plant with graceful, spreading branches in youth that with time become bare at the base.

Indoor plants

Aspidistra

Aspidistra

Eight species occur in nature. In cultivation the tall Aspidistra — Aspidistra elatior — a perennial herbaceous plant, is grown.

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Asplenium

Asplenium

The most widespread species is the bird's‑nest Asplenium, Asplenium nidus. This epiphytic fern, with its rosette-forming leaves, resembles a bromeliad.

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Astrophytum

Astrophytum

Astrophytum species are also called star cacti; this is clearly related to their appearance. The genus name comes from Greek asteroc - star and phyton - plant.

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Asystasia gangetica (gangetica)

Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson

Family Acanthaceae. It is widely distributed in tropical Asia and southern Africa.

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Aucuba

Aucuba

This evergreen shrub, in nature reaching almost 5 m in height, grows to about 1.5 meters in indoor conditions.

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Aylostera Fibriga

Aylostera fiebrigii (Guerke) Bkbg.

Family Cactaceae. Native to Bolivia. Stem globular or slightly elongated, glossy, bluish-green, up to 6 cm in diameter. Radial spines white, central spines light brown. There are 30-40 radial spines, up to 1 cm long.

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Aylostera diminuta

Aylostera deminuta (Web.) Bkbg.

Stem up to 6 cm in height and in diameter, dark green. Spines 10-12, white, up to 0.6 cm long. Flowers up to 3 cm in length and in diameter, orange-red.

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Aylostera heliosa or 'Sunny'

Aylostera heliosa Rausch.

Stem about 2.5 cm high and 2 cm in diameter, heavily branching. Radial spines up to 39, very small, up to 0.15 cm long, silvery-white, appressed to the stem. Central spines absent.

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Aylostera lozhnokroshechnaya

Aylostera pseudominima

Stem cylindrical, up to 5 cm tall, with 7-14 radial spines; they are yellowish, later becoming white with brown tips, 3-5 mm long. Flowers dark red, up to 2.5 mm long.

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Aylostera white-flowered

Aylostera albiflora

Family Cactaceae. Native - Bolivia. Stem globose, about 2.5 cm in diameter, branching.

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Aylostera white-haired

Aylostera albipilosa (Ritt.) Bkbg.

Spines white, hairlike, covering the stem with a dense coat. Flowers large (4.5 cm long, up to 3 cm in diameter), orange or red.

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Azalea

Azalea

Well-known ornamental flowering shrubs forming low-stemmed, crown-shaped plants

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Azistasia

Asystasia

The genus Azistasia (Asystasia Blume) comprises about 20 species of herbs and shrubs native to tropical Asia, southern Africa and Oceania, of the acanthus family (Acanthaceae).