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Saintpaulia
Saintpaulia
This plant is a favorite of many gardeners. Wild Usambara violets are notable for the variety of colors and shapes of their flowers and leaves.
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Sanchezia
Sanchezia
Sanchezia nobilis - a large plant with an erect quadrangular stem. Leaves about 25 cm long, oblong-lanceolate in shape with a pointed apex.
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Sansevieria
Sansevieria
Native to tropical Asia and Africa. Sansevieria is a beautiful, undemanding houseplant suitable for growing both as a single specimen and in compositions.
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Saxifrage
Saxifraga
Widespread in East Asia in high mountain areas. Grows between stones, in rock crevices.
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Schefflera
Schefflera
Native to East Asia — China, Japan, Vietnam. This tropical plant comprises about 150 species in the wild. They are all very similar and form small trees or shrubs with graceful palmately compound leaves on long petioles…
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Schlumbergera
Schlumbergera
People commonly know them by the example of the Decembrist. These are epiphytic cacti, or forest cacti. They usually bloom by Christmas, i.e. flowering occurs in January, which is why they are called Decembrists — buds …
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Scindapsus
Scindapsus
Scindapsus grows quickly and is fairly undemanding indoors. The main requirements are a warm room, not too dry air, and periodic fertilizing.
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Selaginella
Selaginella
Selaginella Martens - Selaginella martensii - a small bush with erect stems up to 30 cm tall. With age the stems become prostrate and aerial roots appear.
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Senecio
Senecio
Rowley's senecio Senecio rowleyanus - a succulent plant with trailing long stems that root at the nodes. Leaves are spherical (bead-like), alternately arranged, on short petioles.
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Serissa
Serissa foetida
Serissa is a small evergreen shrub with small narrowly ovate, opposite, unpleasant-smelling leaves. Native to tropical Asia.
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Shrubby Polyscias
Polyscias fruticosa
Perennial plant with very striking large repeatedly dissected leaves and robust petioles that clasp the stem
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Shy Mimosa
Mimosa
This is a beautiful, delicate, graceful plant, although it is famed not for its appearance but for the interesting property of its leaflets folding when touched during the day (they always fold at night).
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Sickle-shaped Cyrtomium
Cyrtomium falcatum
Perennial herbaceous fern. Native to the tropics and subtropics of Asia and southern Africa. In cultivation it is relatively cold-hardy, shade-tolerant, and tolerates dry air well. Leaves pinnate, 35-50 cm long, leaflet…
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Siderasis
Siderasis
A perennial herbaceous plant with an extremely short stem and leaves gathered in a rosette. Leaves elliptical or oblong-ovate, shortly acuminate, large
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Sinadenium
Synadenium
The plant belongs to the spurge family. An exceptionally hardy and resilient houseplant reaching about a meter or more in height. The form with bright green leaves is the most common, but sometimes a form with dark red …
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Smithiantha
Smithiantha
This herbaceous plant has a scaly rhizome, soft heart-shaped leaves with a beautiful pattern, and yellow-orange or orange-red flowers gathered in raceme-like inflorescences. Smithiantha blooms from July to September.
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Soleirolia
Soleirolia
Soleirolia soleirolii - the only species of this genus, forming creeping groundcover plants. As it spreads, soleirolia covers the entire surface of the soil with its greenery and hangs from the pot like a green carpet.
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South Asian Asplenium
Asplenium australasicum (J. Sm.) Hook.
An epiphytic plant with large leaves up to 1.5 m long and 20 cm wide (rarely more), gathered into a dense, more or less narrow funnel-shaped rosette.
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Sparmannia
Sparmannia
Sparmannia africana - Sparmannia africana - a fast-growing plant with woody, erect stems covered with large light-green pubescent heart-shaped leaves up to 20 cm long.
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Spathiphyllum
Spatiphyllum
Native to South America, East Asia, Polynesia. If this herbaceous plant is given a suitable location, it can bloom practically all year. In addition, Spathiphyllum begins flowering at an early age — already after 6–7 mo…
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Spear-shaped Pellaea
Pellaea hastata hort
Spear-shaped Pellaea (P. hastata hort) - species description, photographs, care, maintenance, transplanting, pests, propagation - Pellaea on Your Garden
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Splendid Pancratium
Pancratium speciosum
The flowers are extraordinarily delicate and original, fragrant, invariably white, borne in loose inflorescences of 10. In structure they resemble a narcissus: a wide cylindrical corona is surrounded by a ring of six lo…
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Spurge
Euphorbia
Native to the subtropics of Africa, the Americas, and Madagascar. This large family of succulent plants includes about 2000 species. Many of its members reach very large sizes and therefore are not suitable for cultivat…
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Stapelia
Stapelia
Native to Africa. About 70 species occur in the wild. This fairly common succulent is undemanding and easy to propagate.