Plants

Indoor plants

Vallotta

Vallotta

A beautiful perennial bulbous plant with flowers gathered in an umbel on a long scape. Leaves dark green, reddish at the base, linear in shape up to 65 cm long and 3.5 cm wide.

Indoor plants

Vanda

Vanda

Blue Vanda - Vanda coerulea - a plant with an erect stem up to 1 m long and a large number of aerial roots.

Indoor plants

Vanilla

Vanilla planifolia

This is a climbing plant with light green leaves. The flowers range in color from pale yellow to pale green.

Indoor plants

Veltheimia

Veltheimia

Veltheimia is a beautiful ornamental flowering and decorative-leaved plant; found in the eastern part of the Cape of South Africa.

Indoor plants

Velvet banana or velvety banana

Musa velutina H. Wendl. & Drude

Bracts are pink, the flowers bright yellow with a pleasant fragrance. As they open, the bracts gradually fold back and then roll into a tube. Fruits are velvety pinkish, with numerous seeds.

Indoor plants

Viviparous Asplenium

Asplenium viviparum Presl.

Leaves short-petiolate, twice- to four-times pinnate, 40–60 cm long, 15–20 cm wide. Segments very narrow, linear to almost filiform, 0.5–1 cm long, 1 mm wide.

Indoor plants

Vriesea

Vriesea

In the wild there are about 250 species. Vriesea with gray leaves are more undemanding - they tolerate fluctuations in temperature and air humidity more easily than species with green leaves.

Indoor plants

Vuylstekeara

Vuylstekeara

This plant received its hard-to-pronounce name in honor of its breeder — a Flemish gardener who created it in the 19th century. The aim of breeding was to obtain a beautiful flower for cool rooms.