Plant Identification Week 23

African Violet Saintpaulia ionantha cv. Low growing, rosette-forming, evergreen plant with very short stems or may be stemless Fuzzy, rounded, thick, succulent, stalked leaves Flowers may be single, semi-double, double, star shaped, bell shaped, or pansy shaped with ruffled fringed or rounded edges Colors: white, cream, pink, red, blue, purple, bi-colored, or multicolored

Christmas Cactus Cactus with drooping branches Schlumbergera bridgesii Cactus with drooping branches Branches made up of flattened, scalloped-edged, smooth, mid-green segments jointed Long, trumpet-shaped, narrow-petaled, bright rosy-red flowers appear at end of branches

Snake Plant Sansevieria trifasciata cv. Upright evergreen Stiff, fleshy, sword-shaped leaves that grow in rosettes Horizontally-marbled silver and green with golden-yellow vertical bands on leaf edge

Strawberry Plant Tuft forming, creeping plant Saxifraga stolonifera Tuft forming, creeping plant Slender, red runners which yield plantlets at the tips Kidney-shaped to rounded, deeply-cut, silver-veined, olive green leaves; some varieties have tricolored foliage Produces loose panicles of small white flowers