Plant ID #4 Horticulture 2

Dieffenbachia maculata Dumbcane –Foliage: simple; entire margin; ovate; pinnate; evergreen; 8 to 12 inches; variegated –Height: 1 to 3 feet –Spread: 1 to 3 feet –Form: upright –Leaf Arrangement: opposite –Exposure: Light Shade –Landscape Use: container; interiorscape –Unique Characteristic: indoor plant in NC

Dizygotheca elegantissima False Aralia –Foliage: palmately compound; lobed; doubly serrate margins; oblong; evergreen; 8-12 inches long; 5-7 leaflets –Flowers: white –Height: 1-4 feet –Spread: 1 to 3 feet –Form: upright –Leaf Arrangement: alternating –Landscape Use: Container; interiorscape –Exposure: Light shade –Unique Characteristic: house plant

Dracaena cincta Red Edge Dracaena –Foliage: simple, linear shape with entire margins; dull green and with purplish-red margins; rosette at top of the stem; up to 3 feet long and up to 7.5 cm wide –Height: 4 to 12 feet –Spread: 6 feet –Form: upright; like a palm tree –Leaf Arrangement: rosette –Exposure: Partial Sun –Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape –Unique Characteristic: Usually single stem

Dracaena deremensis Warneckii Dracaena –Foliage: simple, linear shape with entire margins; whorled arrangement –Height: 8 to 12 feet –Spread: 6 feet –Form: upright; open –Leaf Arrangement: spiral –Exposure: Partial Sun –Landscape Use: Container, interiorscape –Unique Characteristic: house plant in NC

Echinaceae pupurea –Foliage: Rough textured leaves that become small toward the top of the stem; dark green leaves are coarse and sandpapery, usually lance shaped, and 3- 8 in long –Flowers:Pink, Magenta (Pink-Purple), Violet/Lavender, Purple, White/Near White; singly atop the stems –Height: 2-3 feet –Spread: 2-3 feet –Form: upright –Leaf Arrangement: –Exposure: Full sun –Landscape Use: foundation, beds, mixed borders, or in the native wildflower patch –Unique Characteristic: perennial

Elaeagnus pungens –Thorny Elaeagnus –Foliage: simple, oval shape with entire, wavy margins; evergreen shrub; silver tint; undersides of leaves are silver in color with bronze spots –Flowers: cream colored, bell shaped –Height: up to 15 feet –Spread: 20 feet –Form: symmetrical mound; shrub –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Landscape Use: border, screen –Unique Characteristic: stems or "canes" bend to form great arcs if unsupported; drought tolerant

Epipremnum aureum cv Golden Pothos –Foliage: simple, cordate shape with wavy margins; irregularly spaced yellow bands and green bands; ovate to broadly ovate- lanceolate –Height: 6 inches –Spread: 25 feet –Form: climber; vine –Landscape Use: container; interiorscape –Exposure: sun –Leaf Arrangement: alternating –Unique Characteristic: often with aerial roots; house plant

Euonymus alatus Winged Euonymus/ Burning Bush –Foliage: simple, obovate leaves; 1 to 3" long; finely serrated; excellent red fall color –Flowers: Non-showy yellow-green flowers; 0.5 to 0.3" red fruit in fall –Height: 5-6 feet –Spread: 5-6 feet –Form: Upright mound; horizontal branches; flat top –Leaf Arrangement: Opposite –Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge –Exposure: Sun –Unique Characteristic: corky winged branches

Euonymus japonica Evergreen Euonymus –Foliage: evergreen; simple, oval shape with serrated margins; 1 to 3" long –Height: 10 to 15 feet –Spread: 5 to 6 feet –Form: Dense, oval mound; stiff –Leaf Arrangement: Opposite –Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge –Exposure: sun –Unique Characteristic: major problem with scale; must spray

Euphorbia pulcherrima Poinsettia –Foliage: simple, obovate shape with lobed margins; with or without teeth on the margin; showy red, pink, or cream leafy bracts –Flowers: cup-shaped "flowers" in a cluster above bracts –Height: 2 to 10 feet –Spread: 1/2 to 6 feet –Form: shrub –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Landscape Use: container, interiorscape –Exposure: sun –Unique Characteristic: common at Christmas; poisonous; house plant; red veins in leaves; red “flowers” are actually red bracts, bracts can be white to pink to red to yellow in color

Ficus benjamina Weeping or Benjamin Fig –Foliage: simple, ovate shape with wavy edge; long-tipped, glossy –Height: 1 to 30 feet –Spread: 1 to 45 feet –Form: evergreen tree or shrub with drooping branches –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Landscape Use: container, interiorscape –Exposure: Sun –Unique Characteristic: poisonous; house plant; loses leaves when moved or in drafts; drips a white sap when cut

Ficus elastica ‘Decora’ Decora Rubber Plant –Foliage: simple, elliptic shape with entire margins; large glossy leaves; Shiny, leathery, oblong; leaves are enclosed, when buds, in rosy sheaths, which soon fall. –Height: 8 to 10 potted; up to 100 feet in Hawaii –Spread: 60 feet or more because of aerial roots –Form: tree –Leaf Arrangement: alternate –Exposure: Sun –Landscape Use: container, interiorscape –Unique Characteristic: Elastica leaves and stems and even wood 'bleed' white sticky sap when broken or damaged from which rubber can be made.

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