Aglaonema flower - varieties and varieties

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Aglaonema (flower): a short description
Aglaonema: views
Other types

The most popular indoor ornamental deciduous plant, aglaonema, is found today all over the world, demonstrating an enchanting variety of shapes and colors. Its bloom is rather modest and cannot compete with the splendor of the foliage. Keeping it in the house is easy, no matter what variety you like in the store.

Aglaonema (flower): a short description

An evergreen herbaceous or semi-shrub houseplant native to the tropics. Aglaonema belongs to the Araceae family. A vertical or creeping stem holds a lush rosette of foliage, which gradually dies off to form a trunk, abundantly supplied with dormant buds, as well as rudiments of aerial roots.

Aglaonema, cultivar Silver Queen

For your information! Inflorescence is an ear of green, white or yellow color, from which berries of a white, red or yellow hue are formed. In aglaonema, flowering usually occurs in spring and fruiting in autumn, but the exact timing depends on the species and variety.

Reproduction is carried out mainly vegetatively - cuttings.

Aglaonema: views

Aglaonema flower - home care

With great similarity to each other in the aglaonema group, it is customary to divide into undersized (up to 50 cm), medium-sized (up to 100 cm) and tall (150 cm and above) species.

Aglaonema volatile

A tall plant native to the Philippines. The stems can grow up to 1.5 m in height. The fruits are red berries. The leaf plates grow on long petioles. The length of the leaf is on average up to 30 cm, the width is up to 10 cm. The color is variable in different varieties.

Aglaonema Commutatum variety Pseudobracteatum

Variety series are divided into groups:

Warburgii. The leaf has noticeable white stripes running parallel to the lateral veins. The most spectacular is Silver Bay (Aglaonema Silver Bay or Bay);
Elegans. Elongated greenish sheets are colored unevenly with lighter strokes and stripes;
Maculatum. The color is dark green, the leaf plates are oval with chaotic strokes of a whitish shade, denser at the lateral veins.

Aglaonema Maria is a popular Aglaonema Commutatum Maria cultivar. With a height of only about 30 cm, it has variegated leaves and is characterized by undemanding care, tolerating a decrease in temperature to 15 ° C.

Note! Aglaonema Maria Christina is another taller (up to 70 cm) variety of Aglaonema Commutatum. It has a bright silvery-green color, but in general it is very similar to the more modest in size Mary.

Aglaonema Treiba

Medium-sized evergreen herb with narrow long leaves up to 15 cm. The front surface is covered with a silvery-green pattern. The central trunk forms numerous branches. Differs in exceptional unpretentiousness and endurance, therefore it is suitable even for novice flower growers.

Mature plants need support.

Aglaonema Treubii

This variety does not have varieties as such. Differences in leaf color are a natural consequence of keeping conditions, lighting and age of a particular specimen.

Aglaonema ribbed

A stunted representative originally from the Malaysian tropics. The trunk is prone to branching, the leaves are ovoid, pointed, on average up to 20 cm long and up to 10 cm wide. The color is darker than in other species. The central vein of the leaves is characterized by a light stripe. The inflorescence is a white ear with a large green cover.

Aglaonema Costatum

For your information! The ancestor with dark green leaves became the genetic material for obtaining all kinds of hybrid forms that are widely available on the market today.Breeders got them by closely related crossing with other species, most of the representatives do not even have individual names and are designated as "ribbed hybrid aglaonema", as well as Thai aglaonema.

Aglaonema oblong-leaved

A tall plant with leaves growing on very long petioles. Usually, the length of the leaf plate is about 30 cm, and the petiole is up to 20 cm. The pattern consists of light patterned stripes across the leaves, for which the variety is also called arrowroot.

The popular cultivar Aglaonema Marantifolium Blum is distinguished by a noticeable bluish undertone of the dark and light parts of the leaf color.

Aglaonema simple

Medium-sized evergreen perennial 40-80 cm high. It has fleshy thick roots. Cylindrical stems up to 2 cm thick with pronounced internodes, from which young roots grow quickly when broken. Inflorescence is a white ear up to 5 cm long. It usually blooms in April-June and bears fruit in September-October.

Aglaonema simplex variety Aquarium

Different varieties differ in leaf size, may have a jagged edge, darker or lighter color, matte or glossy sheen. A very dark, almost black variety with sharp teeth at the edges of the leaves - Black Beauty (Black Beauty).

Note! The striped varieties are commonly referred to as Aglaonema Strips. A similar plant can be seen in the frames of the film "Leon" with J. Renaud in the title role.

Aglaonema modest

A medium-sized perennial is also called moderate aglaonema. His homeland is the tropics of Indochina. It can reach a height of 50 cm. Large oval leaves are usually uniform in color, slightly pointed at the tips. The veins are convex, which gives relief to the sheet plates.

It is known that this species is able to quickly and effectively clean the air in the house from harmful impurities.

Aglaonema Modestum

On sale you can find varieties of moderate aglaonema with variegated (two-color) leaf color. A dark or light green shade of the background is lined with chaotically large spots of light beige almost white.

Aglaonema brilliant

Tall perennial with glossy dark green leaves up to 45 cm long. Found in the tropics of Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Burma, Thailand. In height it can reach from 30 to 150 cm. From July to August it blooms, and when ripe forms large glossy white berries.

Aglaonema Nitidum

Different varieties differ from each other in height, length and color of leaves. For the ancestor, a uniform color is characteristic, but modern lines obtained by crossing with other species of aglaonema can have white petioles and a fancy pattern that is lighter than the background or darker.

Aglaonema painted

It is not by chance that such a name was chosen for this species, originally from Borneo. The drawing of representatives of even one variety can be very different from another, which makes it possible to rightfully call each plant unique. Shades of spots on leaves with slightly wavy edges vary from white and beige with silver to green, light green, emerald green. Usually the bushes do not exceed 50 cm in height and have a very lush crown. Blooms from July to August, then forming red-yellow berries.

Note! This species categorically does not tolerate tobacco smoke and cold drafts.

Aglaonema Pictum cultivar Tricolor (Tricolor)

The variety with a silvery-bluish central part of the leaves is called Silver Center. A bicolor large-leaved variety of rich shades of green is called Mongol. Cultivars with more than 4 shades are usually referred to as Aglaonema Pictum Mix. The popular variety Aglaonema Friedman (aka Cecilia and Gabriel) up to 1 m in height has a predominant silvery-green color with a noticeably more mint undertone on the seamy side of the leaf.

Aglaonema curly (Crispum)

Tall evergreen perennial up to 100 cm high, native to the Philippines. The crown is formed by tough leathery leaves from silvery gray to dark green. Their length is usually about 20-30 cm, and their width is up to 13 cm.The ear is first white, and then yellow, gives berries, which acquire a dark red color as they ripen.

Note! Aglaonema is changeable, very demanding on temperature, lighting and humidity, therefore it is found mainly in greenhouses and conservatories.

Aglaonema Roebelenii

Various varieties of curly aglaonema can have pinkish or reddish color with light spots on the leaves. But for all of them, a characteristic feature is the arrangement of the leaves in the crown at different angles, which creates the impression of waviness.

Other types

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Aglaonema Tivoli is a species common in the Greek islands with shiny leaves that have a basic dark green color and edging of a pale pink or bright crimson hue. With age, the color of the bush only becomes brighter and richer.

Aglaonema Tivoli Crete

Aglaonema Butterfly is a spectacular variety with an emerald color, a pinkish vein in the center of the leaf and a pale green edging. The older the bush, the wider the pink spots grow. Shade-tolerant plant that does not tolerate direct sunlight.

Aglaonema Butterfly

Aglaonema Cutlass (aka Amelia) is native to the rainforests of East India. It has a rosette of very long narrow elongated leaves of a light green color with chaotically scattered dark green spots and strokes.

Aglaonema Cutlass

Aglaonema Greenlight is an amazingly beautiful variety, characterized by literally splashing green colors. Large leaves have a slightly corrugated surface with a noticeable glossy sheen, the tip is slightly rounded.

Aglaonema Greenlight (Green light)

Aglaonema Siam-Siam (aka King of Siam) is a fast growing variety that can reach 120 cm in height. Large leaves have pointed tips and light streaks, and are attached to the outlet with whitish petioles.

For your information! In the most mature plants, the trunks become woody.

Aglaonema King of Siam

Aglaonema Snow White (Snow White) is a spectacular perennial evergreen with a large rosette of leaves, which, unlike other varieties, are very light in color. Only veins, edges and small strokes on the leaves are more saturated green. It creates the effect of bushes sprinkled with snow. In terms of brightness, it is inferior only to the even lighter variety Dimond Frost (Diamond Frost), and in size - to the larger-leaved variety Silver Queen (Silver Queen).

Aglaonema Snow White

Aglaonema White Lance (White Lance) aka Cleopatra (Cleopatra) - a variety with narrow long leaves with pointed tips. The central vein is very light, almost white. The main background of the leaf is silvery green, and the edges are emerald.

Aglaonema white lance

Aglaonema Lady Valentine (Lady Valentine) - one of the most spectacular varieties with a rich raspberry-pink center of heart-shaped elongated leaf plates. This shade is diluted with rich emerald green strokes and the same narrow border and central vein.

Aglaonema lady valentine

Aglaonema Prestige differs from others in its unusual rosette, in which new leaves grow in a spiral shape. The leaf blade is colored with randomly scattered spots of several shades of green and pink.

The huge popularity of aglaonema has a simple explanation - it can be grown where bright sunlight is not enough. The color of variegated bushes does not suffer from this, and the variety of varieties allows each grower to choose the right size and color.