Plant Id's Please!

[toxinsmile]

number one, this plant used to have red leaves, then it died and is starting to come back.... but the leaves are green????

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Number Two

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Number Three

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Number Four

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Number Five

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Number Six

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Number Seven

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last one

[MrSeedy]

I like a challgeng ,buttttt!! With my back button not working on these replies like it used to , its'very hard to remember that many plants in order etc. without hitting the back button to go back to the original post, and then when I return to my reply I"ve lost all of it and have to start over. Not a criticisn mind you, but a statement of fact. Also , I can't necessarily give you specific names or species or cultivars for all pictured , but general ones and some may be outdated names that have changed.

Anyway,
1. Is Cordyline terminalis tricolor or Hawaiian Ti ( as in tea), and it needs very bright light or loses the color to the original leaves. Mine loses the solid pink leaves it gets in late summer , to newer ones that are all green by midwinter in the lower light indoors.
2. Is know as Neanthe bella, or Chamaedorea elegans, and Dwar parlor palm, I think?
3. If I can tell from the picture is a variety of Angelwing begonia and looks specifically like a dwarf or miniature one called the Trout Winged begonia. It's much smaller growing that regular angelwings, and has pink flowers.
4. Veriegated "oyster plant" , and one source (yes , I do sometimes cheat a bit with the names) calls it Tradescantia Spathacea dwarf vareigated.
5.Is a watermellon peperomia , but can't tell you the speicies name. OH well , cheating a bit , it is Peperomia argyreia.
6.. Canna "Tropicana"
7. Looks liek Philodendron oxycardium , or oxheart philodendron, or oxleaf philodendron, and some of those go by a new botanical name of Monstera.
8. Is a big challenge without seeing the flowers for a clue, but I'd say from the shape of the leaves and shiny appearance, it either Hypocryta or Goldfish Plant, guppy plant, or Lipstick plant, which is a Columnea. The goldfish , and lipstick are related and in the same family of gesneriads and all are mostly quite similar in leaf and flower. Like all of the other "botanical" plants names , many have been changed over the years , so they are sometimes listed by names other than those I learned years ago, so naming some can be a bit tricky.

[ondinelamer]

Numbers one and six are cordylines. They are sometimes sold as draceanas.

Number 7 is an Arthurium. Don't let the soil dry out (not too wet, tho'). It likes humdidity.

Number six might be a heliconia but it looks more like a canna. How tall is it?

Number 5 is a peperomia argyreia.

[MrSeedy]

Sorry , but I'd still say no. 7 is a philodendron and seeing the one whole in the larger leaf in the picture, I take back the name oxycardium , and it's most likely a split leaf , or Monstera deliciosa. The immature leaves on those are "entire" meaning they have no splits or holes, and as they mature the leaves develope more and more holes and eventually become split of divided. I still think 7 is tropicana canna. I'd agree with the idea that the leaves on the Monstera or no. 7 do look like anthurium leaves, but the easy explanation for that is because many of the aroids have very similar leaves, including the anthuriums and philodendrons , which may have nearly identical looking leaves. The real clue would be a flower should it come into flower, and even there, there are similarities in the flowers in all aroids, with all of them having the same basic structure, but perhaps different colors etc.

[toxinsmile]

you guys are amazing!! I have been searching for some clues for a very long time!

[MrSeedy]

I just wish I could remember all the new plants I see constantly lately. I started learning many of those plants years ago when my "retention" was better and since then I've seen many of those plants many times to remind me of their names. The new ones are much harder for me to remember, now that I'm getting "old" or let's say older. Oh well the problem isn't just remembering where your keys are , but if it's also "what they're for", you better have a test for alzheimers. No joke intended , since that's one of my greatest fears. I can't think of a more devastating disease , even though there are no physical signs nor the normal pain from a regular disease or condition. Sometimes I wonder lately.

[toxinsmile]

looking up the suggestions for 8, i'm not so sure that is what it is. My leaves are much fatter and it has no flowers of any sort (that i have ever noticed anyways)

and for number 4, i think it is a sort of a ribbon plant although the color in the pic does not do it justice. the purple is amazing.

but hey don't take my word for it you guys would know more than i would :unsure:

[ondinelamer]

Mr. S: I think yo're right about #7 - I hadn't noticed the split leaf. It does look like my anthurium, tho'

[paintedheather]

I agree....#7 looks like a young monstera.

[eujaro]

mr. seedy you total rock. I haven't hit my thirties yet and I have some of the problems your talking about . you're okay

[eujaro]

toxinsmile I never knew you could grow cannas it inside the house! :mellow: I was sitting her wondering how I was going to perserve mine in the garden becuase I have to dig them up in the fall. grow them in the house that is revolutionary! I like your other house plants too especially #3 and # 5. I love your avatar too

[MrSeedy]

Cannas will grow perfectly fine indoors , provided they get enough bright light to full sun and mine tend to get a bit leggy, though, so I should stop growing them through the winter instead of drying them out and putting them into "storage", They may get an earlier start in the spring til it's past "last frost" and it's safe to plant them outside, but the adjustment to much brighter light , winds , and fluctuating temperatures can set them way back anyway some springs , and then they have to almost start "regrowing" all over again with the damage!! I lucked out this spring however, and mine are doing much better this year, despite the fact that most of the older stems got a bit burned without the normal hardening off period , since I moved them out so late.

[toxinsmile]

i'm still not conviced about number 4 and number 8, here is another pic of number 4, to show you the brilliant purple.

[paintedheather]

Seedy is right about number four..it is also called 3 men in a boat.

[Audwoman]

I have #4. and several other Oyster Plant. I had the same problem you had getting a name because when you say Oyster Plant it is the same as saying it is a lily. When they say Oyster Plant there are many different plants in that family that look different. the specific name for your plant is "Tradescantia Spathacea 'Dwarf' 'Tricolor" I hope that helps.