Let's see your favorites!

[jarteta97]

So, while browsing the forum, it really struck me just how many different plants there are. A lot of us (me included) just go with the general faves that you see. Either that or easy plants like pothos and sansevieria. But then there's still a large group that has a certain species or genuses they dislike (Bill, that means you) or one that they really just love. Not only that, but there are some who just really love one specific plant in general. One thing we can all agree on, we all have several different "favorites" when it comes to plants, and we all prefer a specific style or type.

I thought it would be fun, educational, and perhaps inspiring to start a thread where we all give some favorite plants of ours, maybe even including a picture, and perhaps what it is we like about them. And Bill, I'm very curious as to why you dislike bromeliads so much LOL.

We could also put plants we don't particularly like aesthetically, but that we perhaps think are cool or weird.

I can't wait to see what you guys put!

[jarteta97]

I'll go first:

Biophytum sp.



I saw this in an old vivarium once, and the viv maker had taken a cool shot from the floor of the viv looking at the underside of the leaves, and it just really struck me as cool, because it looked like a full sizes palm tree, but from a frog's point of view.

[LilyPad]

Excellent thread, Josh! I will get mine up soon

[jarteta97]

I'm excited to see what you, Heather, Paul, Bill, Lynn and everyone else bring.

[jarteta97]

Here's another one of mine. In fact, I just ordered it *giggles in excitement*

Peperomia argyreia



This plant just struck me as bold, and its leaves really do look like little watermelons!

[deranged chipmunk]

It just struck you how many different plants there are Eli? Really? Lol

Ok, here's one of my current favs: Begonia 'buttercup'. It used to be one of the more rare ones in the hobby, but it's pretty common now.


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[deranged chipmunk]

And don't get me started on broms! Grrrr! Broms make for angry chipmunks!! Lol


Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world ~ Nelson Mandela

[Lija]

Oh please, bill loves broms! broms are his favourite plants! He is dying to make all Brom tank, he is just too shy to admit it lol

[deranged chipmunk]

Oh please, bill loves broms! broms are his favourite plants! He is dying to make all Brom tank, he is just too shy to admit it lol

Yeah, never happening!! Lol

Here's another of my favs:

Nephrolepis exalta 'smithii' a very dainty fern, almost like a fairy's bed


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[jarteta97]

Oooooo, I love feathery ferns. I ordered a Korean rock fern from NEherp

[deranged chipmunk]

Josh, i must apologize, i called you eli earlier. brain fart, what can i say? my apologies buddy.

you are going to love the korean rock fern. i would say they are one of my favorite ferns, but i am a fan of all ferns. by far, my favorite family of plants. oh, and on a snarky note, the plural of genus is genera :P

[jarteta97]

Haha, no worries about the name. And I guess you learn something every day haha, thank you for informing me

[LilyPad]

How I wish I could order plants right now! Hopefully it'll warm up some time in the next 6 months LOL! My favorite plant right now is actually one that Bill sent me Pellonia repens (right Bill?) It actually just threw off a flower for me recently. I'll have to send the pics to my computer so I can get them up on PB. I also love all types of philodendron, versatile and easy to grow!

[jarteta97]

I reaaaaaaally would like to get into orchids and begonias in the future. I thought it was so funny when Bill and Diggenem got excited over a blooming orchid hahaha!

[DigitalPunk]

Asplenium Stoloniferum - Madagascar Native Fern

Love this fern. I have not seen any other Vivariums with this in it. It is throwing off some pups or whatever baby ferns are called. I am planning on keeping a few but am sending one to Bill so hopefully between the 2 of us we can keep it around the forum for a while

[DigitalPunk]

Masdevallia amplexa (Tall leaves middle left in pic)

This is one of 4 orchids I am currently growing. They are my first Orchids and am getting a kick out of not killing them lol. This one has a Flower Spike growing now!

[deranged chipmunk]

How I wish I could order plants right now! Hopefully it'll warm up some time in the next 6 months LOL! My favorite plant right now is actually one that Bill sent me Pellonia repens (right Bill?) It actually just threw off a flower for me recently. I'll have to send the pics to my computer so I can get them up on PB. I also love all types of philodendron, versatile and easy to grow!

That is correct, it as a Pellonia repens I sent you. And here are the pics of yours:
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[Heatheranne]

Ooh, I love plant talk!

I'm going to have to say, one of my most "unique" favorites is the Rafflesia arnoldii, but Bill said I can't have one :P, lol! .

[Heatheranne]

I love ALL Agalonemas! They are my favorite tree frog vivarium plant. My tricolor pictum Ag is currently my favorite .

Another one I'm really enjoying watching grow is my Rhaphidaphora cryptantha. We'll see if she likes living in the vivarium this spring.

Agalonema pictum tricolor



Rhaphidaphora cryptantha

[deranged chipmunk]

Ooh, I love plant talk!

I'm going to have to say, one of my most "unique" favorites is the Rafflesia arnoldii, but Bill said I can't have one :P, lol! .

Well, it's just too darned big!! But you could keep an amorphophallus konjac in your garden, if you can stand the smell lol


Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world ~ Nelson Mandela