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Shade Tolerant Plants
These are plants that do not require lots of hours in direct sun. Though all these plants will prefer some direct sun, or at least a decent amount of indirect sun, they are often quite happy under a canopy, or perhaps indoors.
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Type of Plant: Succulent plant suitable for dry conditions. Leaves are used in commercial industry for cuts, scrapes, burns etc. Low growing. |
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Chlorophytum comosum - Spider Plant Type of Plant: Spider plants are commonly used indoors hanging off a windowsill or a hanging basket. Many people use this plant to try and take out pollutants in the homes air. |
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Coffea arabica - Coffee Type of Plant: Coffee is probably, after tea, the most commonly consumed plant based drink. The plants also, as they are adapted to shady conditions, make excellent indoor houseplants. |
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Coleus blumei - Painted Nettle Type of Plant: Coleus blumei is a standby for any nursery. It grows fast and adds instant color with hundreds of varieties. No need for flowers, the leaves are where it's at with this species. |
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Dracaena sanderiana - Lucky Bamboo Type of Plant: Dracaena sanderiana, AKA lucky Bamboo, really is not at all a bamboo. Simply named for its slight resemblance to bamboo, this plant is useful for home decoration as it is very trainable and easy to propagate. Many people simply grow this plant in water, though ideally it should be given dirt at some point. |
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Type of Plant: This tropical cactus is from South America and grows very well indoors or out in sub-tropical or warmer areas. They have huge white flowers at night, and this species is a free standing sp. not needing support and not trailing/hanging. |
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Epipremnum aureum - Pothos Type of Plant: Pothos is a philodendron type plant with medium sized heart shaped leaves. It is great as a climber, hanger or ground cover and grows very fast. This plant is easily propagated via cutting and also does well in low light. |
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Melissa officinalis - Lemon Balm Type of Plant: Lemon Balm is a super lemon scented mint that is used in teas, cooking, treats and even liquors such as absinthe. The plant grows quite easily and does well as a ground cover. |
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Mentha x piperita - Peppermint Type of Plant: Peppermint is a super mint used almost everywhere. There are also many varieties of peppermint, some smelling and even tasting like chocolate, basil and orange! |
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Piper betle - Betel Leaf Type of Plant: This pepper vine is the commercial betel leaf. THe leaf of the vine, and the flower in Taiwan, is used in the betel nut chew common throughout the tropics. |
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Piper nigrum - Pepper Type of Plant: Pepper, in the true sense meaning black pepper, is a tropical vine spending most its time in shady forest under stories. In fact many species of Piper are used as pepper, but P. nigrum is the commercial black pepper of industry and our tables. |
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Type of Plant: Psychotria carthagenensis, often sold as P. viridis mistakenly, is a beautiful ornamental of the coffee family. It is also used in the ceremonial drink Ayahuasca to give visions. Plants grow as a shrub, up to 3 meters and fairly dense/wide. |
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Psychotria viridis - Chacruna Type of Plant: Psychotria viridis is the most sought after Psychotria used in Ayahuasca as it is seemingly quite potent. The plant is somewhat sensitive to cold and dry, ideally it likes partial shade and tropical conditions. |
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Salvia divinorum - Diviner's Sage Type of Plant: Salvia divinorum is a classic hallucinogen form Mexico, only recently approached by western folk. It can grow to 2-3m tall and is a easy to grow plant, but difficult to acclimate to new areas with small plants. Delicate, but vigorous. Lady Salvia has demands and she knows exactly what they are. |
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Sansevieria trifasciata - Snake Plant Type of Plant: Snake Plants, or "Mother-in law's tongue", is a single "stemmed" plant that grows via rhizome. It is quite succulent and drought tolerant, not often growing over 1m in height. |
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Schlumbergera sp. - Christmas Cactus Type of Plant: Christmas may very well be the most commonly grown cactus species, ironically pure species (not hybridized) are fairly rare. This cactus is easily grown indoors though more light is best. |
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Sedum morganianum - Burro's Tail Type of Plant: Burro's Tail is a very attractive succulent plant best suited to hang down over things. Windowsill or hanging basket really let this beauty shine. The lime green accompany with a fine dense chain effect really set this succulent plant apart from others. |
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Type of Plant: Tradescantia pallida is similar to T. zebrina but the leaves are thicker and longer, and the color is a far more intense purple when in good light. If you want a dark purple in your situation, this is it. |
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Tradescantia zebrina - Wandering Jew Type of Plant: Tradescantia zebrina is a low growing sprawling vine that is naturally white and green in the leaf. In darker situations it becomes greener, in brighter conditions if becomes quite purple and very attractive. |
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Last Updated: 2011
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