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Bare Stem Plants
Plants listed on this page are often grown for their actual stem appearance and aesthetics, instead of only their foliage and/or flowers.
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Acacia confusa - Taiwanese Acacia Type of Plant: Acacia confusa is a native plant of Taiwan and most commonly grows in the mountains up to 1800m. It inhabits very harsh terrain that sees little rain for months followed by torrential rains and typhoons. The bark to the tree is rich in tannins and is recently being used as a source plant for DMT in Ayahuasca. |
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Anadenanthera colubrina - Cebil Type of Plant: Medium tropical tree reaching 20m. Many branched and well suited to dry savannahs. Seeds are used by tribes as a hallucinogenic snuff. Wood is used somewhat as a timber source and fire wood. |
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Areca catechu - Betel Nut Type of Plant: Tall slender palm tree, almost resembling a matchstick with a pom pom on top. They can reach 30m, but breeding has brought that down a bit. This tree is the source of the famous betel nut. |
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Carica papaya - Papaya Type of Plant: Papaya is a heat loving plant that prefers not to remain wet at ground level. This often single stemmed tree can produce fruit in under 1 year from sowing the seeds. |
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Cocos nucifera - Coconut Type of Plant: The coconut palm is a classic tropical beach plant as it is very salt tolerant and strong against winds. With edible fruit used by many for cooking, drinking or just eating raw. The left over fruit is also shredded into an amazing soil like substrate, coco coir. |
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Delonix regia - Flame Tree Type of Plant: The flame tree is a member of the Fabaceae family and has fine fern like leaves. Grows to 30m tall or more and gets literally covered in large orange-red flowers, hence its name: Flame Tree. |
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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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Hylocereus undatus - Dragon Fruit Type of Plant: Dragon fruit is from Mexico and has been grown in Asia for a long time now as a commercial fruit. Now becoming more popular in other areas, this fruit has started seeing lots of commercial breeding. Hylocereus undatus is a tropical vine cactus also used for a cactus grafting stock. |
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Type of Plant: Opuntia cochenillifera is used commercially to grow a type of insect used for dye. It is also edible for humans, though most people grow this to feed their turtles. The plant grows into a tree fairly fast and is spineless and usually without glochids. |
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Type of Plant: Opuntia dillenii is used in Taiwan for wine, drinks and ice cream. It is also used a lot around coastlines that are likely conflict zones with China, as this cactus when fully grown is quite impenetrable on foot. |
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Opuntia ficus-indica - Prickly Pear Type of Plant: Prickly Pear is often what you can find in the supermarket if you are near a place that grows it. The pads, or stems, are edible as a vegetable, but the glochids should be removed. The fruit is also used as both a table fruit and a colorant for juices. |
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Pachira aquatica - Money tree Type of Plant: Money trees are a great "finger" leaved tree made famous by Taiwanese that began braiding them. In Taiwan they are also used in Fengshui to keep money in, presumably this is the root of the common English name Money Tree.. |
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Type of Plant: Stapelia species are quite hardy and suited to pots indoors near a good light source. The flowers smell like rotting meat (though not from far way) to attract flies to pollinate the flowers. |
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Last Updated: February 17, 2012
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