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Complete Care Guide: Philodendron Jungle Boogie In this article, you'll find… Plant Info Care Guide       Lighting       Watering       Humidity       Soil Needs Types Propagating Common Issues Frequently Asked Questions Plant Info First things first, to get it out of the way: Philodendron Jungle Boogie, Narrow, Narrow Escape, Tiger Tooth, and (most accurately) Henderson's Pride are all the same plant -- and you're likely familiar with the often highly-variegated form called Ring of Fire, as well! (If you're not, go check out our infographic for that one, too!) Common Name(s)  Philodendron Jungle Boogie, Philodendron Narrow, Philodendron Tiger Tooth, Philodendron Henderson's Pride Botanical Name Philodendron wendlandii x P. tortum...

Complete Care Guide: Philodendron Painted Lady In this article, you'll find… Plant Info Care Guide       Lighting       Watering       Humidity       Soil Needs Types Propagating Common Issues Frequently Asked Questions Plant Info A climbing philodendron, Painted Lady grows as a thick, fleshy vine that will eventually need support to keep growing upwards. Leaves, which are at the ends of long petioles, are narrow, elongated hearts that occasionally meet the petioles at strange-looking angles. New leaves will come in bright yellow with enough light, and then eventually, as they harden, parts of each leaf will darken to a light green, leaving a mottled, painted...

Complete Care Guide: ZZ Raven In this article, you'll find… Plant Info Care Guide       Lighting       Watering       Humidity       Soil Needs Types Propagating Common Issues Frequently Asked Questions Plant Info The Insta-famous ZZ Raven (which goes by a number of other names, due to copyright) is a nearly-black cultivar of the well-known and well-loved ZZ plant. This plant is a bit deceptive -- what it looks like stems growing out of potatoes, lined with pairs of small leaves, are actually technically single leaves, lined with leaflets! The "potatoes" in the soil are succulent rhizomes, underground stems that can hold a lot of...

Complete Care Guide: Philodendron Burle Marx In this article, you'll find… Plant Info Care Guide       Lighting       Watering       Humidity       Soil Needs Types Propagating Common Issues Frequently Asked Questions Plant Info Philodendron Burle Marx is a slowly-vining philodendron, with a peculiar growth habit -- this bushy plant grows horizontally more than it grows vertically! Growth is quick, with new leaves coming in every week or two in ideal conditions, but internodes -- the length of stems between the leaves -- are short, resulting in a very short, climbing vine. The leaves are a fairly distinctive shape - almost a rounded spear-shaped leaf,....

Complete Care Guide: Alocasia Silver Dragon In this article, you'll find… Plant Info Care Guide       Lighting       Watering       Humidity       Soil Needs Types Propagating Common Issues Frequently Asked Questions Plant Info Alocasia Silver Dragon is a cultivar of the regular Alocasia Dragon Scale (also called Alocasia Baginda), with large, uniformly silvery leaves atop light green petioles. Most Silver Dragons top out at 4-5 leaves at once, but particularly happy Alocasias can have seven, eight, or more leaves at once quite happily! These leaves are mostly bullate, or shield-shaped, with the veins extremely prominent -- they're a significantly darker and deeper silvery-green. An extremely...