Thư mục: Họ Bromeliaceae – Họ Dứa

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Urn plant (Aechmea fasciata)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Urn plant (Aechmea fasciata) is a big (2 to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide), bold, extremely attractive bromeliad with an astonishingly bright, shocking pink inflorescence. Its numerous 18 to 36-inch-long, 2-inch-wide, stiff and leathery leaves are silver with gray-green bands. Some cultivars have creamy […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Tillandsia

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Tillandsia is a large genus of small, primarily rootless wonders that are grown as house- plants pinned, tied, or glued onto slabs of bark, branches, or driftwood, and then hung on a wall or suspended in mid-air. The exception is pink quill (T. cyanea), which […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Queen’s tears (Billbergia nutans) is so beautiful and so easy to grow, it is no wonder it is such a popular houseplant. Plants grow 16 to 18 inches tall and 30 inches wide and are par- ticularly attractive in a hanging pot or basket, where the […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Neoregelia (Neoregelia carolinae)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH These bromeliads are grown primarily for their very showy and colorful foliage. Neorege- lia carolinae is the most commonly cultivated species. Plants are 2 feet wide and half as tall, flat-topped, with a rosette of 1.5-inch-wide, 12-inch-long, strap-shaped leaves striped like ribbon candy with creamy white. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Lady’s slipper (Paphiopedilum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Although this common name is applied to three different genera of orchids, the genus we’ll dis- cuss here is Paphiopedilum. Paphiopedilums are the best of all the lady’s slippers and the ones you’ll readily find in your local stores. They are among the easiest of […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Guzmania (Guzmania lingulata)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Floral bracts in a wide array of colors—flaming scarlet, red, pink, orange, lavender, or yellow— form a globular inflorescence that stands above the handsome, glossy leaves of this popular bro- meliad. Guzmania plants (Guzmania lingulata,G. sanguinea, and numerous hybrids) are about 10 inches tall and […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Flaming sword (Vriesea splendens)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Flaming sword (Vriesea splendens) is a brome- liad common in garden centers, supermarkets, and big box stores. It’s a popular houseplant both for its impressive, bright red inflores- cence and for its colorful leaves, whose alter- nating cross-wise bands of maroon and silvery green look […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Earthstar (Cryptanthus acaulis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The commonly cultivated earthstars Cryptan- thus acaulis and C. zonatus are bromeliads grown strictly for their foliage. Their starry, wavy-edged and sharply spiny leaves come in shades of red, rose, pink, green, and brown— even nearly black with silver. The stiff leaves are longitudinally striped […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] 300 Everyday Houseplants: Flaming Sword (Vriesea splendens)

Nguồn: [Ebook] The Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants – David Squire Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 02/2022) Dịch: Team Codai.net  English  Flaming Sword: Vriesea splendens This bromeliad has a rosette of sword-shaped, smooth-edged, dark-green leaves with purple-black cross-banding. In late summer, it develops a sword-like head of […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] 300 Everyday Houseplants: Lacquered Wine Cup (Aechmea ‘Foster’s Favorite’)

Nguồn: [Ebook] The Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants – David Squire Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 02/2022) Dịch: Team Codai.net  English  Lacquered Wine Cup: Aechmea ‘Foster’s Favorite’ This relatively small aechmea, with sparse, tapering, deep wine-red leaves forming a central urn, develops a flower spike of coral […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] 300 Everyday Houseplants: Coral Berry, Urn Plant (Aechmea fulgens)

Nguồn: [Ebook] The Houseplant Handbook: Basic Growing Techniques and a Directory of 300 Everyday Houseplants – David Squire Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 02/2022) Dịch: Team Codai.net  English  Coral Berry, Urn Plant: Aechmea fulgens Broad, strap-like, finely spine-edged, olive-green leaves with waxy-gray undersides form a wide rosette. With age, leaves become grayish. Purplish-blue flowers […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] The Unexpected Houseplant: Bromeliads (họ Bromeliaceae, họ Dứa)

Nguồn: [Ebook] The Unexpected Houseplant: 220 Extraordinary Choices for Every Spot in Your Home – Tovah Martin Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh (Tháng 02/2022) Dịch: Team Codai.net  English Summer Just like gardeners everywhere, I welcome summer with open arms. In fact, like most of humanity, I warm to sunshine, the great outdoors, the hum of industrious […]

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