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[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Golden barrel cactus (Echinocactus grusonii) is the most widely grown houseplant cactus. It is a sculptural plant of great character and beauty, deeply furrowed and strongly ribbed. Dense golden spines on the tops of the ribs are long and straight, sometimes slightly curved, and occa- sionally […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Ball cactus (Parodia)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Ball cactus (Parodia)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Most of the time when you find a cactus labeled “ball cactus,” it will be one of the 25 or moreParodia species. As youngsters, all ball cacti are indeed round as a ball, but as they age they become columnar. They have deep furrows between raised […]

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

[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?: Spider orchid (Brassia gireoudiana)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Spider orchid (Brassia gireoudiana)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH A well-grown spider orchid (Brassia gireoudi- ana) in full flower is an astonishing sight. The plant looks like it comes from outer space. The flowers are amazing, bizarre, fascinating. They’re huge, as much as 1 foot from top to bot- tom, with extremely skinny and spidery […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis, Doritis)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Moth orchids are species and hybrids in the gen- era Phalaenopsis and Doritis, and their interge- neric cross, ×Doritaenopsis. All are epiphytes in nature (they never grow in soil), and any one of the many available kinds would be a sophis- ticated addition to your home. […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dancing lady (Oncidium spp.)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Dancing lady (Oncidium spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Dancing ladies (Oncidium spp.) are among the easiest orchids to grow successfully as house- plants. The plants are as beautiful as the flow- ers, and they can be relied on to repeat bloom so long as you provide them with the condi- tions they need. The […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cymbidium (Cymbidium spp.)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cymbidium (Cymbidium spp.)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Mai Nhung ENGLISH Cymbidiums are attractive even when not in flower—something that cannot be said of many orchids. The trouble is, their huge size and need for low temperatures make standard cymbidiums (Cymbidium spp.) challenging as house- plants, and Asian miniature cymbidiums, although tiny, require high temperatures to […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Beallara and Aliceara

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Beallara and Aliceara

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH The huge and utterly fascinating orchid world contains thousands of fully fertile complex hybrids made between species in different gen- era. Beallaras and alicearas are in the Odon- toglossum/Oncidium alliance. Many of these hybrid genera in this alliance were named after the first orchid breeder […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cupid’s bow (Achimenes erecta)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Cupid’s bow (Achimenes erecta)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Achimenes erecta with bright red flowers and A. longiflora with big blue flowers are two of the main species used to create the Cupid’s bow hybrids. This is another large group of house- plants with a pronounced dormant period. In winter the whole plant goes […]

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

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

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH People grow and love caladium (Caladium bicolor) for its fantastic foliage. The leaves are large and shaped like an arrowhead, very thin and delicate. The more than a thousand available cultivars offer every imaginable combination of color: flaming red, bright pink, white, and green. The […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum) is an interesting, bizarre-looking plant guaran- teed to attract attention and start conversa- tions. And though it is a true fern, it’s not lacy, or delicate, or ferny in any way. In its native tropical rainforests, it is an epiphyte (a plant […]

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata)

[Ebook Việt Hoá] What’s wrong with my houseplant?: Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata)

Biên tập: Dũng Cá Xinh Người dịch: Huyền Nguyễn ENGLISH Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata) is the classic parlor fern: its long, bright green leaves curve gracefully out of a container or hanging basket, adding simple homespun charm to any room. All plants in cultivation are natural mutations of the species. The original mutant, ‘Bostoni- ensis’, was […]

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