Week 3 Plants

5. Cultivar height ranges from 8-inch dwarfs to 36-inch tall plants
6. Small, compact, usually single-trunked palm
9. Drooping, tubular, bell-like flowers (up to 2" long)
11. Many cultivars developed for ornamental use featuring attractive peppers in bright shades of red, yellow, purple, orange and brown.
12. Can be cork screw or slender leaf, grown as a potted plant
13. Leaves are compound, leaves attach to trellis to help hold the plant upright – veins palmate
14. Oblong, fleshy, shiny, evergreen leaves (to 2” long).

1. Margin has very fine teeth and a halo of light color
2. In Asteraceae family (with daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums and zinnas)
3. Trunk is very low to ground in young plants, but lengthens above ground with age.
4. It has linear leaves that are green or striped white.
5. Midrib gets progressively lighter in color towards end of leaf
7. Leaves come in variety of colors from variegated to green or red
8. Compact, mounded plants grow 3-9” tall on mostly trailing stems.
10. Erect growing habit Pink, purple or white flowers