Week 5 Plants

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Across
  1. 2. Leaves are always marbled either green & white or green & yellow
  2. 6. Noted for fragrance and bright flower colors.
  3. 9. Smallest flower of all the orchids
  4. 10. Five-petaled white flowers with yellow centers
  5. 11. Broadleaf evergreen with a mounding growth habit
  6. 13. Bottom of the stalk sometimes drops its lower leaves – leaving a bare cane appearance
  7. 14. Grows on erect single to sometimes branching stems to 3’ tall.
  8. 15. Foliage is aromatic, silver/green and about the size of a one dollar coin.
Down
  1. 1. Tiny leaves of this rounded plant are oval in shape and densely cover the stems.
  2. 3. Midrib on the leaves is usually white
  3. 4. New growth has reddish color
  4. 5. Leaves can be solid green or variegated
  5. 7. Almost perfectly round when young, but will sometimes stretch into an oval as it grows.
  6. 8. 1 flower head per stem, ruffled edges of flower
  7. 12. Multiple flowers combine to create long, spear-like flower heads