Pretty leaves

[8er-moni]

Hi!

I love pretty coloured leaves:

Musa sikkimensis 'Red Tiger'

Ensete ventricosum 'Maurellii'

Tradeskantie "funkikana brasil" - Tradescantia pallida

[8er-moni]

Acer negundo 'variegata'

Canna 'Cleopatra'

Canna tropica 'Durban'

[8er-moni]

Albizia julibrissin 'Summer chocolate'

Kalanchoe 'Partridge' - Kalanchoe figuereidoi? Syn. Kalanchoe humilis:

[8er-moni]

Some of my plants have red young leaves:

Sapote

Brachychiton rupestris

Avocado

I think you will have more pretty leaves in your collections !!!???

[Kris]

Fentastic Stills & lovely colourful plants and great photography...

Love,

Kris

[rozpalm]

Moni, very nice looking plants. I especially love the variegated maple.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Nice photos Moni! I especially like the Ensete ventricosum 'Maurellii' leaf - the colors are beautiful!

[8er-moni]

Thank you!

My favorites are crotons, but I am not able to keep them alife :rage:

[bubba]

Moni, If you can grow Sapote, I bet you can grow Crotons. Great Shots!

[Kim]

Ooo, love the color mix on the canna 'Cleopatra'! Nice.

[8er-moni]

Thank you!

@ bubba: I tries it twixe woth croton - I brought cuttings from Kenia - they died - than I bought here in Salzburg a bigger plant, and she died, too.

Sapote is easy to grow (for me) - I don't know, why - I habe 3 plants :lol: - grown up from seeds (Kenia)

[Gbarce]

Very nice plants. That Kalanchoe has intriguieng leaves,

Here are more pretty leaves , Agleonemas

[Gbarce]

Dracaenas ( not sure of the spelling)

[tjwalters]

I think I like leaves more than flowers - maybe because they last so much longer. Here are a few shots:

Stobilanthes dyerianus

Ricinus communis

Alocasia amazonica

Sauromatum venosum

[8er-moni]

Thank you for your "pretty leaves"

My Rizinus ist only 20cm high - but in summer he will grow fast - I have some with green and some with red leaves - very pretty, both.

Sauromatum venosum (only in a pot): the biggest leave (in the middle) is nearly 50cm

[Gbarce]

Aroids-- schismatoglottis and xanthosuma, etc...

[Jose Maria]

Seeing all these beautiful leaves I could not resist participating too.

All of these photos are from wild plants growing in the forests of Costa Rica.

A Spathiphyllum

A group of Dieffenbachias flowering and with seeds. The smell of these plants ( when disturbed) is comparable to that of a "Zorro hediondo" in spanish , "Skunk" in english.

A small Bocconia splendens. They reach up to 3 metres high.

A Gunnera along the panamerican highway, this area is between 2000 and 3000 metres above sea level. My hat is to indicate the size of the leaves.

The climate here is "cold" and humid, the trees are full of epiphytes.(Cold for us...in Costa Rica)

[Kim]

Such a great subject, thanks for starting the thread, Moni. Tom, I wish my Strobilanthes looked that healthy. Mine is just starting to perk up now that our temperatures are warming up. And I agree, leaves are longer lasting and less work than flowers. Love your photos, Jose Maria. Gene, you always have some knockout plants to show off!

[8er-moni]

I say thank you, too - for the fotos, which followed mine

One plant more - the first days of Terminalia catappa:

[BS Man about Palms]

Heres my recent "surgified" Kentiopsis piersoniorum new leaf. I love the powder blue pinnate leaves...

[Kris]

Lovely visuals...

[Gbarce]

Let's clean out the memory card shall we?

Variegated trees

I don't know what the first one is but the tri-color variegation is veru nice. very slow too.

The next us a variegated bread fruit. The open up all green and the variegation becomes more prominent.

Kapok tree leaves. yellow green on green. I have seen one of these that has white variegation on the edges of all the leaves - very consistent.

The last is a variegated jackfruit. but it doesn't sem to be consistent. some branches come out all green.

[Gbarce]

What are these plants called?

I always like the leaf patterns. They are shade loving and get their leaves burned when light is too intense.

They vary in size too. Some are compact and small. Others are big with 1.5 foot leaves.

[8er-moni]

Hi Gene!

Perhaps these are Aglaonema???? http://images.google.at/images?hl=de&q...sa=N&tab=wi

I continue with my pretty Canna "Tropica Durban"

[Gbarce]

Yup that link shows agleonemas and most of those are the older green varieties. The Thais have hybridized and developed a lot of new varieties that have more red pigments showing and there are new named varieties coming out from that country every year.

The new varieties are always very expensive but since these are very sturdy plants that are very very very easy to propagate ( as simple as breaking off a piece and sticking it in the ground) the price drops dramatically from year to year. I'm not sure how readily available they are in Austria but I'd recommend you try them if you get the chance - but you'd probably need to keep them indoors or in your greenhouse most of the time. They give as much color as flowers and you have a display 100% of the time.

[Moose]

Moni, If you can grow Sapote, I bet you can grow Crotons. Great Shots!

Monika - If you can grow Cannas and Musa you should be able to grow crotons.

Don't give up, you definitely have a green thumb.

Ron.

[freakypalmguy]

Awesome pics Moni, very cool.