"Spider Plant"
Chlorophytum comosum
Lily family (Liliaceae)
- Produces numerous long narrow leaves from a crown
- Low-growing; trailing tropical plant
- Produces long stolons (aboveground stems) that give rise to new young plants at
the end
- Propagates both vegetatively by stolons and sexually by flowering
- Produces large fleshy rhizomes
- Monocot
- Native to Africa
- Prefers low lights
- Different varieties can be either solid green or variegated (like above photo on
the right side)
- "Chloro" is Greek for "green, and "-phytum" means
"plant
- Makes good ground cover or hanging basket
Spider Plant (with
pronunciation)
Annabella's International House Plant Guide
(one picture)
Spider
Plants (nice description and drawing)
Indoor Air Quality (text)