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Pictum Croton This decorative plant belongs to a large variety of Codiaeum Variegatum, a very formal way of naming all crotons and that is its most popular name. It has regularly narrow leaves with tiny yellow spots over green background. Another popular names for this specific plant species are gold dust croton and punctatum aureum croton. A massive amount of foliage from this plant named Gold Dust Croton which could be useful for certain types of presentations with text on the leaves. Note that all the photographs in this blog are made on purpose to avoid mixing two or more leaves of different species. Considering that the main reason for these images is to give you material for artwork with foliage of a specific plant, you also can use it for studying its visual on garden planning. The height of this plant is about 2 meters. Image to help you compare two similar crotons considering its same patterns in color and relative size, but different shapes of their foli...
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White mouth dayflower


Slender dayflower

This is a commom ground cover plant, popularly called as Commelina Virginica or Virginia Dayflower. Between the plain blue and azure tone of their flowers, plus the small and intense yellow parts, it makes this ornamental plant very decorative. All this four pictures have the purpose to help to examine this species in details and help you to have gardening ideas.


This Whitemouth Dayflower, that grows in marshes or floodplains, is easy to cultivate. The sample of this perennial herb displayed here have some raindrops fallen on a balcony area.


A bunch of Virginia Dayflower plants displaying a series of their stems with leaves and blue flowers in a rectangular container.


A Commelina Virginica flower, in its very intense blue hue, occupying the vast central area of the photograph.
Location: Praça Carlos Gomes - Liberdade, São Paulo - SP, 01501-040, Brazil

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