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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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Yucca Elephantipes


Spineless Yucca or yucca guatemalensis

Its scientific name is Pandanus Tectorius, but is also known as Yucca elephantipes and other popular designations as Hala and Tourist Pineapple. This sample with a single stem can be cultivated also as an ornamental plant indoors, although a full-grown one could reach several meters of height outdoors.


Single-trunk Yucca Elephantipes, not so high as one meter and a half, growing indoors. It could be noted that the thickening to the the base of this houseplant is the main characteristic in order to recognize it.


This potted Yucca Elephantipes, also known as Curve-leaf Yucca, is showed from above to help you recognize this houseplant, even though this species is commonly found outdoors.


This last picture of the Yucca (a.k.a. Yucca Guatemalensis or Soft-Tipped Yucca) is displaying how the stem or trunk is formed by taking off or cutting down the inferior leaves that could be decaying or withering.

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