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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...

Codiaeum Variegatum

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Croton Mammy This is a perennial and ornamental plant easy to grow indoor and in spite of the lack of light; it is also considered a tree, because its stem is woody and reaches several meters high in indoor or outdoor gardens. Its scientific or formal name is Codiaeum Variegatum, but a more popular name is Corkscrew Croton. Corkscrew croton with some light green color leaves contrasting with the older ones displaying brown colored foliage and, illuminated by the sun, showing fine drops of rain. Croton Codiaeum Variegatum of roughly 2 meters high in indoor environment showing large, copious and multicolored leaves. The Codiaeum Variegatum Zanzibar is an ornamental and decorative plant with narrow, very long leaves and is photographed here in an outdoor area in natural light.