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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...

Poinsettia or Christmas Plant

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Euphorbia Pulcherrima Known as one of the most noticeable and attractive indoor plant, because its contrasting leaf colors, this ornamental foliage is usually used as the symbol or perfect decorative plant during the Christmas (or holiday) season. Receiving the slanting rays of sunlight over its rough and veined leaves, it is possible known in detail their form and structure of their red and green foliage. Interesting sort of things, especially if you are linked to the botanical area to know here about photoperiodism, that turns the top leaves into a hot red color from the former green one. This picture was taken before the changing process of its top superior leaves which turn into the characteristic intense red hue named photoperiodism; that takes a period of time of some months. Trying to show off quite in another way the Poinsettia, I chose to take this one, after a rainy period and during cloudy weather. Notice a small central leaf in the middle of changing from ...