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| aspidistra |
a plant with broad, smooth evergreen leaves growing from the base of the stem, often cultivated as a houseplant. |
| Boston fern |
a fern commonly cultivated as a houseplant, with opposing staggered leaflets on long arched drooping stems. |
| cachepot |
an ornamental container into which the plain pot of a houseplant is set and thus concealed from view. |
| Christmas cactus |
a Brazilian cactus with flat fleshy spineless stems that is widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy red flowers. |
| dracaena |
any of several tropical plants of the agave family, often cultivated as a houseplant. |
| grape ivy |
a climbing vine having hairy, trifoliate leaves, related to the grape and grown as a houseplant. |
| jade plant |
a popular thick-leaved houseplant that is native to South Africa and Asia. |
| rattail cactus |
a small, tropical cactus of Mexico and Central America having thin, drooping stems and bearing bright crimson flowers, widely cultivated as a houseplant. |
| rubber plant |
a tropical plant that grows as a tree in India and Malaysia and is widely cultivated as a houseplant, with shiny, large, leathery leaves. [1/2 definitions] |
| spider plant |
a plant of the lily family, with long, narrow, sometimes white-streaked leaves, commonly grown as a houseplant. |
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