Saturday, April 11, 2009

More and more good luck

Zamioculcas zamiifolia
[Zed Zed Plant, ZZ Plant, Aroid Palm, Arum Fern, Money Plant]
Origin: East Africa ( Zanzibar & Tanzania)
Due to its toleration of low light, low water and a certain degree of neglect, this hardy plant will absolutely make a fine houseplant withI beautiful foliage of glossy, shiny leaves. It loves shady location, with filtered sunlight to produce nice shiny dark green leaves.

In the wild, natural propagation can be done from the seeds of the plant but commercially, the plant can either be propagated by leaf cutting (which really take a long period of time to root) or from the separation of the bulblets that can be found at the roots. We used stem cutting, and have successfully propagated these easily.

There is a mythical belief among Chinese that if the plant starts to produce flowers, it actually will bring good luck to the owner. Well, I certainly hope so!!

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