This plant has been one of my best houseplants! It grows easily and quickly, and stem cuttings root very quickly. It's a striking plant that gets noticed immediately whenever I have new people come over. It's fun to just snip off a piece and let them go home happy. The more it is snipped, the bushier it gets. I do mist sometimes, but if you have a very dry atmosphere, it would be good to grow it over a water tray like an orchid.

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I walked by this huge indoor houseplant for some years every so often in the Borough's government building and finally took photos and looked up into what it is. it is usually a much smaller houseplant. There are about 13 different natural varieties of this species and a number of cultivars with variegated foliage. It is supposed to be native to southeast Africa, Madagascar, and some islands in the Indian Ocean nearby. It has narrow pointed leaves that spiral around the stems and twigs and are about 2 to 7 inches long, to 12 inches long. it is thicker with foliage as a young plant. It is grown occasionally in landscapes in southern Florida in Zone 10. There were several shrubs planted around the motel grounds where I stayed in southern Florida in February 2022.

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