ZEBRA PLANT is used as both a foliage houseplant and a flowering indoor plant. Also called Zebra plant, it has large, silver-veined leaves that provide an attractive foliage display throughout the year.
ADDITIONALLY, for about six weeks there will be a showy flower composed of bracts. This is a golden-yellow flower on Aphelandra Squarrosa with ivory-veined foliage. Aphelandra Aurantica has an orange-scarlet bloom and smaller, grey-veined leaves. Both are very attractive plants.
THE PHOTO BELOW is Aphelandra Aurantica growing on the floor of a tropical rainforest. Aphelandra Squarrosa Dania, with a yellow bract, is pictured at the bottom of the page, this specimen growing in a greenhouse.