Vivarium Plants

[HewesHort]

i thought i would start this thread to help with plant i.d. and give people some inspiration. i will list them by scientific name followed by a common name if available. i am starting with the more common species, i will add other species and varieties soon. if there are any plants you want me to add please post them. i will try to up date this once a week. after i get a decent list going ill start adding care info. plants with a * contain oxalates and are not suitable for some species. plants with a # have other toxic elements. always research your plants before putting them in your tank.

Adiantum jodanii - maidenhair fern

Aechmea species (some have sharp leaves, not for all herps)

Anthurium* - friendship plant

Aphelandra squarrosa - zebra plant

Aspidistra - cast iron plant

Astilbe

fibrous begonia*

Fittonia verschaffeltii

Coleus

Chlorophytum cosmosum - spider plant

Guzmania species

Hedera helix - english ivy#

Fatsia japonica - japanesa aralia

x fatshedera

Scindapsus aureus (syn. Epipremnum aureum, Rhaphidophora aurea) - pothos, devil's ivy

Davallia canariensis - rabbits foot fern

Hypocyrta - goldfish plant


Pilea cadierei - aluminum plant

Sansevieria trifasciata "Laurentii"- snake plant, mother-in-law's toungue

Tillandsia species- airplant


Cryptanthus species - earth star

Neoregelia species

Philodendron*

Saxifraga stolonifera - strawberry geranium/begonia

Nidularium species

Pelargonium - garden geranium, scented geranium

Rhoicissus rhomboidea - grape leaf ivy

Zebrina pendula - wandering jew

Plantago major - broad leaf plantain

[beckdg]

how's that hewe???

[creatureman]

For real newbies, like myself, this is great! Pictures in the thread would be super user friendly

[HewesHort]

thanks beck! ill get those changed!


as far as posting pics, the photos aren't mine and i dont know if i would be infringing on any copyrights if i posted them here

[froggsong]

Well, I thought I would save you some time and effor and fix your links for you. I did that, but somehow managed to break one of them (sorry!). If you could redo the link for Astilbe, it will be all fixed again. Sorry about that!

Thanks for the info, btw. A better, more complete list of plants is a really good idea, and I think that you are the perfect person to write it up. Do you have any knowledge on aquatic plants as well? If so, if you could do a separate thread for aquatics, that would be great. Or, if anyone else has the knowledge if they would start one. I'll go ahead and make this one a sticky.

[MTviver]

Sorry to post in your list, but is there someplace that has common aquatic and terrestrial plants (are sold interchangeably around here so I'm confused) and possibly the preferred habitat? I also see "air plants" a lot and can't figure that one out...

[froggsong]

You know, I just thought about this... Hewe, it would be best if when you post to the thread to add to the list, just post to the original post at the top, then post a new post saying you added info. That way once it starts getting long, people don't have to read through the entire thread to see the whole list. Thanks!

[beckdg]

ur welcome hewe... and yeah that would be great... all in one post... as you can see this is getting long... ps... you're like a sticky magnet!

[HewesHort]

After deleting a list of thirty more plants i got eleven more posted. hedera helix - Neoregelia species. its been a long day so i dont know if ill get more up tonight or not.

thanks for the directions beck!

and thank you for converting those for me froggsong!

unfortunately i dont have too much experience with the types of aquatic plants used in fish tanks, i am only familiar with the ones used for landscaping. but i am willing to do the research and make another thread like this one.

[froggsong]

It should be noted that English Ivy has been said to be deadly to Bearded Dragons. I haven't done a ton of research on this yet, and if I find this to be incorrect I will remove this posting.