Spider Plant

Description

The narrow, elongated leaves of spider plants, up to half a metre long, are arranged in a rosette and form dense clumps. Spider plants are appreciated both for their elegant trailing habit and for their undeniable vigour. Phalangium comosum has deep green leaves; Phalangium elatum variegatum (synonym Chlorophytum alatum variegatum) has leaves with an ivory margin or central stripe.

Cultivation

A decidedly bright position, but sheltered from direct sunlight, a substrate always kept loose and soft, and therefore renewed every year, and a certain amount of humidity in the air will ensure thriving plants. As for temperature, the spider plant adapts even to considerable fluctuations, but fears frost. Feeding should be done once a month during the winter period and twice during the growing period.

Propagation

Propagation is very simple: just place in water (or in all-purpose compost) the stolons, that is, the plantlets that develop from the mother plant.