Floriculture Flashcards
Alstroemeria
They’re gorgeous and long pedaled.
Another form of lily
Amaryllis
Red and white star looking shaped
They have thin leaves
Aster
Thin pedals with thin pointy leaves
Purple with yellow center
African violet
Purple flower with rounded leaves. Light purple on ends and darkest towards center of flower.
Biological name is saintpaulia
Asiatic lily
Gorgeous long pedaled flower
Bearded iris
“Falling off” pedals
Bird of paradise
Hawaiian flower with many colors
Boston fern
“Flurry” looking “rainforest” leaves
Carnation
Fluffed flower
Cattleya orchid
Small pedals
Christmas cactus
Has flowers and long stringy leaves
Chrysanthemum
Very “scrunched” flower
Cymbidium orchid
Pretty, elegant flower
Dutch iris
Mainly blue flowers with very thin leaves
Lily longiflorum
White pretty long tucked pedals
English ivy
Ugly large plant with big leaves
Freesia
Multicolored little flowers
Gerbera
Circled daises, many colors
Gypsophilia
Small cotton ball like white flowers
Heather
Little white flowers with reddish brown on the inside
Hyacinth
Bundle of small flowers on one stem
Hydrangea
Small bundle of small flowers
Jade plant
Aloe Vera lookin plant
Leather leaf
Rubbery looking plants
Liatris
Tall fluffy bundle of small flowers
Poinsettia
Red sharp pedals, big flowers
Prayer plant
Tropical areas grown, pattern like on leaves
Rose
Folded flower in many styles and folds
Snapdragon
Multicolored flowers in bundles
Spider plant
Leaves look similar to spider legs
Staticice
Little bundles of flowers on a stem
Stephanotis
Little white flowers with skinny pedals
Strawberry begonia
Little chubby leaves
Sweetheart roses
Very elegant roses look “softer”
Swedish ivy
Rubbery looking leaves with a waxy coat
Tulips
“Closed” multicolored flower
Wandering Jew
Plants that branches off in many directions, round leaves with point at the end
Wax flower
Little slightly closed flowers in bunches of many