6 flowers suitable for growing indoors, each one blooms with beautiful flowers

1. Aechmea fasciata

A perennial epiphytic evergreen herbaceous plant of the Bromeliaceae family. The rosette leaf clusters overlap each other to form a tube shape. The leaves are up to 60 cm long, leathery, covered with gray scales, green, with tiger-stripe-like silvery-white horizontal stripes, and the edges have small black spines. The flower scape is upright, the inflorescence is a spike, branched, with many flowers. The bracts are leathery, pale red or deep red. The florets are sessile and light blue. It blooms in winter.

Native to southeastern Brazil in South America. It likes a sunny environment and also tolerates shade. It is often grown as a potted plant or hanging basket for ornamental viewing, used to beautify homes and decorate halls.

2. African violet

Also known as African violet, a perennial herbaceous plant. Stemless, the whole plant is covered with hairs. The leaves are ovate, and the petioles are thick and fleshy. The flowers are borne one or several together, light purple. There are many cultivated varieties, including large-flowered, single, semi-double, double, and variegated-leaf types, and the flower colors include purple-red, white, blue, pink, and bicolor, etc.

It likes a warm climate, dislikes high temperatures, is relatively shade-tolerant, and is suitable for growing in diffused light. It is suitable for fertile, loose neutral or slightly acidic soil. Native to the tropical regions of East Africa, the plant is small and delicate, with colorful flowers, and blooms in all four seasons. It is an excellent indoor flower and also a world-famous potted flower, especially popular in cultivation in Europe and America.

3. Hibiscus

Hibiscus was already a popular ornamental plant in ancient times, and its place of origin is China. Records of hibiscus already appeared in a book from the Western Jin period, "Nanfang Caomu Zhuang." The flowers are large and brightly colored, blooming in all four seasons, mainly used for garden viewing. It is widely planted around the world, especially in tropical and subtropical regions.

4. Oriental mullein

Perennial herb, up to 120 cm tall. The stems are sparsely covered with white stellate hairs. The basal leaves were not seen because the specimen was incomplete; the stem leaves are relatively few, the lower ones oblong-lanceolate, 10-18 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, with denser hairs on the underside, while the upper surface is very sparsely hairy or nearly hairless, thus appearing green, with irregular blunt teeth along the edges, the petiole up to 7 cm long; the upper stem leaves are ovate-oblong to elliptic, nearly sessile. The panicle is up to 30 cm long, with flowers clustered in groups of 2-7; within a cluster, the pedicels vary in length, 1-15 mm long, and both the pedicels and the calyx are densely covered with stellate hairs; the calyx is 4-5 mm long, with lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; the corolla is yellow, 20-25 mm in diameter, with stellate hairs on the outside; stamens 5, the filaments covered with purple hairs throughout, and the anthers all kidney-shaped. The capsule is ovate, slightly longer than the persistent calyx, densely covered with stellate hairs. Flowering and fruiting period is June-August.

5. Purple shamrock

The flowers are yellow. It likes a sunny, warm, and humid environment. In hot summer areas, it is suitable to provide half shade. It has relatively strong drought resistance and is not cold-tolerant. It can generally grow in ordinary garden soil, but grows vigorously in sandy loam rich in humus. It has a short dormant period in summer. The whole plant is used as medicine, with the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling, and dispersing illness.

6. Peace lily (also called white sail)

Native to the tropical regions of the Americas, widely cultivated around the world. The peace lily is very beautiful when in bloom, and even when not blooming it is also an excellent indoor potted foliage plant. It is a new generation of indoor potted flowers. The peace lily can filter indoor waste gases and has a certain purifying effect on ammonia, acetone, benzene, and formaldehyde. It can also be used as a cut flower.