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Easy Indoor Tropical Plants

These easy-to-grow potted plants are a tropics lover's paradise for indoor growing.

Don't expect to recreate the tropics indoors. But you can come close!

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Photo: Image courtesy of Felder Rushing

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Don't expect to recreate the tropics indoors. But you can come close!

Rubber trees are among the easiest indoors plants, with large, dramatic foliage that can sometimes be variegated.

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Photo: Image courtesy of Felder Rushing

Rubber Tree

Rubber trees are among the easiest indoors plants, with large, dramatic foliage that can sometimes be variegated. (Ficus elastica) is the slower-growing, broad-leaf cousin to the slightly more fickle weeping fig (F. benjamina). Whether solid green or variegated, it is easy to keep shrubby with regular pruning, or “limbed up” into a small tree, growing best when kept in bright light, but can quickly fill an entire window.

There are many different species of the standard sansevieria, including some with light-colored and variegated foliage.

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Photo: Image courtesy of Felder Rushing

Sansevieria

There are many different species of the standard sansevieria, including some with light-colored and variegated foliage.

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Photo: Image courtesy of Felder Rushing

Sansevieria Cylindrica

The carrot-shaped leaves of Sansevieria cylindrica add a dramatic touch to any plant collection. Its slow-spreading rhizomes produce clusters of flat, sword-like leaves, either tall or in compact rosettes.

Easy Indoor Tropical Plants

Tropical Plant Collection

Rubber Tree

Sansevieria

Sansevieria Cylindrica

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