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Pothos vs Philodendron

Pothos vs Philodendron

Many plant enthusiasts get confused between pothos and philodendron plants. This is understandable as the two are similar in appearance and both belong to the same family, Araceae. However, these

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How To Grow Basil from Seed

How To Grow Basil From Seed?

Basil plants, with the scientific name Ocimum basilicum, are culinary herbs native to the tropical regions of Central Africa and Southeast Asia. These tender plants are extremely widely cultivated, being

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Philodendron Imperial Green

Philodendron Imperial Green

The Philodendron Imperial Green is a non-vining plant that can catch anyone’s attention with its glossy, green leaves, which grow directly from its main stem. It is quite popular because

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Peperomia Rana Verde

Peperomia Rana Verde

The Peperomia Rana Verde is a hybrid semi-succulent that is a tropical, perennial native of South America. “Rana verde” literally translates to “green frog” in English, which probably pertains to

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Alocasia Odora Variegata

Alocasia Odora Variegata

Alocasia odora variegata is a popular indoor plant due to its striking, variegated foliage. Some of its common names include Alocasia odora ‘Okinawa Silver’ and dwarf Alocasia odora variegata. These

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Philodendron Pedatum

Philodendron Pedatum

Philodendron pedatum is a perennial vine that has oak-shaped leaves with multiple lobes. These tropical plants are native to Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guiana and Colombia, and are often confused

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Lemon Lime Philodendron

Lemon Lime Philodendron

Lemon-lime philodendron plants are popular houseplants native to the rainforests of South America. Their scientific name is Philodendron hederaceum lemon-lime, and they are also referred to as sweetheart vine, lemon-lime

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Hoya Kerrii Care and Propagation

Hoya Kerrii Care and Propagation

Hoya kerrii plants are also called sweetheart hoya, Valentine hoya, heart-shaped hoya, lucky hearts, wax hearts, love hearts and hoya hearts. These succulent tropical vines, of the family Apocynaceae, are

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How To Save A Dying Boxwood Bush

How To Save A Dying Boxwood Bush?

Boxwood shrubs, with the scientific name Buxus sempervirens, are dense, evergreen shrubs popular for landscaping. They are cultivated for their foliage and are often used to create formal hedges or

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How To Save A Dying Cycad

How To Save A Dying Cycad?

Cycads, with the scientific name Cycadophyta, constitute the order Cycadales. They are prehistoric plants with woody trunks and a crown of hard, stiff, evergreen leaves. These slow-growing gymnosperms are also

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How To Save A Dying Bromeliad

How To Save A Dying Bromeliad?

Bromeliads comprise around 3590 known species of the family Bromeliaceae. These monocot flowering plants are native to the tropical Americas, and some species are also found in the American subtropics

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How to Save a Dying Pitcher Plant

How to Save A Dying Pitcher Plant?

Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants with leaves that are referred to as ‘pitfall traps’. These trapping mechanisms consist of a deep cavity (the pitcher) that contains digestive fluid. These plants

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Overwatered Palm Plant

Overwatered Palm Tree

Palm trees are members of the botanical family Arecaceae, of the order Arecales. They thrive in tropical and warm temperate climates, and commonly-known species include the date palm and the

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How To Save A Dying Avocado Tree

How To Save A Dying Avocado Tree?

Avocado trees, with the scientific name Persea americana, are members of the family Lauraceae. The fruits are botanically considered large berries, containing single, large seeds. These trees originated in south-central

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How to Save a Dying African Violet

How to Save a Dying African Violet?

African violets, with the botanical name Saintpaulia, comprise ten species of perennial flowering plants of the family Gesneriaceae. These cute houseplants have dark green fuzzy leaves and produce blue-violet, pink,

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Overwatered Christmas Cactus

Overwatered Christmas Cactus

Christmas cactus plants, with the scientific name Schlumbergera bridgessii, are also referred to as Thanksgiving cactus or Easter cactus plants. These plants, which originated in the coastal mountains of southeastern

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How To Save A Dying Palm Tree

How To Save A Dying Palm Tree?

Your palm tree may be dying due to insufficient light, cold temperatures, incorrect soil type, overwatering, underwatering, lack of nutrients, transplant shock, or pests. Figuring out exactly which of these

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How To Save A Dying Venus Fly Trap

How To Save A Dying Venus Fly Trap?

Venus flytraps, with the scientific name Dionaea muscipula, are carnivorous perennial plants that are popular as houseplants. They capture and digest their prey, mostly insects and arachnids, using a trapping

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How To Save A Dying Rhododendron

How To Save A Dying Rhododendron?

Rhododendrons comprise about 1,000 species of woody flowering plants of the family Ericaceae. They are famous for their attractive foliage and dainty flowers, and several species are cultivated as ornamentals.

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How To Save A Dying Jade Plant

How To Save A Dying Jade Plant?

Jade plants, with the scientific name Crassula ovata, are also commonly known as lucky plants, money plants or money trees. These succulents are popular house plants, and are considered by

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How To Save A Dying Maple Tree

How To Save A Dying Maple Tree?

Maple trees, with the scientific name Acer, are native to Asia and also cultivated in Europe, Africa and North America. They comprise roughly 132 species, and have distinctive winged fruits,

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Overwatered Jade Plant

Overwatered Jade Plant

Jade plants, or Crassula ovata, are also commonly called money plants, money trees or lucky plants. These plants are native to South Africa and Mozambique and are popular houseplants sometimes

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How To Save A Dying Snake Plant

How To Save A Dying Snake Plant?

Snake plants, with the scientific name Sansevieria trifasciata, are also commonly called mother-in-law’s tongue, bowstring hemp, or St. George’s sword. These hardy evergreen perennials have banded green leaves with a

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Overwatered Petunias

Overwatered Petunias

Petunias originated in South America and make up roughly 35 species of flowering plants of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Common garden petunias are ornamental plants featuring trumpet-shaped flowers, and are

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Overwatered Cactus

Overwatered Cactus

Cacti survive the harsh desert climate through their ability to store water in their bodies for use during times of drought. Therefore, they do not need to be watered as

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How To Save A Dying Evergreen

How To Save A Dying Evergreen?

Evergreen plants have foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year. In Arctic areas, the name refers to coniferous shrubs and trees that have thicker, more leathery leaves. Although

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Overwatered Pepper Plant

Overwatered Pepper Plant

Pepper plants, of the genus Capsicum, belong to the nightshade family Solanaceae. Some of these species are cultivated for their pungent, edible fruits, while other varieties are grown as ornamentals.

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Overwatered Pothos

Overwatered Pothos

Your pothos may end up overwatered for several reasons: you are giving it more water than it needs, you are watering it more often than it needs, the pot it

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Overwatered Echeveria

Overwatered Echeveria

Echeveria plants are popular succulents because of their symmetrical rosette shape and variety of colors. These plants comprise a large genus of flowering plants in the Crassulaceae family. They are

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How To Save A Dying Boston Fern

How To Save A Dying Boston Fern?

Boston ferns are a species of fern of the family Lomariopsidaceae. Also referred to as sword ferns, they thrive in tropical countries around the world. These ferns have sword-shaped, blue-green

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How To Save A Dying Hydrangea

How To Save A Dying Hydrangea?

Your hydrangea may be dying due to an environmental factor that is causing the plant stress. That factor could be underwatering, frost, light issues, or transplant shock. The first step

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Overwatered Aloe Plant

Overwatered Aloe Plant

Aloes are succulents, which means they do not need to be watered often to survive. They have adapted to scarce rainfall in their natural habitat and are able to survive

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How To Save A Dying Tomato Plant

How To Save A Dying Tomato Plant?

Tomato plants, known scientifically as Solanum lycopersicum, originated from western South America and Central America. These flowering plants, of the nightshade family Solanaceae, are grown for their edible fruits which

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How To Save A Dying Geranium

How To Save A Dying Geranium?

If your geranium is exhibiting signs of declining overall health, there is most likely an environmental factor that is causing it stress. The first step in saving your dying geranium

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Overwatered Bonsai

Overwatered Bonsai

Bonsai plants are ornamental trees or shrubs that are grown in pots and artificially prevented from reaching their normal size. This is based on the Japanese art of tray planting,

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Wandering Jew Leaves Turning Yellow

Wandering Jew Leaves Turning Yellow

Wandering Jew plants, with the scientific name Tradescantia zebrina, are creeping evergreen plants cultivated for their colorful striped leaves that come in brilliant shades of white, green or purple. These

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Loquat Tree Leaves Turning Yellow

Loquat Tree Leaves Turning Yellow

Loquat trees, scientific name Eriobotrya japonica, are cultivated for their edible fruit and evergreen foliage. These trees are native to Central Eastern China and were introduced to Japan where they

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Lime Tree Turning Yellow

Lime Tree Turning Yellow

Lime trees comprise several species of tree and shrub of the rue family, Rutaceae. These trees are usually grown in tropical and subtropical countries for their edible fruits. Limes are

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How To Save A Dying Birch Tree

How To Save A Dying Birch Tree?

Birch trees, scientific name Betula, are deciduous hardwoods of the family Betulaceae. These elegant trees are commonly cultivated in the Northern Hemisphere and areas with temperate and boreal climates. They

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How To Save A Dying Crepe Myrtle

How To Save A Dying Crepe Myrtle?

Crepe myrtle, with the scientific name Lagerstroemia, comprises around 50 species of evergreen trees and shrubs. These trees are native to northern Australia, Southeast Asia and parts of Oceania. They

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Overwatered Spider Plant

Overwatered Spider Plant

Spider plants are easy-to-cultivate houseplants that are usually grown in hanging baskets. These indoor plants produce tiny flowers and offshoots, which look like tiny spiders, on long stems. They prefer

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Overwatered Oregano

Overwatered Oregano

Oregano, or Origanum vulgare, is a popular herb used in many dishes.  These plants belong to the mint family, Lamiaceae, and have small, green, spade-like leaves and purple flowers. They

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Ranunculus Leaves Turning Yellow

Ranunculus Leaves Turning Yellow

Ranunculus plants are also called buttercups, spearworts and water crowfoots, and comprise a large genus of 600 species of flowering plants. These perennials usually bloom in spring, but their flowers

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Overwatered Impatiens

Overwatered Impatiens

Impatiens plants are also commonly called touch-me-not, busy Lizzie, sultana or patient Lucy. They are herbaceous perennials and are cultivated as annuals in most regions of the USA. These plants

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Parlor Palm Turning Yellow

Parlor Palm Turning Yellow

Parlor palm plants, scientific name Chamaedorea elegans, are popular houseplants native to the rainforests of Guatemala and Southern Mexico. These elegant palms have deep green foliage and can tolerate low

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Overwatered Agave

Overwatered Agave

Agave plants are succulents that are often confused with cacti. A visible difference between agaves and cacti is that agaves have leaves, and cacti do not. Agaves are native to

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Alfalfa Leaves Turning Yellow

Alfalfa Leaves Turning Yellow

Alfalfa leaves turn yellow when the plant is stressed due to environmental factors or a negative change in its living conditions. Correctly diagnosing the cause of the color change is

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Bacopa Leaves Turning Yellow

Bacopa Leaves Turning Yellow

Bacopa, scientific name Bacopa monnieri of the genus Sutera, is famous for its pure white, blue or pink flowers. These perennial creeping herbs are native to the wetlands of Europe,

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Laurel Leaves Turning Yellow

Laurel Leaves Turning Yellow

Laurel, or bay laurel, with the scientific name Laurus nobilis, are plants popular for their aromatic leaves, which are used as seasoning in cooking. These plants are native to the

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Catmint Leaves Turning Yellow

Catmint Leaves Turning Yellow

Catmint, or Nepeta cataria, is a flowering plant of the family Lamiaceae. The plants comprise around 250 species native to Asia, Africa and Europe, and naturalized in North America. These

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Petunia Leaves Turning Yellow

Petunia Leaves Turning Yellow

Petunias, scientific name Petunia atkinsiana, comprise 20 species of flowering plant. They have exceptional blooms with a long flowering period. These plants are considered annuals, but in some areas they

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Ming Aralia Leaves Turning Yellow

Ming Aralia Leaves Turning Yellow

Ming aralia plants, scientific name Polyscias fruticosa, are highly adaptable as indoor plants. These perennial evergreen shrubs and dwarf trees can grow up to seven feet tall if properly cultivated.

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Lavender Turning Yellow

Lavender Turning Yellow

Lavender comprises 47 known species of flowering plants of the mint family Lamiaceae. These plants are native to the Old World and the Canary Islands, although they are now widely

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Emerald Cedars Turning Yellow

Emerald Cedars Turning Yellow

A yellowing emerald cedar is most probably stressed due to an environmental factor that is affecting its general health. The first step in fixing the problem is correctly identifying the

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Green Onions Turning Yellow

Green Onions Turning Yellow

Green onions are also called scallions or spring onions. They are a vegetable species of the genus Allium. These plants have a milder taste than regular onions, and their close

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Sunflower Leaves Turning Yellow

Sunflower Leaves Turning Yellow

Sunflower plants – scientific name Helianthus annuus – have large, daisy-like flowers that come in yellow, red, orange, brown and maroon. The most common variety is bright yellow-colored, with brown

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Creeping Jenny Turning Yellow

Creeping Jenny Turning Yellow

Creeping Jenny plants are evergreen perennials of the Primulaceae family. Common names include moneywort, herb twopence and twopenny grass. These low-growing plants are popular ground covers that thrive in rock

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Lantana Leaves Turning Yellow

Lantana Leaves Turning Yellow

Lantana – scientific name Lantana camara, of the family Verbena – comprises 150 species of perennial flowering plants. Native to the tropical regions of the Americas and Africa, their dainty

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Lilac Leaves Turning Yellow

Lilac Leaves Turning Yellow

Yellowing lilac leaves are indicative of an environmental factor causing the plant stress. The key to fixing the problem is correctly identifying the cause of the discoloration. The most common

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Cordyline Leaves Turning Yellow

Cordyline Leaves Turning Yellow

Cordyline plants, with scientific name Cordyline fruticosa, are evergreen flowering plants of the family Asparagaceae. Also known as ti, they are common decorative plants ideal for both indoors and outdoors.

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Delphinium Leaves Turning Yellow

Delphinium Leaves Turning Yellow

Delphiniums are perennial flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae. These plants are native to tropical Africa and the Northern Hemisphere and bear flowers from late spring to late summer. They

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Aquatic Plants Turning Yellow

Aquatic Plants Turning Yellow

Aquatic plants turning yellow is usually a sign that certain factors required for their survival are compromised. This causes plant stress, resulting in discoloration. The most common causes of yellowing

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Beet Leaves Turning Yellow

Beet Leaves Turning Yellow

Beet plants – scientific name Beta vulgaris – are cool-season vegetable crops that can be grown anywhere. Although popular as root crops, all the plant parts are edible, with the

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White Eggplant Turning Yellow

White Eggplant Turning Yellow

White eggplants, with the scientific name Solanum melongena, are grown worldwide for their edible fruits. They have pure white or cream-colored skin and their flesh is creamy white, less acidic

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Calathea Leaves Turning Yellow

Calathea Leaves Turning Yellow

Calathea leaves turn yellow when there is an environmental factor causing the plant stress. If the plant’s preferred growing conditions are not met, it will show its displeasure through a

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Clusia Leaves Turning Yellow

Clusia Leaves Turning Yellow

Clusia leaves turn yellow when there is an environmental factor or a change in the plant’s living conditions that is causing it stress. Inspecting the plant and its leaves thoroughly

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Rosemary Leaves Turning Yellow

Rosemary Leaves Turning Yellow

Rosemary plants, of the mint family Lamiaceae, are fragrant evergreen herbs used as culinary condiments and for their health benefits. Native to the Mediterranean, these plants have fibrous root systems

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Radish Leaves Turning Yellow

Radish Leaves Turning Yellow

There are multiple reasons that your radish leaves may be turning yellow. It can be something as benign as overwatering, or something more serious such as pests and disease. No

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Spinach Leaves Turning Yellow

Spinach Leaves Turning Yellow

Spinach plants are leafy green flowering plants of the family Amaranthaceae. The vegetable leaves are consumed fresh or preserved, and may be eaten cooked or raw. These annual plants are

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Rhubarb Leaves Turning Yellow

Rhubarb Leaves Turning Yellow

Rhubarb plants are originally from Asia but were brought to Europe and America during the 1600s. This perennial vegetable is popularly sweetened and used in tarts, jams and pies. It

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Ginger Leaves Turning Yellow

Ginger Leaves Turning Yellow

Ginger, of the family Zingiberaceae, is widely used as a spice and herbal medicine. These plants originated in Southeast Asia and were transported from there by Austronesian people. They thrive

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