There are around 170 species of evergreen shrubs and sub shrubs from moist woodland in tropical North, Central, and South America, in this genus. \u00a0Grown as a houseplant for their attractive flower heads and opposite pairs, of deeply veined, simple, pointed, glossy green leaves. \u00a0Dense terminal occasional axillary 4-sided spikes with long lasting overlapping brightly colored bracts and a succession of short lived tubular red or yellow flowers are borne sporadically throughout the year.<\/p>\n
When grown indoors grow in loam based potting mix with additional leaf mold. \u00a0Grow in full light with filtered light in summer. \u00a0Keep away from drafts. \u00a0Water freely during the growing season, cut back on watering in winter. \u00a0During summer apply a balance liquid fertilizer every 2 weeks and monthly in winter. \u00a0After flowering plants need to be cut back to encourage side shoots.<\/p>\n
Where able to grow outdoors grow in moderately fertile, humus rich, well-drained soil in partial shade.<\/p>\n
Prone to many serious fungal diseases including Myrothecium leaf spots<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Corynespora leaf spot <\/i><\/em>and Phytophtora crown rot<\/i><\/em>, aphids, mealy bugs <\/i><\/em>and scale insects.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Aphelandra aurantiaca \u2013 Aphelandra fasinator<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This erect shrub species is found in Mexico to Colombia grows 2 \u00bd-4 \u00bd\u2019 feet tall and 2-4\u2019 feet wide but is much smaller in pots. \u00a0It produces elliptic deep green leaves 4-6\u201d long flushed or mottled with silver. \u00a0In winter it bears dense terminal spikes to 18\u201d long of bracts and protruding orange-scarlet or reddish brown flowers 1 \u00bd-2\u201d long.<\/p>\n Zones 11-15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aphelandra There are around 170 species of evergreen shrubs and sub shrubs from moist woodland in tropical North, Central, and South America, in this genus. \u00a0Grown as a houseplant for their attractive flower heads and opposite pairs, of deeply veined, simple, pointed, glossy green leaves. \u00a0Dense terminal occasional axillary 4-sided spikes with long lasting overlapping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,36,20,44],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254586"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}