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 tetragona<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This spreading shrub species is found in the West Indies, Costa Rica, North Southern America grows 4\u2019 feet tall and in breadth. \u00a0It produces broadly ovate, dark green 9\u201d leaves. \u00a0It produces axillary and terminal spikes 2-3\u201d long of small orange bracts and hooded bright red flowers 1 \u00bd-3\u201d long.<\/p>\n Zones 12-15<\/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":29504,"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-160254589"},"_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\/5943"}],"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=5943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}