Bracketplant (Chlorophytum capense)
Description
This evergreen container plant grows at a medium rate to a height and width of about three feet. Leaves are simple and green or variegated and flowers are insignificant, white, cream or gray. The plant has a high drought tolerance and produces easily rooted Chlorophytum Capense pups - baby spider plants - at the ends of long, drooping stalks. Frost will kill the plant to the ground but it will come back when warm weather returns. Spider plants develop brown leaf tips if kept too dry or from the salts in hard water.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Asparagaceae
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Genus: Chlorophytum
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