Valentines Gift Identification Help needed!

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Karrie20x Spokane, WA(Zone 5b) Mar 10, 2004

I received a cute "watering can" with 3 houseplants in it for Valentines Day. I know the can isn't big enough to support these plants for a very long period of time, and need to know what each of them is so that I can care for them. I know what the pink flowered one is, as that one actually came with a tag. But the other two, one I will call "green plant" and the other I will call "Ivy" are unknown to me, as far as what they are REALLY called, so that I can look them up for how to care for them. I'll have to take up two posts to show you this. This first one here is "green plant"

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Karrie20x Spokane, WA(Zone 5b) Mar 10, 2004

This second photo is the Ivy that I need identification on.

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Kelli L.A. (Canoga Park), CA(Zone 10a) Mar 10, 2004

The first one looks like an aglaonema. A lot of them have varigated leaves but they all don't. The ivy is probably one of the many cultivars of English ivy.

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Karrie20x Spokane, WA(Zone 5b) Mar 10, 2004

I just brought that "algonema" up on the database, and I don't think that's it. The leaves of those look much "stiffer and harder" than what I have. Mine are very soft leaves.

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heather_v Lenexa, KS(Zone 5b) Mar 12, 2004

Maybe a Peace Lily?

http://plantsdatabase.com/go/57837/index.html

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Karrie20x Spokane, WA(Zone 5b) Mar 12, 2004

Although the leaves of that peace lily in the pic are much bigger, it is also a much more mature plant. I think you might be right. We'll see! (I was just about ready to put that pot in the car and go to the florist he bought it from and ask).

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heather_v Lenexa, KS(Zone 5b) Mar 13, 2004

On this link there are pictures of some smaller ones. One toward the bottom says it's in a 10" pot. It's very full, but the leaves look smaller.

http://plantsdatabase.com/go/986/index.html

Mine is a more mature plant, so it's bigger, but I think the leaves look very similar to yours.

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gardenmart Oviedo, FL(Zone 9b) Apr 05, 2004

looks like a bit of pothos to me. the stems aren't right for aglonema or for a spathyphylum.

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