Formidable Trailing Elephant Plant

It is a beautiful plant with small leaves and beautiful flowers.

Trailing elephant plant. These succulents need well drained soil and an unglazed pot that will help excess moisture evaporate. Sansevieria parva or commonly known as Kenya Hyacinth is part of the rare snake plant. After two to three weeks it is time to water your Portulacaria Afra trailing elephant bush.

Kenya Hyacinth Sansevieria Parva. Elephant bush Portulacaria afra is a perennial succulent shrub from South Africa that is a popular succulent garden plant around the world. Direct sunlight at this stage will harm the plant.

Let the cutting dry out and callous for a couple of days and then plant the cutting in damp gritty soil in a small pot. How do you care for a trailing elephant Bush. Because the leaves on Portulacaria afra are so thin it can handle more frequent waterings than other succulents.

Just like with other succulent plants Portulacaria Afra Elephant Bush needs a well draining soil. An occasional cutting back of its heart-shaped leaves may be needed to facilitate healthy growth and is easily done with just a few tools. Elephant Bush Care Growing Guide.

The Elephant Bush plant Portulacaria afra is a succulent with small oval fleshy leaves and reddish woody stemsElephant bush is popular as a hanging basket houseplant succulent due to its colorful trailing stems and jade-colored leaves. I do not use exact measurements but eyeball it to about 21 solution of cactus mix and perlite. Colors of the foliage may be anywhere from purplish black green or greenwhite variegated.

Also sometimes called elephant food or elephant plant. Grows in a prostrate lateral fashion resulting in a ground-cover. Elephant ear plants or Colocasia are tropical plants grown from tubers or from rooted plantsElephant ears have very large heart-shaped leaves borne on 2 to 3 foot 61-91 cm petiole or leaf stalks.