Aphelandra Squarrosa ( Zebra Plant )

This attractive houseplant is grown for its unusual foliage, along with its striking flowers. The leaves are large and waxy in a base color of dark green with contrasting creamy white veins, making it easy to see where this plant got its common name of Zebra Plant. It can be quite a challenge to encourage the flowers to bloom, but when they do they are a sight to behold in startling yellow.

The Zebra Plant is quite a fussy plant to grow, and can, unfortunately, die quite easily if it’s specific requirements are not met. Once you have become accustomed to the Zebra Plant’s needs, then it is a fairly low-maintenance plant and will not take too much time and effort to care for, so long as you are getting things exactly as the plant likes. This houseplant isn’t advisable for a beginner gardener to take on, as it commonly dies due to over watering, under watering, or too much or too little light.