5 Houseplants You've Never Heard Of Before

hi everyone my name is nick and today i'm going to spotlight five house plants that perhaps you've never heard of before so my goal for today's video is to simply introduce you to some lesser-known house plants and these plants are like the good type of lesser known that are so little known that they're like actually inexpensive the only thing is that they are also so little known that i don't think you'd find any of these five in your local houseplant stores at least i'd be very surprised however i do feel confident that all five of these are ones that are readily available enough on the internet for a decent price so the first one i want to talk about today is this really lovely houseplant i absolutely adore this one so this right here is a drymonia chirobogana i think it's pronounced i'm getting rusty on my plant names these days but i absolutely love the way this looks it's a little wonky as it's been getting used to my home and has this one large leaf yet all the other ones have come in like one fifth of the size of this one so it's still figuring out what it's doing but i just absolutely love the venation on this plant and i just think it's so interesting specifically because it's a gasoline that means it's in the same family as plants like african violets lipstick plants episodes some really incredible house plants but this one's just so different i really love the venation on this plant and it has some really thick leathery leaves that you wouldn't really expect of course like many other gasoneri ads this plant is known for flowering but i would say that um i couldn't give a rat's ass about the flowers maybe they're beautiful i haven't seen them yet i haven't even google searched them because all i care about is these lovely leaves this one right here is like my pride and joy on this plant i'm sure one day it will get acclimated maybe this one looks like it's gonna be a nice sizeable leaf but these leaves are just really really stunning it's a plant that i hadn't really heard of before i'm pretty sure i got this on steve's leaves i saw that they had available and it seemed like a really interesting one to try out and i'm very thrilled that i did it was very inexpensive i think it was like 20 maximum which for more out there collector house plant is a very very good deal i'm sure we can all agree on that i think i'm more fascinated by the fact that it's a gesnerian in that family of so many incredible flowering house plants but this foliage is just so different it's like an outlier compared to many of those so i really really enjoy that it's been extremely easy for me to take care of like i said the leaves are coming in a little inconsistent so i'm sure i'm doing something that i could change but it's been a very reliable houseplant that i just go ahead and water roughly once a week it's been hanging out on the shelf behind me underneath the grow lights and it's been doing a really excellent job i really enjoyed watching it grow and i haven't propagated this yet but from the way that it looks with its very thick stem it looks like one that would root up pretty easily in water i will have to experiment or do some research probably should do some research before i just go ahead and chop this plant up but it's just so gorgeous this is one that i could just obsess over for a long time because these leaves are just totally my vibe and like i was saying it's one that i just feel like most people probably haven't really heard of unless they're into collecting gesneri ads which i know not that many people are right now so definitely one worth looking into if you've never heard of it before before this foliage alone it's just so stunning another one that's got some really stunning foliage this one's gonna be in a glass cloche today i'm sorry i'm not gonna be able to take it out because you can see the way it's kind of rooting around the glass here so this is a peperomia i want to say tango maria it might be tinga maria i'll put the correct name on screen but this one has some really gorgeous leaves on it i hope that the glass is clear enough it's a little dusty i guess but hopefully you can see through these leaves which are really really nice and fuzzy but they also have this really nice pattern on them which i really appreciate of course it's a peperomia and i'm a collector of pepperonis so maybe i have a little bit of a soft spot for um a nice interesting peperomia but as many of you may know with pepperoni it's becoming a little bit more popular there are so many varieties of pepperonis that exist i believe there's over a hundred i'm sorry 1500 species so there are plenty out there for you to collect however there's a finite amount that are on the market i'd say there's probably like between 50 and 100 ones that are readily available of course a large percentage of those are ones that you'd have to dig for on the internet because many of them were more collector varieties including this one right here which is why i wanted to talk about it today but it's also been a very reliable grower for me i don't think it would be flourishing the way it is if it wasn't inside this glass cloche as many of the more collector peperomias are known for requiring that rainforest tropical setting so that's why i'm trying to replicate that while having it inside this glass close right here kind of as a terrarium but it's inside a planter a planter that i actually made myself and it's clearly been taking to the setting from the way it's just been growing all around the container and like i said it's rooting along the glass you can kind of see back here and all along the front too the roots or the aerial roots of this plant are grabbing on to the moisture on the glass as it's growing along which is totally fine it just means it's going to be a little bit more difficult to get in there and water it when i do which is not very often because these plants when they're kept in an environment like this practically take care of themselves which baffles me i don't understand the science behind it because if this peperomia was sitting as wet as it is outside of this container this thing would rot in an instant but i don't know it really seems to be taking this environment of course you can see the leaves in comparison to the ones that are a little bit more older are coming in much smaller but i really don't mind that because they still have that same leaf pattern and color and all of the characteristics that it has that i'm so head over heels for so it's really such an interesting plant uh perhaps i should go in there and give it some fertilizer next time i get inside because this thing has been living inside this glass container for like a year and a half maybe two years i don't know exactly how long i've had this plant but i think i've only let it breathe the air outside of this glass cloche like once or twice throughout the entirety of the time that i've had it but um it seems like that might be the secret to its success it's really just this kind of monstrosity inside here it's very very interesting and it's a really really cool house plant that i think so many more people should be growing but it's definitely not one that is something you'd find in your houseplant stores but like i said it's certainly one that would be rather inexpensive if you were to look for this online as it is a peperomia and so many peperomias are very very inexpensive which is one of the most amazing things about them but there are of course so many more things to love another house plant that i got from steve's leaves i believe is this paelia grandifolia right here i think when most of us think of piley is probably the first thing that comes to mind is the pilot of heparoides or the pancake plant friendship plant ufo plant whatever you want to call it but there are so many more piley is than just that one that one is a complete outlier from the rest it's just so different in its appearance and overall growth structure in comparison to these pileas that grow in a much more like bushy manner and they're kind of little ways that they branch off one another and there are a bunch of these that you will see at your local house plant stores like the aluminum plant which is pilia catarai and there's plenty of other ones like the pileus brucina which i think they call it the norfolk pailia so many different varieties that you're probably most often going to find the terrarium selection at your house pant store but this is one that caught my eye on steve's leaves website when i was browsing a while back because of just how plain green it is it almost looks like this is something you could eat i wouldn't be surprised if you had this on your kitchen counter if someone went to pick a leaf off this and try to smell it but they i don't think they would really smell anything other than just chlorophyll but um it's really such a gorgeous house plant and i know it's not the most striking it's not the most showy foliage in comparison to the last two i was talking about but that's my favorite thing about this house plant of course if you watch me you know i'm a sucker for house pants that look like weeds or that they're growing at a crack in the sidewalk and this fits that to the tea these leaves alone literally just look very weed-ish so that's really my obsession with this house plant and that's almost my assumption as to why this isn't one that you will find in your local house plant stores because it just is a little too weed-like and probably isn't one that stands out amongst the rest in comparison to these other pileas that i was mentioning as they do have nice leaf variegation and much more just character let's say to the leaves but i just love a nice plain plant and this is exactly what i'm looking for and i've been thrilled to how easy this plant grows for me i've grown so many different pileas i've grown the aluminum plant the silver tree the norfolk or whatever they call it and i've actually killed all of those i'm sure it was my fault but this is the one for me that has just been plowing through everything through all my neglect this thing just always looks amazing of course it's bald it a little bit if i turn it around you can kind of see the lower section of the plant has lost a lot of its foliage but i still think it looks fantastic the way it does now and it gives it more character as i always say and i love a little characters and if i really want to pileas are incredibly easy to propagate so i could just go around and cut all of these back and root them up in water and i'm sure if i cared for this plant correctly or maybe put a little glass close over it in the meantime all of these branches down here would shoot new growth off again and it would become a nice bushy plant again so i really really love this house plant this is one in particular that i think probably would not cost you any more than 10 15 just because it just really probably isn't the plant that is exciting to many people except for people like me who just find the joy in these plain plants that almost look like you could eat them so it's such a cool house plant i highly highly recommend it if you're into any of these more plain bohemian sorts of house pants this is a really really excellent one to grow and moving on i have two more to highlight today so oh this is another one from steve's leaves they have some really interesting house pants on there as i always say so of course i have a couple selections from them today and this one right here is my sisis adena poda and i know this might not look like much right now but this is a houseplant that i've had for a couple of years now it is a plant that goes dormant in the winter time typically so usually this plant will get growing for me in the spring or maybe in the summertime and then usually around the end of the year or the beginning of the year when it's the darkest and the coldest this plant will usually start to defoliate a bit die back and then after a couple months regrow again and that's been the cycle that's been happening with my sisters for the last couple of years so it is a plant that you kind of have to pay a little bit more mind to it might be bald for a month or two out of the year and you might just have to deal with having a pot of sticks but i don't really mind that because i just absolutely love all the character that this house plant has it is a cises which is in the vitacia family which is what grapes are in if you're familiar with the way that grape plants look in a vineyard so these leaves do have a lot of characteristics to grape plants and you can kind of see too with these little tendrils or whatever they're called that are kind trying to grab on and spiral and grab onto whatever these are some dried up ones back here that i pulled off from its old setting recently i did just repot this one a month or two ago so that i could use the old planter that this was in for a long time but you can see right here actually that this new growth right here is already grabbed on to this bamboo stick right here that i just kind of stuck in as this is a house plant as you can see with its wanting to grab on the stuff that will really take to a situation where you let it climb up in its old pot it had these three leather straps it was a hanging planter and they would climb up the leather straps until they reached the top and they would start cascading down and it was gorgeous but this plant like i said does go dormant for a while and i wanted to replace it with something that's going to be more full throughout the entirety of the year but i think on a little trellis setting this is one that i'll really really get to enjoy throughout the year but the thing i love most about this house pant is the foliage of course it's got this lovely shape like i said like the grape leaf plant i really like how it's got these little sections but not only the leaf shape i absolutely love the characteristics that these leaves have they're very very fuzzy they're super soft and i love fuzzy plants but they also just have this overall like purplish hue to them they have these veins that go throughout the leaves that are purple and if i flip the plant around i'm sure you can see kind of through the back side that it shows up a little bit more of its purple side through the back so i really really love that about this house plant i'm a sucker for plants that are green and purple because it's just such a beautiful combination and a lot of plants are green so anytime plants aren't completely green it's admittedly very exciting to me as much as i love my greenhouse plants like my paella grandifolia there are some houseplants that sport a lot of color that are a little bit less like bohemian like a calathea for example they're much more showy much more tropical this kind of fits that much more like weed growing out of the sidewall kind of vibe but still sports a little bit more color so i absolutely love that about this this is a very drought tolerant health plan i grow this in my east facing window in my old apartment i grew it in the west facing window for the entirety of the time that i had it and it's one that i just let it go until it dries out completely i go ahead and water it and it's just a very set and forget kind of plant i probably water it like every seven to ten days keeping in mind while it is drought tolerant if i'm putting it in these bright windows it does dry out pretty quickly as these roots do absorb water very fast but it's just been a very reliable house pan to grow like i said many times you do have to be mindful of it going dormant i don't want you to think if you purchase this plant and it dies back that you're killing it you should hang on for it for a little while longer until the whole thing dies back if you are doing something terribly wrong but this is a very reliable house plant a rather inexpensive houseplant and it has a lot of character so of course i recommended today really one of my favorite house plans i'm sure in my past like top 10 house paint videos i've done i can guarantee you i've talked about this house in the past because it's really one that has been one i've been really enjoying for a very long time and the last one i want to talk about today this is a really interesting one so this of course is a sansevieria and i don't think this specimen right here is really going to be doing this any justice but this is a sansevieria pinguicula i just blew out some perlite when i said that um i don't know if i'm pronouncing that right sansa very pinguecula but this is what they call the walking san severia i got enticed by this houseplant a couple years ago at the philadelphia flower show which i highly recommend checking out if you're ever in philadelphia around the time um and this is one that i would see a couple of them in the competition section of their show i think i have a really old video that's like competition at the philadelphia flower show which i'm sure it's a really crappy video but i probably go through and show you like the plants that people enter in the competition because people like local to the area will enter their houseplants from the show for people to just go and see and i think they get like graded or ranked or it's a competition so it's really interesting to see what other people are growing around philadelphia which i think is my favorite part about the show as cool as the displays are and as much as i love shopping the booths i really enjoy looking at the competition plans the most certainly so if you wanna go check out my old crappy video i'm sure only has like a couple thousand views it's not probably the most exciting thing but anyway so this sansevieria it's called a walking sansiv area and so at the flower show i would see a couple examples of these sansevierias and i wish i had photos i don't think i have any photos but you literally see the sense of area as you can see it's kind of coming out of the pot right now like it's almost like standing on its roots and you can see right here this is where a baby was cut off i'm sure by the seller so the babies literally come up like they come up and out of the pot as if they're walking out of the pot and away from the mom and it'll just be like up here like they'll just be this sample area but it's like up here like six inches off the ground and the roots will come back down into the pot similar to how these are but just much more exaggerated and it's just such a conversation piece this alone just really looks like a samurai sansevieri like it's not the most uh incredible house plant but it's just the character that has once it gets growing i'm sure you have to have it for a couple of years because it has to put off a baby but i'm gonna be over the moon when this thing finally puts off a baby it's going to be so cool i have it growing in my shelf right now because it's under a girly obviously doesn't have a lot of height to it but in a couple years time if this thing really takes to my space i'm sure i'm going to have to get out in the open and almost gave it like a pedestal of its own so people could just enjoy it for all of its glory as it really is just such a cool house plant this is not the specimen to do it justice but in due time we'll have a really nice one but this is one this is probably the one that costed me the most out of all of the housemates i'm talking about today and it still wasn't expensive like i think it was like 20 25 30 maximum i can't remember exactly how much it was but the character has a loan was just like the selling point for me i was like i'll pay anything to have this plant as it is a sansevieria or dracena depending on how die hard you are this is one that of course is very drought tolerant but you do need to water it i'm probably giving this water like every two weeks as it isn't in a extremely high light situation but if i did have this growing in like a west or south window i'm sure i'd need to be watering it like every seven to ten days to ensure that these roots are hydrated enough uh but this is one of the sansevierias that i would definitely recommend growing in a bright setting i know a lot of people will consider sansevierius to be low lighthouse plants but if you are working with a sansevieria in low light i would stick with the classic trifociata just the strappy leaves ones as these ones that have much more thicker leaves are not going to look very good that they've been growing in a lowlight setting their new leaves are going to come in like pencil thin it's not going to look good so this is definitely a sensitive area that you're going to want to give a higher light situation but i think a grow light is perfectly fine so that's it for today's video i really hope that you guys learned about some new house pants i hope at least one of these is one that you haven't heard of before but my goal was if you have been collecting house pants for a year or two and you're starting to see the same ones over and over again when you go into the houseplant stores these are ones that are a little bit different definitely harder to find but like i said not hard enough to find and definitely on the inexpensive side which is the most important thing to me so thank you guys so much for joining me let me know in the comments any other plants because there are obviously a lot of health plans out there and um there are a whole bunch of them that nobody knows about so thank you guys so much for watching if you don't already follow me on instagram philly foliage subscribe to my channel and i will see you guys in my next video have a great day

Channel: Nick Pileggi

Views: 38,481

Keywords: plant, plants, houseplant, houseplants, new, nick pileggi, phillyfoliage, drymonia, chiribogana, chirobogana, peperomia, peperonia, pepperomia, pilea, cissus, sansevieria, sansaveria, sanseveria, snake plant

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Length: 19min 0sec (1140 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 06 2021