It is a source of frustration to many home-owners (and a source of great annoyance to commercial growers) that most people expect a bunch of flowers to last a week but a houseplant to last forever! A rule of thumb is this: a flowering plant will have a limited period of life but a foliage plant will last much longer.
With care you might get a well-budded cyclamen to last several weeks but if you want to adopt a plant that will become part of your family then go for a crassula - with care it will last longer than you do!
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Cyclamen flower in the shortest days and go dormant during the longest days
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All the others are used as houseplants but only Ficus elastica is referred to as the rubber plant.
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The others are all types of desert-dwelling cactus
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Most gardeners believe that hippeastrum and amaryllis are one and the same thing but plant experts disagree
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