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Now that I have a new appreciation for caladium….

This is the flower of the peacock plant (Calathea makoyana).

As seen in the Garden of Weedlessness greenhouse at the Montreal Botanical Gardens yesterday afternoon.

The Latin is Jasminum nudiflorum. It reminds me of forsythia.

Here’s another adorable succulent from my tour of Erika’s apartment, Conophytum blandum. Don’t they look like lots of little hearts?

On first glance the Latin blandum (blandus) seems wrong — these plants aren’t bland! To be sure I looked the word up in Gardener’s Latin and it turns out that blandus translates to pleasing or charming. This I think we can agree on.