Indoor Hanging plant- Pilea glauca: Floral formula

*Pilea glauca*, also known as Silver Sparkle Pilea, is a small and attractive ornamental hanging plant. It features slender, trailing stems adorned with tiny, round leaves. The leaves have a light green or shimmering silvery hue, giving the plant a beautiful appearance. It is often displayed in hanging baskets or used as a decorative tabletop plant. It is a low-growing plant that can spread rapidly. *Pilea glauca* requires partial shade, moist soil, and regular watering. Protect the plant from intense sunlight, as it can damage the leaves.

Scientific Name: Pilea glauca (not official botanical name)

Some Basic Information about Pilea glauca (Silver Sparkle Pilea) - Indoor hanging plant

Habit: Perennial, evergreen, creeping or trailing herb, usually 10–30 cm in height but spreading extensively through slender stems; forms dense mats and cascading growth, making it ideal for hanging baskets, terrariums, and ground cover in containers

Root: Fibrous and adventitious, arising from stem nodes that come in contact with moist soil; roots readily at nodes, enabling rapid spread and vegetative propagation

Stem: Slender, delicate, succulent, prostrate to trailing, highly branched, green to reddish-pink in color; stems are flexible and fragile, often producing roots at the nodes

Leaf: Opposite, petiolate, simple, orbicular to broadly ovate, very small (about 0.5–1 cm in diameter), entire margin, exstipulate, fleshy and smooth; upper surface silvery-green with a metallic sheen, lower surface often tinged pink or purple

Inflorescence: Small axillary cymes or clusters, borne at leaf axils; flowers inconspicuous and produced intermittently throughout the growing season

Flower: Bracteate, complete, actinomorphic, unisexual, monoecious; flowers minute, greenish-white to pinkish, lacking showy petals

Calyx: Sepals 4, free, persistent, greenish, valvate aestivation

Corolla: Petals absent or highly reduced, a characteristic feature of many members of the family Urticaceae

Androecium: Stamens 4, free, opposite the sepals; anthers small, dehiscing longitudinally

Gynoecium: Ovary superior, unicarpellary, unilocular, containing a single ovule; style short, stigma simple

Fruit: Small achene, dry, one-seeded, ovoid, rarely observed in cultivated plants

Floral Formula: Br ⊕ ♂/♀ P4 A4 G̲1

Systematic Position
Division – Angiospermae
Class – Dicotyledonae
Order – Rosales
Family – Urticaceae
Genus – Pilea
Species – Pilea glauca (commonly sold as Silver Sparkle Pilea)