The spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) is a beautiful and popular indoor plant. It’s a hanging plant with long, slender green leaves streaked with white, creating a striking appearance. It helps purify the air, making it known as “nature’s air purifier.” The spider plant is easy to care for and thrives in low light and low water. Its small, hanging stems grow on hanging branches, making it even more beautiful. It’s often used as a decorative plant in homes and offices. Other general information about it is as follows:
Scientific Name: Chlorophytum comosum
Some Basic Information about Spider Plant
Habit:Perennial evergreen herb, 20–45 cm tall, forming rosettes with drooping stolons bearing plantlets.
Root:Fibrous root system with thickened, fleshy tuberous roots for water and nutrient storage.
Stem:Short, inconspicuous, primarily present as a basal rosette; produces long, arching stolons (runners) that bear new offshoots.
Leaf:Long, narrow, linear to lanceolate leaves arising in a rosette; smooth margins, parallel venation; green or variegated with white or yellow stripes; leaves 20–40 cm long.
Inflorescence:Axillary and terminal panicles borne on long, erect or slightly drooping scapes; small plantlets often form along inflorescence stalks.
Flower:Bracteate, complete, actinomorphic, bisexual, hypogynous, white in color, occasionally tinged green.
Calyx:Sepals 6, free, green, narrow, with valvate aestivation.
Corolla:Petals 6, free, white, linear-oblong, spreading; aestivation twisted.
Androecium:Stamens 6, free, inserted at the base of the perianth segments; filaments slender, white; anthers dorsifixed and versatile.
Gynoecium:Ovary superior, trilocular, tricarpellary with axile placentation; style single with three-parted stigma.
Fruit:Capsule, loculicidal, containing small black seeds.
Floral formula:Br ⊕ ⚥ P3+3 A6 G(3)
Systematic Position
Division – Angiospermae
Class – Monocotyledonae
Order – Asparagales
Family – Asparagaceae
Genus – Chlorophytum
Species – comosum