Plants

Monstera¹

• scientific name means “delicious monster”
• nickname “Swiss cheese plant”

Monstera Deliciosa

• bears edible fruit²
  • unripen fruit is toxic - full of oxalic acid, a substance that is used to bleach wood and clean rust off metal
  • ripen fruit has combination of strong tropical flavors like pineapple, coconut, and banana

Lemon Cypress

Grump Tree³

• a dwarf lemon cypress tree, also called Goldcrests, (Cupressus macrocarpa 'Goldcrest Wilma')
• put it in a south-facing window where it will get 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day
• well drained soil
• water once a week

Zygocactus⁴

• nickname "Thanksgiving Cactus", "crab cactus", "Christmas Cactus"
• place in an area that receives 13 hours of complete darkness each night and bright sun each day in mid September for holiday bloom
• too much direct sunlight can burn its leaves
• propagation
  1. separate pieces of flatten stem by the join, let dry
  2. push vertically in pot
  3. leave in well lit and warm spot