Pilea microphylla

Pilea Cadierie or Aluminum plant, is grown for its puffy, silver streaked, dark green leaves. See a picture and read how to grow and care for a pilea plant.

Pilea microphylla Tricolor

Variegated Artillery Fern Tenth in a series, Common name: Variegated Artillery Fern Botanical name: Pilea microphylla variegata Height: 6” Width: 4” Why would you want it? It is a colorful foliage plant, perfect for Miniature Gardens. Of course, not a Fern --- It has a lacy top and shoots its seeds giving the name -- Artillery Fern. The variegated form does not shoot seeds. What is its best feature? The pink and white variegation on a normally green plant gives the impression that it is…

Pilea microphylla

pilea microphylla

This plant is also called angeloweed, Artillery Plant”, or Joypowder Plant or (in Latin America) “Impatiens Sinensis”, and it is native to Florida, Mexico,.