Zebra Plant (Aphelandra squarrosa) 15-23cm
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Zebra Plant (Aphelandra squarrosa) 15-23cm

Price range: R135.00 through R300.00

Description

Aphelandra Striped Tropical Show-Off

Scientific Name: Aphelandra squarrosa
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Aphelandra
Species: squarrosa (usually cv. ‘Louisa’ or ‘Dania’)
Common Names / Known As: Zebra Plant, Saffron Spike, Geelblomme (Afrikaans), iNqwe Yehlathi (Zulu nickname for the stripes)

Overview: Glossy, deep-green leaves with bold white stripes like a referee’s shirt, topped by electric-yellow bracts that last for weeks – this Brazilian beauty is the ultimate “I mean business” indoor plant. Compact and bushy, it brings instant Cape Town loft vibes or Sandton office wow to any South African home that can give it the humidity and light it demands.

Quirky Fact / Common Use: Those yellow “flowers” aren’t petals at all – they’re bracts that stay perfect for up to 6 weeks, then drop like a mic while tiny purple flowers pop out for a sneaky encore!

Available Sizes: 15cm and 23cm Nursery Pots

Ideal For:

  • 🌿 Humidity-loving bathrooms, bright KZN kitchens or steamy Durban sun-rooms – thinks it’s still in the Amazon.
  • 🎁 Statement gift for intermediate plant parents who want bragging rights.
  • 🌱 Perfect for enthusiasts who enjoy a challenge – high maintenance but pays in pure drama.
  • ✨ A must-have for adding graphic pattern and tropical punch to mixed shelves or as a centrepiece that screams “designer”.
  • 🌱 Its striped, waxy foliage stays lush at 30-60 cm tall, ideal for tabletops, plant stands, reception desks or bright coffee tables.

(Received plants may differ slightly from images displayed. Unless otherwise specified, all Plants come in black nursery pots)

Care Tips

Tips: 🌱 Leaves collapsing overnight? Classic underwatering shock – soak the pot for 10 minutes and it’ll stand up like nothing happened. Brown leaf tips = dry air (Highveld winter curse) – mist twice daily or run a humidifier. Yellow lower leaves = overwatering or cold draughts – let top 3 cm dry and keep above 18 °C. Flowers/bracts fading fast = too hot or too dark – move to bright spot. Mealybugs love hiding in the leaf axils – dab with cotton bud + surgical spirits every week until gone.

Light: ☀️ Bright indirect light is life – 1-2 m from a window with sheer curtain or gentle morning sun; direct afternoon rays scorch stripes in seconds.

Watering: 💧 Keep soil evenly moist (never soggy) – water when the top 2-3 cm feels dry, usually twice a week in summer, weekly in winter. Loves lukewarm water and hates cold tap shock.

Temperature: 🌡️ Ideal 20-28 °C with high humidity – perfect coastal SA summer; anything below 15 °C (Joburg winter nights) and it drops leaves like confetti.

Feeding: 🌿 Apply a balanced, diluted Liquid Fertilizer (e.g., 5:1:5 or Multifeed) every two weeks from September to April. Skip winter completely – no food May to August or it gets leggy and sad.

Pet Friendly? ❌ NO – Moderately toxic to cats, dogs & kids (causes mouth irritation and vomiting); keep on high shelves away from curious noses.

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To ensure fresh and healthy plants we follow a strict weekly shipping schedule: 

Mondays: We prepare plants for shipping! This means wrapping the soil, adding plant sleeves, and one last pre-travel watering. 
Tuesdays: We wake up bright and early to get all plants carefully packaged for shipping in the morning, in the afternoon we hand over plants with the longest travel ahead of them to our courier partners (this means Eastern, Western and Northern Cape)
Wednesdays: If there are any plants that did not fit in the Tuesday truck, they travel in the second batch on a Wednesday. 
Thursdays and Fridays: No plants are shipped, we carefully monitor all the travelling plant babies to ensure they arrive safely at their new homes ! 

Why do we do this? 

Our shipping schedule works this way to ensure that your plants are less likely to spend a weekend in the courier depot ! Our shipping schedule is designed this way to ensure that your plants are fresh and healthy, for this same reason we do not like keeping stock for extended periods of time which means that stock received on Thursdays and Fridays will only be shipped the following week.
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