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Fern Pine
Afrocarpus gracilior
An East African evergreen tree with soft fern-like blue-green needles, often clipped as a hedge or topiary in mild-climate gardens.
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Table of contents
| Fern Pine | Ficus | Fiddle Leaf Fig | Fittonia |
| Flax Lily | Fountain Grass |
List of Plants That Start With F
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Ficus
Ficus benjamina
A vast genus of tropical figs that includes giant strangler trees, small houseplants, and the iconic rubber and fiddle-leaf figs of interior design.
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Fiddle Leaf Fig
Ficus lyrata
A West African fig with enormous violin-shaped leaves on tall ramrod-straight stems, an Instagram-famous statement plant of modern interiors.
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Fittonia
Fittonia albivenis
A South American rainforest groundcover famous for the bright pink, red, or white vein patterns on its small dark green leaves, sometimes called the nerve plant.
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Flax Lily
Dianella tasmanica
An evergreen strappy clumping perennial from Australia and New Zealand, prized in low-maintenance landscapes for its sword-like striped leaves.
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Fountain Grass
Pennisetum alopecuroides
A graceful African and Asian ornamental grass with arching foliage and feathery summer flower plumes, a backbone of modern naturalistic plantings.
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