Plant Growing Guides

Aoki

Aucuba japonica

Aspidistra

Aspidistra elatior

Aitoku Aspidistra

Aspidistra aitoku

Aucuba

Aucuba japonica

Serrated Aucuba

Aucuba japonica var. serratifolia

Gold Dust Plant

Aucuba japonica 'Variegata'

Jointed Sedge

Carex phyllocephala

Cast Iron Plant

Aspidistra elatior

Cleyera

Cleyera japonica

Variegated Mirror Plant

Coprosma repens 'Variegata'

Australian Fuchsia

Correa lawrenceana

Dwarf Mondo Grass

Ophiopogon japonicus 'Nana'

Fatsia

Fatsia japonica

Japanese Aralia

Fatsia japonica

Gold Spot

Aucuba japonica 'Gold Spot'

Hawaiʻi Tree Fern

Cibotium glaucum

Holly Fern

Cyrtomium falcatum

Japanese Aucuba Gold Dust

Aucuba japonica 'Gold Dust'

Japanese Fatsia

Fatsia japonica

Golden Clubmoss

Selaginella kraussiana 'Aurea'

Lilyturf 'Silvery Sunproof'

Liriope muscari 'Silvery Sunproof'

Variegated Lilyturf

Liriope muscari 'Variegata'

Moss

Bryophyta (Division)

Mosses and Liverworts

Bryophyta (mosses) and Marchantiophyta (liverworts)

Native Grasses and Groundcovers

Various species (regional)

Native Grasses and Sedges

Poaceae (grasses) and Cyperaceae (sedges)

Native Hawaiian Shade Shrubs

Multiple species (Psychotria hawaiiensis, Coprosma, Plumbago, and others)

Native Hawaiian Understory Shrubs

Various species (e.g., Psychotria hawaiiensis, Coprosma, Myrsine, Lophosoria)

Native Moss Species

Bryophyta (Division)

Ornamental Shrubs

Various species (Genus-dependent)

Mosses (General)

Bryophyta (Division)

Sarcococcus

Sarcococcus spp.

Sedges and Rushes

Carex spp. (sedges); Juncus spp. (rushes)

Shade-providing large-leaf plants

Various species (Hosta, Fatsia japonica, Alocasia, Philodendron, etc.)

Shade-tolerant Coleus

Plectranthus scutellarioides

Shade-tolerant Euonymus

Euonymus japonicus

Shrubs

Various species (Woody plants, generally 3-15 feet tall)

Tetrazygia bicolor

Tetrazygia bicolor

Hawaiian sedge, Wāhine sedge

Carex wahuensis