| Scientific Name: | Chlorophytum comosum |
| Common Name: | spider plant, airplane plant |
| Family Name: | Asparagaceae |
| Origin: | Africa |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Pendulous |
| Form: | Mounded, Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Hanging basket, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Jan-Feb-Mar-Sep-Oct-Nov-Dec |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Brown, Jan-Feb-Mar-Oct-Nov-Dec |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves linear, most 30-40cm long x 2-3cm wide, base sheathing, apex acute and tapered to a point, margins entire and recurved; produces small young plants from nodes that hang from the parent plant. | |