Indoors
Chinese evergreen
Aglaonema
- Cat: toxic
- Dog: toxic
- Light: copes with shade
About the plant
The Chinese evergreen comes from the tropical forests of Asia, where it grows in the shade of taller plants. That is why it copes with low light like few others. It has broad leaves, often patterned in silver or pink.
Chinese evergreen and pets
- Cat
- toxic
- Dog
- toxic
- Signs
- calcium oxalates: burning and irritation of the mouth, lips and tongue, drooling, vomiting, difficulty swallowing
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 7 days in summer (April to September), every 12 in winter
- Light
- copes with shade
- Air humidity
- normal
- Temperature
- 16–28 °C
- Feeding
- April to September, every 4 weeks
- Repotting
- every 2 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
It stands shade and a missed watering; it does not like cold or draughts.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.