Furcraea ( Furcraea foedita‘Mediopicta ’ , USDA Hardiness Zone 11 ) is the focal point in this jazz band at the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington , D.C. It ’s backed up by a golden sweet-scented potato vine ( Ipomoea batatascv . , Zone 11 ) , Diamond Frost euphorbia ( Euphorbia‘Inneuphdia ’ , zone 10 - 11 ) , a dark flame nettle ( Solenostemon scutellarioidescv . , Zone 11 ) , a spiky orange and greenish pencil Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( Euphorbia tirucalli , Zone 11 ) , fuzzy - leaved aureole bush ( Tibouchinasp , Zones 9 - 11 ) , and a papyrus ( Cyperus paper plant , Zone 11 ) .
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Click here to enlarge this photo.Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
