Phyto (Fittonia) is representative of the family Strashnikovi (acanthine). It is tiny - only include two types of perennial herbaceous plants covering the soil in tropical forests of Peru and Colombia. Hallmark of fitoniite is fascinating network of bright streaks seemed drawn to cover the leaves.

Phyto is a very beautiful pot plant, unfortunately, little known in this country. The main reason for this is that it is very capricious beauty. I'll explain it, knowing that it comes from the tropical forests of Peru and Brazil, where it enjoys a high air humidity and constant warmth.

The advantages of these plants are that throughout the year leaves are fresh with original streaky conductive vessels. Our market now are the types of F. verschaffeltii an oval-elliptic leaves, 8-10 cm long. They look very delicate because they are beautiful pink streaks. By F. argynoreura - with silver nervatura has two forms - and edrolistna drebnolistna. In the second form the leaves are only 1-1,5 cm long. High prices type F. pearcei, where nervaturata is red.