Holiday cactus (Schlumbergera spp.) include Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving. "Unlike many desert cacti, holiday cacti are epiphytes, growing on tree limbs.
Anthuriums (Anthurium scherzerianum) are cheerful, exotic houseplants with glossy, green heart-shaped leaves and long-lasting pink, crimson, or white blossoms.
Bromeliads, exotic winter plants with strappy leaves and clusters of red, orange, yellow, pink, purple, or white blooms, give beauty to your house.
Shamrock (Oxalis spp.) has clover-shaped leaves that fold up at night or in low light. For several months in winter, the plant can be driven into dormancy.
Clivia (Clivia miniata) is a rewarding plant that takes time to blossom, but it produces fans of strap-like green leaves with umbel-shaped clusters of yellow, orange, and red flowers in winter.
With adequate care, African violets (Saintpaulia ionantha) can bloom consistently for weeks, even in winter. A rosette of purple blooms grows from fuzzy, ruffled leaves.
African violet related alsobia (Alsobia dianthiflora) features fuzzy green leaves with purplish veins and white-fringed flowers.
Most have attractive butterfly-shaped (or moth-shaped) flowers, in a wide range of colors, from pinks and purples to apricot, orange, and salmon, to lemon yellow to pure white.