Originally Posted by Farm1

[snip] (With easy-to-propagate plants, this is a remarkably effective method a rare Chinese plant previously unknown to science or nurseries was
discovered about 10 years ago as a houseplant common in Scandinavia,
and traced back to a missionary who brought it back early in the
20th century as a memento of his stay.

I love stories like that :-)) What was the plant do you know?
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