"echinosum" wrote in message
Farm1 Wrote:
[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?
[snip]
Pilea peperomioides, see here for the story, my summary above is a
bit
inaccurate I now realise on glancing again at it:
http://tinyurl.com/y4kd86

Thanks for that. Interesting (and your recall was near enough) :-))




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echinosum