On 12/11/12 8:52 AM, FilGee wrote:

Hi I was walking down the road a couple of years ago and i saw that
someone had thrown out a dead plant. I was looking mostly at the pot it
was in to see if i could use it. Anyway i noticed that the top of the
plant was still green so i chopped it off and took it home to see if it
would root. It did and it grew to a decent size then started to wither
again so i chopped off the top again scrapped the rest of the plant
rooted the cutting and it grew again. But this time (And considering
that it's early Dec) it's started to split at the top and a load of
really sticky buds have appeared as if overnight. I looked closely at it
and it's literally dripping with tons of sticky sweet tasting nectar.
This hasn't happened before and I'm starting to wonder what kind of
plant starts budding and dripping nectar despite the British Winter. I
live in an apartment block 4 floors up & i don't have a garden so it
sits in my living room window I'm gonna put a couple of links to
pictures I've just taken of this plant and would be extremely grateful
if someone could tell me what the plant is called.

On a similar topic,
I've also succeeded in growing an Orange Bush from seeds in a clementine
orange i was eating a couple of years ago and it's doing quite well does
anyone know how old an orange bush has to be before it will flower and
produce fruit ?


Picture of The Unknown Plant Alongside My Clementine Bush.
http://tinyurl.com/d8vs6zl

Picture of the Unknown Plant Top Close Up.
http://tinyurl.com/cnvmfd9

Picture Of the Nectar Dripping Buds At The Top Of The Unknown Plant.
http://tinyurl.com/c6qqect


If anyone can help identify the Unknown plant then please let me know. I
have searched google images and found nothing that looks like this
plant.


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The foliage resembles some kind of Dracaena. However, I have had two
for well over 15 years, and neither of them has ever bloomed.

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
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Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary