David E. Ross wrote:
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.

I think you are right, maybe D messengeana or D sanderiana. My D marginata
blooms every year and the flowers look somewhat similar, little clumps of
balls, in the case of marginata they are red though.

In any case it is looking rather leggy, I doubt it gets much light. As for
the orange unless it gets several hours of (yer actual) sunlight a day (at
least) the chances of fruiting are next to nothing.


D