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Identify a gift plant
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Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian |
Identify a gift plant
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Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian Looks to me like a Christmas Rose, Ian.Worth keeping. Sam |
Identify a gift plant
On 13 Mar, 19:10, sam wrote:
igtodd wrote: Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Looks to me like a Christmas Rose, Ian.Worth keeping. Do you mean the winter flowering cacti, Schlumbergera? The leaves are more serrated on Ian's picture. I'm not sure ... |
Identify a gift plant
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igtodd writes Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian The common plant which generates lots of plantlets on the leaves is one I knew as a child as mother-of-thousands. This is Kalanchoe daigemontiana aka Bryophyllum daigremontianum. The habit of your plant looks different - more compact - but perhaps I am misled by interpreting the photograph as a single plant, rather than as several plants planted in a single pot. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Identify a gift plant
In message , sam
writes igtodd wrote: Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian Looks to me like a Christmas Rose, Ian.Worth keeping. Sam Christmas Rose commonly refers to Helleborus niger, which I assume is not what you mean. I think I've identified the plant as mother-of-thousands, but perhaps you could clarify which plant you mean. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
Identify a gift plant
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igtodd wrote: Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian Looks to me like a Christmas Rose, Ian.Worth keeping. Nothing like a Christmas Rose ;-) Leaves too fleshy, wrong shape, growing up the stem instead of around the base and Christmas Rose (Helleborus niger) doesn't produce plantlets along the edges of its leaves. It's what I knew long ago as Bryophyllum diagremontianum, now known as Kalanchoe diagremontiana http://www.bryophyllum.com/b/articles/id/ Good fun, but you'll soon have far too many of them! It flowers, too: http://tinyurl.com/2not73 It's a succulent, so don't water it until it the soil has dried out from the previous watering. Keep it indoors or in a greenhouse in winter, and don't water it while the weather is cold (or only sparingly if it's in a warm house over winter). I used to also have B tubiflorum, which has cylindrical leaves with plantlets on the end, and K fedschenkoi, which had blue pollen which formed a strange contrast with the bright orange flowers. -- Kay |
Identify a gift plant
On 13 Mar, 19:56, Sacha wrote:
On 13/3/07 19:01, in article om, "igtodd" wrote: Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! It looks like one of those pretty little cacti - and I don't like cacti! Have a look at Schlumbergera truncata - I Googled on that and it might be familiar. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devonhttp://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) Thanks for all your help. I have looked and I think it is a Bryophyllum daigremontianum from your input and looking at other pics on the web. Thanks Ian |
Identify a gift plant
La Puce writes
On 13 Mar, 19:10, sam wrote: igtodd wrote: Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Looks to me like a Christmas Rose, Ian.Worth keeping. Do you mean the winter flowering cacti, Schlumbergera? The leaves are more serrated on Ian's picture. I'm not sure ... Christmas Rose is usually applied to Helleborus niger. Schlumbergia truncata is known as Christmas cactus. It looks completely different from Ian's picture - the 'leaves' (which are actually flattened stems) grow end from end from each other. Ian's picture clearly shows true leaves placed opposite on a stem - this is sufficient to identify that Ian's plant is not Schlubergera without recourse to degree of serration. -- Kay |
Identify a gift plant
In message , Stewart Robert Hinsley
writes Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian The common plant which generates lots of plantlets on the leaves is one I knew as a child as mother-of-thousands. This is Kalanchoe daigemontiana aka Bryophyllum daigremontianum. The habit of your plant looks different - more compact - but perhaps I am misled by interpreting the photograph as a single plant, rather than as several plants planted in a single pot. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley I have one of those and I'm strangely fond of it - but the rest of the family really hate it with amazing passion! I's virtually impossible to kill: The parent it came from was about a meter tall. I have one in the guestroom where I forget to water it for months at a time: it's just fine. Babies have dropped off everywhere, if they don't fall onto soil they make do with the windowsill. One is in a tiny (1 cm) pot: that one has bonsai-d: it's about 3 cm tall, and perfectly happy. Like the fleas with tinier fleas on them, it produces tiny babies ... lots of them. It spent a summer in the garden ... the babies were everywhere (but they draw the line at winter). -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
Identify a gift plant
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes
In message . com, igtodd writes Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian The common plant which generates lots of plantlets on the leaves is one I knew as a child as mother-of-thousands. This is Kalanchoe daigemontiana aka Bryophyllum daigremontianum. The habit of your plant looks different - more compact - but perhaps I am misled by interpreting the photograph as a single plant, rather than as several plants planted in a single pot. It looks to me like a potful of small plants, the result perhaps of growing on a handful of plantlets - it's exactly like the thickets of B diagremontanum which used to establish themselves round the edges of my cactus pots. The fact that none of these leaves have plantlets suggests too that this is a potful of young plants - as of course does the fact that they are only 2-3 leaves high. -- Kay |
Identify a gift plant
On 13 Mar, 20:11, K wrote:
La Puce writesOn 13 Mar, 19:10, sam wrote: igtodd wrote: Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Looks to me like a Christmas Rose, Ian.Worth keeping. Do you mean the winter flowering cacti, Schlumbergera? The leaves are more serrated on Ian's picture. I'm not sure ... Christmas Rose is usually applied to Helleborus niger. Schlumbergia truncata is known as Christmas cactus. It looks completely different from Ian's picture - the 'leaves' (which are actually flattened stems) grow end from end from each other. Ian's picture clearly shows true leaves placed opposite on a stem - this is sufficient to identify that Ian's plant is not Schlubergera without recourse to degree of serration. -- Kay I also have the Christmas cactus, taken from a single cutting of a plant during the summer. Only in the last few weeks has it begun to sprout new leaves, and appears to be growing well. The photograph I posted of the B. daigremontianum was from growth of a lot of the plantlets. The plant I was given has grown quite tall and continuosly drops the plantlets onto the floor! I decided to grab a load and put them on some soil. Given their inital size I didn't hold out much hope, but they all grew! Now I _do_ have too many! Ian |
Identify a gift plant
"igtodd" wrote in message ups.com... Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian Looks a bit like a kalanchoe, but I would wait for someone to be more positive! -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
Identify a gift plant
"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... "igtodd" wrote in message ups.com... Hi Could anyone help me identify a plant that was given to me as a gift? A photo is at http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~it/DSC02278.jpg It grows lots of little plantlets on the edges of the leaves! Thanks Ian Looks a bit like a kalanchoe, but I would wait for someone to be more positive! I am positive :-) -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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