Re: Identify a gift plant

In message <snXQzXEg3v9FFwRb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stewart Robert Hinsley <{$news$}@meden.demon.co.uk> 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.
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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).


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Klara, Gatwick basin
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