This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: new plants/animals in the house

At 07:52 PM 7/5/97 +0000, nonayobusiness wrote:
>-- [ From: nonayobusiness * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
>
>Also, does anybody know what  this plant?   My friend moved to 
>Albuquerque and had to part with some plants.  She told me to treat 
>it like a cactus, but it looked pretty peaked when I got it, so I 
>gave it a big drink, and it looks great  now.   I figure to let it 
>get pretty dry before I give it another  big drink.  The tag on the
>plant is written in not very neat letters, and I think it says Srilla
>violacea.  Any  suggestions would be appreciated.   It has pale green
>leaves  with darker green spots all over, and below the leaves are 
>kind of maroon, but more like a Japanese maple  that starts out red 
>and then fades to green in the summer.  Each part of the plant that 
>grows from the soil has a large fleshy lump at the base, so that's 
>why I figured it would appreciate a good drink now and then, to 
>store up H2O.
>
>====================
 Hello:
    There's a picture/drawing of Scilla violacea at:

        <http://pathfinder.com/@@W7bQEAYAV99V6ubw/vg/
               TimeLife/CG/Books/E20/Html/E20072X.html>

        Looks something like your description <G>.

                Harry in Ocala, Florida
Follow-Ups: References:
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index