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Re: INDOOR-GARDENING digest 584

Dee2540@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone:
>      I must say that I am insanely jealous of all the outdoor gardeners, but
> wish them nothing but good growing.  I live in an apartment and have many
> houseplants that are flourishing with your help.  I am looking for a plant
> which my Aunt brought back from Florida years back and has since withered and
> died.  I have no idea of the name.  The plant has a broad dark green leaf with
> what looks like stickers on the sides up to the tip of the leaf.  New plants
> grow off the tips of these stickers.  When they are large enough, they fall to
> the ground and make new plantlets.  Would anyone out there know the name of
> this plant and where I may obtain one.  I live in the NYC area.
> Thanks and good growing this season.
> Dee

By "stickers" do you mean cactus-like spines or thorns?  Or something
else?  I conditionally agree with the idea that it's a Kalanchoe
(bryophyllum), at least until there's more information.

-- 
Botanical Name of the Week: Kniphofia, one of the more nearly perfect
fittings of name to form.

Jim Gray 
jjg@c-cor.com
Altoona, PA: Zone 6A
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