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Re: got 2 new plants today...

Hello Kathy and all others here,

Sounds like a Pandanus to me.

Dave
Milwaukee

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> From: MoonsWife@aol.com
> To: indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
> Subject: got 2 new plants today...
> Date: Friday, November 07, 1997 4:00 PM
> 
> Ok "Oh learn-ed ones"
> 
> I had one of those "impulse moments" today.  I bought a beautiful potted
> Gardenia that's covered with buds.  (The one who's blooms had opened is
the
> one guilty of causing my "impulse moment"- the smell was all over the
store)
>  It's so healthy that it looks fake- leaves are a wonderful, shiny dark
> green; buds are firm and ready to burst open.  Plant is about 1ft high
and as
> round.  Very dense, foliage- no sparse spots.  (AND I ONLY PAID $5.99 FOR
> IT!!!!!)
> 
> My question- how do I keep it this way???
> 
> Sitting next to the Gardenia's was some of the CUUUTTTTEESSSTTT little
> Tropical plants in 4in terra cotta pots (w/hole in bottom naturally...) 
So,
> I got one.  (Only one- I done good, right????)  Now, here's the tricky
part:
>  I saw that it had a "name tag" stuck in it- but I didn't really try to
read
> it.  I get home, and the tag says:  "Tropical Foliage Plant" and that's
all.
>  So, what do I have???  
> 
> It looks somewhat like a "Corn Plant" but it's not.  Same "trunk" as a
Corn
> plant- leaves come from out of the side at the top of "trunk" like corn
> plant.  That's where the looks differ.  These leaves are very narrow,
> sword-like leaves.  They are "outlined" with a tiny strip of red- like a
> pencil point line.  (Each individual leaf reminds me of the kind of grass
> that will cut your finger...)  The whole "group" of leaves looks somewhat
> like a pineapple top in that they all "come from the same place" instead
of
> sporadically up the trunk.
> 
> So, what is it, and how do I keep it alive, and at what point will I need
to
> put it in a bigger pot???   Right now, trunk is about the size of a
> "kindergartener's pencil."   From dirt in pot to the top of trunk is
about 4
> or 5in.  It's in a 4in terra cotta pot...w/hole in bottom ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> Kathy (who is patiently (well not to patiently) waiting for a reply...) 
>
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