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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Giles on April 12, 2022, 06:26:26 AM

Title: House Plant
Post by: Giles on April 12, 2022, 06:26:26 AM

An ideas on this?
Bought from Morrisons, grown as an houseplant.
Asking for a friend..

Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Vinny 123 on April 12, 2022, 01:09:40 PM

Good grief!!!
I thought that I knew most houseplants............................. I do not recognise this at all.

My first reaction was a pelargonium, but not after blowing the pic's up.

Any chance of a far closer close-up of the leaves?

Irrespective of what it was/is sold as, it could be an acer, a bamboo or a dracaena. It could easily be a cheap and cheerful Bonsai - crataegus?

Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Giles on April 12, 2022, 01:29:41 PM

I'm not sure if it helps - but here's a closer look.
I wondered if it was a diseased/mutant form of a plant which has been grown-on and propagated as an unusual cultivar.

Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Vinny 123 on April 12, 2022, 01:47:29 PM

LLLOL - many cultivated plants are actually "diseased" as viruses in particular can produce growths that us humans find attractive, not least variegation. Mutants - same logic applies.

That said, the extra pic' doesn't help me..................... although the stems look woody in the fisrt two and succulent/herbaceous in the third.

Are the leaves in any way succulent, or just as you'd expect of most plants.

Pepperomia?

Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Vinny 123 on April 12, 2022, 03:03:16 PM

Plectranthus?

Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Maggi Young on April 12, 2022, 05:30:14 PM

Portulacaria afra?

Title: Re: House Plant
Post by: Giles on April 13, 2022, 07:11:02 AM

Thank you for your suggestions - I'll pass them on.