BajaNuts
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Help identify this plant-
IMG]http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr267/bajanuts1/sunsetandhouseplant009.jpg[/IMG]
I can't figure out how to post the pics so hopefully these links will work.
My son is taking several of these plant starts to sell at a bazaar in the morning and we don't know what they are called. I was told "Snake's Tongue"
but I can't find anything on the web by that name. It spreads with chains of small bulbs. The planter also has a star cactus in it.
Any Guesses???
Thanks---
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HEY! the link thing worked
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BajaNuts,
That is a very pretty plant. I don't know what it is, sorry.
But....Keep Frida Kahlo away from it.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Roger that, I read the other posts
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No Name so far? ?
Does this mean Nomad's got skunked? Say it isn't so...
Just on the off chance someone might get it this morning I'll take the laptop to the bazaar and check later.
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I have no idea how to identify it, but I have 7 of them in various sizes. The plant is easy to propagate by just pulling up some of the bulblike roots
and replant them. It's especially pretty when small.
I also have a picture identification book with 700 houseplants and it doesn't show up in it.
[Edited on 12-6-2008 by vandenberg]
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Is the one in the top photo a #3 lead pencil?
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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My guess is that it is a bromeliad
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/botan/plants/bromeliad/inde...
Don't let Pomp's dog near it.
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flowers aren't opened yet but tough to tell from those images if a bromeliad or not. maybe a semi tropical orchid? but have to see the flowers.
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Bromeliad was my thought also, but I can't find anything that's close to the looks of this plant.
And Pam, the plant produces, when flowering, long stringers ( many ) that only have very tiny white flowers, nothing like an orchid.
Having my curiosity aroused, I just went through the Western Garden Book and couldn't find anything resembling this plant there either.
O.K. Nomads, time for some research. Has to be someone out there with botanical knowhow.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
No Name so far??
Does this mean Nomad's got skunked? Say it isn't so... |
Perhaps it's a skunk cabbage. <groan>
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Got on a university botanical website and posted the question with a photo.
Believe it or not, got a reply from a nursery guy in Australia.
Plant name is:
Ledebouria Sociales
or
Scilla Violacea.
It's usually sold as Ledebouria or Bluebell.
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We're back from the bazaar. Several people said "I have one of those, what's it called?".
boe4fun- it's actually a #2 pencil
Picture #3 shows the flowers, they have green back petals and a TINY purple center. That shot has one new flower stringer not yet open and the other
two stringers are almost done flowering with only a few blossoms left at the tips.
You can kind of see the bulb-like shape referred to in Pic #2. (Ignore the Christmas Cactus hiding under the spotted leaves )
It doesn't seem to be a succulent-type to me (but I'm not very knowledgable about botany), and it seem to like being treated as a tropical.
It's hard to believe it's not in vandenburg's book of 700 plants.
I can post a picture of the bulb-shape if it would help.
Thanks y'all
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Somehow we crossposted.
But I got your answer. And it was fun getting it.
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WOOHOOO!
Nomads scores again!
That's GREAT! Thanks, vandenberg!
I'm going to copy and paste the info for future reference offline.
Australia!!! Man, I love the web- - - -
Thanks, everyone...
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from years of teaching Horticulture - Its a Zebra "bulb" lily!!!
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BajaNuts
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In looking up Zebra Lily, it came up as a day lily type plant. I did find a site that called it Leopard Lily, Silver Squill and Violet Squill.
Zebra...Leopard...they are both from Africa which is where this plant's
origins are.
Here's a link-
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Ledebouria_socialis.htm
Thanks, all! Awesome job.
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marv sherrill
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Glad you found it out - we used to raise them also - don't leopards eat zebras somtimes???
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