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Plant ID

limpingfishlimpingfish Posts: 17
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Hi, 
I have these cuttings. The leaves are pretty thick - succulent style. The cuttings got roots pretty fast.
Any idea what the plant is?
thanks 


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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited August 2019
    Swedish Ivy?

    Plectranthus verticillatus 

    Devon.
  • limpingfishlimpingfish Posts: 17
    Looks really similar but the leaves on mine have more of a dark-green color while the Swedish ivy’s color is lighter. But maybe?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Have you any idea where you got the cuttings from?  Your garden, a park?
    If we could see the plant it would help. They look a bit like Francoa but without the whole picture it’s difficult to tell. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • limpingfishlimpingfish Posts: 17
    I got the cutting from a plant planted outside on the street :) I can try to take a picture tomorrow 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That would be a good idea. 🙂
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    Definitely Swedish Ivy.  I have two huge ones and the leaves are exactly the same scalloped fleshy ones in your photo.   Pinkish stems are a telltale sign of Swedish Ivy as well. 
    My low-carb recipe site: https://buttoni.wordpress.com/
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Peggy in Texas said:
    Definitely Swedish Ivy.  I have two huge ones and the leaves are exactly the same scalloped fleshy ones in your photo.   Pinkish stems are a telltale sign of Swedish Ivy as well. 
    @Peggy in Texas ... I grew plectranthus Swedish Ivy as houseplants for years. The leaf colour can vary due to the amount of sunlight the plant gets, and pale leaves can also indicate that the plant needs feeding. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    I had one back in my college dormitory days, but not in many years.  I love the variegated one but never see it in our garden centers.  Last March a lovely lady on my Texas Garden forum sent me some small pieces with roots from her large one (you never see them in the GC anymore as they are passé I think) and I mentioned I'd had no luck finding any at GC).  I sent her some Chlorophytum comosum (spider plants, as we call them) in exchange.  Here they are currently, on my veranda with my latest spider plant rootings: 

    My low-carb recipe site: https://buttoni.wordpress.com/
  • limpingfishlimpingfish Posts: 17
    Yea, it looks exactly as the one in the last photo! 
    So I guess Swedish Ivy it is :) Thanks!
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