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garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138
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   Morning plant lovers,ID needed bought cheaply as a tiny plant,useless label said house plant,now a nice plant but obviously I need to know what it is,cant understand why they waste a label without telling you what it is.                                                             
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The leaves look very much like a coleus, but I've not seen a coleus quite like that.
    I do grow coleus and the leaves have a distinctive smell when rubbed or torn.
    Or it may be something completely different

    Billericay - Essex

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I was thinking along the lines of coleus too @Pete.8 ... Ive never seen one quite like that either, but their forms  are many and various ...

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  • garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138
    I didn't think of that, but I have had it since last year, no sign of flowers but if it gets any that should prove it,I will Google coleus types,any further suggestions welcomed,

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited August 2019
    The stems of coleus are squareish rather than round.
    Try ripping a bit of leaf and see if there's a smell - coleus has a smell sort of mint-like, but different.

    PS if it is a coleus, once they flower they die, so the trick is to nip off any flower buds (which appear as a spike) soon as they appear.

    Billericay - Essex

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's a pilea, I forget which one. Google 'friendship plant' and it'll come up under that.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Yes it does look like a Pilea - possibly Pilea Mollis?

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138
    thanks for that folks,and take a bow Pete,you cracked it
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    garden geek said:
    thanks for that folks,and take a bow Pete,you cracked it
    It was @wild edges that cracked it, I only found the variety of Pilea thanks to some help from Google

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • garden geekgarden geek Posts: 138
    sorry wild edges,i missed you well done,i have some pilea  plants but would never have thought that was one,and thanks pete for pointing out wild edges id was first
  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    I know this plant as a Green Waffle Plant in the Hemigraphis geuns.  They were very popular when I was at university.  I think there is a purple variety as well, if I remember correctly.  Sort of out of fashion at garden centers now though.  I always liked them.
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