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can you identify this very mysterious plant?
mystery plant
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When I was a child, an elderly relative was given this very unusual pot plant but no one ever knew its name or where to find it.
It is an indoors pot plant with a large, overground bulb which produces small, 'pickled onion' type bulbs.
When these small bulbs are cut open, they produce a milky fluid very useful against the itch and swelling of insect bites, stinging nettles etc.
I never saw this plant again and wonder if anyone could help me identify it?
Many thanks
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It's a mystery to me as well. The only plant that I know you can cut off the thick watery leaves to rub on skin conditions is 'Aloe vera' but that's a succulent plant not a bulb.
What did the plant look like?
Difficult to describe. Best to search for images under Aloe vera plant. Lots of clear pictures.http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=aloe+vera&hl=en&rlz=1W1GGLL_en&prmd=imvnsl&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=K2P4T86UOciHhQeyjNm3Bg&ved=0CEYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=563
I wonder if it was a Tree Onion? The juice of onions has long been used for soothing itchy insect bites.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't mean your plant Doris
- I meant the mystery plant.