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Old 07-28-2008, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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Could someone please help me identify this cactus looking plant that my wife brought home from a visit to the Tampa area. It has stiff edges, like a cactus, but no spines. Thanks all!
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Old 07-29-2008, 05:28 AM
 
Location: Pahoa Hawaii
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It looks like Mother-of-Millions (Bryophyllum.) If it is, it will eventually sprout tiny leaflets along the leaf edges that will fall off and become new plants.
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Old 07-29-2008, 07:08 AM
 
Location: Marion, IN
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Be very careful of letting the seeds drop or you will be over run with those things. They even grow on rocks. I never knew their name, but I always liked them. Eventually it will get pretty little red flowers.
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Old 07-29-2008, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Florida
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its called a pregnancy plant/chandelier plant! Got its name because when the seeds drop they start new plants. They have a chandelier,flesh suculent flower that is neat to look at.
Grow them only in pots is my advice!!!!!! otherwise you will have a field of them!!!


http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/595/
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Old 07-29-2008, 12:54 PM
 
Location: Out there somewhere...a traveling man.
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It's not a cactus, but a succulent plant. As others have mention it's a Kalanchoe
Variously called Pregnant Plant, Maternity Plant, and Mother of Thousands (or Millions), Kalanchoes are succulent plants from Africa which bear tiny plantlets on their leaves; these eventually fall off and make new plants.
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Old 07-29-2008, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Cincinnati
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Thank you everyone for your advice and information...She has been well advised of their propogation potential.
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