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[chhotii]

Doh! I forgot to take a picture of the mother plant with my Droid phone, as I had promised hammercock. But, I found pictures of similar plants on the Internet: it's something like this one. Although, what you don't see in the picture, on the plant we know the tiny little plantlets the roots start to grow while they are still attached to the mother plant leaves. If the plant doesn't get bumped the little plants stay attached to mama so long that their little roots dry up and turn brown. I hope they can grow new roots when they finally touch soil? Anyway, Sophia and I now have a few babies in a cup of dirt, hopefully some will make it and we will have our own colony of plants budding plants.

Something to note which I found out on the Internet; the plant is quite toxic, thus not good for a household with babies or cats who might chew on the houseplants.

ETA: This picture shows the plantlets growing roots quite well.

Comments

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Spider plants do sort of the same thing (stay attached to the main plant until they either find dirt or fall off). And they're not toxic to cats.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

That is so cool!

Hens-and-chicks is another easy succulent that puts out "babies." It also has a very pretty flower, and though the "hen" plant will usually die after it blooms, by then there will be lots of chicks established.

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

I had a large planter pot with at least 100 of these guys when I worked at FTP. Every once in a while someone would jostle the pot and then I'd get *even more* growing.