A friend and neighbor who has since passed away gave me a start from her plant years ago. It wasn't doing very well in the last year, but is making a comeback! Can you tell me what type of plant it is so I can find out how to better care for it?
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Does it flower? It looks very like a cyclamen plant that I have. (I'm not an expert!!) The leaves look the same. Mine flowers with a beautiful cerise flower. I keep it on my kitchen window sill and just water when it feels dry. I have it about six years and I repotted it twice in that time. I hope this helps.
I've had it for probably six years, and it has never flowered. it used to be quite a bit larger than this, and it wasn't doing very well over the last year so I lost a good bit of it but it's starting to look pretty good again. my friend who gave it to me had hers in a hanging basket in her kitchen window and it was absolutely huge, the leaves hung down over the sides of the basket. I'm not sure if hers flowered but I kind of think maybe it did.....
Looks like African violet leaves. The plant needs sun. Water from the bottom and don't wet the leaves.
Looks to me like it also might be a Strawberry Begonia.
Thanks! I've had African violets before...but I don't think this is one. I think it's something very similar to an African violet though.its very delicate like they are, but the leaves are really thin, almost paper thin, and not thicker like the African violets have.
The String of Pearls or String of Beads (Senecio rowleyanus) has a creeping growth habit and fleshy round leaves growing from thin stems. This cascading succulent has tiny white flowers.
Those stems look a lot like a succulent to me, though the leaves are much more like the strawberry begonia - silver markings and prickles round the leaves.
I believe that I have seen these recently in one of my trips to Lowe's gardening centers but not real sure about the name..
It certainly does look like a Strawberry Begonia but photo on my side is not detailed enough to be sure.
I have located a very good photo of a Strawberry Begonia so maybe you can check it out:
www.houseplant411.com/
Just in case it is the correct plant then here is a web site on how to care for your plant.
www.thegardenhelper.com/
This is one of the plants that can be poisonous to animals so I have included one of my "stored" web sites detailing information on plants that are/may be poisonous to our pets.
This is a form of geraniums geraniums grow different color flowers and have a strong metal smell why musk smell.
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