Identification: Identify leaves with long thread

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  1. hippobroma

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    This appears to be a house plant, but we can't identify it. Can anybody help?
     

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    Looks to me to be a Croton. As to which one I'm not sure, you may have to google images.

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  3. hippobroma

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    I thought it might be a Croton too, but they don't seem to have that long thread with a little leaf at the end. However I'll have a Gargle to see what I can find. It does look familiar, but I just can't place it.
     
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    I'd say definitely a Croton. Not ALL Crotons have the little leaf at the end. I grow around 14 different Crotons and only one of them has the long thread with the little leaf at the end.
    Here is a few of my Crotons without the little leaf at the end

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    It does look like a croton. It looks like there is some yellow specks, or streaks in a couple of the leaves, but I never knew the tips of the leaves grew long skinny leaves like that.
    It looks like it may be in need of a lot more light and plenty of direct sun whatever it is.
     

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