Identification: Name this plant, please!

Discussion in 'Indoor and Greenhouse Plants' started by faganking, Nov 30, 2003.

  1. faganking

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    Hi,

    Can you please help identify this plant? Thanks in advance.

    Benjy
     

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  2. jimmyq

    jimmyq Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    unhappy Dieffenbachia sp.
     
  3. faganking

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    Dieffenbachia

    Thank you so very much. This is a potential life safer, in that: This plants sap is toxic, I now know. If a person were to touch its sap and then touch their own mouth the tongue would swell to the point of suffication! Wow! Good to know.

    Thanks again.

    Benjy
     
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    jimmyq Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    best to be safe around dieffenbachia, a common name for it is Dumb Cane, taken supposedly from the silly sailors that would dab it on their toungue thereby causing the swelling and numbness rendering them speachless or "dumb".
     
  5. Peperomia

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    Air layer it to have smaller new plants.
     

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