Hi, I hope you guys can help me identify these plants. For the first one, in the summer the "leaves" on it are curly, they are green and resemble ribbon when you pull a scissor blade over them to make them curly for a present. thanks :)
Hi togata57, It's like a giant sedum, so imagine a Pittosporum tree that has sedum-like leaves and stalk... sorry, the pic doesn't really show the "texture" of the plant. anymore ideas? or can pittosporums have that texture? as for the first photo, I wish I had a pic of the plant during summer, it is so interesting!
A now common one that looks like the first specimen is Robinia pseudoacacia Twisty Baby = 'Lace Lady'.
Thanks everyone! This has been really helpful, phewf! To specifics: Ron B: I can’t find any photos that show a close-up of the leaves, but it looks fairly similar except the ones on the internet don’t have nearly as much of the ribbon curl. Dylan G: yup, it sure looks like that. Thanks!
Both. Yes, they are about that length, even longer if I remember right. And they dont clutter together, instead they hang down individually. The leaves are strange; when you look at them there is no sign of them looking like a leaf. For example, in this photo (which I got off the internet under the name Ron B gave) it looks like curled leaves. On my mystery trees the curls start right away and are so tight that youd think someone curled green ribbons and attached them to the tree. In full honesty, the ribbon photo I put up is the image you could mentally attach the the tree, severl several times. What you suggested about the tortured willow excited me because the shape and twistiness of the trunk and branches resembles the mystery trees but then, alas, the leaves did not. So far, Ron B seems to be the closest but still the leaves are a bit different, but maybe it depends on each tree?
And a very lovely specimen too....I wish mine had that many branches, or in fact any branches at all:(
Thank you, JenRi, but as you can see in this pic it has a "non-lovely" side, that gaping hole bothers me!!
Meh, it'll be alright - probably got more light the other side is all. How big are the rosettes on yours out of interest? I have two quite big singular-headed aeoniums, just wondered if there's any difference in size between them. Thanks
yours sound really neat, do you have a picture of them? Is it a single aeonium atop a single tall stalk? I would love to see that. The rosettes are about 7 inches across.
Yes....any excuse to post pictures of my plants lol The little one came from one I had that looked a bit more like yours but in miniature, but unfortunately when I bought it had a slight nick in the trunk, which being naive and knowing nothing about plants I thought nothing of, but it turned out to be stem rot so I had to chop all rosettes off and start again...unfortunately only one rooted:( hopefully this one will branch when it gets a bit bigger! 7 inches? Thats impressive! LOL I was hoping mine would be much bigger on account of having just one rosette but alas no....yours is just better than mine clearly!
