Identification: Help identifying 3 plants

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  1. finkployd

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    Ok-

    I require some help identifying some house plants here - picked them up at Walmart but they had no label or sticker.

    In the first picture, I know the bottom is some type of succulent and I believe the other to be some sort of palm??

    As for the second, I'm 95% sure that the top is a Echeveria pulvinata - just flowered on me :)

    Thanks for the help.
     

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    I think what you have are. . .

    In the first picture, the succulent is an Agave americana. The other, the one you refer to as a palm is a Podocarpas macrophyllus or Buddhist Pine.

    You are correct on the Echeveria pulvinata. And the other one is an Aloe.
     
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    Thanks. I was fairly sure that the one was some type of Aloe... as for the Buddhist Pine, I'm not 100% sure that what it is - I took some close-up photos and compared them to pictures I've seen online - I'm not entirely sure they match up correctly.

    From what I could tell on the Buddhist Pine, the thin leaves grow off the branches of the plant. On mine, there are no branches, it looks like sort of a ball of spikes on top of a stalk, along with several leaves - no branches or anything resembling it yet. Either my plant is still too young and you are indeed correct, or this is some sort of other species...
     

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    The one looking like Buddhist Pine may be Euphorbia lophogona, Madagascar Jewel.
     
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    Thanks - I appreciate the help. Took a look online at some Euphorbia lophogona but it seems to have rounded leaves - the ones on my plant are more thin and narrow.
     
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    I didn't see the spines in the first picture you posted. Based on that, I'm willing to bet it is some form of Euphorbia.
     
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    Can't really see the main stem but it could be Pachypodium lamerei, Madagascar Palm. (This was the plant I originally thought of but got my madagascars mixed up.)
     
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    Yes I think you're right, it looks pretty much exactly like one but mini-me sized. :)
     
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    the small aloe like plant is actually haworthia, its a succulent in the lily family. I have one at home and we grow them at my work. They will get very bushy and trailing and will need to be pruned back to keep their bushy form, otherwise they get gangly looking.
     

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