I've been collecting houseplants for a while, and over that period of time, I've accumulated a few I haven't been able to identify. Since I had the day off, I did a little research, and managed to cut that number down to 4. So, time to ask the experts what each of these 4 are. In the first shot, you see a sort of tiny bush that my girlfriend found at a grocery store a few years ago. It hasn't grown much since we've had it despite varying light conditions, humidity, water regimens, and fertilizer use. It's mostly green, and a little bit prickly--the feel of it compares to maybe pine needles? The shot is kind of blurry, I can take another if it's insufficient. I've got one descending plant that's been in my family for maybe a decade. Very quick growth, gets tangly easily, a nice shade of green. You can see that in the second shot; note that some of the newer growth up top is not descending, it's growing upward! In the third shot, you see an anonymous succulent. I picked that up when the building I work in was having a sort of... uh... in-house garage sale and a woman was selling a few plants. In low-light conditions this succulent got some white spots on its leaves. Unlike, say, Crassula ovata, it doesn't seem to branch out at all; it just grows up on a central stem. In the last shot, you see a plant I got recently from someone in my department who couldn't identify it. The leaves are round and bright green and come from a long, tube-like petiole. The leaves don't look unlike Claytonia perfoliata, but as you can see from the long stem, it definitely isn't, since those generally branch from a central base. If you guys could help with these mysteries, I'd be very happy, because I'd finally have all the plants in my house successfully identified. I'd be more than able to take additional pictures of any of the four plants from different angles, in macro mode, give glimpses of the stems, etc. Thanks in advance (and apologies for the dirty kitchen counter in 425/428!)
Awesome, thanks. A question, though; I have another crassula ovata and it looks literally nothing like the one you've identified as one. My other one and all of the ones I've seen branch out. As I noted in the original post, this one doesn't, it just grows up. Are you sure that one is correctly identified?
Pretty sure someone will correct me if I've got it wrong. (syn. C. argentea) There are several different cultivars in the trade so you may have one of those. http://serendipityacres.com/houseplants/CrassulaOvataGollum.jpg http://www.cactuscollection.com/articles/jade.html
