Hello. I am very new to raising plants. I have tried many times and failed for one reason or another. In the past the only thing I didn't kill was an aloe vera plant, which I wound up giving to a friend. None the less my grandmother passed back in July and I brought home two potters from her funeral. Out of those two potters came 12 plants. My younger sister took three of them. Neither her or I were expecting there to be that many plants in the two little potters. All of the plants are doing well (to my suprise). I recently had to pot up or seperate all of them. After repotting them I became cerious as to what kind of plants they were. After many hours of research, I have identified all but one. I have never seen it bloom. It seems to like a lot of light but not direct light, and alot of water. Its soil dries within 3-4 days. I don't know if that is just because it is young or if that is just the species. I would really like to know what kind of plant this is.
Thank you Joe. I am not sure if you are correct or not. The leaves in the Ardisia family look very close if not identical but this plant has never had berries or flowers, so I can't tell.
Joe is right, but I would go furthger and say Ardisia crenata (unless somone can explain to me how A. crispa may differ from it). That combination of rolled-under and crenate leaf margins is unique to this group of ardisias. A. japonica, in contrast, has fine, sharp teeth.
Coffea, like all members of family Rubiaceae, has opposite leaves so you will see a PAIR of leaves at a similar stage of expansion. And its leaves are about 4 in long and not toothed.
ok after looking some more with all of you help, I have determined that it is the ardisia crenata aka coralberry. this dose how ever leade me to another question that I cant seem to find an answer for. Is this plant poisnious? If the plant itself is not poisnious are the flowers or berries that it produces? I have 3 children one and am in my 3rd month for my fourth. At this point in time my youngest is 4. None of my children mess with my plants, but I also have a cat. She dose not mess them either but I would like to know just in case. Well thank you all for your help so far this has been great.
