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Hello all, My partner she left me some plants but neither she knew their names, so I am here try to find their names so I can be able to care for them better. Most of them there are not in good condition but I can see new leaves growing and I have hopes that I will save them. I have searched and I have found some info but I am not sure. plant#1 top this is a small plant that made nice blooms roses-like. And the leaves looks very similar, like a kind of rose plant? plant#1 front
plant#2 close upplant#2 frontplant#2 whole plant
plant#3 frontplant#3 top
plant#4 front I think it's a Spathiphyllum sp.? but which species? plant#4 top
plant#5 front Is this a Calathea zebrinus, Calathea ornata or Polyscias balfouriana? plant#5 topIf you know the scientific names then I believe it would be easier for me to find information on the internet. Thank you in advance
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Number 1 is a type of minature rose. Without the bloom it is impossible though to tell which type Number 2 is a organ pipe Jade Number 4 is a Spathiphyllum wallisii
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Thanks a lot for your help JustMe...
(maybe you are the same JustMe that I met for a while at another forum (unrelated with plants) in the past).
1) Do you like "caves"? If yes, then you will understand ;)
2) My partner's name was Maria
3) My username at that forum has to do with luminocity
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:-)
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I will post pics once the plants got better.
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Someone else told me that No.3 looks like a Peperomia sp. I did a little search and indeed it looks very close to a Peperomia plant. Now I have to find the exact species. As for No. 5 he thinks it's a Calathea fasciata. I have found a photograph named Calathea fasciata and indeed it looks very similar. http://www.misc-web.co.jp/pic-labo/limg/calathea_fasciata_up.jpgFinaly, I am uloading a couple more photos from two more plants that I had forgotten to show here. plant#6 front I wasn't be able to find this one plant#6 topplant#6 bloom
plant#7 front Unfortunately, that dry up there was the bloom and if it's a Guzmania lingulata? --> http://www.houseofplants.co.uk/Guzmanialingulata.htm it makes only a bloom each year? :-( plant#7 top
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#1 miniature rose, Rosa cv.
#2 Crassula ovata 'Hobbit' or 'Gollum' or some similar cv.
#3 Peperomia caperata.
#4 Spathiphyllum cv.
#5 Calathea fasciata
#6 Vriesea cv. (?)
#7 Guzmania lingulata cv.
The exact species for the Spathiphyllum is not necessarily determinable. Usually if a species name is given, it's wallisii, like JustMe said, but there are about three dozen different species of Spathiphyllum, which have all been extensively crossbred, and it's not an easy thing to pin down ancestry. For care purposes, it shouldn't matter anyway: they all need more or less the same thing.
Both the Vriesea and Guzmania will die, having flowered, though they will produce daughter plants called offsets as they go. The dying process can take a long time: I have a Guzmania that took two years to die, and produced seven offsets in the process. If you remove offsets when they get to be about two-thirds the size of the parent plant, they can be rooted in pots of their own (it's easy to rot them, though; you have to be kind of careful with the watering). This will also stimulate the parent plant to produce more. The Vriesea should work the same way, though I'm not sure that they're as quick to produce more.
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 Thank you very much for your help! edit: as about plant# 2 maybe you ment Crassula argentea...
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I admire your plants....and, your green fingers!
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I must also add that your Rhipsalis is beautiful!
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