Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Goldfish plant......I think there are two in there!!

As I was admiring my one single flower on my goldfish plant I noticed that only some of the leaves appear red underneath. Then, of course, I hit the flower and it falls off. Let me tell you in my house lately if I can get a plant to flower, I normally knock the flower off too. I think me and my plants need some space......lol.

Anyways, I got to really looking at my plant, and I noticed two that there might be 2 different cultivars in the one pot. I checked the branches and none of them are joined except for below the soil. Since I had already knocked the flower off, I picked a few leaves for comparison and I am going to post on GW in hopes that someone can answer my question. Do I have two types of Nematanthus in one pot??I can't wait to find out.....I might need to wait until the other flowers but sooner or later I will know for sure. I know in this pic the flower looks yellow, but the color is more like the orange in the above photo. It is hard to get true colors on camera.

3 comments:

kate said...

It does look as if you do have two different plants. Your blog is interesting - full of good information!

Tracy said...

Thanks for reading. I am trying to get them identified, but it seems harder than I thought.

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