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Plant ID Thread (Merged)

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  • Orange_King
    Orange_King Posts: 720 Forumite
    amcluesent wrote: »
    >Oh well will keep looking for something else.<

    A Day Lily?

    That is a nice variety - I have yellow ones doing very well and regularly needing split but the colour on that one is superb. Any idea what type it is?
  • Helen_R_2
    Helen_R_2 Posts: 30 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hello, I've just moved into a new house and I have this spiky tree/plant thing in my garden. It's the thing in this picture on the right hand side that looks like the top of a pineapple. I wanted to research how to look after it as it's going brown on the underside but I don't know what it actually is! Any input would be much appreciated!garden.jpg
  • josiebabie
    josiebabie Posts: 1,224 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    It looks like it could be from the yucca family. I had one many moons ago but can't remember much about it. Type it into a search engine and have a look.
    Nothing to report as yet...give me a minute...!
  • valentina
    valentina Posts: 1,016 Forumite
    Cordyline?
  • MrsBartolozzi
    MrsBartolozzi Posts: 6,358 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Thanks Serena I'm sure that's what it is! I know it's not a vinca, the flowers are tiny, more like individual alyssum sized.
    I'll have a look in the garden centre now I have a name for it.:)

    It's only a game
    ~*~*~ We're only here to dream ~*~*~
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    Or a phormium (New Zealand flax)
  • jackieglasgow
    jackieglasgow Posts: 9,436 Forumite
    It might be going brown underneath because of frost damage. My Cordyline all succumbed to the frost this year, the last one only died about four weeks ago, but they were about half the size of that, and that's what tey looked like, brown from the bottom up. I'd say it's definitely a Cordyline or Phormium. Got a picture of the trunk?
    mardatha wrote: »
    It's what is inside your head that matters in life - not what's outside your window :D
    Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. - Ghandi
  • My 2 cordylines had to get cut back to the ground they were well and truly gone, hope they might grow back, a lot of peoples got damaged over winter I think.
    Ahhhh.... lemony fresh victory is mineee!!!
  • callow
    callow Posts: 209 Forumite
    It looks like a Cordyline australis or Torbay palm. The underleaves go brown and then stay that way till they fall off (can be days or several years). As they fall off the trunk of the plant grows. It will eventually turn into a tree.

    cordyline_australis.jpg
  • kiely27
    kiely27 Posts: 75 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    There are actually 2 mystery plants growing in my garden. The 1st 4 pics are the same one and the last 2 of a different one.

    Hope this link works

    http://www.photobox.co.uk/my/album?album_id=360033793

    Any clue anyone???
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