[Gavvodka]

Hi all,

I was given a small plant with fine thin leaves that stretched out like a palm tree does, this plant was on a small windowsill in my grans house so I took it away and gave it more space and light in my conservatory.

It has grown into some sort of excellent looking mutant with white flowers just about to pop out all over the stems.

I don't have a clue what type of plant it is, but should it look like this?

[joyfull]

looks like a green version of a spider plant to me 

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I'd second that - Chlorophytum or spider plant.  Those little turfs at the end of the long stems are new baby plants you can root if you want more. 

[mumofstig]

looks like a spider plant, but they have all green leaves  :blink:
snap Joy  

and Newshoot 

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You do get plain green ones Mum - just the variegated leaf ones seem to be the most popular choice so you don't see the original version much 

[mumofstig]

I bow to your superior knowledge - I Gurgled it and could only find references to stripey ones 

[Gavvodka]

I'd second that - Chlorophytum or spider plant.  Those little turfs at the end of the long stems are new baby plants you can root if you want more. 

thanks for the info, I would like some more so rooting is one thing I would like to try.  would I be able to snip the stem and put directly into some potted soil or would I need some rooting powder or something?

[arugula]

Spider plants are pretty tough. My Mum used to keep them and she would just take those "babies" off and stick them in a pot with some soil and off they'd go.

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I bow to your superior knowledge

   Don't know about that 

I've only seen the green one once - we had a mixed batch of hanging pots in at work and it had green and stripey spider plants in amongst it.  The houseplant lady was none too pleased as everyone wants the stripeys 

[cheshirecheese]

Are you sure it's not a dragon plant? The size and shape look very like one of the ones we have, although I must admit I've never seen ours flower.  We have two - a variegated one that's stayed about two feet in height, and an all green one that's getting on for 5 ft after about ten years.

[GrannieAnnie]

I used to peg my spider plant babies down first in a little pot, then separate them when they started to root.

Probably 6 of one and half dozen of the other here!  But if does look like a green spider plant.

Come to think of it, my spider plants never flowered either!  But I don't think its a dragon plant, they grow up thicker stems I think

[Spana]

I'm not convinced its a spider plant I think it could be one of the small flowered orchids, perhaps

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I've got one of the stripey spider plants and it has flowered, but doesn't have any at present.  The flowers appear along the stems then the babies at the ends just like Gavvodka's plant. The stems are tied up on the pic which does make it look a bit orchid-like  

This is the best pic I could gurgle for a green one flowering

http://nestdabble.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/itsy-bitsy-spider-flowers/

[Goosegirl]

I'm not good on house plants, but it doesn't look like a spider plant in habit, somehow. I tend to agree with spana as the leaves have that "look". Have you seen its roots - are they orchid-like as in quite thick and rhizomatous-loooking just close to the surface? Can you send a close-up pic of the flowers?

[mobilekat]

Looks just like a spider plant to me, and the flowers look like the ones mine have thrown out.

I got mine by taking a couple of babies form a plant where my OH works and popping them into a plastic container with a little bit of water until the roots grew a bit and then potting them up.
Spider plants do have very 'chunky' roots, so are easy to think its the roots of an orchid.
And looking closely at the photo I think it has been distorted slightly making some of the leave look a tad thicker than they are.

I love Spider plants- they are my favourite house plant, and in a good summer love to be outdoor in a basket!