It's a medium sized to smallish houseplant with red, longish, fluffy kind of things hanging off of it and it's dying. Does anyone know what it might be? The leaves are fairly large and go into point at the point, and they're thin and sort of papery/velvety. Please help! ^_^
2007-11-12 10:59:48 · 3 answers · asked by Stilts1221 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
It's not a begonia - the red things are almost like tendrils instead of flowers.
2007-11-12 13:54:06 · update #1
Kinda sounds like you are describing a chenille plant. Here are some images for comparison.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ks-ans&va=chenille+plant&sz=all
Chenille plant care:
http://www.skh.com/PlantCare/chenille.pdf
2007-11-12 14:10:28 · answer #1 · answered by Sptfyr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a bottle brush plant, (I don't know the latin name). I would cut off the 'flowers' dangly bits and check that the plant isn't too wet or too dry. By cutting off the fowers you will relieve the plant of stress so that it can revitalise itself.
If you don't already I would give it a liquid feed and also remove it from any draught or cold spot.
I hope this helps.
2007-11-13 07:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by webby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could it be some sort of begonia?
2007-11-12 19:51:22 · answer #3 · answered by FL Sunshine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋