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    Can anyone identify this very common foliage that is often included in supermarket bouquets please?
    It�s very dark green and leathery and long outlasts whatever flowers are included with it.
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    Also as you can see from the second photo, it has started producing little baby plantlets from the leaf vein. I�d like to try and keep these going.
    The question is do I just remove the whole leaf and put it flat on the surface of potting compost ( if so which way up, plantlet down on compost or plantlet up in the air.)
    Or should I cut the leaf up and put the pieces in the compost vertically???
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  • #2
    Sorry for sideways photos!!

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    • #3
      Not sure what the plant is but I think if I was propagating it Id take a leaf with the plant-let on it and split it carefully down the central vein, then press the cut side gently down on a pot of damp compost , then put a plastic bag over it.

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      • #4
        Thanks Nick . I’ve got five leaves that each have a little plantlet growing.
        I’ll try that with one of them and report back.

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        • #5
          Looks like Myrtle?
          Propagating advice at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardenin...w-to-grow.html

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          • #6
            I think it's ruscus. You can also get soft ruscus.

            #also known as butchers broom ( you learn something new everyday! )
            https://plantlust.com/plants/38824/ruscus-hypophyllum/
            Last edited by Scarlet; 10-02-2019, 05:14 PM.

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            • #7
              Yes - I think you're right, Scarlet and I'm wrong. How embarrassing.

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              • #8
                Yay!! scarlets right for once - Boom! Get in!

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                • #9
                  I knew cos it's regularly used a greenery in floristry and I did a city and build floristry course for 4 years when the kids were babies! some things stuck...

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                  • #10
                    Absolutely brilliant you are Scarlet - thank you!
                    And thanks to VC for trying!!

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                    • #11
                      There's a first time for everything.............and a last time

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                        I knew cos it's regularly used a greenery in floristry and I did a city and build floristry course for 4 years when the kids were babies! some things stuck...
                        That's not fair - you're an "expert" - and I think its "Guild" not "Build"

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                        • #13
                          The pics on Scarlet’s link look as though it’s flowers and berries that grow from the leaf rather than a new plant but it can’t hurt to try.

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                          • #14
                            Yes, that's weird isn't it? I didn't know it did that.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                              I knew cos it's regularly used a greenery in floristry and I did a city and build floristry course for 4 years when the kids were babies! some things stuck...
                              I went through that he11 too. Only did the 3 years. Don't remember much of it at all........ Deliberately.

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