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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Goldfish Plant |
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I just love this plant. Though I don't know how popular it is. I also use this plant to start new ones from root cuttings. I don't see them in stores very often around here. It is called a goldfish plant.
These are some up close pictures of the flower.
Do they resemble a goldfish to you?
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I have one of those too Petunia. I think it is called a Columnea. Mine was started as a cutting from a friend, and now mine is as large as the mother plant!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, thats so cool, I've never seen that plant before!!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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The flowers do resemble goldfish. What a cool gift one of those would make for anyone who keeps goldfish!!! 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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That's such a nice plant! My grandmother had a huge specimen of that plant, she cut the ends off when she had to walk through it instead of under it, and made new plants from the cuttings. Hers had orange-red flowers, though.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thats a great plant .I will have to watch for one.I Never saw a plant like it before.
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I just searched Columnea images and seems there are a good few types. What an attractive plant. Some of the images I found looked like shoals of bright red fish swimming over a reef.
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I have a Lipstick Plant that is very similar to that. The leaves are identical, only the blossoms are different. Mine began as a cutting from my coworker and now it is thriving. It actually bloomed about a month ago. I don't like the lipstick blooms as much as the goldfish, the fish are cute  I'd like to find a goldfish plant and plant it and the lipstick in the same pot. I think it would be neat with the orange and the red together.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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Love your goldfish plant. So healthy looking and yes, I think that is what I would name it...cause they do look like little fishes
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