Identification of a plant

yan_b_luthier

5 years ago

Please help me identify this plant !

Thank you very much

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rina_Ontario,Canada 5a

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

There must have been plant (rosette), otherwise it wouldn't bloom. Did you recently received it? Did someone gave you just an inflorescence? As Pagan said, they are monocarpic. Blooming plant/rosette dies after blooms are finished. Plant should be reproducing ahead of blooming by sending out stolons with new 'babies'. See one of the Semps (there are many of different colors and even same shapes...) with many offsets/chicks:

ETA:

Even better, look at photos ON THIS CURRENT THREAD - click pls.

You'll see many different Semps, some are blooming, and many with offsets...

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rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Could you please post photo of the plant? Flowers are great, but need to see the plant too...

Judging from flowers, it looks like extremely etiolated Sempervivum.
Pagan
5 years ago
...and unfortunately, a goner. Any offsets?
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yan_b_luthier
Original Author
5 years ago
It doesnt have many signs of a plant more than that.. seems to be a cutting that didnt put out new growth yet

I also think it is a sempervivum

any chance it can root better and grow the plant !?
Pagan
5 years ago
Not really. They're monocarpic---after they bloom, they die.
yan_b_luthier
Original Author
5 years ago
I bought it as is maybe 2 weeks ago..

hope it will grow new babies ahead of flowering as you say..!

thanks for the info
rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
5 years ago
yan

I don't think it will grow any babies any more - they grow ahead of blooming.

Store you bought it from must sold you already very etiolated plant - maybe you should try to return it? There is a photo on the thread I linked with some Semps blooming, and flower spikes are upright - that is how they should look, not hanging down. Even if single plant (without any offsprings), it should be a rosette. If you look at any of the photos, try to see just one plant-rosette and that is how it should look.
yan_b_luthier
Original Author
5 years ago
Oh ok ! I will probably look forward to buy a healthy one then! I liked it's flowers a lot
Kara 9b SF Bay Area CA
5 years ago
When you are shopping around for new Sempervivum the ones getting ready to bloom look like this:

All five of these will have blossomed and died by fall. They do have pretty flowers tho.