Hey everyone..Thanks for all your help. IT just so happens that it is a cactus from Brazil and I guess hard to find around my parts. I had to call the place from where I originally got it and the owner was finally there. He told me there is no mother plant around and when I bought it is was the only one available for purchase...This thing is just so pretty in bloom and so easy to care for..I love it! You can cut it way back and it come back strong with thicker trunks! Here's a link explaining what the plant is...I am so excited to have finally found out! This plant can be found in Brazil and it a a form of cactus..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pereskia

Some kind of Echeveria which has had its leaves handled too much. That powdery, dusty look is supposed to be there & is protective. If you handle the leaves much it doesn't come back. It needs its soil improved to be made much faster draining.

The first one is Carolina laurel cherry -- Prunus caroliniana. A beautiful evergreen tree that some consider to volunteer a bit too readily (spread by bird poop). I'm growing it in my yard, but it's not as common up here. Have no idea on the deciduous one.

and those are its flowers in your fingers .... lets hope its sterile.. and doesnt seed ... they do NOT in MI ... no clue about NC ... ken