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Author Garden: Anyone heard of a "flying fish plant"? shirleyujoke Gardener Member # 7248 posted                       We were given a plant that the previous owners called a flying fish plant. It's leaves are narrow and silvery green and it's flowers are pink and look like flying fish leaping across the leaves. Any help would be appreciated because it is very unusual and I'd like to know how to care for it. Thanks. Plants: 10 | From: ct | Registered: Nov 2005  |  Seeded: 69.120.52.226 shirleyujoke Gardener Member # 7248 posted                       this will hopefully do the trick. flying fish plant Plants: 10 | From: ct | Registered: Nov 2005  |  Seeded: 69.120.52.226 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! You did it!!!!! (I don't know what it is, but I am confident there will be other's thru that can and will help you in your quest!!!) Very glad you got your picture to work!!! * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.49.115.46 Jiffymouse guest posted                 i've seen that plant... now i have to just remember where! Seeded: 12.77.200.251 shirleyujoke Gardener Member # 7248 posted                       let me know if you remember.... Plants: 10 | From: ct | Registered: Nov 2005  |  Seeded: 69.120.52.226 ShirlS Dream Gardener Member # 6857 posted                       What a beautiful plant! I don't think I have ever seen one like this. The leaves look similar to the goldfish plant. Unbelievable how many flowers you have on it! Shirl * * * * Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Plants: 493 | From: Washington | Registered: Sep 2005  |  Seeded: 67.185.83.253 comfrey Garden Pro! Member # 6055 posted                       I've never seen a plant like this, but it very beautiful, Thanks for sharing the photo. * * * * Plants: 2524 | From: Arkansas | Registered: Jul 2005  |  Seeded: 209.206.156.107 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       I am not a house plant person, but I thinnk I've seen it too... I think someone's posted it here.... Like at least a year ago.. HOUSE PLANT ARCHIVES????? Maybe * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.49.115.46 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       Has Donna or Rugby been thru??? * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.49.115.46 shirleyujoke Gardener Member # 7248 posted                       i appreciate your continued efforts. hopefully someone will come across something that can help. Plants: 10 | From: ct | Registered: Nov 2005  |  Seeded: 69.120.52.226 MaryReboakly Garden Pro! Member # 5551 posted                       Wow, that is beautiful! I think Shirl was right on - goldfish plant * * * * Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 69.19.14.27 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       I found the one I was thinking about in the archives.. 17b - A Whatzit & What2do . . . /Ended up being a GOLD FISH PLANT * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.49.115.46 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       Hey Mary, Good going!!! I knew someone would come thru and help with an id... * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.49.115.46 MaryReboakly Garden Pro! Member # 5551 posted                       Wish I could take the credit but I gotta give it to ShirlS - I just checked out what she said and compared pics -- but one of these days I will get one of these mysteries! I will! * * * * Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 69.19.14.27 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       I have a goldfish plant, but it hasn't flowered like that since I first bought it. but, Shirley (love your forum name!) said that the flowers are pink (they don't look it to me ), and I thought all goldfish plant flowers were orange? Where's Will when we need him? by the way... that's one gorgeous plant! Enjoy it! * * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 68.192.121.47 shirleyujoke Gardener Member # 7248 posted                       Thank you all so much! Now I can make sure that i take care of it properly! Plants: 10 | From: ct | Registered: Nov 2005  |  Seeded: 69.120.52.226 Patty S Garden Pro! Member # 6889 posted                       Now I want one! I looked around for the longest time, & at first I thought it looked like some type of Pepper plant. (No dice, but I sure learned a lot about Peppers! I think my eye balls are bleeding from all the reading I got lost in!) Then after I ruled out Peppers, from looking at the leaves I thought it might be in the same family as the Wandering Jew. So far as I can find, it isn't, but just like the Wandering Jew, this Nematanthus "Marianne" , in the Gesneriad family, can be propagated in the same way. (Stem or leaf cuttings, in soil or water.) No wonder they call it a Goldfish Plant! Nobody would be able to stay in the conversation if they had to pronounce the other names!, It also has real itty bitty seeds, which need to be babysat, but are said to germinate fairly fast. I see that there are lots of places online that sell the plant, but personally I like the challenge of starting plants from scratch (as in scratching around in the soil & playing in water! chuckle - tee hee!) I only found 1 other photo of this plant on the whole WWW that even came close to looking as good a Shirley's! Way to go, girl! * * * * Plants: 6255 | From: SW Oregon interior | Registered: Sep 2005  |  Seeded: 207.200.116.66 MaryReboakly Garden Pro! Member # 5551 posted                       quote: Now I want one! Patty, I hear ya. As soon as I saw it, I thought, oh, gotta have it. I gotta find a 12 step program! * * * * Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 66.82.9.91 shirleyujoke Gardener Member # 7248 posted                       Thanks for the compliments - I wish I could take the credit, but as I said, it was a gift from a woman whom I used to help out when she left town - I would take care of her greenhouse. Now she is being placed in a home because she can no longer take care of herself. So, she gave me this plant from her greenhouse. She was an amazing gardener. Good luck with your endeavour to find/grow one of your own! Plants: 10 | From: ct | Registered: Nov 2005  |  Seeded: 69.120.52.226 papito Super Gardener Member # 1346 posted                       You can find more pictures of goldfish/guppy plant at http://toptropicals.com/html/toptropicals/catalog/photo_db/N.htm * * * * Amor est vitae essentia. Love is the essence of life. Plants: 932 | From: Northern California, Zone 9b | Registered: Jul 2003  |  Seeded: 69.236.94.189 ShirlS Dream Gardener Member # 6857 posted                       Yayyyyyyyyy!! Glad you found out what it is, Shirley. The flowers threw me off initially, because I have not seen them that deep a color. Only orange. In any case as you said... Now you can care for it, so it stays just as beautiful! Mary, thanks for scouting out a picture to identify the plant without question. Have a wonderful day everyone Shirl * * * * Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Plants: 493 | From: Washington | Registered: Sep 2005  |  Seeded: 67.185.83.253 cinta Dream Gardener Member # 5341 posted                       They are selling the Goldfish Plant at our local grocery store for 7.99. They had the solid green and some that had varigaited leaves. Is there a Godfish plant with varigated leaves? * * * * http://www.flickr.com/photos/audwoman/ If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain!! Plants: 332 | From: Penna | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 68.244.102.44 dodge Garden Pro! Member # 6964 posted                       I THINK IT IS A SHRIMP PLANT...... I USED TO OWN ONE...... IT IS GORGOUS. SAVE ME A CUTTING IN THE SPRING.. DODGE * * * * ''''Those who live in the Lord Never See Each Other For The Last Time!'''' Plants: 3279 | From: Rural - Western Pennsylvania | Registered: Oct 2005  |  Seeded: 198.77.40.99 MC Smoothlove Gardener Member # 8383 posted                       Wow, this is an old topic. I found it because I was doing some research on the plant, so I felt the need to reply with what I had. By the way, the pictures were very useful for my project. The Flying Goldfish Plant or simply Goldfish Plant is from the family Columnea. It is a flowering shrub native to tropical North America and the Carribean. It's a Gesneriad, in the same family as Saintpaulia, the African Violet and grows under very similar care - the Flying Goldfish Plant prefers more light, however. * * * * <3 Plants: 1 | From: Pittsburgh | Registered: Mar 2006  |  Seeded: 24.3.156.25 bettyboop1948 Dream Gardener Member # 8156 posted                       Oh i would have been wrong I thought it looked something like mine bettyboop hope i made small enough if not sorry Plants: 145 | From: Cherryville,Missouri | Registered: Mar 2006  |  Seeded: 216.229.65.180

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