What is this? Do you know? I believe this is a Zebra Grass Spider Plant. It was given to me late October 2020 by neighbors, who had moved away. It is a plant that cats like to eat so it had been a struggle the first and second year as it was being eaten. It looks like it just produces new foliage from the center and that’s it. It has not produced any kind of typical spider plant tentacles to propagate itself..
Variegated liriope would be my guess. Mine put out from the center until they fill up every possible center spot and are then forced to move outward.
2 likes Hello. Sorry for the tardy reply and thanks here in this message. What you’ve said is exactly what it’s doing but not really branching out. It was pot bound in it’s former plastic pot, one of the recycled ocean plastic pots, so i moved him into this larger ceramic pot. I know that move shocked him so I’m just thankful he’s alive and still producing those shoots in the center. But by next summer, he better be like spreading out or else what I’ve got is a patch of thick grass. 😉 Thanks again. p.s. Wouldn’t it be great if the app had a merge feature? I know I have selected the incorrect plants previously and then to find out. It’s a totally different plant. It would be nice if I could add plants and then merge with other plant so that I retain progress updates etc. If hospitals can do it for when there’s more than one record of you, they merge patience, at genealogy sites can do it as you merge the same person, then why hasn’t Planta? Merging of records has been around for over 30 years. All IT people know that.
0 likesAgree on the Planta merge feature! I personally could use a vacation setting where I tell it dates I will be gone and it shifts around the activities of those days for me to either before or after my dates. Oh well, I’m sure they’ll slowly and surely catch up. Good luck on the plant. If it is a liriope it should be easy to divide if you want to help it spread in the direction you are wanting. They have nodules on their root system (the official name of these nodes escapes me) that make it really easy to propagate them by splitting. Once yours recovers (since it’s putting out Id say it has), you should be able to successfully split when it goes dormant in the fall/winter.
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