Can someone help me ID this plant?
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Cindy
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Hello everyone! I found a bag of these plants discarded with someone's trash. I have been trying to ID them for the last few days now and still haven't found out what they are. They look tropical, and the leaves are sawed/serrated and quite sharp and scratchy if you happen to have one brush against you. It seems to propagate by sending out rhizomes, I think most of these were extra shoots someone threw out, but they weren't covered in dirt, so I'm guessing they were probably hanging off the main plant. Any ideas? The closest I could find was pandanus, but online it says their leaves are only serrated near the tips, while this one has the serrated spines all the way down the leaf. So did I pick up a nice houseplant or is it a nuissance? For reference, I'm up in Quebec, Canada, so I'm thinking that it's a houseplant and not a garden perennial that comes back every year. Thank you for any help!
10 answers
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day lillies?
Maureen Bennett
on Jul 17, 2015
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Spider plant?
Robin A O'Bara
on Jul 17, 2015
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Day lilies don't have those little spiky things on the sides of their leaves. It does look a Pandanus which does have serration all the way down the leaves. If it it a Pandanus, that's quite a find. It's fruit is eaten in many parts of the world. It's a pretty plant.
DeMarie I
on Jul 17, 2015
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Yucca?
Thy1397022
on Jul 17, 2015
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The leaves with those spiky things look just like my pineapple plants. Took 4 years before pineapples started to grow.
JD
on Jul 19, 2015
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it looks like its in the Bromeliad family. It will likely get a beautiful flower shoot, eventually
Patty
on Jul 19, 2015
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Could be "Mother of Millions"
GA Clemens
on Jul 19, 2015
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Crinum lilly? related to an amarylis. 100s of species. pull on google
Mary
on Jul 19, 2015
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maybe a kind of Dracena?
Suzi tyler
on Jul 19, 2015
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crinum do not have serrated leaves, but some dracaena do.........
Brenda W
on Jul 20, 2015
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