![]() If all the leaves fall off don't fret, stop watering and wait until it starts to grow again. Watering: Water regularly during the growing season every weeks or so, making sure to drench and letting all the water drain out of the pot. Cautiously upturn the old container, supporting the plant with a gentle hand, position the root ball into the new container, add extra potting mix to fill any empty spaces, and carefully arrange the pearls to hang over the pot. Add some potting mix (compost) to the new container to bring the repotted plant to the correct height. The trick is to be as careful as possible, as the string of pearls falls apart easily. Transplantation: Repotting every 2-3 years. Soil: This plant does well in a cactus potting mix. ![]() Growth rate: The plants grow profusely and can fill a 25 cm pot in just a year or two given the best conditions. It is more drought-tolerant than Senecio rowleyanus, but it needs higher light and is far more prone to etiolation. In a warm Mediterranean climate, it can be grown as a ground cover as well, and if grown in a rockery will root down along the whole lengths of its stems. radicans can provide a much needed textural element to a garden. It is also a great plant for small apartments and is available at many garden centers, specialty stores, and other places where plants are sold, but it is also sold through the internet. A pot atop a pedestal or a hanging basket serves as a perfect home for this trouble-free succulent that tolerates full sun in all but the hottest climates. It is easy to grow, do well in succulent gardens or in a pots in a window sill and forms the striking trailing stems if grown in a suspended basket. Disk flowers 20 - 25, white, fragrant Anthers yellow or mauve.įruits (achenes): Ribbed with a pappus 13 -15 mm long.Ĭultivation and Propagation: Senecio radicans is grown for the shape, texture, and colour of its attractive foliage rather than for its blooms which are small, white, and not very showy. Inflorescence: 10 - 15 cm long, rarely branched.įlower heads (capitula): 1 to 4 cinnamon-scented, white or off-white, usually in the late winter or early spring seasons, although some growers are able to encourage multiple flowering periods throughout the year. Leaves: Scattered, erect, highly succulent, 7-26(-30) mm long, 4 -9 mm in diameter, from spindle-shaped to almost spherical but always slightly curved upward or banana-shaped with a conspicuous off-centre mucro on the tapered apex, and with a clear window along the adaxial surface plus 20 -50 clear striations, otherwise pale green. Branches slender, wiry, to 1 m long or more, 2 - 3 mm in diameter, usually wing-angled, rooting. ![]() Stems: Prostrate glabrous green more or less glaucous, succulents. ![]() If grown in a rockery it will root down along the whole lengths of its stems. Habit: It is an evergreen, dwarf, trailing, succulent perennial forming large carpets and will be pendant or scandent with time. It is widespread and very variable but not readily divisible into subspecies. The white and mauve rayless heads of flowers are similar too. The evenly spaced leaves form a seemingly endless chain of green “banannas” as they creep along the soil. The stems are thicker and somewhat more erect. It is similar to the more common String of Pearls ( Senecio rowleyanus), but the leaves are larger, much more elongate (shaped like a banana), glossy with an alternate arrangement and a delicate branching pattern of the strands. Description: Senecio radicans, widely known as String of Bananas or Fish Hooks senecio, is a popular hanging plant forming a waterfall of slender, flexible stems lined with curved banana blue-green leaves. ![]()
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