pickaback plant

pickaback plant
also called  Piggyback Plant 

      (Tolmiea menziesii), hairy-leaved herbaceous plant, in the family Saxifragaceae, native to western North America. The pickaback is a popular houseplant, particularly notable for its curious reproductive abilities: the leaves of the parent plant arise from an underground stem and, when mature, they produce new plantlets from buds at the base of their leaf blades.

      Pickaback plant can be grown in shaded rock gardens in mild climates, as along the Pacific coastal United States but is primarily an indoor plant elsewhere.

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  • pickaback plant — noun vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk • Syn: ↑piggyback plant, ↑youth on age, ↑Tolmiea menziesii • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Mem …   Useful english dictionary

  • pickaback plant. — See piggyback plant. [1945 50] * * * …   Universalium

  • pickaback plant. — See piggyback plant. [1945 50] …   Useful english dictionary

  • piggyback plant — noun vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk • Syn: ↑pickaback plant, ↑youth on age, ↑Tolmiea menziesii • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Mem …   Useful english dictionary

  • herbaceous plant — noun a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests • Syn: ↑herb • Derivationally related forms: ↑herbal (for: ↑herb) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • piggyback plant — a plant, Tolmiea menziesii, of the saxifrage family, native to western North America, that produces new plants at the base of its broad, hairy leaves and that is popular as a houseplant. Also called pickaback plant. * * * …   Universalium

  • Saxifragaceae — ▪ plant family       the saxifrage family of flowering plants, in the order Rosales, comprising 36 genera of mostly perennial dicotyledonous herbs. The members are cosmopolitan in distribution but native primarily to northern cold and temperate… …   Universalium

  • youth-on-age — noun vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk • Syn: ↑pickaback plant, ↑piggyback plant, ↑Tolmiea menziesii • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • …   Useful english dictionary

  • genus Tolmiea — noun one species: pickaback plant • Syn: ↑Tolmiea • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Saxifragaceae, ↑family Saxifragaceae, ↑saxifrage family …   Useful english dictionary

  • Tolmiea — noun one species: pickaback plant • Syn: ↑genus Tolmiea • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Saxifragaceae, ↑family Saxifragaceae, ↑saxifra …   Useful english dictionary

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