Gynura Species, Purple Velvet Plant, Royal Velvet Plant, Velvet Plant

I just saw this plant in my florist's shop last night and did some research. I noticed that no one here has mentioned a rather undesirab...Read Morele aspect of the plant -- the stink from the bloom.

Are the reports I've read exaggerated?

I love this plant. It survived (indoors) uncared for, for over 3 weeks while we were on vacation. I don't let mine grow like a vine - ...Read Moreinstead, when the stems start to get too tall and fall over, I cut them and stick the cutting in the soil and it roots very easily. The original stem where I cut it will then branch and keep growing. Easy to grow from leaf cuttings also.

I love the look of this plant and have had mixed results with it. I read the advice carefully for the next chance I get to grow one. It...Read More is often offered as a give away at our garden club. My only negative of it is the offensive odor of the flowers. Someone said to me that it smells like dog dirt and I think that is accurate. No problem to cut the flower buds off however.

I had a clipping of this plant that a friend of mine gave me and it had a very good root system on it so I decided it was time to plant i...Read Moret. It looked really good for two weeks and then, just about overnight, began drooping and wilting.....I love this plant and did not even realize what it was until now.

I just bought one of these plants as Walmart for $1.88 and love it! I planted it with some other (don't remember all the names) little fo...Read Moreliage plants I had gotten at my works Earth Day Plant sale in a long (about 20" x 6") planter. I didn't know it was suppose to get so big!! It is all the rage at work and my coworker sitting next to me will love the fact that it will grow from clipings since she LOVES the purple "fuzzie" as she calls it. Now I will have to go back and find a nice big, pretty pot to get for it for when it getts bigger. Fun Fun!!!

Purchased this plant from my college's horticultural club and kept it in my dorm room. Despite the conditions it did just fine. It real...Read Morely thrived when I placed it in the patio room at home where it grew to the floor and flowered profusely that summer. Kept in the patio room this plant did just fine all winter even in zone 6b. Cuttings root very easily in plain water too.

I have been growing a few of these in my office work area, and love them! They get direct sunlight, and are flourishing! However, I am no...Read Moret sure where they have come from, but I am experiencing some very small miniature flies on one of them. They're a little smaller than the average mosquito, and I have seen them even crawling around the top of the soil. I have sort of quarantined it from the other plants I have. Has anyone had this same experience? If so, how could I go about the extermination process without destroying the plant itself? I'm not sure what the little flies are. Anyone? Thanks.

This plant is indeed difficult to find. I found mine on e-Bay. Previous experience with this plant has taught me that it will die if the ...Read Moresoil is kept too wet and/or it is exposed to natural gas (my kitchen stove developed a small leak and my purple velvet plant had been moved from another room, where it thrived, into my kitchen where it died along with several other healthy plants.) Keep the soil barely moist and the plant in bright, filtered light (and out of the kitchen if you have a gas stove) and it should do fine. Cuttings for starter plants root faster in the summer where I live in Missouri

I have one of these plants, outside ,,and now it has white puffy things for blooms , plus the yellow flowers. Its covered with the white ...Read Morethings all over. Are these seeds? They look just like a dandelion puff when the yellow part is done. New to all this, as you can probably tell. The plant itself is very healthy. Outdoors, shade in AM mostly , sun n PM mostly. Later

I love the look of this plant and it grows fast. Cuttings also root quickly which makes it an easy plant to share. In the summer, I kee...Read Morep this outside in bright, filtered light, but the orange, ratty looking blooms attract aphids so I prefer to cut them off.

I bought two small pots of these plants from the "these plants are a dollar because they are practically dead" cart at Lowes. They were b...Read Moreone dry, limp and listless looking. I repotted them both in the same 8" terra cotta planter, and gave them a thorough soaking, and they look better already. I am hoping to keep it in a nice dense velvety purple ball.

I miss having this plant and would like any and all information. I would like to know were online I can order a piece or what flower sho...Read Morep sells them that I can call and order...any information where I can locate this plant in AZ will be a plus...thank you ever so much

I recently got this plant from a plant store and so far it has thrived. It hasn't started to bloom but it's late August so I don't expect...Read More it to bloom soon. So far it has been easy to care for which is a good thing because my green thumb seems to kill plants.

I've had my plant for over 7 years - it has almost died several times. I had it very large with flowers, but now it's dying. I tried to...Read More transplant it - using "Miracle Gro" soil, and now it's turned to 2 sticks w/small leaves at the top. I don't know how to bring it back!!!! I've always used the same type of soil, and always cared for it the same way. Maybe it doesn't last as a houseplant past 7 years.

This has the tenacity and growing habits of a weed- which for a beginner is great. What I did with 3 small slips I bought online is I po...Read Moretted them in a 6 in pot clumped together in the center. I then would take a cutting as soon as a stem was long enough to have enough length to leave 2 nodes above the soil and when cut just above the second node to have 3 on the cutting. I first put them in a glass of water in a window then later directly into the pot to fill the whole pot. The new growth that came out I did the same to. I ended up with a full BUSHY pot of purple passion that was flowing over. So I put it in an 8 inch and did the same. Pretty soon that one was full too so I moved it to a 24 inch pot. It is now overflowing that one. To make it bushy you have to trim around once a month without pity. Everywhere you trim will grow in much more dense

It lives outside in full morning sun, dappled during the hot afternoon and full late afternoon sun. It is blooming and putting seeds off like crazy and is very vibrantly colored. I am going to see how well it will winter outside here in california.

This is my "friendship plant" as way back when plants died if I looked at them. My best girlfriend had a green thumb and this was the very first plant she gave me a cutting of to practice what she was teaching me. 16 years later, everything I touch grows. I give a cutting of this to all friends and acquaintances that may be interested in having some and tell them if it prospers and grows to give some to someone else someday.

I love this plant! We have one in our office which is doing beautifully. I have just taken a cutting to start one at home. I am wonder...Read Moreing which part of the plant is poisonous when ingested? I have two cats and worry about them eating the plant. Is it deadly to animals or does it just make them sick?

I said neutral because I've never been able to keep one alive for very long (I've killed three so far), but I'm sure it's my fault. The ...Read Morelast one was doing so very well in the greenhouse, cuttings rooted and main plant flowered even! But now that I have it back outside it's shrivelling up and dying again. But I love this plant, so I'll have to keep trying. "You're not stretching yourself as a gardener if you're not killing a few plants!" LOL!

I have grown up all of my life with these plants hanging in the windows. However when they start really taking off, and you want a fuller...Read More plant, or to start a new one, we have always just taken a cutting and stuck in the dirt. It will look droopy for a little while, but then all of a sudden it takes off like wild fire:)

It is a beautiful plant, in which is grows nicely in doors. I bought the plant at LOWE'S and I keep it at work. Everyone loves and admir...Read Morees the plant's purple color. Plus, it does grow very likely. I had to bring in sticks to hold the plant up. I water it every other day, because it dries up so quickly. It is a nice plant for an indoor arrangement since I'm in NC.

I received a cut off of a plant and it grew like a weed. It is the most beautiful plant I have ever seen and the only one I have been ab...Read Morele to keep alive. I water it once a week and it has gotten big. It does grow well out here in Arizona.

I have just recently purchased on of these plants at a local flower shop, here in Colorado. It is full of buds!! As soon as it blooms I w...Read Moreill take pictures and post them on here. I think it is an extremely interesting plant to add to my collection of plants.

As a close relative of the genus Senecio (Groundsel) the flowers are held in a compound cluster surounded by bracts called a capitula (ca...Read Morepitulum).

Unlike most daisies, the outer florets are not enlarged to form "petals" (the white outer ones in a typical Daisy) round the edge, and only the tubular central florets exist (the yellow centre).

I recieved a cutting of this plant from a friend. I put it into a hanging basket and put it outside. It has tripled in size and it is now...Read More covered with flower buds over the entire plant. Growing up my mother always had them growing in hanging pots but I have NEVER seen them get flower buds let alone bloom. I can't wait to see the flowers.

This plant does well in a hanging basket, but will root along the ground in central Florida. The leaves are green covered with soft purp...Read Morele hairs. Pinching helps to keep runners under control. It will bloom in fairly low light, but is grown primarily for the foliage. The orange blossoms don't seem to blend with the purple foliage.

This Malaysian native plant does well with a thorough watering once the soil has dried out. Its purple tint is maintained with bright am...Read Morebiant light and will flower under healthy conditions. The flowers are small, orange and are rather pungent. The purple passion plant will put out two kinds of foliage from one plant: a bushy settled type and a creeping searching type. Both types do well if propagated by placing cutting in water.