Any plant buffs? I need help IDing a plant

We just moved into our new home in (coastal) Texas and the previous tenants left us with several potted plants-- I have been able to ID all but one-- It was at one time a single plant but without any tending over this past summer and fall, it has multiplied into 6 plants. they have tubers (roots) and although they were all in the same pot and they were not attached to each other thru tubers ( like aloe vera) this looks like it could be in the Aloe family but i have been looking online for days and have yet to find which plant this is. There are just soo many succulent species out there. Can anyone give me any hints or help to id this plant?

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top view of unknown plant
Amity

While I grow a great deal of succulents I am not familiar with this plant. Check out www.cssainc.org (cactus and succulent society) and click the link for local clubs in TX and contact them with this picture for identification. Good luck-its a funky looking plant!!

I'm wondering if it's a variety of Kalanchoe. They thrive in warm climates, and apparently grow quite tall. (Here in the frozen north, we just get the smaller florists' variety). They propogate by dropping plantlets that develop at the edges of the leaves, so the 6 different plants could just have been dropped by one "mother" plant. The way the leaves grow from the stem should help narrow this down. (ie. aloe grows from a central crown, not alternating leaves up a stem).

I agree with Sammie-I looked in my houseplants book, the illustrations are small & terrible here, but it also reminds me of a plant I just got rid of, it got so tall & ugly, I called it the "alien plant". I have a couple of the babies from the leaves. They look to be in the same family, but I'm not sure if mine had the serrated leaf edges. They seem to be pretty hardy plants, though.

Thank you soo very much I finally found the name! Bryophyllum daigremontianum

turns out its a flowering plant! OHH i cant wait to see what color blooms mine have.

again THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. if you want a baby plant let me know and ill get one to ya.


Amity

Is there a "common name" for it?
I can't find that Latin name in my book...now you have me curious, I want to see if my alien plant is in the same family.

So far browsing the net i have seen Mother of Thousands, Mother of Millions, Alligator plant, Devil's Backbone, and a few others--

it used to be classified under thisname: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

there are several varieties/species of it too-- There is even a website dedicated to the Genus http://www.bryophyllum.com/b-new-season.php

it shows pics of the different varieties and hybrids. This is a very invasive weed in some area like FL and CA as well as Australia-- I cant wait for this thing to bloom-- Ill update with pics when and if it does bloom.

Amity

Thanks!
I live in Fla & have alot of plants..someone gave me this plant as a baby, I've kept it for something like 2 years & it has survived all kinds of neglect. The bigger it got, the uglier it was! Just recently I have seriously trimmed & "culled" some of my plants, & that was one of them. I have never really liked that plant, didn't want to repot it, but kept 2 of it's "babies". Go figure!

Thanks!
I live in Fla & have alot of plants..someone gave me this plant as a baby, I've kept it for something like 2 years & it has survived all kinds of neglect. The bigger it got, the uglier it was! Just recently I have seriously trimmed & "culled" some of my plants, & that was one of them. I have never really liked that plant, didn't want to repot it, but kept 2 of it's "babies". Go figure!

it used to be classified under thisname: Kalanchoe daigremontiana

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So I was right? Woo - hoo!

Apparently, if you pinch the new growth at the top of the plant, it will fill out and grow new "branches" lower, like a lot of plants. So your alien might look more attractive with a bit of tough love.