Pilea & friends

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18 year old ZZ Plant 🪴

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My flowering schefflera.

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Grew this from seed as a teenager. I live in the UK and have largely neglected this over the past 15 years but it has given me a double flower this year!

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Giant agave - I’m 4’ 12”!

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oh god

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at my parents inlaw house in the unused bathroom

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Maidenhair - Adiantum raddianum 'Fragrans'. It's sitting on top of a 5 gallon bucket so the fronds don't touch the ground.

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Sharing is caring

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I didn’t know arrowhead plants could get so big!

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Look at this beautiful fiddle leaf fig, the mall near my area has so many live plants. I love seeing the big boys.

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A Dickinsonia antarctica at my work

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Look at this giant 7 years old air plant!

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Probably need to be repotted. It was given to me by a friendly, mature neighbor. I’m guessing at least 20 years old?

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My neighbor's Agave! 6'3 me for scale. They had an even bigger one to the right that flowered at least 25ft high, this one looks like it's getting ready to!

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My New Rabbit Foot Fern

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My beautiful grandmother and her geranium. Not sure if this is the right sub, but hey: they both are mature!

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Arizona Views

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The snake plants my parents got as a wedding gift, which makes them 25 years old this year!

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17yr old Hoya carnosa I just adopted from a friend.

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In the lobby of a Dr’s office around me. Has to be over 12 tall

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ZZ Plant in my neighborhood bagel place.

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An absolute unit of a Hoya carnosa.

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Amazing succulent in my neighborhood

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Strelitzia Nicolae that I just got for my flat. Since taking the photo a completely new leaf unfurled in the middle so she's around 40cm taller 🙈🌿

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Oh how I wish I had room for this in my house.

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tricolour stromanthe in flower

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Fittonia gigantea, second known species of Fittonia besides F. albivenis 🌿

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Not enjoying being unemployed, I visited a local conservatory for comfort. A TON of mature plants.

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Staghorn looking like a tree

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please lock your car doors so I'm not tempted to leave an aloe inside

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My massive aloe vera in full bloom 🙏🏽

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I visited a nursery called Tall Plants. They did not disappoint!

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Hoya Linearis is longer than I am tall!

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Aloe Vera in 8 gallon nursery pot. I had this since I was a kid, and it was a grocery store plant in a 3 inch pot, now I’m 23

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I think he counts as mature!😅

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My 10 year old hoya soaking up some Friday sunshine. He’s my favorite (shhh.. don’t tell the others!)

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10+ year old Jade Bonsai

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Found this big cactus at an abandoned restaurant close to my house. How old do you think it is?

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Is this a Fiddle-leaf fig?

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Agave Montana, 29 years old, car for scale. Portland, Oregon.

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Found at my 90 y.o friend's house ❤️

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In awe of this fiddle leaf at my friend’s parents’ house!

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My best friend's monstera is a BEAST.

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The 20$, 25 year old euphorbia my boyfriend & i drove 12 hours total to pick up :)

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this GIANT jade plant in a shop window, any guesses at how old it is?

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Me in awe of the chunky bois

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Giant Peyote Cactus

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Neighbors grandfather brought this back from the ground in Arizona in 1952, not huge bc in been through hell, but still really cool.

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Just bought a house and this absolute unit is in the backyard. Those leaves stretch well over 6 feet high at the peak.

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The glory of finally figuring out pileas.

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An update on my families agave plant

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Philodendron erubescens

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My 2 years old epipremnum pinnatum ‚Cebu Blue‘

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My mom’s >20 year old jade enjoying the summer outdoors

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Look at this massive dracaena in my apartment complex!

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A member of houseplant sub told me my pink princess philodendron belonged here. My almost 2 year old plant hitting the ceiling now!

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My Father in Law’s 10 year old Hawaiian Umbrella Bonsai! I bought this for him for Father’s Day when my hubby and I were dating and it was just a wee little thing!

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My parents' 13 years old rosemary. Originally grown from 2 little cuttings, it now has to be vigorously cut back every year.

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This massive desert rose...

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Giant Monstera in Orlando, FL

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Saw this guy at an office party. Any guesses on how old it is?

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This flowering agave

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Mom’s backyard 🪴

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Loving my friends front yard 😍

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wow

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monster agave!

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I thought you guys would appreciate this monstrosity of variegated monstera in front of Hemingway Museum in Key West, FL

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Frank isn’t the biggest ponytail, but he is celebrating a big milestone! Bonus live oak.

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My 32 year old cactus. Banana for scale.

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my jungle room

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This 'Easter Cactus' is about 50 years old.

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Myself and my carnivorous Nepenthes ‘Miranda’

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Someone has experience with Dracaena blooms? It seems to be so rare, I can't find a lot of infos about it.

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Well. Matured 😁

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My mom found a 4ft mammy croton in South Padre Island TX! No idea how old he is

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Cacti used as a wall between properties in Mexico

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Not bad for Alberta. They summer outside, waiting patiently for a bit warmer weather. started in 3 inch pots fifteen years ago.

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My father in law insisted that I post his tree when I mentioned this sub. He planted this about 20 years ago.

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My parents' 50-60 year old jade plant grown in the ground. Ready to bloom

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My aunt's variegated Hoya. I believe she has had it for around a decade, and her mother had it for many years before that

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Bought a few plants from our 102-year-old neighbor - check out this beauty! Crassula conjucta, I think?

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This is one of the really small cacti you get from Ikea. This is it 15 years later. Lot of happy pups growing from it too!

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Variegated Monstera thriving on this Southern Live Oak

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This monstera at the nursery I work at!

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Nana's dining room shelf 🥰

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My mom about to give me a cutting from her 31 years old papyrus (was gifted to her when my first sister was born).

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Fiddle leaf fig tree in Las Vegas. 5’3” me for scale.

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r/Houseplants told me y’all might enjoy this HUGE Staghorn Fern at my girlfriend’s grandparents’ house

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My 15yr old Microdasys 'bunny ear' cactus.

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four year old rubber tree

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I've had this old guy for 3 years. The owner before me grew it from a small plant for over 40 years prior!

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My 3 year old Monstera that I constantly have to cut back

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30 year old tree at my parents house. Dad want to grow it as big as possible and is looking at getting more secure supports to the ceiling. Any ideas what kind of plant it is and how big it could get?

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Check out this mature spider plant in a botanical garden in Berlin.

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Massive Bird of Paradise I saw while in a botanical garden in Amsterdam. It was two stories tall!

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Spoted in Bowmanville, ON 🇨🇦 - 4' across!

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My moms aloe

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This snake plant is over 50 years old. I’m the third generation caring for her.

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I won the rubber tree lottery after no one claimed her at work! Counting the silver linings of this crazy changing world right now.

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I found this absolute unit of a Dioscorea elephantipes at Desert Creations in LA (I picked up my own considerably smaller specimen)

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My pilea, 7years old. I have never seen one this size. Anyone else? (x-post from r/gardening)

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Elephant ears we never planted growing in the yard

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My grandma gifted my mom and I this 13 year old Syngonium! The longest vine on it is nearly 9 feet long.

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giant bird of paradise in San Diego, California. green wall is approx 5ft tall

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Someone told me this sub might like this guy! My biggest Pothos! He lives in my front garden.

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Golden hour + Fiddle Leaf Fig & Bird of Paradise!

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Pothos at my Dad's

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Had to do a double take at this huge wandering jew at my local greenhouse!

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Wow! Spotted the biggest donkey’s tail I’ve ever seen at a local greenhouse

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Historical huge boi

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Beautiful fiddle leaf TREE! Drove around trying to find a good view of the snowy mountains in the distance, but came across this instead. Someone's front yard, I was stunned at how gorgeous and thriving it was.

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Growing some pineapple. Fun project!

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My mom's snake plant about 40 years old, ruler for scale

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My mate's Grandpa's Crassula Ovata Jade plant. I was told to post it here.

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Someone posted this massive philodendron for sale for $90! They said it was 8'x8'

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Pilea

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Scientists have revived a plant from the Pleistocene epoch. This plant is 32,000 years old!

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Massive Colocasia (Elephant Ears) in Johnson City, Texas. Feeling like I’m in Wonderland!

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My fiddle leaf fig ☺️

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My neighbor's cacti have been happily living in the window in our stairwell for years

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Swiss cheese with Mom for scale. Found at a local nursery, thought y’all might like to see it!

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A couple of my Haworthias! The big guy is over five years old and the little one just turned two years old!

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Blue my mind.

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While I’m here, a very very mature monstera (?) at the local nursery

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Giant cactus near my house in Santa Barbara, California. 6'3 me for scale.

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Not the most mature manjula but for a Costa plant kept in its original pot (and soil) for over a year, it’s a win for me.

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Some of my Mom's beasts

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This big ass cactus at my great aunt’s house (fiance for scale).

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Found at my local plant shop!

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This giant monstera in front of my hairdresser’s house. Some of its aerial roots are taller than the house.

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109 year old pomegranate bonsai, in bloom! Longwood Gardens, PA

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My mum has had this Monstera for over 13 years - it got too big for her apartment after a few years so she moved it into the stairwell and it’s thrived there ever since. The big leaf on the left is 60cm - the same size as the original plant was when she bought it.

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Just finished removing all the dead flower stalks for my parents' 10+ year old bird of paradise! This is the only plant that has ever survived living in this spot as it's constantly in direct sunlight and the soil is basically rock.

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I’m back again to show you this massive staghorn I acquired today. I’m 5’7

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130 years old succulent!!!

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Finally legal... 21 y/o Orchid

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My great great great grand parents planted this cypress. We are the sixth generation taking care of it

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I wish you could see this peace lily irl, the picture doesn't do her justice.

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Just discovered this sub and thought you might enjoy my 25-ish year old dracaena!

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Split leaf Philodendron, De Hortus, Amsterdam

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Absolutely gigantic asparagus fern at my workplace

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I was told you may like my 27 year old houseplant over here :)

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Not really sure what this guy is, but I’ve had it for years. How tall do they get?

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Great grandmother jade

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