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Hi All!

I need your help please - imagination is required! I was at a restaurant a couple of weeks ago and they had the most amazing plant. It had no name tag (hence this question). My friend "borrowed" some of it as we left so that I could try some cuttings, but sadly they have not worked, so I am now trying to find out what it is to get one as I've never seen it before!

It looked like a succelent, a nice rich green colour. Now to try a description! Imagine spaghetti about 2 or 3 times its normal thickness and in lengths of about 3inches (ish). Each length connected to other lengths in a seemingly random way. It grew upwards, rather than being a trailer although was quite wide - I suppose we would say bushy(?). I know, I should have taken a picture but I was too smart for my own good thinking that my cuttings (or should that be stealings!?) would take, so it serves me right.

If anyone has any idea what I might be talking about from my description, please let me know so that I might have more luck in finding one.

Thanks gang!

Was this on display or being eaten????

If being eaten, my best guess is samphire.

If not. How tall? Any spikes? No leaves, I take it?

On display in a pot, not being eaten. I think it was about 3 feet high, no leaves (of normal leaf shape) and no flowers, just the bits as described, but you could be on to something with the samphire there Frenchbean! I've just looked at some pictures of samphire and the plant I saw does look very similar, just bigger and with thinner stems(?). I'll keep looking, thank you Frenchbean!

If you're really intent on knowing, you could try ringing the restaurant to ask.

Scorp.

tee hee! Yeah that is going to be one of my options - to pop in and ask them. Might have breakfast there again while I'm at it!

I think it might be Delospermum. Only gets about 20 images on a Google search, so it's not that common! Here's one type, although there are others:

http://perso.orange.fr/saint-jores/photo%20debut%20juillet/images/imag0009.jpg

I remember they used to sell it in a garden centre I worked in. Everyone just called it "that wormy stuff".

Hmm, that's not it, but I like the look of this one! Thanks King Bomba