Life Plant Of Guadeloupe

There is a strange wild plant in Guadeloupe called the "life plant." If a leaf be broken off and pinned by the stem to the wall of a warm room, each of the angles between the curves of the leaf margin soon throws out a number of very white tentacles or roots, and soon a tiny new plant begins to sprout, and in the course of a week or two attains a height of two or three inches. When the old leaf shrivels, the new plant is cut off and planted. When carefully cultivated the life plant produces curious red and yellow blossoms. While the plant is native only in a warm country, there is no doubt that it could be successfully grown in any greenhouse, and as a plant freak it certainly is as interesting as the everlasting plant of Mexico.