unknown plant

[angie]

Can anyone give me name of plant
Angie

[Maggi Young]

Not me, Angie!
Are you sure Derek hasn't been smoking cuban cigars halfway and then stubbing them out in a plant pot?

Looks a bit suspicious to me........though I suppose it's a cactus, is it? I'm hopeless with naming those!!

[Paul T]

Angie,

A side shot, and closeup would perhaps help.  hard to tell the details from that picture.

[cohan]

i'd also like to see a close clear shot... it does look cactus-like, but it looks rather like a dead cactus hopefully i am wrong..

[Lori S.]

I'd bet it's something much more exotic than a dead cactus, perhaps one of those many weird desert succulents I know nothing about, that put out a leaf or two in the rainy season... ?

[angie]

I will go with Lori its not dead l have had green shoots coming out but they dried off, it was my sisters plant and she collected some weird but wonderful plants . I shall take some close up today. She collected caudex , which look like big dried up stones too me, I would like to find a home for them but some how this plant is a challenge to me.   

Maggie , That's what it does look like

[mark smyth]

Angie can you post a larger photo of the one above 700 pixels wide

[Paddy Tobin]

I think it is a particularly fat asparagus - well, I would love my asparagus to be that fat.

Paddy

[angie]

Here goes I tried to take a closer image

Paddy I dont think it is asparagus.

[Paddy Tobin]

No, Angie, I didn't think so but nice fat asparagus would be very welcome in my garden. Paddy

[angie]

I wouldnt mind growing asparagus in my garden as well.
Angie

[mark smyth]

It looks like an Australian black boy - a grass like ?fern

[mark smyth]

http://www.pawlan.com/monica/australia/
Grass Tree

But they are much biffer than the plant in the pot

[maggiepie]

Paddy, fat asparagus spears jumped into my head too when I first saw the pic.

Mark, I think you are on the right track with the Xanthorrhoea suggestion.

[Sinchets]

I will go with Lori its not dead l have had green shoots coming out but they dried off, it was my sisters plant and she collected some weird but wonderful plants . I shall take some close up today. She collected caudex , which look like big dried up stones too me, I would like to find a home for them but some how this plant is a challenge to me.   

Maggie , That's what it does look like

The Winter Gardens used to 'rehouse' plants - we took some there when we left Aberdeen and had nowhere else to put them.