pickaback plant
Also known as: Tolmiea menziesii, piggyback plant
pickaback plant, (Tolmiea menziesii), hairy-leaved herbaceous plant, in the family Saxifragaceae, native to western North America. The pickaback is a popular houseplant, particularly notable for its curious reproductive abilities: the leaves of the parent plant arise from an underground stem and, when mature, they produce new plantlets from buds at the base of their leaf blades.
- Also called:
- Piggyback Plant
Pickaback plant can be grown in shaded rock gardens in mild climates, as along the Pacific coastal United States but is primarily an indoor plant elsewhere.