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Tolmiea
Also called Piggyback Plant, Pig A Back Plant, Piggyback Plants And Youth On Ages
Tolmiea is a small genus of two species native to northwestern North America, best known as the houseplant Piggyback Plant (Tolmiea menziesii), which forms new plantlets on its leaves. It is grown for its easy, shade-tolerant foliage and is simple to propagate from those leaf plantlets.
Tolmiea is a genus of flowering plants in the saxifrage family containing two species native to northwestern North America. The genus was formerly considered to be monotypic until diploid populations were split off as T. diplomenziesii from the tetraploid populations of T. menziesii.
The genus was named after the Scottish-Canadian botanist William Fraser Tolmie.
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