Question: Can you identify this plant for me? Are there benefits to having this plant? Is it poisonous?
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Can you identify this plant for me? Are there benefits to having this plant? Is it poisonous?
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Dear Shellandria25, while I am not an expert on cultivated plants (Go Botany is a website dedicated to wild plants of New England), your potted plant looks much like a species of Kalanchoe, a group of succulent plants in the Crassulaceae (stonecrop family) that are native to tropical regions of the Old World. These species are used for ornament around the world. While there have been examples of livestock poisoning when these plants have been fed on extensively, I'm not aware of human poisonings. Best wishes.
