7/25/2023 0 Comments Blue chalk sticks![]() ![]() They are sometimes easily confused since they share such similar names. Senecio Serpens is very similar to its cousin Senecio Mandraliscae. ![]() The leaves have a pale blue coloring, but if you rub off the chalk on the outside of them, you will notice the blue-green coloring underneath. Some people even say they look like shag carpet when they do this! The stems will root at the nodes as they touch the ground and form the dense mat. They make a great ground cover or addition to rock gardens! When grown outdoors, they will grow very densely and form a thick mat. The leaves are about 1.5 inches long and 0.3 inches in diameter. They do kind of look like a bunch of fingers sticking up out of the soil since they have kind of a fleshy, finger-like leaves. Interestingly, they also are sometimes referred to as Blue Fingers. These plants look like a bunch of blue pieces of chalk that are standing upright in a pot or planted in the ground when you see them! I think that the Blue Chalk Sticks ( Senecio Serpens) definitely have that kind of a name. Well, some plants have a name that really describes what they look like. What do you think of when you think of a stick of chalk? Do you think of the chalk you played with as a child when you played Hopscotch? Or, if you’re older (like me!) the chalk the teacher used to write on the blackboard in school? And when it would screech down the blackboard sometimes and give you the creeps? ![]()
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