burro's tail
nounDefinition of burro's tail
: a succulent evergreen plant (Sedum morganianum) grown as an ornamental and especially as a houseplant for its long trailing stems of overlapping, greenish-blue, oblong lanceolate leaves and small pink or red flowers
A slow-growing plant, burro's tail consists of porcelain pale blue jelly-bean leaves that will eventually produce geotropic chains 3 feet (or longer) in length.— Joshua Siskin, Daily News of Los Angeles, 30 Mar. 2002 Burro tail (S. morganianum) grows its leaves in long thick tendrils which have a braided look.— Sue Rideout, Visalia (California) Times-Delta, 19 May 2011
— called also
donkey's tail
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