Being interested in botany, I’ve seen many weird plants and flowers but this one leaves me dumbfounded:
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It was purchased in a commercial garden center.
Can you help ?
Wow. No clue. Have any small animals disappeared near it?
Is there only one plant in that pot? It almost looks like you have a small succulent plant of some kind (sedum perhaps), then a seedling of something else (possibly a weed) alongside it.
The part with all the tendrils is unfamiliar to me - but it has the look of something that that is producing tendrils in place of some other structure, perhaps as a result of mutation. Or maybe it’s just something I’ve not seen before.
No, those are new shoots. You can see some on the plants itself.
And the filaments are not tendrils. They are “flowers” (or inflorescences).
Those were quick responses, by the way.
The floral/fruit structures and the succulent leaves suggest it is some kind of Peperomia, or at least in the same family, Piperaceae. I’m not sure which one yet.
It isn’t a carnivorous plant. And my cat is still sleeping nearby.
The one with the tendrils sort of looks like Sweet Pea.
That’s it, Colibri. Many thanks.
I’d have known it. I have some in my garden.
Thank you all
There are more than a thousand species, so it may be tough to pin it down. The other big genus in the family is Piper. (Note the correct spelling is Peperomia, which I fixed in my original post.)
Ah - that makes more sense now. A plant with that much reproductive tissue isn’t out of the ordinary. It seemed an abnormal amount of them, if they had been tendrils.
You’re sure your cat is still alive?
You sure it is still your cat and not a pod-cat? :dubious:
I name it Bethany.
Hello, Bethany Plant!
For a while I thought this plant was a chimera (“an organism containing genetically different tissues, formed by mutation etc.”).
Canadjun, for your info, the cat is still alive this morning and eating the plant. Il mange tout.
You’re all very reassuring, thanks 
Maggie, couldn’t you suggest something a little more unusal ?
“We have found 7 people in the UK with the name Bethany Plant.” (Wiki).