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Noun: pickaback plant
  1. Vigorous perennial herb with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk
    "The pickaback plant produced tiny plantlets where the leaves met the stems";
    - piggyback plant, youth-on-age, Tolmiea menziesii

Derived forms: pickaback plants

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Tolmiea, Tolmiea

Encyclopedia: Pickaback plant