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