Thank you all, This is really interesting, fingers crossed it grows on.

Is this just a couple of leaves that have appeared on the flower stem or is it a plantlet that I can remove later?
Sorry that close up image is poor resolution.

Thank you.
The leaves are slightly ridged longitudinally, i.e. from base to tip. So Doran Black?

This has flowered twice in about 3 months.
Thank you.

Given to me, a bit stretched and no names. The smaller darker one is presumably a standard C. ovata, but what is the taller, pale green one, the leaves are less thick?

Thank you :-)

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I’m not sure about the colour, I’d probably just carefully clean away any dead leaves and let those roots carry on growing as they look healthy. I also replied your message last July with some names you were after, it should be in your inbox 👍 I have a pm from you in my inbox but it is empty of text!

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