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Mystery plant, kind of bromeliad?

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This is a friend's mystery plant. It looks like some kind of Bromeliad, but has runners?

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I don't think it's a bromeliad. I've heard it called Moses-in-the-Cradle. It's all over Hawaii, apparently.
~Joe
 
I saw one of these at Lowes on Saturday, looks just like the one you have posted. They called it a Moses in a Cradle at Lowes too :)
 
I don't know what it is, but it ain't Moses-in-a-cradle. That is a semi-succulent. The leaves on this thing have too much of a gloss and Moses (Rhoeo) is more likely to clump, whereas this thing looks like its creeping, or at least crawling. I would say it's some type of wax-leaf. It looks variegated to me.

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The latter is the tri-colour or stripe me pink, whereas the latter is the giant version. There is a dwarf too, bit I have never seen it in cultivation.
 
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