Another plant that needs identifying thread

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Can anyone tell me what this is and what I should do with it ? The papery parts can't be pulled off without pulling the green bits off too. I've had it years.

Someone wiser than me will be along soon, but I thought it looked like a type of bromeliad.

It's one of the various aloe type succulents, a Haworthia species I think. I can get the very dead bits off without pulling the growing shoot off if I hold the growing shoot firmly. Alternatively you could cut them off. Alternatively, take one of the growing shoots off, pull all the dead and saying leaves off it, then insert it into a very gritty free draining compost, and with luck it should root. Younger plants tend to look a bit less tatty.

Is your plant flowering?

Thanks both. I will try that Mere, it has never flowered

I'm surprised it's not flowered, it looks large enough to. Long flower stems with, if it's Haworthia, a dozen or so small tubular white flowers. If it's something else you may be lucky and get orange flowers.

Try google lens, it should be able to tell yoi

I think it might be x Alworthia ‘Black gem’, which is a bigeneric hybrid between an Aloe species and Haworthia cymbiformis. It seems to be on sale at various garden centres and stores.

Try google lens, it should be able to tell yoi it will identify which pictures have the same pattern of pixels as the photo, but it has no biological knowledge, and when it gets it wrong, it can get it very drastically wrong, and with no indication that it might not be the right answer.