ID of houseplant needed please

[GiantKitten]

This is DS2’s plant - he’s had it in a dark corner & says it got very sad but has perked up on the windowsill.
I said it looks like a succulent but I’ve no idea what, so all suggestions gratefully received

Somebody has found it for me!
It’s not meant to look like this, it’s supposed to be quite squat, but it’s stretched out in its dark corner.

www.botanix.com/en-ca/botanix-specialists-blog/houseplants-pincushion-peperomia-happy-bean

No, that isn't it - be back in a bit once I've consulted my succulent book.

I think it is chalk sticks. I have two - they are lovely.

Did you get it at Lidl? Mine have the very same pot!!

@BewareTheBeardedDragon

I think it is chalk sticks. I have two - they are lovely.

Agree, the latin name is senecio vitalis.

@itsbiganditsorange have posted the identifying pic. This is what it looks like with low light!

@BewareTheBeardedDragon yes it was from Lidl

I’ve googled chalk sticks (had never heard of any of these, I know nothing of succulents!) and this was one of the links that came up - it is very like this one, as it’s green rather than blue, but still the “etoliated” pincushion one (aka Happy Bean apparently, because the leaves look like green beans ) is the most like it.
I’m intrigued now by all these succulents, they look lovely and sound easy to grow, but my house - Victorian terrace, E-W facing - is rather short of light in the winter so I don’t know how happy they’d be?

I’d agree with Peperomia ferreyrae , you can just make out the channelled leaves near the bottom. All succulents (and cacti) need as much light as you can possibly give them, to keep them compact, so they don’t always make good windowsill plants, as they stretch (etiolate).
All you can do is put it in the sunniest position possible (summer light levels will eventually help).

I'm pretty sure mine came from the shop tall like this, but then it was Lidl so they probably were t kept in idea conditions before I bought them... I had one in lower light than the other for a while and it is definitely looking a bit stretched now. I think these ones can go outside over the summer while the temperatures are hot which would maybe be good for them? I haven't done it before though...

@BewareTheBeardedDragon

I'm pretty sure mine came from the shop tall like this, but then it was Lidl so they probably were t kept in idea conditions before I bought them... I had one in lower light than the other for a while and it is definitely looking a bit stretched now. I think these ones can go outside over the summer while the temperatures are hot which would maybe be good for them? I haven't done it before though...

Yes, that’s exactly what he said - that Lidl didn’t know about the need for light! (Not that they’ve got a lot of choice about where to put plants in the winter.) Anyway it’ll be interesting to see how they change as light levels improve in the spring

I have had mine for a couple of years, most of that time sitting in a large south facing windowsill. They have never stopped being tall, though they definitely look fatter in summer and skinnier in the winter time!

I’m intrigued now by all these succulents, they look lovely and sound easy to grow, but my house - Victorian terrace, E-W facing - is rather short of light in the winter so I don’t know how happy they’d be?

Succulent leaves is an adaptation found in many different plant families to cope with intermittent water or shortage of water - the leaves absorb as much as as they can when it does rain, and store it for use over the dry period. So absence of rain and the need to store water tends to go with well drained soil and an open aspect with good evaporation. Therefore succulent plants tend not to take kindly to shade or prolonged moisture. Your E window would be fine in summer, but a south window would be better for winter.

Thank you @MereDintofPandiculation

I do have a nice bright S-facing bathroom window upstairs; it loses the sun mid-afternoon as it passes to the front of the house but still gets quite a lot. (Bathroom is big and well-ventilated so not steamy)

I have the same plant from
Lidl It's very happy on my bathroom window