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Sep 21, 2016 6:04 AM CST
Name: Carter Mayer
Houston, TX (Zone 9b)
Adeniums Tropicals Plant Identifier
Hi, @jerkwad152. Great name. Smiling This is a variety of dracaena. They are normally tough, resilient indoor plants, but this one looks like it has been put through the ringer! If the stem got weak enough to kink (meaning actually bend at a sharp angle) on its own, my guess is that at least that particularly section of the stem is dead. If it is just slightly bent, though, that could just be that it's too top heavy from too little light making the stem thin and weak.

It's hard to tell from the pic - is the stem brown and withered or shriveled in any sections? How much are you watering it? My initial guess is that it's been too dry for too long and it's dying from the bottom up. Overwatering could possibly cause the same though, though. If the stem is withered and shriveled up at any point, what I would do is cut off the top part of the plant where you still have plump, healthy stem remaining, put it in a glass of water, and re-root it. (Yes, you can root these by just sitting them in water.) But, in order to be successful doing this, you have to make sure you cut it off above any dead part of the stem. You'll need to change the water every day or so in order to keep it fresh, and then once you see it developing roots, you can repot it in some fresh soil.

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