butterfly plant?

[debster]

my daughter gave me a plant that she said was called a butterfly plant it has dark red butterfly shaped leaves and has pale pink flowers what i want to know is it is getting a little on the large side, i repotted it recently and now its just gone mad, does anyone know if i can split it into smaller plants. just as a matter of interest when i repotted it the roots looked like cooked prawns pink and fat lol

[debster]

[valmarg]

Oh dear, off the top of my head it seems like schizanthus.  I think it's an annual.

Shall have to go look in my books ;D ;D.

valmarg

[ceres]

Oxalis triangularis? 

[ACE]

Every one of those 'cooked pink prawns' will make another plant. We have a large purple one which resides inside of the house, it is admired by everybody, so I do loads of baby plants as gifts. I shake it out of its pot, crop some 'prawns' then shove it back in.
I find that taking all the flower stalks off once a week makes the foliage a lot thicker and make a better house plant. I also re-pot once a year to freshen the compost and where I chuck the old stuff in the garden the plant comes up in the summer.

[debster]

definatly oxalis trilangus i think i will give it a good split down when i come back from my holiday and maybe rehome some of the babies on here it is a beautiful plant and very easy to look after