Hoya talk forum: Rogue leaf.....
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Found this leaf in a pot....  When I pulled it out...this is what I found..... Heck...I don't even know what the leaf is....but I do know it's a hoya. Never have seen this before  Leap. The net will appear. |
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| Very cool, whatever it is! |
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| Looks to me like it was trying to root from the leaf. Lots of plants will do that. Begonias for example root from leaf sections easily. I however have not had a hoya really vine well and actually grow from a leaf rooting. A wound in the leaf, such as seen in the bottom part of the photo will often root. It's a defensive mechanism. |
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| Thanks, mj...definitely going to keep my eye on it and see what happens. Leap. The net will appear. |
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| Very cool! When a leaf fell off one of my plants, I planted it into the same pot, but then I threw the leaf away when I read that even though hoya leaves can root from the petiole, vibrant plants almost never result. I'd still love to see what becomes of your weird rooted leaf. |
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| When I first started collecting I tried rooting leaves....many grew roots but NO growth. The root growth was always from the stem. I had never seen one start on the margin.... ] Leap. The net will appear. |
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| That IS an oddity, Carol! I've never seen one root on an edge, either. I've rooted many leaves over the years - I was told if you get even just a bit of the meristem, it will grow, but that rarely happens when a leaf gets knocked off. I still root them back in to the original pot figuring if nothing else, they serve as a bit of "ground cover". Denise |
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