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Posted by Bigred z8 Ark. (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 7, 05 at 7:58

I have a beautiful begonia(nursery didn't label it)The leaves have what I believe I read,is called curled sinuses. Anyway....there's seems to be a new tiny plantlet growing out of one leaf,right where the leaf connects to the stem. Is this common w/ this type of leaf? Is this harmful to the plant? Can it be removed and used to start a new plant?If so....when do I do it?

PP

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  • Posted by MingTea z8 OR Corvallis (My Page) on
    Mon, Mar 7, 05 at 12:49

hmm. someone posted awhile ago about this happening. i don't remember what they did, though! do you have a picture of this? sounds pretty neat. i think they let theirs get quite large before they posted on the site is all i can remember. i would try air layering.

-ming

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I think this is what you are talking about:

ADVENTITIOUS PLANT - A young plant that develops in an asexual manner on the leaves or stems of the mother plant.

The piggyback plant is a very good example. There are many other plants that exhibit this as well. My first experience reading about this was on water lilies.

Here is a link that might be useful: picture of piggyback plant

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Some of my sinus curl plants do this as well. Wasn't sure at what point I could take off the little one, but I suppose when it gets a second leaf of its own I might try snipping and repotting.

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It's just a tiny stub of what's starting out to be a stem so I'm leaving it until it has a leaf or two and hopefully starts making roots then I'll cut the leaf off and peg it down on top of a pot of soiless mix to see if it'll go ahead and root.

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