Since scheffis aren't botherd by many pests except for spider mites you can rule out pests. I've had problems with 2 different vareties of broad leaved ficus which show the same symptoms. It is probably the water. Our water comes from a well and is horrible -- we can't drink it. The leaves and some stems show this brown discoloration from time to time but it clears up during the monsoon season (at least for a few months). It won't kill the plant it will just look a little ugly for a while. Bob

Bless you, Randy! Apparently its an Amorphophallus konjak. What a fascinating collection of relatives it has! I'm delighted to learn that with age, it will have an awesome bloom.

Not the same but apparently resembles 'Therese Bugnet' in several ways, maybe there is a connection.

I know 6 years later and I'm buzzing in. Well, this just happened to my tomatoes and I'm no gardening pro! But, I saw some tiny poop that had me wondering who it belonged too. I thought maybe my tomatoes were getting too much sun and thats why its was turning colors but I did some googling. I found out, I had a Catapillar living and eating my plant! I sat down and stared at my tomato plant wondering if I would find this mystery Catapillar and then all the sudden right in front of my face there he was, about the size of my finger, but blended in so perfectly to look like a leaf. I stared at my tomato plant wondering if I would find this mystery Catapillar and then all the sudden right in front of my face there he was about the size of my finger but blended in so perfectly to look like a leaf. After posting this discovery on fb. all my gardening pros warned me that he would kill my plant totally and move on to the others. As well as lay larve. Yuck! Well, upon looking at your photos I think I found his cousin hanging out in your photo!! The close up was the one in my garden. So you can see it better. It's a tomato horn... Yours may be in a different family. But it's a catipiller!