And yet.

In fact, I noticed last Saturday when I was watering that a second sucker has popped up in the pot, though it is still very tiny and refused to photograph well.
The suckers sprout from the roots and are supposedly pretty easily pulled up, so I'm treating them gingerly for the moment, but suckering is plausibly a better route to propagation than taking cuttings, as long as the plant keeps producing them. Cuttings have only been working for me about 40-50% of the time.
We have a Breynia nervosa around here, and the leaves look the same as that but reddish in color. I produced some small berries along that small twig.
ReplyDeleteThat plant is gorgeous. We have some in the university greenhouses. Glad to hear you're getting some suckers.
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