Don't they know what we want for Christmas is more plants?! LOL! If that's a Syngonium, the 3-part leaves are "mature." Did you take your pics after the sun went down? Doesn't look like there's much light but that always happens with indoor night-time pics. I've not had one get to that point (mature leaves) but it's really cool to see that it's possible on an indoor-size plant and the fact that it was staked is probably (from my very elementary and informal education about such things) what caused it to morph to mature leaves. Oh woe is the confusion caused by renaming! As if learning how to spell one 14-syllable name isn't enough! The Wiki article for Syngonium says, "Syngonium podophyllum is the most commonly cultivated species, being used as a houseplant since the late 19th century. It was originally confused with the similar-looking African genus Nephthytis, and this is still used as a common name for the plant. It was given its own genus in 1879." So nobody should feel bad since the confusion has been going on for 130+ years and being actively perpetuated by the suppliers/stores. ...But if there's really two different plants, how to tell them apart if the names are used interchangeably, and/or know which plant one has compared to the (hundreds?) of Syngoniums? Is the African one rare? Do they make similar-looking mature leaves? Of course googling "Nephthytis" (which can't even be said out loud and is therefore a stupid word to retain as a common name for anything) brings up all pics of what looks like Syngoniums to me. I think my honey is right when he says they are all "Steve." Whew!

These 2 pictures show the pure white leaves I want. Caladium Moonlight This one is Moonlight or Candidum Jr. not sure. Illustrates my point. This is the same cultivar Moonlight but much more green. Here is Fannie Munson in its mostly pink form. This Fannie Munson has alot more green, too much for me.

This is not to convince you to buy a sous vide cooker, but will give you a reference perspective point regarding temperature and cooking time with short ribs: (copied from the WEB for cooking short ribs at 145F for 72 hours) "Collagen determines, to a large extent, whether cooked meat ends up tender or tough. It is also the determining factor in how long you should cook a given cut of meat. Collagen fibers are the biological equivalent of steel cabling, forming a mesh that holds bundles of meat fibers together. Proper cooking unravels the cable-like structure of collagen fibers and dissolves them into juices, transforming the tough collagen into tender gelatin. In order to unravel collagen fibers, you must heat them. Heat causes the fibers to shrink, and the contracting mesh squeezes juices out of the meat. The hotter the cooking temperature, the more collagen mesh contracts, and the more juices are lost. If you cook the meat at lower temperatures, fewer of the collagen fibers shorten at any given point in the cooking process, so the mesh constricts the meat less. This is why meats retain more of their juices when cooked sous vide. But at lower temperatures, more time is needed to shrink, unravel, and dissolve enough of the collagen fibers to make the meat pleasantly tender." I generally SV cook at 150F for 48 hours. Short ribs is expensive, given the fact that it is mostly bones and fat, here is a suggestion for you for fun: 1. pressure cook short ribs in a separate container with no seasoning and no water for about an hour. You will get a good amount of the most concentrated beef broth(juice) ever for many recipes. 2. Remove the meat from the bones, and use the bones later for more beef broth the regular pressure cooker way. 3. Now with the meat, which has most of the fat rendered already, and find recipes for boneless short ribs and cook until tender. dcarch

Ugh. A google search found that my experience is quite the norm. This is an excerpt from another post about their attempt to reach this company. It's so frighteningly similar to my experience I could have written it myself: ABCMortgage should be avoided at all costs. I would rather live in a box than live in a mansion that has anything to do with ABC. I donÂt anger easily and I'm a reasonable and patient person--- IÂm in customer service myself---but the customer service, or should I say "lack of customer service" at ABC is appalling. My experience on trying to call to CORRECT THEIR MISTAKE and get information on the status of my loan... ABC--hello Me---yes, i have been transferred a few times with no resolution and I would like to speak with somebody about--- ABC interrupts---your property address? Me---well, hang on... the person I just spoke with blindly transferred me to the wrong dept. as soon as I gave her my address and-- ABC interrupting again----sir, I need your address to bring up your account Me---ok, but I want to explain my situation before you transfer me...its 1234 main street any town USA and--- ABC interrupts---please hold and then IÂm transferred again. Hello (unintelligible) dept. Me---yes, I am trying to resolve a problem with my mortgage and I was transferred to---- ABC interrupts---your property address please? (repeat above) Transferred again----only this time goes into someoneÂs voice mail with the recorded message saying it might be up to 4 DAYS before I get a return call...so, I call back again....same process as above---only this time, I demand to speak with a manager...she asks me for what? I tell her that I have a problem that I cant GET RESOLVED BECAUSE I KEEP GETTING TRANSFERRED TO PEOPLE WHO DONT CARE TO LISTEN! I then sternly, not rudely, tell her I want to speak with a manager now and I dont want to kept on hold all day...this is a serious issue which needs to be resolved immediately. then---you guessed it- ABC--- hold please, click transfer, phone rings, voice mail, tone to leave message, disconnect. Believe it or not, after this hour of getting nowhere, I called back again---same process; only this time, I got transferred to someoneÂs voicemail who was on vacation!!!!! Unbelievable. What eventually happened? Nothing....oh except there lack of assistance on resolving THEIR mistake created a domino effect of financial problems that have perpetuated to the point OF RUINING MY LIFE. ABC mortgage is terrible and should not be in business...do the world a favor and go into organized crime or something, but donÂt call yourself a company...your nothing but a bunch of people who donÂt care about anything. Looks like I have my work cut out for me.....