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Leaf from flower inflo? Anyone seen this before?

Brenda Hood Wilber

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

There is a leaf growing straight out of my plumeria inflo! I have never seen this before in our six years of growing plumerias. Will it become a branch?

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Kawagoe(Home of SF 49ers Santa Clara CA)

4 years ago

I get that every year on some of my plants. I kept them growing after flower is gone and this year, I decided to cut it and rooting as new plant. I will take a picture this afternoon and post it here next week.

It does not effect your flowers and you get new cutting....win win

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rox146
4 years ago
If it does, not very strong at all. I had one do it and ended up taking it off with spent inflo.
nutsforplants
4 years ago
Wow, never seen this before. Is it a single leaf or more leaves coming? If it turns into a branch but not very strong, maybe you can eventually remove it and grow it as a cutting.
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rox146
4 years ago
Wont be strong...use it as a conversation piece or a Bonsai
Brenda Hood Wilber
Original Author
4 years ago
Thank y’all for your comments. It does have another leaf coming. I will keep a record of its growth and let y’all know What it does.
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the_first_kms2
4 years ago
It happens every so often. I know I have at least one doing it right now. Some cultivars are more prone to do it than others. I don't like it and usually remove them. My experience has been the inflo stem acts as a restrictor and the branch never matures at the same rate as the rest of the plant. So in a few years it gets pruned off and you have a one tip cutting you can root if you cut off the old inflo part. IMO a waste of resources.

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