Basal shoot on another basal shoot

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PiranhaPlant

• Mar 14, 2006

• #1

I was checking on my N. x edinensis's basal shoot and I noticed on the latest node there seems to be like a green thing protuding, so far the basal has 7 leaves. Is this a basal shoot or something else and I thought basals only form on woody stems?

 

seedjar

Let's positive thinking!

• Mar 14, 2006

• #2

Perhaps a root? It could be another shoot - my edinensis usually makes leaders in pairs or triples. And sometimes dormant nodes stick out a little, I think.
~Joe

 

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PiranhaPlant

• Mar 14, 2006

• #3

Yea, I think it's a dormant mode. The basal shoot is growing really fast, each new leaf is 3x bigger than the previous