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From: kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Help save a plant.
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 16:04:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 16 16:04:39 1985
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Last weekend I bought a beautiful plant from a "gardening" place
where the clerks don't know anything about plants.  One thought it was
a lipstick plant.  It's a trailing plant about 20 inches in diameter.
It has thick, glossy dark green leaves, teardrop shaped, the biggest
about two inches long.  There are very tiny tubular violet flowers on
the ends of the branches.  I bought it even though there was obviously
something wrong with it, what they didn't know.  Quite a few of the
leaves had lost a lot of color and were almost white in areas, a very
few had jagged edges and some had brown edges.  I made a wild guess that
either it had been over fertilized, or doused with insecticide, and perhaps
it had some minor insect damage.  So I picked off all the bad leaves, watered
it (the soil was just slightly damp) and put it in medium light to rest.
Today, a week later I picked off 4 or 5 more leaves that I noticed that were
bad.  I think it's holding it's own.  Anyone know exactly what this plant
this might be, what might have happened to it, what growing conditions it
needs, and how to propagate it (cuttings?)