What is this little corn looking thing? And is this norma...
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@VipSweetbox31 @SvelteDevilsivy no this is evergreen. Dieffenbachia has slightly different blooms. Dieffenbachia spadixes [the long white thing] are usually longer, often stretching beyong the spathe [a modified leaf to protect the spadix]. Aglaonema, on the other hand, have 'shyer' spadixes. They're more tucked in. In ratios, about 50% or less of the dieffenbachia spadix is covered. On the other hand, 66-75% of the aglaonema spadix is covered. Dieffenbachia blooms are also larger, and held almost above the plant. There is a long stalk. Aglaonema blooms appear close to the plant. Dieffenbachia spadixes also have a habit of hanging slightly out of the spadix. Dieffenbachia blooms look more like alocasia blooms.
1st pic is Deiffenbachia [online]. 2nd is Aglaonema [not mine, convenient store] and 3rd is Alocasia [mine]
1st pic is Deiffenbachia [online]. 2nd is Aglaonema [not mine, convenient store] and 3rd is Alocasia [mine]
@Araceae this makes SO much more sense cause they did NOT look the same to me and I have other Chinese evergreens that look the same way. Thank you for clarifying! I was actually hoping youâd help me stop feeling crazy from every app telling me otherwise. If I just scanned the leaves it would say Chinese evergreen if I just scanned the bloom it would say the other one and it was driving me nuts LOL
@SvelteDevilsivy No yours is a aglaonema. Red indicates the general structure of your plant. Green is how a dieffenbachia at this size would be more like. Notice that the petioles [leaf stalks] are more v-shaped, and the main stem is less prominent. Generally for dieffenbachia, it have a wider angle. Additionally the petioles on dieffenbachia are shorter in ratio with leaf size. On larger, older aglaonema the difference would become subtle, but yours is small. Other difference is the leaf size. Your leaves are too narrow to be dieffenbachia. Plus, the variegation is off. Many dieffenbachia don't have such sharp variegation. Another thing is the stem. Internodes of aglaonema stay small, but on dieffenbachia it's more noticeable. Even at this size the stem shpuld be more noticeable. Finally the bloom. Yours is an aglaonema bloom, but what differs is that the bloom is older, hence opens up more. If my prediction is correct the following day or the day after the bloom started wilting. The blooming stem is also too small for dieffenbachia, as stated earlier dieffenbachia hold the blooms well above the foliage. Anyways the spadix should be longer for dieffenbachia. Lastly at this size dieffenbachia shouldn't be flowering anyway, with the growth rate dieffenbachia at this size [unless it's a dwarf variety] would barely even be a year old, way too young to start blooming.
@Araceae we are going to have to agree to disagree and stop at this point. This is a bonafid DieffenbachiaâĶ period.
@VipSweetbox31 I am sooo sorry. I canât believe I am defending my plant but I know what I bought from a reputable nursery in metro phoenix. I meanâĶ ok?
@SvelteDevilsivy i honestly felt like mine was a Chinese evergreen and have no history on it so I am okay over here but I am for here you
@VipSweetbox31 I have 2 of the Chinese evergreens and a pink splash..I was going to get another butttt I went and found a Thai constellation today. I LOVE #Aglaonema, #Ficus and #Philodendron .
@SvelteDevilsivy but reputable nurseries can mislabel plants too. My local nursery [biggest and most popular] gets them wrong from time to time. Usually with philos and anthurium. The other day i found Rhaphidophoras mislabeled as philodendrons. Usually nurseries follow the supplier, so it could be that the supplier got it off [happens a lot, for some reason especially with thai nurseries]. I've even seen adansonii being labeled as obliqua. And with reputable nurseries, mislabeling happens a lot, people messing with them, the mistake of employees being unsupervised [happens with big nurseries that have large numbers of employees]or even the lack of knowledge on the employee part.
If you want to label it as dieffenbachia, that's fine. They have largely the same care anyways
If you want to label it as dieffenbachia, that's fine. They have largely the same care anyways
