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title: "I really should have taken a “before” picture, but I’m usually so…"
description: "I really should have taken a “before” picture, but I’m usually so focused on trying to save the plant I forget to. This is an Alocasia Nairobi Nights (yes,…"
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# I really should have taken a “before” picture, but I’m usually so…

_Gepostet von MamaJuju am 2023-08-19_

I really should have taken a “before” picture, but I’m usually so focused on trying to save the plant I forget to. This is an Alocasia Nairobi Nights (yes, it’s apparently different from a Pink Dragon lol). I found it completely waterlogged at a big box store— with stems so rotted they were falling off in a pile of slime on the floor as I walked to the checkout. I didn’t exactly want to pay full price, but I didn’t want it to continue to die while I tried to haggle prices. But! As you can see—there is so much healthy plant here to love and nurture! And unfurling new growth, too! I’m naming it “Floyd the Flamingo” 🦩

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## 8 Kommentare

### Penny L kommentierte am 2023-08-19

He’s beautiful! 🥰 Well done!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟

#### MamaJuju antwortete am 2023-08-19

Thank you 😊 I hope he lives a good life here.

### Mullein kommentierte am 2023-08-19

I always forget to take before pictures too 😂 So focused on plant triage

#### MamaJuju antwortete am 2023-08-19

LOL! Yes “triage” is the exact word! I literally can’t believe rotten chunks of it were splooshing off of it onto the floor…it was so embarrassing—but I just kept going lol

#### Mullein antwortete am 2023-08-19

You’d never know by the way it looks now 😌

### Gigglzngreenz kommentierte am 2023-08-20

So pretty!!

### anna catherine kommentierte am 2023-08-25

you’re telling me all this time my “pink dragon” has been a nairobi night?! 🤯

#### MamaJuju antwortete am 2023-08-26

I KNOW!!! How dare “Big Plant” lie to us?!?!!?!?

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