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title: "do these look like eggs? is that normal? i’ve found a few dead leaves…"
description: "do these look like eggs? is that normal? i’ve found a few dead leaves since noticing them on my paddle plant."
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "emma 🪴🌞"
published: "2023-08-28T22:41:33.16Z"
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# do these look like eggs? is that normal? i’ve found a few dead leaves…

_Posted by emma 🪴🌞 on 2023-08-28_

do these look like eggs? is that normal? i’ve found a few dead leaves since noticing them on my paddle plant.

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## 4 comments

### Ada commented on 2023-08-28

I cant say for 100% certainty but I’ve had something like this in my plants and it’s just some fungus (it actually means the soils heathy) and it won’t hurt your plant but it will grow little mushrooms eventually so if you want to remove them than you can. It won’t effect anything either way I don’t think.

### ccmurr4y commented on 2023-08-28

I get this on my Christmas cactus every once in a while. Nothing else. Just the Christmas cactus. I always wonder why. It’s one of my happiest plants despite this occasional bout of fungus! I just scrape it off, chop up the top layer of soil a bit and spray a little fungicide.

### Plant Father commented on 2023-08-29

it’s fungi, seems like your plant needs more airflow or less water or both. the soil level being so low in the pot is restricting airflow since there are walls of ceramic around the topsoil. i typically leave 1/2” of space, but never more than an inch

### Plantsarelife commented on 2023-08-30

It’s called slime, mold, and it can grow on any type of soil especially if it’s moist. Nothing to worry about.

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