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title: "What are these on my heart leaf philodendron? I was thinking new…"
description: "What are these on my heart leaf philodendron? I was thinking new leaves, but they eventually turn brown and crispy (photo in comments)"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "NewlyGardenObsessed"
published: "2025-09-23T00:55:58.100543Z"
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# What are these on my heart leaf philodendron? I was thinking new…

_Posted by NewlyGardenObsessed on 2025-09-23_

What are these on my heart leaf philodendron? I was thinking new leaves, but they eventually turn brown and crispy (photo in comments)

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/ByNjQdWyYD1Z4xOBQm_fhzJLBvnjTrUsKVNXORD-TKE/Ck3AM1LSSfWXDQ34F_j4jw.webp?size=large)

## 10 comments

### NewlyGardenObsessed commented on 2025-09-23

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/ByNjQdWyYD1Z4xOBQm_fhzJLBvnjTrUsKVNXORD-TKE/-8PMIfTdQNG2XSDa5lu0Pg.webp?size=large)

### NewlyGardenObsessed commented on 2025-09-23

Also is this coloring normal or is she sick?

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/ByNjQdWyYD1Z4xOBQm_fhzJLBvnjTrUsKVNXORD-TKE/_3SImKRDTumRksoJBgEAIw.webp?size=large)

#### Phil replied on 2025-09-23

Color is normal for a new leaf.

### Green B commented on 2025-09-23

Just the sheath your leaves grew out of.

### KJM commented on 2025-09-23

Yes, it's a leaf sheath. And I agree the color is normal for a new leaf.

### beeftataki commented on 2025-09-23

Normal, and normal :)

### NewlyGardenObsessed commented on 2025-09-23

Thank you everyone!

### Victoria Maddison commented on 2025-09-24

Yes it’s just there to protect the new leaves when they’re growing but doesn’t provide any use after that, I usually pluck them off so they don’t fall off later in unwanted spots

#### NewlyGardenObsessed replied on 2025-09-27

I just don’t see any new leaves anywhere near those sheaths. I’ll take another picture later to show you what I mean. I guess maybe the leaves fell off before the sheath. I just put a climbing pole in the pot to hopefully help spread the “limbs” out and help it? As you can tell I don’t really know what I’m doing lol!

#### Victoria Maddison replied on 2025-10-03

I can see this little brown spot is where the leaf used to be, it must have fallen off

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/uwDhDDjbwXw9_w8ljng96nXnv8e14JTYlCMM7HCklWA/sGIZ7_CtSsOTOyKuQjOnHw.webp?size=large)

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