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title: "Hey! me again for about the 15th time this week, could anyone tell me…"
description: "Hey! me again for about the 15th time this week, could anyone tell me if this is the top or bottom of this plant? I flipped it over to find this, I swear it…"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Lyn"
published: "2025-03-07T05:10:10.666655Z"
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# Hey! me again for about the 15th time this week, could anyone tell me…

_Publié par Lyn le 2025-03-07_

Hey! me again for about the 15th time this week, could anyone tell me if this is the top or bottom of this plant? I flipped it over to find this, I swear it looks like the top and I just had it upside down, but I’ve never had one of these so I have no clue. Any advice I’d appreciate! Thanks! Also it’s a Caudex of a Stephania Cepharantha if that helps!

![Pièce jointe 1 sur 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/AM9d3w4wA8hc6Xvq2EAeNGtQ2HKevZankmA1ASAMEqk/Bj_IfEQ7RIWvJ07K62kEOA.webp?size=large)

## 12 commentaires

### F. Lindsey a commenté le 2025-03-07

I would guess the bottom, because I’d think it would root before it grows a stem!

#### Lyn ha respondido el 2025-03-07

Oh that’s true! Thank you so much!

### MummaDeb a commenté le 2025-03-07

It looks like mine and mine is the top.

#### Lyn ha respondido el 2025-03-07

Oh perfect then! I’ll leave that side up then, thank you so much!

#### MummaDeb ha respondido el 2025-03-07

If you try tugging on it a little and you feel resistance then you'll know it has roots. That's what I did because mine took months to do anything when someone told me that it always develops roots first.

### KJM a commenté le 2025-03-07

It's the top. Take a picture of the bottom but I'm almost positive it's the top.

#### Lyn ha respondido el 2025-03-07

Okie dokie! Well the other side is just plan nothings growing on it yet so thank you so much!

#### KJM ha respondido el 2025-03-07

I see, and after I posted that I thought it was probably a bad idea to take it out of the pot just so you could take a picture, my bad. I still think it's the top.

### Wolfen 🐺 a commenté le 2025-03-08

Caudex can be confusing, they will put out leaves before re-rooting sometimes. With stephania there should be a top side that has one sort of node (those can look like a flat spot or nipple like), and the bottom will be more smooth or have several small growth areas dispersed that roots were growing from before it was trimmed and hibernated. From you picture, that is the top.

#### Wolfen 🐺 ha respondido el 2025-03-08

These are different species, but you can see how they all have a central top growth point

![Pièce jointe 1 sur 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/LABcXOiTFudmBUCsau2S0dZnnxDdeMAvwSHhNs7sG2k/GVzlaLtcQVeOPL9h5PRclw.webp?size=large)

#### Wolfen 🐺 ha respondido el 2025-03-08

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![Pièce jointe 1 sur 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/LABcXOiTFudmBUCsau2S0dZnnxDdeMAvwSHhNs7sG2k/bbkKOLl-TDW8KSXB2Glvdw.webp?size=large)

#### Wolfen 🐺 ha respondido el 2025-03-08

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![Pièce jointe 1 sur 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/LABcXOiTFudmBUCsau2S0dZnnxDdeMAvwSHhNs7sG2k/1-MjAJQAQ-qun_BL9ZCEAg.webp?size=large)

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