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!
I would guess the bottom, because I’d think it would root before it grows a stem!
2 Likes Oh that’s true! Thank you so much!
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It looks like mine and mine is the top.
1 Like Oh perfect then! I’ll leave that side up then, thank you so much!
0 Likes 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.
1 LikeIt's the top. Take a picture of the bottom but I'm almost positive it's the top.
1 Like Okie dokie! Well the other side is just plan nothings growing on it yet so thank you so much!
0 LikesI 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.
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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.
0 Likes These are different species, but you can see how they all have a central top growth point
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