I was doing some greenhouse maintenance this morning and I noticed this: we have a cuckoo in the nest!
We have about a dozen of these beautiful Philodendron Imperial Red languishing on a stock bench, they have been there for the best part of a year. They are very useful for event hires that require a lot of big bushy foliage (like this one) and were bought for just such an occasion. Sadly, they are not a lot of use in our maintenance contracts, hence the languishing.
However this one has had an unusual baby, can you see? Or perhaps has a cuckoo in the nest.
Out of its rootball has appeared a single leafed Alocasia Polly (or Amazonica as we used to call them). Now this is a plant that we emphatically don't use, as they are a Red Spider Mite magnet. They were fashionable about fifteen years ago, but not since.
So this plant must have come from a seed hidden in the rootball of the Philo, which has taken