js wanted to share these twin corms that came out of the exact same pot as a standard matte black sibling. they look completely unrecognizable from the mother line and are doing something crazy in my cabinet rn.
both of these twins are throwing a distinct structural mutation—like a 15% Alocasia Venom look with buckled, warped leaf sinuses and crinkled margins. on top of the texture, one of them is pushing a subtle, ghostly mint variegation halo right at the top.
the wild part is the hyper-glossy, mirror sheen. they look almost like poured glass under the cabinet lights, which got me thinking about a theory.
do you think the heavy chemical forcing and synthetic hormones used in modern mass tissue culture cloning are actively diluting the natural waxy gloss, thickness, and unique cellular traits of standard retail lines?
these were organically grown from natural corms, completely free of lab intervention, and the undiluted genetic expression is wild. tracking them closely to see how the texture and mint layout shift as the newest leaves harden off.
Sorry if it’s hard to see but it looks more intense in person
by b-e_frags
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Mint? Isn’t mint like small, fragmented variegation and that creates the illusion of lighter coloration. To me they look like a normal Polly. Their color can vary from blackish to green. Similar thing with their texture. I rarely get fully straight leaves and most of them have some sort of waving. Which makes sense when you think about the parents. Sometimes they resemble more sanderiana and sometimes longiloba.