I had this little baby in bad shape for a bite of bread, and recently she's been making pretty small leaves for me. I am in awe of their whiteness and delicacy. But I wonder if it's a white fusion and not a stella …
I’m thinking stella. I hand both and that looks a lot like my stella but I’ll let the experts decide lol. Was it labeled as a white fusion?
Reyori
It is really hard to tell them apart and I only own a White Fusion. But I’ll try:
From what I’ve seen in videos and online, the Calathea Stella often seems to have “dark green tips and borders” on its leaves, while the Calathea White Fusion is the opposite, it often has “white tips and borders”. Meaning: the sides and tip of the leaf on Stellas seem to often be dark-green. This is nearly never the case for the Calathea White Fusion, it instead has white at the edges and at the tip of its leaf. It’s not scientific, but it seems to work for most Stellas and White Fusions I’ve seen online. -> Yours should be a White Fusion.
The White Fusion should also have more light-green on its leaves than the Stella and sometimes 2-3 shades of green, sometimes the pink from the underside also shines through a bit.
As the Stella has more robust leaves, online sources say that it has less color-variation and more direct white/dark green contrast and no sources mentioned pink-leaves (the underside shining through) so far.
EffectiveHelp4477
This is a Goeppertia albertii “White fusion” not a Stella sorry
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I’m thinking stella. I hand both and that looks a lot like my stella but I’ll let the experts decide lol. Was it labeled as a white fusion?
It is really hard to tell them apart and I only own a White Fusion. But I’ll try:
From what I’ve seen in videos and online, the Calathea Stella often seems to have “dark green tips and borders” on its leaves, while the Calathea White Fusion is the opposite, it often has “white tips and borders”. Meaning: the sides and tip of the leaf on Stellas seem to often be dark-green. This is nearly never the case for the Calathea White Fusion, it instead has white at the edges and at the tip of its leaf. It’s not scientific, but it seems to work for most Stellas and White Fusions I’ve seen online. -> Yours should be a White Fusion.
The White Fusion should also have more light-green on its leaves than the Stella and sometimes 2-3 shades of green, sometimes the pink from the underside also shines through a bit.
As the Stella has more robust leaves, online sources say that it has less color-variation and more direct white/dark green contrast and no sources mentioned pink-leaves (the underside shining through) so far.
This is a Goeppertia albertii “White fusion” not a Stella sorry
I have the same plant, it’s white fusion.