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Nov 29, 2013 8:25 PM CST
Kentucky 😔 (Zone 6a)
Cactus and Succulents Region: Kentucky Moon Gardener Plant and/or Seed Trader Tropicals Plant Identifier
Garden Ideas: Level 2
Here's the red chameleon!

Just so you know what your looking at, the leaves emerge in a variety of colors ranging, it looks like a velvety redish blush overlaying a bright yellow, the red gives way to the bright yellow over the course of a week or so, after that the leaves continue to deepen in color, until they are VERY similar in color to a mature leaf of violet stem.
Each leaf had also had a speck of very bright medium green, it's a unique color to just be green.
The overall appearance of the new leaves looks like a big really bad bruise.
The stems a very dark purple, somehow different in color than most of purple stem colocasias.
Note the leaf shape as well, narrow, long and scolloped, unusual.

I haven't seen the actual tuber of the mother plant, the tuber on the pup was short and think, like a short hot dog, unusual as well, there's now a stolon snaking around on the soils surface.



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Each of those is a pic of a different leaf.

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This is maybe 3-4 weeks later.



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The next leaf!

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And the one after...

Just look at that color!

Bad weather, poor sighting, and MOLES nearly took the plant shortly after this, I dig it up and saved it, but failed to continue documenting it, it recovered very well!
Please tree mail me for trades, I'm ALWAYS actively looking for more new plants, and love to trade!

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