LariAnn - although I should probably get out my dictionary and look up most of the words in your message, I think I got the gist of it and the Siamese reference in particular. I've sent an e-mail to our local University in the City to see if they have a staff/department who study such things. It will be interesting to see what their reply is. The last couple of days, the whole plant is acting strange with all the leaves pointing straight up and much closer together than usual in much the same way as Prayer Plant stems will do. thanks again LariAnn, Lin