I bought this plant a while back and it is growing wonderfully (at least an inch a day!). it is covered in what i presume are seeds or spores but i just want to make sure they are not bugs. i have looked at them very closely and they do not move or cause any damage to the leaves. they also appear to be ordered neatly around the leaf. they start as a clear egg like bubble and slowly produce a black 'seed' from within the bubble. i've searched high and low for the name of this plant but can't find it anywhere. any ideas?
Ask what the plant is at a nursery with a full line of house plants. Maybe you can even find another one for sale, with a label.
thanks so much! that's what it is. any idea if the black things are normal? i can't find much information on that...and don't see them in other pictures of them.
Break off a leaf with the foreign object on it, place it in a plastic baggy and take it to your local garden shop or nursery. Maybe someone there can take a closer look and give you more information.
This plant produces flowers followed by seed bearing berries so that eliminates the possibility that they are seeds. I had a look at four plants at different stores. The things were present on two of those plants and only on a few of their leaves. They appear to be the result guttation; the clear spheres on one leaf were in a liquid state and sticky to the touch. Under a 10x lens the darker spheres appeared to be clear ones in the process of drying, collapsing, and becoming opaque - perhaps the result of mold activity. These observations and the pattern of where the spheres occur lead me to believe these things are a natural occurrence for this plant.
I have this same plant and it also has these black spots on it!! Its good to know they are not harmful or some kind of bug! Thanks!!
I was reading this thread when it appeared as a link in another post. I got intrigued with these black dots, so had a look in www. I came across this which may illustrate the answer as given by Junglekeeper above. The plant appears to exude clear sap. Presumably it is this sweet sap which dries out to form the black dots. There are a couple of good pics......by oortclouddomicile » Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:13 pm http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about11494.html?p=85085&hilit=Fleshy#p85085 raywadhams original pics show the black dots on the back of the leaf and on the stems, which seems to tie in with the "biology on line" site pics
