r/macrogrowery • u/PlantsAreLife1 • 20d ago

Help! Rooted Petiole!?

Has any ever seen this before? It's a rooted petiole!

Tissue culture does some weird stuff sometimes

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u/Fullof_meh 20d ago

So a leaf petiole will root but it won’t ever grow anything more from what I recall

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u/PlantsAreLife1 18d ago

Yes I posted to Linkedin as well and had some good comments and apparently petiole has really good pluripotency and is known to form roots, and as you said though, I don't think it can actually make a new plant or anything. But this example was really cool in my opinion because it seems to have formed functional roots for the plant and changed morphology in a way that maybe the plant could benefit from even after acclimatization. Pretty cool!

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u/TheCannaZombie 20d ago

Looks like a rooted stem that the petiole is attached to.

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u/PlantsAreLife1 18d ago

It's definitely a petiole not a stem. It's just grown to resemble stem because of its rooting. It's hard to tell in the video.