Plant Mum or dad
It has been a few months for the reason that new development has been shocked and the darkish edges have appeared on each leaf.
The general plant:
Darryl
Thanks for the photographs. Your plant undoubtedly has a extreme thrips infestation:
- The rusty brown patches and tough leaf texture is the harm brought on by thrips consuming away on the leaf floor and laying eggs into the leaf tissue.
- The yellowish flecks are thrips larvae:
IMPORTANT: it is best to transfer this plant away out of your different vegetation as thrips can simply unfold to adjoining vegetation.
On your particular plant, it is best to lower off the leaf within the photograph – it’s severely infested.
Right here’s my detailed article on treating thrips.
Sooner or later, it is best to get conversant in how thrips look so you’ll be able to act on the infestation a lot earlier reasonably than let it get this dangerous.
Good luck!