乔迁新居,朋友送来一盆花,让我点缀客厅。这是一盆龟背竹,株形不大,没有艳丽的花朵,仅有叶片可观,所以不很引人。女儿见那瘦小的叶形与自己儿时所画的鸭掌相似,就称它是“丑小鸭”,不让放在客厅。无奈,我只好把“丑小鸭”安置在阳台上。 也许是此前吃饱喝足了,“丑小鸭”长得挺健壮,不几天就长出了一片新叶。新叶刚长出时,嫩黄的,蜷曲着,像雨后脱壳的蝉翅,不多时便直起了腰杆,撑起了手掌般大小的叶片。更令人称奇的是,新叶子并非从新芽上长出,而是整个地从旧叶柄基部 Moved to a new home, a friend sent a potted plant, let me embellishment living room. This is a basin of monstera, small plant shape, no bright flowers, only the leaves considerable, so not very attractive. Seeing her thin leaf shape resembles that of her own, the daughter calls it an “ugly duckling,” so as not to let it sit in the living room. Helpless, I had to “ugly duckling” placed on the balcony. Perhaps before satiate, “ugly duckling” looks very robust, a few days to grow a new leaf. Just grow a new leaf, bright yellow, curled, as the shell after the rain cicada wings, a little while straight up the spine, hold up the palm-sized leaves. Even more amazing is that the new leaves do not grow from the new shoots, but the entire base from the old petiole