May 14 2009
The Varieties of Leaves
One plant we have growing in our yard my wife has called “chicken and eggs.” I think. I don’t know the formal name. What I do know is that it has very odd leaves. If they are called leaves. Half like an aloe vera stem (that plant is referred to as an all-stem, stemless plant, go figure), half like an obese pre-leaf.
Wild. Are those things leaves? Are they, evolutionarily-speaking, pre-leaves? (Not to themselves are they pre-anything!). Photo-receptive lobes? I don’t know what to think about them. Which is a good thing sometimes.
