Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterflies Page 5, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
I am wondering too, Adrienne.....

When I was growing my Maypops from seed and many are still young vines, the leaves looked different, but as the plant got thicker and older the leaves changed into what I call the adult, mature leaves that is consistent with Maypops. Ironically, all the ones that were finally transplanted into the ground at the end of last year still have the "immature" leaves. And so do some vines in the thick jumbled mess on the other side of my yard. I would have thought by now that all would have mature leaves since they are ALL over a year old. Interesting .... I wonder what causes the leaves to mature?

I took this photo just now to show you how different the leaves look that are all from the same vine. Weird, huh?