Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Fasciation in a Brug, 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
This is a fasciated Culebra. It was healthy until the grasshoppers ate most of the top this past summer. It grew back and looked okay for a while. The pot was difficult to get to. So from a distance it looked fine. Yesterday, I was curious enough to make my way to it.

Description of fasciation: from Wikipedia:

Quoting:Fasciation is a condition of plant growth in which the apical meristem, normally concentrated around a single point, producing approximately cylindrical tissue, becomes elongated perpendicularly to the direction of growth, producing flattened, ribbon-like, crested, or elaborately contorted tissue. The phenomenon may occur in the stem, root, fruit, or flower head.

Some sites I visited claim fasciation could be caused by any of the following: mechanical damage, chemical damage, insect damage, bacterial or fungal infections. Most sites I visited say the cause is really unknown.

The Brug is green and is growing well. This is how she looks like from above.