Monk is one of the Typical Chinese clivia. This particular plant was purchased in 2007 because of having the protruding veins trait. This plant looks very poor according to it's form and this is why. It has good gene's but you can not judge from looking at it because it has lost it's roots twice. The longer leaves are from those produced when it had good roots. The shorter are from when the roots were in decline or recovery. It is too bad this plant has been set back and now is stabilized once again. I hope it can keep it's roots so someday I can breed with it.

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