Hello all!

I have a problem with one of my birds of paradise. 

I live in Arizona and the plant is indoors near window. It doesn't get direct light but more indirect west exposure. However it seems do be doing okay there and grows new leafs. I mist it daily. 

The problem is with one of the stems.  It seems like the new leaf just never separated from the stem while was forming and is stuck on it!? It looks like it's a part of the stem. 

I couldn't find anything about this online. 

What can be done to help fix the situation?

Thanks?

41 minutes ago, Katepalmsphx said:

Hello all!

I have a problem with one of my birds of paradise. 

I live in Arizona and the plant is indoors near window. It doesn't get direct light but more indirect west exposure. However it seems do be doing okay there and grows new leafs. I mist it daily. 

The problem is with one of the stems.  It seems like the new leaf just never separated from the stem while was forming and is stuck on it!? It looks like it's a part of the stem. 

I couldn't find anything about this online. 

What can be done to help fix the situation?

Thanks?

Katepalmphx,

Welcome to the forum,

More than likely it ( the new leaf in question ) just needs a little more time to beak away from it's current position.  The other thing you might try  ( ..although you'd have to be extremely careful not to damage the new leaf in the process ) is running the edge of something like  a knife along the upper edge to help free it a little more.. Very risky though.. 1st option is probably the best.  It might be a bit ruffled when it decides to emerge, but should be fine once fully opened. 

Plant itself looks healthy otherwise..

Hope this helps.

Hi Katepalmsphx,

I had the same problem and therefore I scraped mine as it already grew to big and looked ugly. Each new leaf had problems opening and finally it looked like cutted into pieces. Never found a reason as conditions didn't change over the time.

Good luck with yours

Eckhard