This one is similar to dischidia oiantha but a variegated version and more popularly sold in nurseries.
This type has white border around the foliage.
This one grows much slower than the green version.
I noticed that it turns more green when in shade and the white variegation appears more when it is exposed to more sunlight.
If you experienced the whole plant is sort of gone thin and withered - this can be totally revived by placing the root ball submerged in water for overnight - the whole plant spring back to live within a day but do not leave it more than a day or the whole thing will succumb to rot.
This particular one had pushed all the variegation in a single stem - notice the whole thing is in white. Normally the plant is trying the ditch all the colors in this strand and focus more on the green Chlorophyll formation on other parts of the foliage - I often notice this in most variegated formed plants especially when it is not stable.
Basic Care & Maintenance of Dischidia:
Medium:
This require a fast draining medium - something like orchid medium mix.
It does well with a mixture of perlite, sphagnum moss, cocopeat & bark mix.
It should not be a strong drainage mix where it doesn't hold any moisture at all but it should not be holding water too where the roots and stem can rot too. The balance of both is ideal.
Sometimes the nursery plant them - rolling them in a coconut husk making a ball from it. Another medium will be coconut husk stuffed inside a seashell with the dischidia hanging from it.
For sometime - it would look cool but eventually it get spend and burned due to lack of root growth and nutrients - making the plant leggy and trying to escape elsewhere.
Watering:
I water daily and twice during the hot dry days. These can go without water for few days to a week and perhaps you have to take note on how the foliage appearance - if it appears withered or drying than watering is mandatory. The downside of watering will cost the leaves to turn yellow and start rotting - therefore - the right balance is necessary.
Dischidia is not a totally shade loving plant but you can place them in bright indoors area. I for one had experience where when it is placed in dark areas - they rarely show new growth and appears to be very leggy (the leaves nodes along the stem appear to phase out far apart and it is very unsightly especially when you prefer to have a compact foliage plants)
These are trailing plant and more on the wild side. The seemed to do well in most unforgiving conditions but at times - just barely surviving and it is indeed a slow growing plant - so don't expect much if you received a small cuttings and looking forward for new growth - It may take many months to actually notice anything.
I for one, just place them in their ideal spot and consider that done there and routinely water them on daily basis and weekly spray flowering fertilizer on them hoping them to bloom. Otherwise, it's another trailing foliage plant that I'm contented with.
Other Factors:
1) Do take effort to foliar fertilizer on them to induce new growth or else it will remain in that same size for months.
2) It's a trailing plant - so do allow space for it to grow and trail heavy, it will climb and vine everywhere - so do take note on that garden space in place them permanently as once it captured and coiled within the garden space - it will be difficult to remove them without cause damage to the vine or foliage.
3) This plant does produce aerial roots and may start off new shoots hence a new plant from a different location where it had rooted. You can propagate new plants from here but do it soon or if in case it had established itself - it would be too difficult to remove them without damaging them.
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