Above is a full grown plant with ideal dimensions grown under normal conditions the past 4 years in George. The photo was taken earlier this year. The leaf width is 9cm and the leaf length is also 9cm, giving it the ideal ratio of 1:1. As you can see from the photo above, the leaves are circular because of these ideal dimensions. It can be called a true round leaf. It grow as fast as any normal clivia, pushing out new leaves at a regular rate.
In 2006 when I visited Mr Zhu Jifu in Shenyang he has given me four miniature seedlings. Two of them variegated and the other two green leaves. At that time it was a new creation of Mr Zhu and he told us the price of a full grown broad leaf miniature is approximately 100000 RMB. These plants seldom flower, and if they flower it might be out of season. Of these four plants none has flowered up to date. Unfortunately this rare and beautiful plant did not escape the locust attacks earlier this year, despite of me entering the shade house a couple of times a day to get rid of them. This beautiful plant is now reduced to something worthless, but it will recover soon as only the leaves were damaged.
Above is another miniature that was given to me in 2006 by Mr. Zhu. This plant is even smaller than the one in the first photo with leaves only 3.5cm in length. The leaves are 5 cm wide as can be seen in the photos below.
Above photo was taken in 2006 when the plants were given to me as seedlings. They were at least one year old at that stage.
