Leaf Development

Leaf Anatomy
-Simple leaf

Lady's finger plant has large, alternate, palmate leaves with small stipules. Leaf margins vary from slightly wavy to very deeply lobed. It consist of a red pigmentation at the base of the leaves.

Forming of new leaf from the lateral branch of shoot.

                                        

Leaves grow from tha axillary bud

Leaf Vein : Palmea

Leaf arrangement: Alternate

Leaf Margin: Lobed

Growing of new leaf
In addition to gaining height, lady’s finger's leaves get bigger as the plants grow.

Change in leaf shape

Leaf margins vary from slightly wavy to very deeply lobed. 

The leaves of the lady's finger plants show different in their shape. The images below show the shape of differences leaves

Cotyledon leaves

             

Observation:

The morphology of leaf change and different compare to previous leaf.

The new leaf will grow bigger than previous leaf.

The average time for a new leaf to emerge is 3-4 days.

The time for the leaf to undergoes senescence is longer compare to previous leaf.

Number of leaf emerging	Pot A	Pot B
Cotyledon	23/9/2015	23/9/2015
1	28/9/2015	28/9/2015
2	1/10/2015	1/10/2015
3	5/10/2015	5/10/2015
4	8/10/2015	8/10/2015
5	12/10/2015	12/10/2015
6	16/10/2015	16/10/2015
7	19/10/2015	19/10/2015
8	22/10/2015	22/10/2015
9	25/10/2015	25/10/2015
10	29/10/2015	29/10/2015
11	1/11/2015	1/11/2015

The recording of leaf emerging from shoot was only able to record until week 7 since when we back from the mid sem break, the plant become unhealthy and some of the leaf fall or eaten by insects. Besides that there are many lateral leaf emerge. It make us cannot record the data accurately.