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Bananas do and will loose their bottom leaves as they grow, so no surprises there.

As you probably know the black flaky stuff on the outside is normal sap, not mildew. As far as u can see there is only mildew present where the frond meats the trunk.

As there is only a small amount of mildew and no signs of rot I don't think the mildew caused the leaf falling off (rather just natural growth). If it gets more chronic mildew it may cause issues in the future. We grow our bannanas outside and powdery mildew between old fronds is a given, and not a concern, however indoor plants are a lot more prone to disease so it may be a worry.

P.s. its not powdery mildew (mildew is white/grey). Its probably just some kinda mold that settled in the crack left by the leaf falling off. I would only be concerned if it is present between young fronds or starts rotting the trunk.

I agree with your parrot, the more seeds the better.

In New Zealand we have a cucumber called the port Albert cucumber, its big, easy to grow, and has tons of seeds. Unfortunately I couldn't find it for sale outside of NZ (maybe under a different name?).

A slightly smaller international alternative, still with lots of big seeds (tho not quite as many), is the Crystal apple cucumber. Its also easy to grow.

We've grown both of them and will grow both again. They get more/bigger seeds when left to mature, but go sour if left for to long. I still love them when they are sour (your parrot might to) but everyone else thinks I'm crazy.

I like the way it seems she's quickly escaping the cameras focus and about to duck behind the tree. It captures her elusive charm.

Makes the photo seem more alive. As if saying "in the corner of your eye you see a red flash above you. You look up, only to see a shaking branch suddenly relieved of weight. And far in the distance is the sound of beating wings."

Sorry :( here's a baby fern to hopefully make you happier

Sorry for getting that wrong, I'll update it to say parasitic rather than carnivorous. Looks like it might be that species. thank you! Will check on it tomorrow to see how its developed

A whole little world

Eyes can sometimes be less deiceving than marketing material.

my auntie, who has one many awards with her rare orchids, still cant figure out some jewel orchids. My own baby jewel orchid was looking beautiful before it got demolished by spidermites (at the time I thought they were just spiders until it was to late). Next time I'm going to try grow them in a bioactive terrarium hopefully they will be happier.

I'd love to see how your setup turns out and what plants you choose to plant, please post an update when you get them.

Is the LED light a grow light? If not that's fine, most normal white LEDs are just as good or often better than cheap grow lights so don't bother switch.

Its really hard to tell from a photo how bright the light is, but my guess is its medium indirect light, high indirect is still really bright.

I would recommend a maidenhair fern, their leaves look amazing, especially with light shining through and they can handle pretty much any level of indirect light.

Another recommendation would be a hoya, there are lots of varietys some have flashy leaves, and they are easy to look after.

Then if you want a challenge: jewel orchids; these orchids have beautiful iridescent leaves and tend to like high humidity, and low to medium indirect light, unfortunately they are an absolute pain to grow.

I also love mounted elkhorn ferns if you want a splash of weird. Very easy to care for.

I have had surprisingly good results with succulents in low light conditions, they grow very slow but seem to usually do fine.

Morganella purpurascens seems to be normally greypurplish (hence the name) not white. However the main reason I think it isn't M. purpurascens is because M. purpurascens is a wood grower and your photo shows a gravely lawn (no tree matter), this isn't the correct habitat for M. purpurascens.

I agree its probably a puffball though it could still be the young egg of another shroom

As another commenter said its pretty impossible to identify a puffball to speceis level based on a single photo. I'm not a fungi expert, but I don't think an expert could either (though they would have better knowledge on what it might be).

For more insight, watch it grow, do the little spikes fall off? What color does it turn? Does the skin start to scale? What color is the inside? Does it develop a stem like structure? Does it bruise? How does it smell? Does a pattern emerge when you rub off the spikes? Does something hatch out of the egg? Ect. In the end I still probably won't be able to tell you its species. but at least we will have a better idea.

I'm learning to, so I will have missed some info to look out for as it grows.

And always remember the possibility that it could be the egg of another shroom, perhaps a poisness amanita (though look for not just amanita egg but other shroom eggs to), hence, looking at the inner structure and waiting to see how they mature.

And I can post images again!

(I'm guesing the outing was due to server changes that allowed this)

Yep, the only exception I can think of is if its a ladybird, cos then I find the opposite to be true

You said you got it from online so i did a quick search for matching images and the photo comes from Trees South africa (the watermark that is partly cropped out in your image says this to) according to their website it is Harpephyllum caffrum.

https://trees-sa.co.za/tree/harpephyllum-caffrum/

Higher resolution image is on this sight which further back up it being Harpephyllum caffrum (leaf shape and arrangement match) def not karaka as karaka leaves are shaped differently.

Edit: red --> resolution (stupid auto correct)