I recieved some piper sylvaticum in a shipment a few months back. Unfortunaly I dont have a good enough macro lens to take a picture up close, so i will have to describe what I am seeing. On the leaves and stems, I am finding these sticky, perfectly clear, circular round balls. They look to be roughly the size of a grain of salt, maybe a little smaller. At first, I thought it must be eggs of some kind of bug. But after months, I have not seen any bug. I can wipe them away, and they come right back...... The plant does not look to be suffering, but the last thing I want to do is introduce this into any viv and infect other plants. For now its isolated. I dont think this is any kind of sap the plant is oozing. These really look like itty bitty salt grain sized crystal clear christmas ornaments. Any ideas?????
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