Black Elephant Ear

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Rocco
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I saw the sun shining through this leaf,and I snapped this pic.
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Cool! So in any other lighting, this would be a black leaf, huh?
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JaneH, This is a pic of the front of that leaf.
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Very :cool: pic, Rocco! :D
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