Okay, so here is the story about how I almost got put into planty jail.

So, apartment botanist was just a few months old and I was online shopping and experimenting with, you know, buying from here and there and everywhere and I was

particularly looking for this plant called the Deschidia numeralia hopefully I'm saying

that right it's a also known as the string of nickels or a button orchid.

Really pretty hanging plant with these cute little button round leaves.

And I couldn't find it anywhere and it was recommended to me to shop from this place on ETSE that was selling it

it had a listing for it so I went ahead I purchased it it came from South Korea and it came

within a week really really fast came the plant was beautiful and I thought from there all was well so a few

months later I started seeing on Instagram these posts pop out about people basically complaining that the USDA was coming over to

their house and taking their plant and it happened to of course be the same

plant that I had gotten and from the same place.

So I was like, oh shoot, I think that the USDA is going to come take my plant.

And I remember joking with my family at the time, like, hey guys, I think the government's going to come over and take my plant.

And they're like

stop it less like you're being so dramatic and I was like all right so then a few

weeks later my mom was over the apartment she was helping me clean being

really helpful and all of a sudden my front buzzer rings and I talked to my door man I'm like hey what's up and he's like so the

USDA is here and I was like wait who he was like the United States Department of

Agriculture I was like oh that USDA send them up.

So they come up and I kind of shout to my mom.

I was like, hey Ma, shut the vacuum off.

The government's here.

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