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aglaonema mahal Aglaonema 'Apple Fantasy'Aglaonema 'Apple Fantasy' Soft pink midribs, cream speckled sections and fresh green leaf areas give Aglaonema 'Apple Fantasy' its soft pink, cream and green colouring. The oval leaves rise from short upright stems, then overlap into a dense, rounded clump as new shoots develop from the base. Each leaf carries a slightly different mix of colour. Some leaves show more cream and pale yellow green, while others place the strongest pink along the midrib
Aglaonema 'Apple Fantasy'
Soft pink midribs, cream-speckled sections and fresh green leaf areas give Aglaonema 'Apple Fantasy' its soft pink, cream and green colouring. The oval leaves rise from short upright stems, then overlap into a dense, rounded clump as new shoots develop from the base.
Each leaf carries a slightly different mix of colour. Some leaves show more cream and pale yellow-green, while others place the strongest pink along the midrib and petiole. The smooth, lightly glossy surface shows the pattern clearly.
Apple Fantasy leaf pattern and growth
- Colourful Chinese evergreen with oval green, cream and pink leaves
- Pink midribs and flushed petioles visible through the centre of the crown
- Short cane-like stems that build a compact, leafy clump
- Slow to moderate indoor growth in warm, filtered light
- Loose, lightly moist substrate keeps air around the fleshy roots
Tropical background and leaf development
Aglaonema is a genus of tropical aroids native from north-eastern India through Southeast Asia to New Guinea. Wild species grow in warm, humid forest habitats under filtered light. The name Aglaonema comes from Greek words meaning “shining stamen”, a reference to the flower structure.
Aglaonema 'Apple Fantasy' is grown indoors as a foliage plant. New leaves emerge rolled from the central crown and open softer in colour before hardening. Older leaves usually deepen slightly with age, so a mature plant often shows brighter new growth above deeper older foliage.
A close pot size dries more evenly, warmth helps new leaves emerge instead of stalling in the crown, and filtered light reduces scorch marks on the pale leaf sections.
Care for Aglaonema 'Apple Fantasy'
- Light: Bright filtered light or medium indirect light suits this cultivar. Harsh midday sun can mark the pale sections, and very dark positions produce smaller, slower leaves.
- Watering: Water when the upper 2–4 cm of substrate feel dry. Keep the root ball lightly moist during active growth, then let it dry a little further when growth slows.
- Substrate: Use an airy aroid-style mix with fine bark, coco coir or a quality potting base, plus perlite or pumice for drainage. The mix should hold some moisture while staying open around the roots.
- Drainage: A pot with drainage holes is essential. Empty the cover pot after watering so the lower root zone stays above stale water.
- Temperature: Aim for 18–28 °C. Cold windowsills, draughts and temperatures below about 15 °C can stress the stems and roots.
- Humidity: Around 50–70% humidity with gentle airflow reduces stuck, crinkled or torn new leaves.
- Feeding: Apply a balanced houseplant fertiliser at reduced strength while the plant is producing new leaves. Lower the dose when fewer new leaves appear, so unused fertiliser salts do not build up around the roots.
- Pot choice: Choose a pot only slightly larger than the root ball so moisture moves through the substrate evenly.
- Repotting: Refresh the mix when roots fill the pot or the substrate has compacted. Repot while the plant is actively producing leaves, so damaged root tips are replaced more quickly.
- Pruning: Cut yellow or tired lower leaves at the base of the petiole. Older cane sections can be shortened if the plant becomes leggy.
- Propagation: Divide basal shoots with roots, or root cane cuttings with visible nodes in warm, humid conditions.
Apple Fantasy leaf and root checks
- Yellow lower leaves with wet substrate: Check for overwatering, compact mix or a cold root zone. Let the pot dry slightly and improve drainage before watering again.
- Brown leaf tips: Mineral build-up, irregular watering or dry warm air are common causes. Flush the pot occasionally and keep fertiliser weak.
- Pale dry patches: Direct sun can scorch soft or pale leaf areas. Move the plant back from harsh light and keep exposure filtered.
- Soft stems or sour-smelling soil: Inspect the roots for rot. Remove damaged roots and restart the plant in fresh airy substrate.
- Fine speckling, sticky residue or cottony clusters: Inspect leaf undersides, petioles and new growth for spider mites, scale or mealybugs. Isolate and treat early.
- Small new leaves: Low light, depleted substrate, a tight root ball or cool temperatures can all reduce leaf size. Adjust one factor at a time and judge the next new growth.
Apple Fantasy safety note
Like other Aglaonema, 'Apple Fantasy' contains insoluble calcium oxalate crystals and is toxic if ingested. Plant tissue eaten or nibbled by pets or people can irritate the mouth and throat and may cause drooling, vomiting or swallowing difficulty. Keep it out of reach of children and pets, and avoid sap contact when pruning or propagating.
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★★★★★ 5
Laurence Stern is still one of the most creative writers ever
This review is not about the words and images inside the book. This is about the fact that, when I removed the book from its packaging, the book's cover had too many creases and bends in it, both front and back, for my taste. Although I do think that Laurence Sterne might have smiled at my response, I don't think the creases were a type of samizdat (think Alexander Solzhenitsyn) added by a disgruntled/creative employee at Amazon. If this doesn't make any sense to you, or seems to be a silly mountain out of a molehill compliant, you will love the book.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2025
★★★★★ 5
A Few Thoughts on Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Shandy is an amazing book. More than anything it made me think of a late 1990s vibe with Seinfeld and David Foster Wallace. I can imagine the discourse that must have grown up around it. It I about memory and storytelling but also about nothing but also childbirth and siege warfare. I’m glad I read it; it was worth it even if it took a while.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2023
★★★★★ 5
A Dyadic Review: Baffling, Brilliant
Difficult. Rewarding.
Serious. Hilarious.
Wise. Faux-wise.
Scholarly. Mock-scholarly.
Observant. Absurdly, obsessively observant.
Sharp characterizations. Ridiculous characters.
Devout. Bawdy.
Endearing. Frustrating.
Genius. Barking mad.
Narratively incoherent. Stream-of-consciousness associative.
Consistently provincial. Profoundly universal.
Mired in the 18th century. Harbinger of 20th century literary Modernism.
Baffling. Brilliant
Not for every taste. For my taste.
And while I'm at it, let me give a shout-out for the out-of-print Norton critical edition, which provides many helps, essay avenues of understanding, and a clever chapter summary/table of contents. For so many years - since reading Moby Dick in grad school with the help of a Norton critical - this publication line has been my go-to for great texts: useful annotations, contemporary reviews, later scholarly articles, and more.
And also let me give a shout-out to Anton Lesser, who narrated the complete novel for Naxos. I have never, ever experienced an audiobook as masterfully produced and narrated as Naxos' Tristram Shandy. No, it is simply not a book one can listen to and fully comprehend as heard. But one might read while listening, or listen while reading, with - if you have the riight software - the narration sped up closer to one's own reading speed, and experience the full majesty of Lesser's absolute preparation, with Latin, Greek, French, and German - as well as regional English - beautifully and humorously intoned, character voices carefully differentiated, tone and mood captured, etc. Or, as I do, go for a walk and listen as you walk, and afterward slip into a comfy chair, crack the novel open, and continue from where you left off, or backtrack if necessary to sort out the characters. In any event, and particularly for devotees of audio books, do find Anton Lesser's note-perfect reading, a veritable radio serial, perhaps the last book you'd expect anyone to attempt single-handedly, with My Father, My Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, Doctor Slop, Widow Wadman, and all the rest of the supporting characters beautifully, consistently interpreted. Lesser is, in a galaxy of fine narrators, the greatest I've heard: an absolutely peerless voice actor in a most demanding work.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2016
★★★★★ 5
Brilliant stream of consciousness style, *extremely* humorous
"The Life and Opinions..." is perhaps impossible to really classify. It purports to be a biography of the fictional Tristram Shandy, but I don't think you can call something a biography when it only covers a year or so of the subject's life! I would say that more than half of the novel actually falls into the "Opinions" referred to in the title. The rest consists of short stories on Tristram's father, uncle, and a couple other minor characters.
I have never in my life read so many digressions from the topic at hand, most of which were utterly irrelevant but the charm of it is that Sterne *knows* they're irrelevant, but mockingly expresses his license of authorship in forcing the reader to go off on these sidetracks. His attitude is: "If you can't wait a chapter or two to get back to the story, well, go take a flying leap, I'm the author." Sometimes the digressions are exasperating. Very unlike Victor Hugo's signature habit of digressing, say when a certain main character in Notre Dame decides to enter the Paris sewers, Hugo takes thirty or more pages to give a history of the design and construction of the Paris sewer system. At least Hugo's digressions have *something* to do with the story.
Well, maybe that's the problem. There isn't a main story in this novel. It's not a storybook. There are many short stories nested within the main framework, but there is no real protagonist or overarching theme of any sort. Indeed, the end comes abruptly and there is absolutely no resolution of any conflict.
It's not trying to teach anything, really.
So what is it? I'm not sure. More a comedy than anything else. Right up there with Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" in terms of humor, but lacking the story. Maybe funnier than Dickens and just as clever. I was rolling in the aisles so many times I lost count.
I read the Penguin edition, edited by Melvyn & Joan New. The back cover does a better job than I could ever do in providing a sense of what you're getting into when you pick this one up:
"No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations."
It's a large work, it will take a while to work through. It's worth it. There are passages I want to go back to and make copies of to tape to the walls, they're that brilliant.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2005
★★★★★ 3
Interesting read, but takes some getting used to
I heard about this book on a blog, and figured I'd check it out. It's the rambling tale of a man determined to give you every last detail of everything that might be important to the narrative of his life. Unfortunately, he goes on tangets so often that he doesn't even get to his birth for several chapters, let alone the story of the rest of his life. Along the way, you're introduced to lots of random characters who are (at best) loosely related to the protagonist, but as often as not these tangents are fairly amusing.
The writing is pretty dense, and this along with the tangents had me putting the book down fairly often. It's probably ideal for a commuting book, but I never wanted to just sit down and blitz through big chunks of it.
Overall it's a very different kind of experience than a novel reader typically gets. It's worth a read for a change of pace, but I can't say it's a life-altering read.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2013