Hi bigdog,
Your obsevation on my pics was sharp and correct.
I cut down little by little and then at last found the pleace where the center
rolled young leaf is rotten, and cutting down to the basement the situation
was worse than the upper portion.
You can see from the pic that the stem is still green and solid and nobody
would suspect something terrible was happening inside the stem.
I have learned that Raja Puri is a rather difficult and cold sensitive species
than is told publically.
Stan
