J Fortuna wrote:
It's a spike!
Today when I held it up to look at it in the light I noticed that if one
looks into that leaf under a certain angle in the right light, one can see
there is a bud in there. :-)

By the way, in response to Steve's suggestion: the leaf looked to me as
though it would go in the alternate direction not the same direction as the
previous one. But I can definitely see a bud in there.

Thank you all.
Joanna

Very good and congratulations! Now I wonder how many months it will
torture you before it actually produces a flower?

Steve