Honey, why does that read Okra?

The other day I was expressing a concern to my husband about the Jamaica plants that had these little tiny clear balls on the bottom of the leaves.   I sent him some pictures and he said it was potentially some kinda disease.

Tiny Clear Balls

I then showed him the pot making the point that the plant looked fine and it even had a bud on it.

Okra

To this he said to me, "Honey, why does that read Okra?"   I laughed at this and realized that I had mistaken the Okra plant for the Jamaica plant.  They do have certain similarity as the plant has a tine or red here and there.
Being the case that this plant was actually okra, my husband was not the appropriate person to ask about this.   I put away the plant and we continued to talk about other things.   Later that night I researched the okra balls.    Turns out that this is quite normal for okra.  What happens is that a healthy okra plant leaks out sap through the bottom of the leaves and at the stem as well.   The sap then dries and forms these little balls.  But many people had this same question I did.   Some even thought they were eggs of some sort of pest.  So that was my okra adventure.  

Here is a picture of the okra bud I mentioned.

Okra Bud