CNN World | New Zealand houseplant sells for $19,200 in online bidding war

Auckland, New Zealand (CNN) – A houseplant with just nine leaves has sold for a record-breaking $19,297 on a New Zealand auction site.

Bids for the “very rare white variegated Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma” closed Sunday night, rising in the last four minutes as bidder “foliage_patch” battled the eventual winner, tagged “meridianlamb.”

Trade Me spokesperson Millie Silvester told CNN that the plant was “the most expensive houseplant ever sold” on the auction site.  —read more—