Yeah, I was wondering if there was something funny with the plant. Maybe I need to do a normals forward on it.

Still doesn't explain the neck, in any case, which is my bigger concern. I've been rendering with higher and higher settings to see what happens. Right now my settings are on the "ridiculous" end of the scale; I'll see where that gets me when the render is done in a couple minutes....

______________

Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X/MSI MAG570 Tomahawk X570/Zotac Geforce GTX 1650 Super 4GB/32GB OLOy RAM

Software: Windows 10 Professional/Poser Pro 11/Photoshop/Postworkshop 3