Umbrella plant leaf drop...help

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  1. eddybaby

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    My lovely 40 year old Umbrella plant is shedding lots of leaves, yet producing new shoots. As you can see it's almost 6ft tall. I repotted it about two years ago and removed a cutting which is thriving but also loosing the odd leaf. Any help or advice would be appreciated. TIA 20250226_132108.jpg
     
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    Stuck in a corner it may be stressed due to a lack of light and to cold. It also might like to be misted occasionally.
     
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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Lower leaf loss is probably normal although as long as they go yellow first.

    It probably is growing upwards in to darkness, if you see what I mean, which is not really how plants would grow in nature.
     
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