- Leucoplasts are specialized to plant cells, meaning that you and I don't have them, but everybody's favorite Hygrophila difformis (Water Wisteria) does.
- Leucoplasts are located in the roots and other parts of plants that do not undergo photosynthesis.
- Leucoplasts vary in size depending on the plant, but on average they take up roughly 60% of a plant cell, measuring anywhere from 35-85 micrometers in length. Individually, a leucoplast is smaller than a chloroplast.
- There have been no major studies on the proteinoplast for over thirty years, and the elaioplast hasn't been extensively researched either.
- There are no major "malfunctions" of the leucoplast.
- Leucoplasts can synthesize almost all amino acids.
- Leucoplasts are made up of proteins and lipids. There is a different ratio of protein to lipid for each individual leucoplast.
- Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (left) discovered the leucoplast in 1883.