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Dahlia Cafe au lait royal - how clever is nature, bet I won’t get another one of these!

k.e.rk.e.r Posts: 8
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @k.e.r  - that certainly does look like a one off. These mutations do turn up in dahlias.



  • CatDouchCatDouch Posts: 488
    Wow amazing 🤩 
    South Devon 
  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,709
    So pretty
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I'm still waiting for my cafe au lait to open, but it is showing more purple like the colour you have there. I thought I had mixed them up, but maybe its the weather.
  • k.e.rk.e.r Posts: 8
    this is Cafe au Lait Royal and should look like this…!
  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,709
    This is my Café au Lait.  Still full of buds too.
  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,709
    Love the colour of yours @k.e.r
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    How lovely. It is a beautiful dahlia anyway, but the mutations improve it IMO
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Very pretty
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    It's not clever nature, just a genetic mistake. If you were to culture the local petal tissues you would get pure creamy-white and pure purple flowers, perhaps a mix, never the almost exact 45º slice.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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