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Chrysanthemum Conundrum

rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
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I have had a red chrysanthemum in the same tub for a few years, which has, and still is, flowering beautifully.
This year, a single flower has changed colour - or at least, about 70% of it has. From red to bright yellow.
Does anyone know why this might happen? And whether I can expect further flowers on this plant to change in the future?

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  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Here's what it looked like last year.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    This is a mutation of a single flower, it might occur again, but it might not.
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  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Thank you. I'll keep an eye out for any.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited October 2022
    I have a yellow one (Nantyderry Sunshine) that sometimes produces an entire shoot with pink flowers and sometimes one with half-and-half flowers. This year it has some pink but no half-and-half. I don't like the pink with the yellow so I dig out all the affected shoots every year.
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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    There was a recent discussion about a similar ocurrence on a dahlia.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
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  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    JennyJ said:
    I have a yellow one (Nantyderry Sunshine) that sometimes produces an entire shoot with pink flowers and sometimes one with half-and-half flowers. This year it has some pink but no half-and-half. I don't like the pink with the yellow so I dig out all the affected shoots every year.
    I wondered whether it would be possible to try and replicate the mutated flower, in order to produce an entirely new strain.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    bédé said:
    There was a recent discussion about a similar ocurrence on a dahlia.
    Thank you. I'm new here, and have a lot of searching to do. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    There is no way you can propagate from a flower and propagating from the shoot that flower is on, is no more likely to produce a yellow flower, than any other shoot.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Thank you. It was just a hope!!
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