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I never knew…..

Digging-itDigging-it Posts: 117
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That zinnias could have different coloured flowers on one plant 

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  • Digging-itDigging-it Posts: 117
    Apologies for photo orientation, couldn’t get it right 🥴
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I never knew either!
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I expect one colour will be the original, standard colour, and the other will be a cultivated form that's reverting. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Digging-itDigging-it Posts: 117
    It was grown from seed but I’m very happy to have more colour, it was just unexpected.
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Growing from seed wouldn’t make a difference. I think Fairygirl was talking about the tendency for some plants to start partially reverting to the characteristics one of the parent plants used to create its variety. So you can get two colours of flower or leaf on the same plant. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • Digging-itDigging-it Posts: 117
    Very interesting, I wonder where this diversification happens. I’m in the habit of dead heading most of my flowering plants, by clipping the pink flower once faded presumably another one could grow from that point or perhaps the paler type would take over. I did a short course in genetics at college once and it was very intriguing how this all takes place.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I have a yellow chrysanthemum that sometimes produces a few sprays with pink flowers, and sometimes individual flowers that are half pink and half yellow, split across the middle. I assume it's some kind of mixed-up genetics or partial reversion.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428

    This echinacea has been producing white flowers this year.🤔

    Luxembourg
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