Re: Plant Identification

**F*@aol.com**

Someone please correct me if I'm in need of correction, but I believe a 
seedling that exhibits characteristics different than those of its presumed parents 
is not accurately called a "sport."  A sport is a mutation arising on a part 
of a plant, e.g., a pink flower on a red flowering rose. This is the source of 
Blushing Knock Out (tm), Rosa 'Radyod', a sport of Conard-Pyle's famous Knock 
Out (tm), Rosa 'Radrazz'. 
The plant in the situation Sheri describes is a chance seedling. E.g., Phlox 
paniculata 'Shortwood' is a chance seedling that arose in a stand of Phlox 
'David' and is the presumed offspring of 'David' and 'Eva Cullum'. 
I guess that makes Eva the daddy and David the mommy. Only in the garden, eh?

JF
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