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Re: Faye's plant

At 02:03 PM 01/06/2000 , heartwood wrote:
>Thanks Alan, Tom, Hermine,
>     I had no idea so many Sans. had this coloration.



>Now that i think on it, MANY monocots have red-purple colouring in the
>sheath and even occasionally in the new growth. this bleaches out in the
>sun, and is particularly noticeable on yellow variegated bamboo, which
>emerges rhubarb pink. i think the red pigment protects the more delicate
>chlorophyls. Cycads, some of them, have red, pink, rose or  chocolate new
>foliage which greens up.


hermine
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