Re: MTB vs. BB

Oops, forgot this,

A sport is basically a mutation that occurs not as a result of sexual
variation, but on an existing plant.  It is basically a change in any of the
characteristics of a plant.  A plant that normally produces a white flower,
but one branch decides to produce blue flowers would have produced a blue
sport.  Crested plants are often sports too.  A plant that is normal green and
starts to make purple foliage or perhaps variegated foliage has produced a
sport.  Most sports can be reproduced vegetatively.  Occasionally their new
traits will be transmitted sexually to offspring too, if the mutation is in
the chromosomes and not caused by something else.  Sometimes a sport will
revert back to the original form, and this is usually called just that,
reverting.

If you want to see really good examples of sports, look at 'Mother-in-law's
Tongue' or 'Snake Plant' - Sansevieria trifasciata.  Of the numerous cultivars
out there, some with short leaves, some wide, some tall and narrow, some
striped with endless slightly differing patterns of yellow or white
variegation, some light green, some dark green, some gray-green, most are
derived from one clone!  Most of them can on occasion revert to the same tall
mottled green plant, like the one they all started from.
  I'm confused by the term sport.  Care to clarify?

  Christian
  ky

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