Re: CULT:Sports--anyone?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk]CULT:Sports--anyone?
- From: J* C*
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:18:49 PST
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
>I haven't done any real research
>on what defines a sport but my impression of what I
>have read seems to suggest that any part of a plant
>that grows or flowers differently from the rest of the
>plant is a mutation of the original plant and
>considered a sport.
I can tell you what is not a sport.
Ageing mother reported a sport on one of her prized pelergoniums recently.
Quite amazing really, because the main plant had pink flowers, and the
'sport' was a bright red. very contrasting. She pointed out that it was very
much like the plant nearby, and could it possibly have got 'crossed' in
someway.
I quickly determined that it had indeed got 'crossed' and that the 'sported'
section was actually growing from the nearby plant, with a long branch
extending into the pink flowered bush!
I don't think sporting is a very uncommon occurrence. My neighbor reported
only yesterday, a pink double sport on a yellow rose bush with single
flowers. I have had a few sports over the years, with the most notable being
a beautiful citrus green bottle brush flowering on a red flowered
callistemon. Unfortunately I was to inexperienced a gardener at the time to
take cuttings and grow this sport on, but it was definitely growing from a
branch of the same plant.
Iris growers who grow thousands of varieties are quite likely to see a sport
from time to time.
Cheers, Jan Clark. in Australia, where daylight savings has just ended, and
I discovered to late, that I was entitled to an extra hours sleep in this
morning!
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