Re: CULT:Sports--anyone?
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- Subject: Re: CULT:Sports--anyone?
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- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 05:19:16 -0500
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From: Carolyn Schaffner <drsnooks@buffnet.net>
Sterling Okase <sterling_o@yahoo.com>
wants to know:
Is there someone out there that knows what the true
defination of "sport" is? HELP!
======> Since sporting is the major sport in their field, Hosta Experts
are constantly trying to find more information on sports and the wisdom
of some folks who know the definition and other technical and scientific
info may be found in archives. Ask for the URL if you're interested.
As you know, variegated Hosta sport ALL THE TIME! All variegated Hosta
are "unstable", or about to change their spots and stripes and colors
either to all green, or to another sort of variegation. There is an
entire committee devoted to finding and placing on cultivar's
variegations on "wheels" to show the possibilities.
The causes seem to be many, but in general, the genes rearrange
themselves somehow. When a leaf appears which is a sport, the bud at the
base of its petiole can be isolated, or cut, from the crown and removed
with roots and grown on, hopeful that the new crown will produce a whole
plant of leaves with that variegation.
It's this sporting activity that keeps lots of people interested in
Hosta.
The act of sporting seems to be a form of survival of the fittest, and
an adaptation to conditions. Whatever makes one plant sport more often
than another makes for interesting speculations.
Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY where the early daffodils are tiny and
wonderful and who's going to get a Maple Syrup & Pancake fix today!!
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