Re: CULT:Sports anyone

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• Subject: Re: [iris]CULT:Sports anyone
• From: A*@aol.com
• Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 12:26:14 EDT
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In a message dated 5/6/2006 10:05:33 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
jeffwiris@yahoo.com writes:

<<The initial result of a flower color or pattern mutation is  that when the 
rhizome in which it occurred blooms one side of the same flower  will have the 
original color (pattern) and the other will have the mutated  color (pattern) 
- the technical name
for this is "Chimera". When the clump  is divided, all increase on the side 
of the original rhizome where the  mutation occurred will have only the mutated
characteristics, and all  increase on the other side will retain the original 
 characteristics>>

 
Jeff, thanks for the elaboration.  I'd missed the connection to the  
"Chimera."  I see a lot more "Chimeras" than sports.  Is this because  most people 
don't separate the rhizomes and, being unstable, they revert back to  the normal 
gene configuration before the clump is divided?  
 
Thanks again.  

 
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