[PRIMROSES] Variegated Hosta propagation

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• Subject: [PRIMROSES] Variegated Hosta propagation
• From: H* A* <H*@MAILBOX.SWIPNET.SE>
• Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 11:44:44 +0100

Clyde Crockett suggested that variegated hostas may result from sowing seed
from variegated mother plants.

Nancy Swell commented:
<I think that the odds are almost nonexistant>

I agree and would like to add:

Variegation in Hosta is normally not sexually reproduced and normal
Mendelian rules of inheritance does not hold. Variegation results from
mutation of genes in the plastids (intracellular bodies having important
functions, i. e. photosynthesis). The plastids and their genes are
transmitted only from the mother plant.

In George Schmid : The Genus Hosta  the author states that self-fertilized
yellow-leaved cultivars will produce abour 40 per cent yellow offspring in
the first generation but other leaf characteristics are not similarly
transferred. There is surely great individual variations.


Hubert

Hubert Agback, Uppsala Sweden Min Temp -25C
Hubert.Agback@mailbox.swipnet.se

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