This plant arrived three years ago as a small seedling and has grown steadily and is now preparing to flower for the first time. It’s Phrag. Red Wing ( Robert C. Silich x besseae ‘rob’s choice (4n) so a triploid.
As you can see, its growth is a bit strange. In all the three years I’ve grown it, it has only ever had a single growth.
It seems to be finally sending up a bud and there is a new growth just appearing at the base.
Normally phrag seedlings would grow for a year or so and then send up another shoot. You might see six leaves at best on a growth, this one has about twelve.
The leaves are also a bit odd. They are quite thick and rigid and only about a inch wide at best.
I wonder whether this plant is a a chromosome mutant.
David
As you can see, its growth is a bit strange. In all the three years I’ve grown it, it has only ever had a single growth.
It seems to be finally sending up a bud and there is a new growth just appearing at the base.
Normally phrag seedlings would grow for a year or so and then send up another shoot. You might see six leaves at best on a growth, this one has about twelve.
The leaves are also a bit odd. They are quite thick and rigid and only about a inch wide at best.
I wonder whether this plant is a a chromosome mutant.
David
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