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Rick

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Ok my exstaminodium for 2012
exstaminodium2012WP.jpg

Not bad looking from this distance
nostamflower.jpg

A fairly typical flower with a staminode fragment
fullstamflower.jpg

A full staminode like you'd expect on a normal popowii but on the flower right next to the staminode-less flower.

Here's a link to last years blooming. Flowers were darker, and one flower had absolutely no hint of staminode.

http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20218&highlight=exstaminodium
 
Um, are you sure that's the same plant? :rolleyes:
Yes it really is:wink: Attached is an article I pulled up a year or so ago that, barring translation difficulties, says that the amount of staminode in exstaminodium flowers is highly variable (including complete). But I didn't understand that to mean highly variable on the same spike!

The last time I talked to Earl Bailey, he heard that the gene/s controling staminode development where like the genes controlling spotting in harlequin phals. Pretty weird.

http://www2.ine.gob.mx/publicaciones/libros/534/cap10.pdf
 


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