Tiger tails mutation
@allknowing (153544)
India
August 4, 2023 9:31pm CST
Not the tigers that you see in the wild but in our garden. We have these tiger tails (Acalipha) that normally have a bright red colour.
But one plant has just white tiger tails - there are white tigers too and you know that. We had only planted the red variety. Although red adds brightness to our garden we welcome this as well as anything rare should get a pride of place as well.
I may trim this plant and plant those trimmed branches elsewhere so that we get more white tiger tails.
Any mutations in your garden?.
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@MarieCoyle (59139)
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5 Aug 23
No mutations or oddities here this year. Last year my neighbor had a tomato plant that was so strange--half the plant was tiny cherry tomatoes, the other half were just normal sized. Never saw that before.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
5 Aug 23
That must have been a pretty strange happening Nature does these things. We have these 4 o clock flowers (Mirabilis) When I bought the seeds we got just yellow, white and red and now we get mixed colours on single flowers.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
5 Aug 23
@MarieCoyle In the case of the 4 o clock flowers there has to be more than one colour in the garden for them to mutate.
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@MarieCoyle (59139)
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5 Aug 23
@allknowing
One of my grandmothers absolutely loved 4 o'clocks. I remember hers being a reddish-pink, but that was years ago. I guess the colors must mutate on them as well.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
5 Aug 23
They are both pretty, but I like the red best.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
5 Aug 23
hey are common here but they have a pride of place in our garden
@allknowing (153544)
• India
5 Aug 23
You have to keep a close watch and I hope you will find one soon.
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