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Rare Multicoloured Chrysanthemum Stuns Horticulturalists


Offbeat  (tags: environment, flowers, colours, beauty, nature )

Cher
- 100 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A rare multicoloured chrysanthemum has stunned the horticultural world after it burst into bloom at odds of thousands to one - exactly half pink and half yellow.
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Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (251)
Saturday August 22, 2009, 11:07 am
Absolutely stunning... hope tey will be getting more for sure.. would love some of those in my vase
 

Al F. (21)
Saturday August 22, 2009, 1:24 pm
I think aliens are responsible...no, really...
 

Electra Cy (932)
Sunday August 23, 2009, 12:19 am
If I can find it...
I had a tulip that did that one year.

It was pink and white, or red and white. I can't remember which. :)

HUGZ ~ Electra
 

chris b. (1193)
Sunday August 23, 2009, 3:36 am
I remember many years ago when my brother was an assistant propagator at Brighton Parks Department they bred a dahlia that was multi coloured. It was only displayed for a short while before being destroyed completely.It was orange with red alternatet petals but some mutated solid red and orange and or half and half I believe it might have been named "Disneyland" maybe that was significant, well who else would you blame I don't think the Chinese were on the world stage then and they were probably too busy with their own cultural revolution and it wasn't a chrysanthemum so the Japanese wouln't have been interested althouth I suppose they could have eaten it as an alternative to whalemeat butties! Especially if had research written on it! Gm was only a glint in Monsanto's eye at that time so we can't even blame them Ah well back to the drawing board how about Saddam Hussiens WMDs he was planning to take over the world with alien Dahlias Planting them in the window boxes of te White House and Downing Street. Nothing for it we'll have to go to war in thirty years or so. Can't allow these Plant WMDs to proliferate. In any case the US and Russia will want them!
 

chris b. (1193)
Sunday August 23, 2009, 3:43 am
Actually I'de missed the fact that the seed came from West Susses the next county from East Sussex where the orange and red dahlia came from! Now that has to be genetic mutatation of geographical signifcance as many of the mutant dahlias sported the same 50/50 split as the yellow/white crysanthemum fascinating stuff. I don't know whether to blame aliens, the government or the elusive black cat! Probably something in the Sussex air or water as we did not have Global warming to blame then!
 

Electra Cy (932)
Sunday August 23, 2009, 6:17 am
Mine grew because of their close proximity of each of my bulbs. There was a group of White and a group of the pink or red, can't remember. Right in between the clumps was one that was both colors.

HUGZ ~ Electra :)
 

Tierney G. (302)
Sunday August 23, 2009, 11:45 am
Could be a chimera? This is indeed rare and very hard to propagate. They would have to graft to get it true. Happens with african violets and even humans! Thank you so much Cher!!!!
 
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