Billy M. Rhodes wrote:


In a message dated 9/8/2005 3:04:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

I've been pondering mutations in conifers recently


If the original tree planted was a cultivar (and in this case it would
appear both are) then the variant growth is a revert to the species. Frequently
cultivars will revert for no apparent reason, but sometimes it can attributed
to stress of some sort.

Or, "simple" genetics.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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