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In message , Janet Tweedy
writes My Patty's Plum poppy has flowered well, (unfortunately in the pot that I inadvertently left on top of the rockery as I forgot what was in it!) Whilst three flowers are of the usual dusky pink, one has unfurled with the most wonderful deep burgundy coloured petals. How can I propagate this, indeed can I? Mostly I take root cuttings but am not sure why one part of the plant should have developed this way, so I am unsure what portion of the roots will control that colour. Does Patty's Plum normally have a varied colouring to the flowers? Janet Possibly a sport, but developmental anomalies does occur, especially among the first few flowers. If it's a sport you could try sowing seed collected from the anomalous flower, but there's no guarantee that it would come true. I doubt that root cuttings would be any help to you - the mutant phenotype probably doesn't extend into the root system. The question is whether you can vegetatively propagate from green material of this plant - tissue culture would probably do the trick, but you'd have to convince someone with the kit that your plant is worth the effort. The other method of propagation commonly mentioned for Oriental Poppies is division, but this probably doesn't help either - the plant will probably die back below the base of the sport. You can watch the distribution of flower colour on the plant, and see if there's any evidence of the sport extending into the stock, in which case division would be possible. I suggest that you collect seed - it's probably worth a try - and once you've got some seed look into other means of propagation. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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