What are we looking at in that photo, four?

A cartoonish nibbler.

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(Both the Salvia and the Aristolochia are performing well this year, by the way.)

Hi, four,

"Are these plants recognizably triploid?"

They look like specimens of Zinnia peruviana (Peruvian Zinnia).

I am not even close to being able to detect ploidy from a photo. I might be able to detect tetraploidy from a microscopic view of leaf hairs (twice as "fat" as diploid leaf hairs) or stomata (leaf-breathing pores that appear as "fat lips.") I have zero expertise in detecting a Zinnia triploid visually or from a photograph. I am way out of my area of expertise here, but those look like diploid non-hybridized specimens of Peruvian Zinnia.

As they say, I could be wrong. Do you have any other zinnias growing? I have yet to purchase a microscope to detect Zinnia ploidy. This photo represents my current indoor zinnia blooms. They have tubular petals, but they are not great specimens.

ZM