Weird sport or ... usurper?
This is my Memorial Day, new this year. I’ve had several beautiful blooms from this plant, but today I noticed these peculiar light pink and white striped flowers growing upwards in a cluster like a climbing floribunda.
What the hey?
The strangest fact is that I have a pink-and-white striped floribunda, Flamingo Dancer, across the walkway and on the other side of a wall. I’ll post that, and more, below.
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SylviaWW 9a Hot dry SoCal
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoSylviaWW 9a Hot dry SoCal
3 years agoNo!! It happened again! Third time now.
This is an actual Memorial Day.
This is a closeup of the peculiar blooms. They are far more damaged -looking than the MD blooms. The petal shape resembles Memorial Day, though.
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3 years agoThis is Flamingo Dancer. Similarity in color is striking, but petals are completely different.
Ths is a closeup of the strange blooms. They look significantly worse than my MDs. Petal shape is like MD’s, though.
SylviaWW 9a Hot dry SoCal
3 years agoOk, now I’m repeating myself. Sorry about that.
This is the foliage on the weird cane.
This is foliage on the rest of MD. Looks more normal.
SylviaWW 9a Hot dry SoCal
3 years agoI guess two photos is the maximum for one post now? Grrr.
And here is the bud union. The light green cane that’s slanting up diagonally toward the left is the one producing the striped blooms,
As far as I can see, that cane is part of the grafted rose.
So what is going in here? No, I don’t really believe Flamingo Dancer really cloned itself, that’s ridiculous. The flowers are too different.Still — is it a sport or just a group of regular MD blooms warped by thrips and plagued by heat?
thanks in advance,
Sylvia
SylviaWW 9a Hot dry SoCal
3 years agoSylviaWW 9a Hot dry SoCal
3 years agoSo, it wasn’t just me with the thrips? That’s good to know. Yes, I think the superheated air may have been a factor, and then of course we had smoke in the air (though no local fires, thankfully) for three weeks in September.
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