Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Mutant Shrimp Plant-Justicia brandegeana???, 0 by Danita

Danita wrote:
Hi,

Okay, maybe not mutant (after some research I know it's not) but it's different than the others I've seen.

While at the grocery, I noticed that one of the Shrimp Plants(Justicia brandegeana) they were selling was different from the others. All of the other shrimp plants that they have for sale have white flowers with maroon dots (bee guides)but this odd cutting has no dots and is flushed pink. In all other ways it looks the same as the others. I took a fuzzy photo with my cell phone and I've included it below. Do the bracts on the pink flowered shrimp plants get any darker than the bracts on the white flowered ones or are they about the same? Is the pink or white flower more common?

Thanks,
Danita

This message was edited Apr 24, 2008 4:39 AM