Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Colocasia Illustrius Black Beauty, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
I believe that Illustrius has good pollen but rarely makes it. I dont believe it can produce seed if so it is very very rare. This Black Beauty is a mutation basically if you take a plant and grow it out and get thousands of pups you will get some illustrius will green leaves and few to no black markings on selected pups and you can also get almost solid black forms as well. It is seen in Tissue culture when something is copied over and over again you get some odd ball suff. I am not a expert but its as though certain genetics seem to get lost in this. If I took a you and make a million copies the last copy might not look much like you, same thing with plants. In many cases these are called mutations or sports some are huge growers minitures and oddities. In most cases it seems to be a weaker deformed plant. But in few other cases a superior stronger plant.

Here is a picture of your normal Illustrius