Strangest MEM Blooms Ever

I have grown this cultivar from the day it was released. Bought it straight from the hybridizer. This, in fact is the same original plant. It is planted in the ground and is about 10 feet tall....

This is the first time I have ever gotten blooms that look like this. The tendrils flare straight out and it looks like the tip of the blooms were dipped in white chocolate....the color isn't blotchy and the blooms have been opened for several days now...i kept waiting fro them to "normalize" but it doesn't look like that is going to happen.......weired mutation for a flush on MEM....

another pic

WOW... Lovely flowers... quite unusual for such a change... after it has been growing for so long.. and in the same place...
it looks like the plant has just run out of pink.. after so long...
or some pink suckng aphids...
I wonder if cuttings taken from these limbs would continue the coloration change..
great new look though..

Brug flowers can do some strange things. I love this effect. It would be great if it were a mutation.

I had cut this back to just hardwood "y"'s a few months ago. All of this is on new green growth. It would be nice if this continues this bizarre coloration pattern, but even if the blooming pattern returns to normal this was still an interesting flush...one to add to the book on oddities......now, if this pattern does continue and could be treated as a mutated sport whereby cuttings produce the same type of blooms....THAT would be amazing!!

amazing and wonderful... let me get online for this one... would you take an early cuttng .. just to see if it does the same on new growth on it.. or just wait to see if it repeats where it is..

i wish for you that is is a sport and it keeps producing these Blooms, my fingers crossed!

Oh, is that ever pretty.............

Gary....here is a pic of an odd flush I had on MEM back in 09

If you go to my info and check the threads I started in this forum you'll see the whole thread. Havin' a "brain fart" here and can't remember how to link to it. LOL

I'm having a brain fart. Which one is MEM?

YOu wouldn't happen to have a cutting to get rid of later on, would you?? For postage, of course. And seeing what you have, I'm sure I have nothing you would want in trade. LOL

MEM is Miss Emily Mackenzie.......since it was only one trunk of the two trunk tree that produced these bizarre blooms i am waiting for this part of the plant to bloom again....the other half of the tree is blooming normally. These are two separate trunks that are coming up from he ground with the same set of roots.......the next time the left side blooms they may be perfectly normal.....i just think this was a special event that i was privileged to witness.....some sort of weather anomaly. If this branch turns out to be a sport of some kind and blooms this way again you can be sure I will be hitting it up for cuttings

This message was edited Apr 18, 2011 5:12 PM