Maya sport

Hattiesburg, MS(Zone 8a)

It keeps growing and was beautiful until I moved it from under a very bushy-taller brug and it got sun burned.

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Lima, OH(Zone 5a)

Awww.... do you think it will survive? Sure looks ok. Growing bigger than any of my seedlings with no green.

San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b)

I love sports. Makes things fun for a while.

Kannapolis, NC(Zone 7b)

Wow, Barb. I hope it grows for you. It's looking better than any others I've seen with no green.

Vancleave, MS(Zone 8b)

I hope it will be alright.

Westbrook, ME(Zone 5a)

A golden foliage brug would be so cool! I hope it makes it :)

San Jose, CA(Zone 9a)

What is a sport? Maya sport? The same as a Maya?

Deep South Coastal, TX(Zone 10a)

My Maya put out a sport like that last year. It even tried to bloom. It sunburned so easily, I finally cut it off.

San Jose, CA(Zone 9a)

?????sport????

GOD's Green Earth, United States(Zone 8b)

From somewhere on the internet...

Sport

A sport is part of a plant (an offset) that deviates from the rest of the plant. Actually "sport" is a convenient term used by gardeners, but it is not a genetic term. It is the end result of an earlier genetic process. In a sport the change has taken place in a leafbud (mitose), not in the flower (meiose). Three processes can be responsible for a sport to arise. In most cases it will be due to somatic recombination or chimaeral rearrangements and rarely due to a (back) mutation. Most sports can therefore only be propagated vegetatively. So a sport can be a chimaera, but also a recombination or rarely a mutant. A seedling is by definition never a sport.

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