I know, I know.....I've posted before...just can't get over how BIG the jewels are! lol And, man, this BIG violet can go thru some water! =0 Will post an upper shot below....
'Neptune's Jewel's'
'Neptune's Jewels' (canNOT believe that punctuation error I made up there.....ugh) on steroids.
This is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
A beatifully grown plant. I considered getting this one from Rob's this past fall. Seeing your blooms, I wish I had!
very lovely blooms and beautifully shaped plant
Beautiful plant and blossoms. thanks for sharing, Allison
GORGEOUS! Thanks for sharing.
Oh so your now the owner of the famouse suckering Chimera 'Neptune's Jewel's' :))
allison..you know them all...lol..that's great...and that's a beauty.
I cheat Bob I have First Class And love it ! I use it everyday ! Great Av tool,
I'm hoping every day that the First Class program I ordered before Christmas will arrive!
'Neptune's Jewels' is lovely!
It looks like one of those large standards. I have a couple of big ones.... Take a look at how 'Buckeye Boysenberry' has grown! I stuck my hand into this photo for scale so you could appreciate the palm-sized leaves! It is getting some buds again.... oooooohhh!
Dang, that thing just gets more divine all of the time, Jill. No blooms yet?
Fancy.
LOL. Here's its first bloom.... It has grown considerably since then.... I think that's a 2 inch pot!
Here is its first offspring... but it is already "promised" to my Secret Easter buddy. I will put a couple more leaves down this week, and I'm sure that huge plant will be able to spare some more leaves this spring... Unlike 'Neptune's Jewels', this one can be propagated by leaf, so it'll be easy to share him around! :-)
Hot Diggity Cat. That is attractive. Now go to bed.
Kenton has gone to sleep surely to dream of that gorgeous variegated foliage ! Beautiful plant Jil ! WOW Thanks for sharing :))
Oh wow, I am such a sucker for varigation! that is beautiful!
duh....tell me what FIRST CLASS is....
First Class Version 2 is software offered by the African Violet Society of America, Inc. The database contains names and descriptions of over 14,700 African violet cultivars and species, as well as over 4,400 photos
http://firstclass2.com/
Um, Critter? 'Neptune's Jewels' CAN be prop'd by a leaf! It's not a chimera.....just a fantasy HUGE ol' thing. lol
According to First Class and every Vendor that sells it 'Neptune's Jewels' is a chimera
'Neptune's Jewels' Reg 9179 02/03/2003
Lyndon Lyon Greenhouse/Sorano Standard
Semidouble-double Chimera pink large frilled star ,
white stripe,blue fantasy. Medium green, plain, serrated.
FC Picture one
'Neptune's Jewels' FC 2
Rob's sells it and has a picture also..
http://www.robsviolet.com/standard_chimeras1.htm
Neptune's Jewels. Enormous dbl. white stars with irregular pink and blue fantasy edges. Medium green foliage. Spectacular! (Sorano) $15.00 Very limited supply
It can only be progated by sucker, crown or bloom stalk basket/leaves.
Other vendors sell it Ebay sells it as Chimera
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definitely a chimera - it reverted when I leaf-propped. (still pretty, but....)
yes sure is.
Okay, okay, okay!!! ;-) Violet_Treasure, you remind me of myself.....super specific about our beloved horti. info! Only, gee....how on earth did I MISS that 'Neptune's Jewels' is a CHIMERA?? Go fig....didn't know I had one! Still can't really tell either......what am I, stupid??
Keyring--I'm still bowled over by your generosity in sending her to me. =)
MKJ
OK Allison (and any others willing to teach) boy am I confused, in my other life, tropicals and Native Texas plants; with those hybrids I have to make cuttings to reproduce the hybrid, seed produces the parent. What was said, "..it reverted when I leaf-propped..." sounds contrary to my knowledge related to the other life. Can you explain?
Thx
chimeras have to be reproduced by a sucker cutting... a leaf cutting doesn't contain all the genetic material in a chimera (it's not uniform throughout the plant), so leaf propagation will probably produce something different than the chimera, most likely something like the plant that the chimera sported from originally.
So, taking a sucker cutting to produce a chimera is like taking a cutting of another hybrid plant.
Oh, that makes sense!
Thanks Critter!