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ByndeweedBeth scio, oregon, OR(Zone 8a) Apr 18, 2007

I seem to be getting a lot of these this spring....maybe it's because I'm growing more varigated JMG's. On this one you can see some varigation on the cotyledon leaves, but there is almost too much on the first true leaves. I am wondering if varigation is an unfavorable mutation in plants, since part of the leaf has less chorophyll to convert light to energy. Maybe the trait is only passed on due to the meddling of humans who like the varigated pattern. Seedlings like this haven't done very well for me under artificial lights, but I will be trying them in the garden this summer when it gets hotter.
Beth

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imzadi Jackson, SC(Zone 8a) Apr 18, 2007

usually when they have too much like that they dont survive but its always been the cotyledon leaves start out that way and they never make it for me.

it is weird how the baby leaves are green and the true leaves ar white. maybe it will survive.

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Xeramtheum Summerville, SC(Zone 8a) Apr 18, 2007

I think they might survive since the stem vein is obviously producing chlorophyll.

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phicks Lakeland, FL(Zone 9b) Apr 18, 2007

keep it out of heavey sun or those leaves will burn up

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fchilders Clatskanie, OR(Zone 9b) Apr 25, 2007

Variegation is and has been associated with viruses. Some gardeners actually transfer it to other plants to get the variegation effect. I don 't know about morning glories, but it would be and interesting experiment to see if it could be transferred from ivies to morning glories. Mealy bugs are a vector for plant viruses, but if the variegation here in the morning glories is due to a virus,
it doesn't seem to harm the plant much other than rolling the leaves under a little.

The cotyledons on my variegated varieties are alarmingly pale, but good looking. We need to make a list of the variegated varieties for those that look for them. Frank

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