Pic #1 Peaches & Cream
Pic #2 Sport from Peaches & Cream, Green with VERY dark green
Pic #3 Sport from Sport, So white I almost fainted, bits of green.
Question, will my sports stay the way they look now, or will they revert back to the original Peaches & Cream? I really love the looks of the 2 almost pure white ones I have & if I can do anything to keep them like that, what would I do? Thanks so much for any help.
:)Reading, Lurking Anita
Try for a bigger pic, sorry:(
Be sure that you do NOT cut the white one off the mother plant. It would not survive. The green/dk. green would be okay if cut off and rooted. I don't think they will revert back, but I've not had experience with brug sports.
Wow!! That white is amazing!!
I think I read somewhere someone had a similar situation, and definitely wanted to keep their white sport, and in order to do that and have it as a separate plant, they actually cut the mother plant off, rooted that, and kept the white with the rootball. But, I could be mistaken, so I wouldn't do any chopping, yet. :)
Again, very nice!
Great sports! You should be able to propagate and name #2 photo!!! Lovely varigation. Congrats, Joelle
Thanks, I knew I could count on you all:) I am SOOO glad I have not touched the white ones yet:) Will just let them be for now.
Thanks :)Anita
Brugie is correct about the all white branch. Without the chlorophyll that white section could not produce any food. It is totally dependent on the mother plant for its food. Cutting the mother plant off and leaving the roots with the white section won't help. It would die anyway. The only way to enjoy it is to leave it with it's mom.
I think you MIGHT have 'Maya' there and not 'Peaches & Cream'. 'Maya' is known to produce green-on-green variehated sport shoots and they are all essentially the same wherever they occur (it does it here in Australia as well!). They are called 'Axelrose'.
Clarification Please.
It sounds like you are saying any green on green Maya sport can be called Axelrose ,, lol
re: the plant of discussion....I thought any sport would/could be a new sport. Are you saying, Alistair, that because it is green on green it will be genetically identical to Axelrose? I really don't know...just asking. Thanks.
'Maya' repeatedly produces essentially the same green-on-green sport which has been called 'Axelrose'.
The International Code of Nomeclature for Cultivated Plants is clear that when a given cultivar tends to throw the same sport in different places at different times, those sports are to be regarded as the same cultivar regardless of their repeated origin.
In this case it is highly probably that the green on green 'Axelrose' is geneticaly identical to its host cv ('Maya'). The change is probably not genetic, but developmental: the layers of green and white cells that make the variegation become rearranged rather than an actual mutation happening.
That is good to know so that more look alike plants won't take on different names. Thanks for the explanation, Alistair.
Interesting.
'Sunset' (the US one , not the German one which is a Sang) does the same thing and produces the green-on-green sport 'Sunsport'.
It has been suggested that these are the same as 'Maya' and 'Axelrose', though they seem slightly different to me (but I have only seen pics :-( )
Ditto what Brugie said ............
That is good news ☺
Thank you all very much, I will cut/root the green/dark green sport & let the 2 white ones be.
I bought Peaches & Cream from eBay a few years back & we all know how well we can trust some sellers:(
This will be the first year it has bloomed for me, Will the bloom tell us better if it is P & C or Maya? I would like to know for sure, Thanks again..:)Anita
They are fairly similar in flower and someone who has seen them both in the flesh would know better than me!
But from pics it seems P&C is a versicolor with fully pendent flowers where a bit of the narrow tube like basal part of the corolla extends beyond the calyx. In Maya the flowers are not quite pendent (a bit nodding) and the calyx pretty much covers the basal part of the corolla.
