Hello, I have grown these two plants from the same plant cuttings. Its been too old when I decided to make a stem cutting and divided it into two section and grow it together at the same pot. The left one is the original shape, its grown the upper stem cutting and the right one is come from the lower stem cutting. I am confused and wonder if these plant is some kind of what people said to be Chimera plants group which easily get mutation or is this just an ordinary phenomena?
Thank you..
My understanding is that chimeras occur when you have two different plants and graft them together and wind up with a plant that has intermediate characteristics between the two. In your case it sounds like the cuttings were originally from the same plant so it can't be a chimera. If one cutting looks different than the other,then it could be due to a mutation, this is usually called a sport. I'm not familiar enough with this type of plant to know whether mutations/sports are common or not.
Maybe its a normal phenomenon? But, could it cause more than one species or cultivars name for one same plants?
I have found another differentces between them. The left one has red color on the stem (so does the stem cutting) but the other are creamy white.
It depends on what you mean by normal--sports/mutations are something that do happen, but they don't happen all the time. Some plants will do this more readily and more frequently than others. You don't get new species this way, but you can get new cultivars. The trick is to figure out whether it's a stable mutation--in other words if you take the part of the plant that looks different and propagate it multiple times, do the cuttings maintain the mutation or does it revert back. (some mutations are not stable and will very readily revert to looking like the original...for example some variegated plants will revert to solid green if you don't keep an eye on them and prune out the green parts)
Thank you for the insight Ecrane3 :)
