BC - Northern Rockies - Fort Nelson

Eric

Carnivore
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This one came as a surprise: I received seed from a single selfed seed capsule from an English grower and germination was very good. Two seedlings from the batch looked very green compared to the others and they grew slower than their siblings. I suspected they might be f. heterophylla, so I guessed there must have been a mixup of seed or seedlings. But the only other similar antho-free seed I sowed was f.luteola at that time. After this plant got bigger it became obvious it is an antho free ssp.purpurea, so even though it is unlikely it must have been a spontaneous mutation. I expected the probability of this mutation to be rather 1:10000 or less. It is still hard to believe, but others found antho free seedlings (e.g. of S.flava) in cultivation so it is not impossible. Certainly it is easy to detect antho free plants at a very early stage amidst a large batch of seedlings. Unfortunately, I'm still not sure how trustworthy the location information of the plants from BC is (see the discussion of the typically coloured plants here).
 
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