PlantAKiss
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I originally had one D. burmannii plant. It grew well, got quite large, produced several flower scapes, made seed and eventually died off. I collected seed and also there were volunteers in the pot so I transplanted several of those and now have a pot bursting with about 5 burmanniis. They are all starting to produce scapes in various stages.
The largest scape and a couple of others have matured and are setting seed. When I went to check on the seed I noticed something. The largest plant had a large flower scape with WHITE flowers (made sure by looking through a magnifying glass) and the spent flowers were light brown. All the other plants that had (or have) flowers are PINK. Clearly pink..even the spent flowers are pink.
So...my question is...is it unusual to get both white and pink flowers out of the same batch of seed from one single plant? Is one color more typical than the other? Unfortunately I do not recall the flower color of the original burmanii plant. Would seed from the white flowered scape give white flowered plants and vice versa with the pink?
All the plants are definitely D. burmannii and I had no sessilifolia at the time the original plant flowered.
If anyone has any comments I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks!
Suzanne
The largest scape and a couple of others have matured and are setting seed. When I went to check on the seed I noticed something. The largest plant had a large flower scape with WHITE flowers (made sure by looking through a magnifying glass) and the spent flowers were light brown. All the other plants that had (or have) flowers are PINK. Clearly pink..even the spent flowers are pink.
So...my question is...is it unusual to get both white and pink flowers out of the same batch of seed from one single plant? Is one color more typical than the other? Unfortunately I do not recall the flower color of the original burmanii plant. Would seed from the white flowered scape give white flowered plants and vice versa with the pink?
All the plants are definitely D. burmannii and I had no sessilifolia at the time the original plant flowered.
If anyone has any comments I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks!
Suzanne