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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: mark smyth on August 12, 2014, 06:39:56 PM

Title: white lime sport
Post by: mark smyth on August 12, 2014, 06:39:56 PM

Last Friday I found a lime tree, Tilia sp., that had several white stemmed white leaved twigs

Title: Re: white lime sport
Post by: Maggi Young on August 12, 2014, 06:52:52 PM

They really are whiter than white, eh?  The tiny green parts look "pixelated"  ;)

Attached to the parent tree such sprigs might survive a while but you couldn't root cuttings, could you, because they couldn't photosynthesize  ?