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17andgrowing
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That's fantastic Bjorn
Here is the link to that thread
http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31203&highlight=vietnamense
Frankly, I have been wondering about the same, so I studied the staminode carefully when it was in bloom but did not see any clear red in it. The red in the pictures might come as a reflex or something? BUT there is this dark area which is not normal.
Another thing is that it comes from a flask of other vietnamense; some of them have already bloomed last winter. One was almost the same size as the "suspectible" one, but with a much smaller plant. And without that dark blotch.
See below.
Since their origin is the same flask, and the other flowers I have seen of that flask are normal, I came to the conclusion that the big one is a result of some genetic mutation, e.g. polyploidity. That is based on the sheer size and vigour of the plant. But of course, it may be some foreign genes mixed into the genetic make-up. But there seems to be something with the time-line that at the best is a close race.
Ho Chi Minh was registered in 2002, Vo Ngyen Giap in 2013 which makes sense time-wise. My vietnamense were deflasked in March 2012 and a rough guesstimate says that they had been at least 2-3 years since seed harvest, so 2009, and then a year since pollination, 2008. Possible but likely?
Just my 2cents....
But there is something different with that plant that is true...
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