When I started leaf cuttings (back in November 2022) for a pretty good variety of AV, I was fairly sure 'some' of them might not look like their parents' stats. So...

I was not surprised when some varieties threw out either pink or purple blooms... on separate plants.

But I was a little bit surprised when Lyon's Magic Charms threw out 'both' pink and purple blooms on the 'same' bud stalk (not just the same plant: the same stalk)





And then, I saw this one... This is a single bloom on Lyon's Magic Charms... and half of it is pink and half of it is purple.

cool!

Both bizarre and beautiful! Is it continuing to bloom in unpredictable ways?

Yes, of the many varieties and AV plants that I have (over 80 registered varieties, plus two dozen grown from seed... and not counting sports or mutations) Lyon's Magic Charms is one of the two most unpredictable.

In fact, I have taken one bud stem that was producing solely the "half and half" blooms and rooted it to see if I can produce an entire plant that just blooms with half and half flowers. If that works, it likely will be a chimera... reproducible only via offsets / clones... but how cool would that be?

The bud stem has rooted and is just starting to grow tiny leaves, so it will be a while before I get a chance to see any flowers...