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Mar 3, 2016 3:23 PM CST
Name: Keith
Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)
Zinnias Plays in the sandbox Roses Lover of wildlife (Raccoon badge) Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Organic Gardener
Region: New York Native Plants and Wildflowers Lilies Seed Starter Spiders! Enjoys or suffers hot summers
When it sets seed I will save them and have to see.

Reason I ask is all variegated ROS varieties we buy are sterile, they fail to produce seeds. But this pretty plant is grown from seed, variegated, and not sterile, if it passes on its variegated genes it could be a VERY valuable plant breeder! I wonder if seed color will be striped too?

I have a double flowered variegated (flower) ROS next to it, imagine variegated leaves AND variegated flowers on one rose of Sharon plant, beautiful! The variegated flower ROS gets pollen but has no female part, if I pollinate my variegated leaf ROS with pollen from it, who knows what will develop?! 😎
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