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Jun 22, 2018 8:30 AM CST
Name: Leslie
Durham, NC (Zone 8a)
Garden Photography Cat Lover Irises Region: North Carolina Peonies Enjoys or suffers hot summers
Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Thanks Arlyn . I thought Joseph's Coat was a sport. Did NOT know Sherwin Wright is also a sport from the same iris! Honorabile must have had a lot of unstable genes.

So basically a sport is an increase that displays features that are not the same as the mother. With a sport all blooms on the stalk would be the same.
While, Chimera are random blooms on a stalk with normal blooms as well. Caused by stressors (weather, chemical, what have you). You would not find an entire increase blooming as chimera. Do I have that right?
"The chimera is a one time happenstance event where the plant has a senior moment and forgets what it is doing." - Paul Black

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