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Pitta
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PostSubject: Aberrant Hibiscus   Aberrant Hibiscus Icon_minitimeFri Nov 27, 2009 7:58 pm

I have Hibiscus "grapette" its been flowering for ages giving flowers of similar colour but all of a sudden there is this aberrant flower colour like khaki.
There are 3 in the pic , the top one looks like its a different species , the lower one is the typical flower .we have been getting 3 a day for ages and the plant is only3ft high yet.


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This is the Aberrant one on its own


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This Aberrant flower also not only lacks the colours it also lacks the frilled edge.I find these oddities interesting to contemplate .
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PostSubject: Re: Aberrant Hibiscus   Aberrant Hibiscus Icon_minitimeSat Nov 28, 2009 7:45 am

I put this post on late last night
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PostSubject: Re: Aberrant Hibiscus   Aberrant Hibiscus Icon_minitimeSat Nov 28, 2009 8:27 am

Very unusual colours Gwen.. I have seen similar to the pink purple ones at the old Brisbane Botanic Gardens years ago.
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PostSubject: Re: Aberrant Hibiscus   Aberrant Hibiscus Icon_minitimeSat Nov 28, 2009 10:54 am

The top one has been sun tanning, Gwen. Laughing It may be a mutant gene like the one that produces the chocolate cattle dogs, and that is a mutant blue gene by the way, not the red gene. I think it's nice, not as nice as the flowers that are the right colour, but interesting and certainly not ugly.
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PostSubject: Re: Aberrant Hibiscus   Aberrant Hibiscus Icon_minitimeSat Nov 28, 2009 12:33 pm

No Betty its not ugly , but interesting.Faye picked 2 this morning ,right colour but half the size they should be, maybe the plant is sending a message.
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