Collectingthread for all Planttypes/Colors / Sammelthread alle Pflanzenarten/farben
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I'm so curious if there is a red one
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Oh wow Five variants so far
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Mine are allready here
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Wow, six variants is a lot. I like the colours.
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The first bred rose:
[url=http://flowergame.net/view/69054] -
I want a red one! I hope one of the seeds I have now will be one.
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And another
[url=http://flowergame.net/view/69307] -
lavender
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Seems to be only one colour. So far.
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Well, in reality lavender has only one colour, so it would be no wonder.
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There are three colours in reality - also pink and white, but the lilac is the most common one
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The lilac/purple colour also comes in light and dark.
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The gardens around the facility where I work have all different kinds of lavender. Dark, light, pink, white, tall and leggy, short and shrubby...lavender is actually a whole genus of related plants, somewhere around 30 if I remember correctly. I also seem to recall seeing a yellow form somewhere, if it's not just my senile imagination.
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Well, what we have in our gardens is Lavandula officinalis (angustifolia), which is only one species within the genus.
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Well, what we have in our gardens is Lavandula officinalis (angustifolia), which is only one species within the genus.
This is obviously not true, at least if you believe in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender#Taxonomic_table
But iIt might be the only species in your garden.Everytime a plant is liked by people, there will be some gardners/hybridizesr/genetic engineers wich try to make it "more beautiful"/better growing/bigger/smaller and various coloured than the natural plant. And sometimes the true original plant dies out like it is with our wild apple and pear trees which are pollinated from cultured plants also in nature..
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Lavandula officinalis is the old name. The new specific name is angustifolia. And being the most common and widely-grown type of lavender, it's also the target of most hybridizers. The varieties come in many colors and sizes now. The white, pink and darker lavender colors were actually originally found as recessive color morphs, but have been bred into garden varieties, much as "chocolate" Labrador retrievers (which are technically "liver" colored) were once just rare occurrences in "normal" litters of black and yellow. They caught public fancy and suddenly breeders were actively making matches of parents to maximize their chances of getting chocolates in the litter.
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