larrychen九重葛部落格

First congratulation on the seeds harvested! Not many bougainvillea self seeds let alone variegated cultivar one.<br><br>From the picture show, I would suspect it&#39;s B glara &#39;Harrissi&#39;. But more information needed to verify:<br><br>1. Full grown in sun?<br>2. How was the feel and touch of the shoot, leaves and bracts?<br>3. How is the growth habit?<br>4. Originally variegated when you have the plant or a budsport?<br><br>Under the naked eyes from what I observed, such small leaves variegated bougainvilleas can only from B. glabra or B. spectoglabra (not even B spectabilis). The difficulty lies in since these two species and interspecies have equal opportunity, determining using leaves structure alone will not tell the identification apart. Both of them has some degree of glabrous leaf and some degree of hairiness (many confused B spectoglabra &#39;Weeping Beauty&#39; as B. glabra).<br><br>Next we should examine bracts colour. B. glabra doesn&#39;t have rosy tone and if the plant has rosy bract, then it should be B spectoglara. But showing here is a purple bracts and the difficulty is more. Next study should look at their flower and also branching habit.<br><br>Short cut of course is to send to lab test on germplasm study.<br><br>I see some of the older leaves showing here is cupping up and is loose and more upright growth then become densely pack. So far all bracts seen here seems to have uniform deep purple and a very pointed tips and obvious green veins, so I conclude this as the &#39;Harrissi&#39;, which is a variegated budsport of &#39;Sanderiana&#39;. But whether this is the original variegated version or a new gold leaves version I wouldn&#39;t know.<br><br>You could observe further yourself by growing it in full sun.<br><br>However please note that budsport with variegated leaves are actually chimera with poorer structure. The plant’s meristematic<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meristem" title="Meristem"></a> tissue (in this case the leaves) is losing the ability to produce chloroplasts and hence we see the attractive colour zonation but this &#39;sickness&#39; will not pass down to offspring.<br><br>Only very a few plants (such as capsicum and adenium to name a few) will inherit the variegated characteristic to the seedlings but sadly not bougainvillea. The seedling needs chlorophyll to photosynthesize and therefore will still have green leaves, if not paler green (such as yellowish green) to survive. But keep the seedling for like around 4 years with periodically pruning and see if there&#39;s any new evolution. <br><br>Sometimes when we grow a fruit tree from seeds such as mango or grape, it would appear at first that the seedling is not true to the parent. However after a while, we see improvement traits such as big rock fruit begin to have only smaller seeds or sour fruit begin to turn sweeter.<br><br>But after 4 years nothing apparent improves, then you should just discard it.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast" title="Chloroplast"></a><br><br> [版主回覆11/29/2012 11:54:37]<p><img alt="&#x0088dc;&#x004e01;3" src="http://blog.yimg.com/2/uaNr6617s5_tM_s0VNcfCZwI4qWQeYjfX0aGHI1eFA4NiSh_FjetzA--/88/l/aQAOcS5B4bD3PFbnCLkHbQ.jpg"/></p> <p>Please see this photo, real color by eyes , bracts colour is deep purple with blue tone, and quite bright.(深紫色且明亮看似帶點藍色，花色與花苞形狀與eva品系的紫明顯不同， 生長季其分枝多、直且硬，於秋冬時其節間密且質軟下垂，葉子同eva銀邊紫，但小一號，有時其葉子呈凹凸不平狀且如湯匙般拱起，(it&#39;s not easy for me to mention that in english)</p> <p>種子對我只是殺時間純玩玩罷了，我很喜歡動腦也喜歡探究九重葛相關知識，謝謝您花如此多時間幫助我，有到南台灣記得call me!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

On the red cultivar, remember I was mentioning &#39;Tetra Mrs McClean&#39;? <br><br>This is it!<br><br>The tetraploid of &#39;Mrs Mc Clean&#39;. Bracts are burnt orange, changing to rose shade and lastly with magenta rose and this is a tetraploid!<br><br>Remember you ask &quot;<font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="&#x0065b0;&#x007d30;&#x00660e;&#x009ad4;">種間(如B.x buttiana，B.x spectoperuviana， B.x spectoglabra)是否全是不可育(不結籽)?&quot;</font></span></font>? I told you they are all triploid with the exception of those being treated to have tetraploid. <br><br>&quot;Tetra Mrs McClean&quot; has been introduced to nurseries from India in the late 70&#39;s. Alternatively, we should run a DNA test to verify this.<br><br>On the purple cultivar, yes now I can confirm is the B spectoglabra &#39;Patch&#39; series. This cultivar has a difficulty in developing big thick trunk and therefore slow growing if it is propagated with stem cutting. Nurserymen always graft it onto B. glabra.<br> [版主回覆11/29/2012 18:51:06]<p>You are so excellent! Your answer is very reasonable. Most of red bracts cultivars are of cross-hybrid and all sterile, and only teraploid mutation can turn to be fertile. I stell remember Tera Mrs McClean is one parent of Chitra. I think Mr.二羊 will also happy to hear that answer.</p> <p>And thank you for helping me to ensure the variety &quot;purple patch&quot;.</p>

算算時間應發芽了吧!!這季節還是有莖腐病(從接觸地面處爛掉),注意通風,另我有一寬葉實生苗嫁接株帶花苞了,看看它是否可育,我自己的推論是:不育,因它應是母本原生和其它Eva的雜交種. [版主回覆12/15/2012 19:56:23]<p>播種剛好15天，過10天眼看無動靜(赤玉加珍珠岩每天輕撥開檢查)遂懷疑是天冷，改讓它見陽光，昨天已出根，子葉尚未抬頭，之前播的均會爛掉，改以乾淨的介質赤玉加珍珠岩後已解決此困擾。你那寬葉的我正續觀察，本以為是紫色，但懷疑是紫色混到它色，因顏色怪怪的似乎有點像鮭魚色，因花苞尚小，約一週後即可分曉!</p> <p>中興大學那論文，如原本綠葉矮寶變出斑葉我就會信，但原本斑葉變出另斑葉我就不信(因雜紋矮寶本來就會如此變)</p>