EPHEMERAL TULIP VARIANTS. “Clusius already noticed in1585 that “broken”, multi-colored plants also slowly degenerated: “any tulip thus changing its original colour is usually ruined afterwards and so wanted only to delight its master’s eyes with this variety of colors before dying, as if to bid him a last farewell.” Striped flowers tended to deteriorate and finally die. He also noticed that uniformly colored flowers were healthy and lived longer.” Loss of effect of somatic transposons.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022