Every year, this little albino chestnut sprouts in the spring beneath the chestnut tree. Is there any possibility to grow it into something bigger if it’s in a different location? Maybe watering it? It’s beneath its parent, so it’s mostly indirect light.
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by Swiss-Name
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Sadly, no. When it sprouts, it has food from the seed it grew out of. Once that is depleted there is no way for this plant to get more food because plants make their own food with chloroplasts that are filled with chlorophyll (which is what makes plants green). Since this plant doesn’t have any chloroplasts/chlorophyll, it will always have a short time to live.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
I don’t think so, but give it a chance! Maybe itll beat the odds
now I’m not an expert on chestnuts but generally no they need chlorophyll to survive. it is probably somehow attached to the main tree. really cool though.
If it reappears every year in the same place, then it’s probably part of and getting nutrition from the mother tree and won’t survive on its own. Enjoy it’s annual appearance
You can possibly preserve it. Depending on the plant you can graft it to another plant to allow it to be a parasite of the host plant and possibly go to seed. It’s commonly done to moon cactus as they develop color mounds and no chlorophyll
Yes, it actually can. I looked into albino plants some time ago and discovered that they might survive with a bit of symbiotic support from certain bacteria.