My azalea blooms purple and white flowers that create unique patterns and amazes me more and more each year. Is this common? Attaching photos!
by Odd_Entertainment281
My azalea blooms purple and white flowers that create unique patterns and amazes me more and more each year. Is this common? Attaching photos!
by Odd_Entertainment281
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Pretty damn cool is what it is
Omg I love these!! If you ever decide to propagate some more of these, pleassseeee let me know
Never seen one like that before now
Well I’ve never seen it…i think it must be special! It looks so cool!
Rey pretty. I wonder if it is actually 2 different plants that were planted close to one another/grew together.
While azaleas can be white and even pink, in your case I think it’s variegated into this. Be careful not to prop a fully white portion; it survives off of the purple portion! So if you ever do propagate it in the future you’ll need a healthy purple stem portion to help sustain the white parts. Very beautiful indeed!
Yo I think you might have actually created a valuable new cultivar potentially. You should see if you can grow one with the mixed flowers from a cutting!!
You garden witch!! 🧙♀️ love it
Some of mine do this! You can see the purple one in the corner.
https://preview.redd.it/sc7n1lwivewg1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c1fc340a583dd75b2fba2604bab04b45bb87a92
Absolutely stunning
Hybrid is the wrong term; this plant is Sporting, or even reverting to a more stable phenotype. It’s not entirely uncommon, but very interesting. You see it in roses as well. It’s also possible it is root stock from a grafted plant growing and flowering, but seeing that there is mixing of colors on some flowers, I think we can be sure it isn’t root stock in this instance.
If it’s a cultivar called Vespers, it typically has both white, white with irregular purple patterns, and a few solid purple blooms. Otherwise herbicide drift can sometimes do weird things to blooms.