There’s this cool mutant rose in my family’s garden. It’s pink and yellow split right down the middle. There’s another bud next to it that looks similar. Anyone know how rare this is? It’s a single color bush so we never expected to find this. It’s super cool though!
by HellweaverKingsblade
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Quite common
“Do you know the name of your rose? It’s really beautiful! Roses can sometimes have a small genetic mutation that will cause the color to be different. That is known as a sport. Any rose can have a sport at any time and some roses are even prone to doing it. There are many things that can cause it to happen. Weird or sudden weather changes, too much fertilizer, any kind of change to the plants growing conditions. Sports are not always stable. That means they may happen once and then never again. If a sport is stable that cane will continue to produce the other colored blooms. Tie a ribbon to that cane and keep an eye on it to see what it does the next time it blooms. Also if a rose was a sport from another rose it can occasionally revert back to the original rose. Knowing the name of the rose might help us to determine which you have.”
Copied from a post by seilMI on the [garden.org](http://garden.org) forums.
[https://garden.org/thread/view/143059/Two-color-roses-on-one-bush/](https://garden.org/thread/view/143059/Two-color-roses-on-one-bush/)
Oddly enough the rose looks almost exactly like OP’s. Would be insane if it was the same bush lmao.
I think theyre called chimeras, when theyre split like this. Its very cool to see the clear split in the colours! im not sure how rare they are, but i would try and propagate this cane. or mark the split ones + see what grows next year!
Oh I love it!
Wowowoowowow love it
50/50
It either happens or it doesn’t.
I audibly gasped seeing this photo. It’s beautiful!
Pretty
Could be worth money. Don’t cut it. Look up a horticulturist in you area
There a way to propagate that branch and turn it into new plant.
So gorgeous! Lucky you!
beautiful!