mort
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Hi all, couple of questions again about trees.
I have a Acer drummondii and its just leafed out this year and has one leaf that's a perfect half green and variagated form, this leaf was exactly the same las year as well. I know this is a part reversion as the tree is the variagated form. When parts revert we are supposed to prune this off to maintain the new varient but I wasn't fussed so left it last year and the new leaf has come out this year as the half and half. So is it simply a mutation in the leaf bud which will continue to produce the same characteristic year on year.
The other question is I pass a horse chestnut walking the dog and it's surrounded by native white/cream flowered chestnuts and a couple of the pink species, which I believe is a hybrid. This tree has half white and half red flowers with one clearly defined trunk. So my question, is it likely that half the tree has simply reverted back to its natural form rather than say two individual trees the gave grown into each other.
TIA
I have a Acer drummondii and its just leafed out this year and has one leaf that's a perfect half green and variagated form, this leaf was exactly the same las year as well. I know this is a part reversion as the tree is the variagated form. When parts revert we are supposed to prune this off to maintain the new varient but I wasn't fussed so left it last year and the new leaf has come out this year as the half and half. So is it simply a mutation in the leaf bud which will continue to produce the same characteristic year on year.
The other question is I pass a horse chestnut walking the dog and it's surrounded by native white/cream flowered chestnuts and a couple of the pink species, which I believe is a hybrid. This tree has half white and half red flowers with one clearly defined trunk. So my question, is it likely that half the tree has simply reverted back to its natural form rather than say two individual trees the gave grown into each other.
TIA