So.. I snagged a bunch of leaves at my work from plants that were being replaced by the vendor and I’ve got all of them to become plants! 4 of the 7 have bloomed. This is number 4. I’ve seen on this sub before different colored flowers on the same plant but how common is this? And yes I understand the original plant was likely a hybrid and my leaves won’t necessarily give me an exact clone.
by Neither-Attention940
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My guess (and it is purely a guess) is that this a pretty common, older hybrid. It looks like an Optimara plant. Optimara is a mass producer of AVs, supplying a huge percentage of AVs to the pot plant market. To get newer, rarer varieties you normally have to go to specialized AV vendors and growers.
Oh yeah. In most cases, leaf cuttings will give you an exact clone of the parent plant. The main exception is chimeras. They will only come true through flower stem propagation. Some of the more modern hybrids are genetically unstable and prone to reverting to something else. But they still have all the same genetic material as the parent plant.
I have what appears to be the same type of AV, which is blooming right now, and, like yours, the new flowers appear to be nearly completely purple, and the white develops as the flowers open.
The white center is so pretty!
This happened on one of my violet 11 months ago. Its first bloom are two different colors
https://preview.redd.it/s4rp78ejawed1.png?width=3034&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77bd03f17502defa225f0b740e15d0c15a914e26
. But it sort itself and next bloom is normal.
Beautiful and healthy violet! Please show the others?