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[Aroid-l] Varigated ZZ`s and more.

From: hermine at endangeredspecies.com (hermine) on 2007.10.30 at 02:26:19(16631)
Permission requested to post this to my Sansevierias list.
artificially induced variegates are selling at prices normally
reserved for CARS. Herm does not like this.
hermine
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>I have a young variegated ZZ bought on ebay. Just a warning. It came
>with two variegated young leaves. Since then the next three were
>green or yellow, not variegated. This plant may be so unstable I'd
>think twice before forking over big bucks for one.
>
>I use to work in a mutagenesis lab and there are nasty chemicals
>like nitrosomethylurea that cause plastid mutations at high
>frequency when seed is soaked in the solution. It is also in the top
>5 known carcinogens so I'd suggest anyone thinking of getting rich
>on new variegated plants by using such chemicals, plan on having an
>oncologist nearby.
>
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