[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 +More >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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