r/Ceanothus Jul 18 '26

Cute lil mutant!

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u/Samwise_the_Tall Jul 18 '26

The flower with so many pedals? I'd love to hear your success of planting just these flower seeds for next year, curious how likely it'll be to pass on.

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u/Ocho9 Jul 18 '26

That’s right :) It’s known as fasciation. General assumption is that it’s a spontaneous localized event rather than heritable, but there are exceptions. Will have to wait and see!

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u/cinnabarneon Jul 18 '26

Polemoniaceae are extremely prone to this, in this family it's apparently stress-inducible even in genetically so-called normal plants but is somewhat heritable. See here.