Tag Archives: Leaf Chimera

Harmony’s “Little Stinker” Leaf Chimera

March 1, 2023 – 1:00 am

I do not believe this leaf chimera is a registered plant in the AVSA data base called first class. Never the less it is a popular chimera leaf African violet and nicely symmetrical. Now if you do not maintain the plant, it will send out small shoots and if you do not remove them and […]

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A Possible Leaf Chimera Formed On Humako Sweet?

February 1, 2022 – 1:00 am

It appears as a leaf chimera may have formed on Humako Sweet. Some tests will have to be performed to confirm. But will the bloom chimera be lost in this mutation? Time will tell.

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Sport of Leaf Chimera “Little Stinker”

September 1, 2020 – 1:00 am

I have been using the same stem tissue culture propagation method for leaf chimeras as I use for other “flowering” chimera African violets. The outcomes are as expected, true Little Stinker plants. But not quite as consistently. I have seen more variants then I expected. Grant it most are true to the parent. But there […]

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Chimera Foliage or Variegated Foliage?

May 1, 2020 – 1:00 am

A recent e-mail discussion and a conversation I had several weeks prior prompted me to post this. There is increasing interest in variegated foliage and there is confusion if the foliage is a chimera expression or the result of pure variegation and not a chimera expression. I think in many people’s minds one equals the […]

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African Violet Double Chimera? Step One The Leaf

March 1, 2020 – 1:00 am

A couple of months ago I posted about the possible sporting of a Yukako to a double sport (Leaf Chimera and a Flower Chimera). Both situations must be demonstrated individually. It is easier or perhaps quicker to determine if the plant is a leaf chimera then a flower chimera. To ascertain if the leaf is […]

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Leaf Chimera African Violets

February 1, 2020 – 1:00 am

About six months ago I purchased my first leaf chimera African violet, “Little Stinker”. (I wonder about the back story on the unusual name). I must admit as my focus has been on chimera blooms, I have had no experience with leaf chimera African violets. As I propagated a few from this plant pulling off […]

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