Mutant clovers are most prevalent in the late summer.[2]
Four-leaf clovers are more abundant in disturbed and/or trampled areas. Look along footpaths and trails that run through a clover patch.
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In Search of "Mutants"
Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon is another company that offers a plant discovery program to everyday gardeners. Owner Dan Heims started the nursery with a discovery of his own.
(L. varietas, variety) a taxonomic group below the species used in different senses by different specialists, including a race, stock, strain, breed, subspecies, geographical race, or mutant.
Consequently, this variety contains a mutant gene for elevated sugars that gives it two to three times the sugar content of ordinary sweet corn. "Outstanding gourmet flavor," commented one of the judges.
Purple Cauliflower was a discovery of a spontaneous mutant plant in a cauliflower field in the late 1980s, combined with breeding work in Denmark. The color properties are very stable and the plant grows well in warm areas.
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Voodoo lily, Amorphophallus titanum, is one of the most striking plants you're likely to encounter, with a huge, phallic bloom that looks like a mutant, protuberant calla lily and smells like rotting meat.
Mutant strains of plants with smaller amnyoplasts do not respond well to geotropism, and generally do not live as long as a normal plant.
Popular myths allow that two different vegetables can cross in the garden and produce "mutant" fruit. The vegetable that would be harvested is different than either parent.
Roses that are highly susceptible to black spot in one part of the country may be resistant in another area because the fungal pathogen may have mutated there. These mutants may in turn infect rose cultivars that were previously resistant.
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