When flowers are trying to prank you...

Look at this lovely African Violet. I took a leaf cutting last year from a blooming mother plant, so I knew what it will be. I got 3 little plantlets from that leaf. Gave away two and kept just one. I don't need more of the same colour, right?

It bloomed so beautifully the first time. Straight away it became my favourite colour. The flowers have this humble, simple shape that I like. But the super intensive, dark colour makes them very special.

Then it stopped blooming, it grew a little more and after few months it started to grow new flower buds. Yay! More pretty blooms...

But noooo...
The plant has a mind of it's own and decided to forget about the pretty deep cheery colour and bloom white. Why? Because it can!! :/
Yes, the photos above and the one under are the very same plant.

And honestly, I had no idea they can do that. I heard stories of Violets losing their colour that I didn't want to believe in. Untill I saw it my with my own eyes.

Well, they do that. Apparently after they get stresses by wrong light, temperature, nutrients or I dunno what else, they go back to the colour of one of the parents. And from what I read, the change is irreversible!
Bummer!

So now I have another white Violet. I can try to get the leaf from this one and propagate it again. It might grow the old colour. Nothing certain, but it just might.

_{All photos taken with Nikon D5500 and Sigma 105 macro lens}

There are still some traces of the previous colour on the buds. Less visible on the edges of open blooms.

Oh well... I will enjoy this white one until I decide if I want to keep it or give away. I have other pretty colour to enjoy too :)

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Previously on My Tiny Garden

• Streptocarpus Harlequin Damsel
• Streptocarpus
• Echeveria Pulidonis
• Kalanchoe Lucky Bells
• Graptopetalum Belum
• Sisters (part 1)
• Fuchsia
• Lophophora williamsii
• Moluccella laevis-Blame the seeds!
• Bernadette [4 photos]

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