Re: Re: Re: Ozelot growing very slowly

["Robert H" <robertph3 at attbi_com>]

>>Aren't most variegated plants variegated by virtue of a virus, which
allows
for the varied pigment expression?  Maybe the viral/variegated influence
slows this variety's growth.
Diane Brown<<

Actually it is a gene, not a virus or disease, and the gene can be
recessive, showing up again several generations later. I don't know that the
coloration of the Ozelot is considered varigated or not. I think red
coloring in swords is also a gene function, but may be different from the
varigated process.

Robert Paul Hudson
http://www.aquabotanic.com