A White Crispum hybrid

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David Clulow

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Dec 30, 2009, 9:19:57 AM12/30/09
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Dr. Dimmitt shows a shite crispum hybrid in his book (page 79, Fig. 98); but I have never seen one until this morning.  I purchased some seeds of 'Dance of Butterfly' from Mr. Ko.  Here is my photo of 'Dance of Butterfly':
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I found a photo on the internet which possibly shows an albino form of Adenium crisum:
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as I said, I had a batch of seeds in from Mr. Ko and just one had the typical jade stem at the young seedling stage showing that it would be an albino or near.  It was not very strong growing, so I cut the top off and made five grafts; one V from the top and the others single eye flat grafts.  This was last February and four of the grafts took; one or two of them produced buds some time ago but they fell off without flowering and just this morning one of the flat grafts flowered:

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Note the very narrow foliage.  There is also some yellow variegations on the leaves:
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