Narcissus with Striped Leaves

Nathan Lange plantsman@comcast.net
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:02:06 PST

Hi Barna,

Congratulations, you very likely have a truly variegated Narcissus. 
This type of variegation is not indicative of virus. Of course, this 
plant could still test positive for virus just as easily as any other 
non-variegated plant but a positive test for virus would not mean 
that the cause of the variegation is viral. This type of variegation 
could be unstable but hopefully it will persist and be consistently 
propagated into future daughter bulbs. Fortunately, it looks like you 
already have more than one variegated plant.

Nathan


At 06:39 AM 2/25/2016, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>In the last few years a few Narcissus 'Salome' is developing white 
>striped leaves.
>I am not sure if it is a virus or not. Please let me know what it 
>can be. I did not find similar images on the net.
>The photos are here:
>https://flic.kr/p/Dwjioi/
>https://flic.kr/p/DwjjGR/
>
>Thanks for the help!
>Barna








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