Interesting. When I was breeding variegated Pinellias, a friend who
happened to be a monocot geneticist told me to try to use the variegated
plant as the seed parent because at least some forms of variegation are
attributed to mitochondrial DNA, and the pollen doesn't have any
mitochondria. Don't know if that's true in Pinellia, but I was trying to
get variegated leaves and a red spathe, and ended up creating a race of
plants that frequently yielded that combination in the seedlings. The
plants are pretty cute and show a wide range of variegation. So I'm
guessing it's a lot more complicated than Mendel's beans.

Bob

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