Well that certainly is different. I don't think I've ever seen that before. I doubt this is the case, but I'm curious if it's like the cresting mutation where the plant can have portions that also revert back to normal as well. Just a guess.

This happens sometimes, Lyka. I've had doubles, triples and singles in the same plant. I've seen this on my Rik Ni Ran and Coco something. These plants have been crossed back and forth a gazillion times, it's pointless to try and establish provenances without mapping the bloody genome.

Pagan

I don't know how it happened but it's pretty cool.

Thank you for your responses. I find it really interesting that this such things can happen. I feel like a child excitedly hopping and jumping to show everyone what i found.

Pagan, does it happen every blooming season on your Rik Ni Ran and Coco? That would be a nice treat every year.

Lyka

Yep! I haven't figured out what triggers the difference. My coco white often blooms in triples and singles.

Beautiful! If I ever purchase a grafted adenium, I will certainly leave any lower branching in place and can only hope to replicate this.

I am an addicted novice and by no means expert in the matter. However, I believe this is cross breeding / genetics at work. Think of them as fraternal twins ... and enjoy!

This is a reminder that they're in charge, not us. That original root stock wasn't finished being an individual yet! Perhaps the double flowering was seen as undesirable and the very reason this tree was used for root stock. No doubt, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I love botanical "oddities," so in my book she's a keeper worth naming.

I'd be interested to know what the flower on the upper graft looks like.

This is just my theory based on limited knowledge:

It's probably not like cresting, which is caused by bacterial damage. That would have done more than just change a single flower.

It's probably a phenomenon like the Calico cat or sectoral heterochromia: Basically, there's a gene one parent has different from the other one in Calicos. The cells of each parent divide and form clusters which produce different colored fur. The division of cells that causes this actually happens in all sexually reproducing multicellular organisms but its not observable in most of them.

If its a mutation like sectoral heterochromia, a similar thing happens. A mutant cell with visibly different trait multiplies and exists in clusters throughout the body.

In either of these cases, a cluster of these different cells would have produced that flower.

Lyka, it is normal. It happened to me also. Single and double bloom at the same time.

Marie

Thank you all for your responses. I regret cutting the buds that were growing below my other 2 plants...Oh well, I am learning and loving it.! Thank you.