I'm not sure I understand your question. Orange sunpatiens are not the same cultivar as purple ones.

I know...it's a weird ?. If a annual is listed in the same cultivar , aside from growing characteristics, should the -bloom performance- of all colors be the same under the same listed cultivar.

AFAIK, in the compact series, the purple is in the cultivar ?

https://sunpatiens.com/the-family/sunpatiens-compact/

cultivar mean CULTI-vated VAR-ietal ... according to me anyway.. lol ...

its the name in the quotes ...

if the name is based on the color ... then that is that ...

the species.. may have a base color range .. the first two usually latin ... lol ... names ... and it is associated with a specific color range ... as its part of the definition of the species ... imo.. flower color cant vary within the species ...

so if you have a base plant that has purple flowers ... then the pink.. yellow.. bright orange variations .... whatever flower color.. is the variety.. or the varietal ...

i know what i am trying to say .. but im sure im going to get roasted for trying to dumb it down .. and frankly.. barely knowing what i am talking about.. rotflmbo ... lets see who is mean about it ...

bottom line.. we have to define the terms.. before we start talking in generalities ...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=CULtivated+VARietal&ia=web

ken

It's all good Ken. Normally, I would not even notice these things as -much, but this whole WHF situation has got me taking a keener eye at all things green

Sunpatiens are not all the same cultivar. Each color is a separate one and there are multiple cultivars of each color offered. Growth habit and appearance can vary from cultivar to cultivar.

The assumption that since they are all sunpatiens they are all the same cultivar is what may be misleading here.

In the realm of any plant/annual then, are we kinda saying every individual color of anything is it's own separate cultivar ? Yes, no, maybe, it depends ?

"Yes, no, maybe, it depends ?"

You got it!!

Gotta learn something new everyday. Always treated Annuals as X or Y or Z, and the color of each was all in the same cultivar......

However, with the recent observations, I can clearly see differences in growing characteristics even though I =presumed, it was just the same minus the color of the dang bloom=.

Sunpatiens have their own website. Under "the family", it shows the various cultivars.

https://sunpatiens.com/

And I try to learn something new every day too. Plants are the perfect hobby for the curious. Even if one had time to spend every day all day for their entire life and lived to be 100, they would have just scratched the surface.

If you buy an annual that has a specific name - e.g. Sunpatiens 'Compact Electric Orange' or Petunia 'Crazytunia Moonstruck' or Calibrachoa 'Cabaret Hot Pink' - each one is a separate cultivar from any others in the same genus and species.

Indeed. I always considered the -compact- all the same cultivars.....just different colors, except for the ones that had the varigated leaves.

Prior to this bloom observation, I did know colors don't always grow true. Not a fan of pinks, but one year, i planted their Deep Rose. Worst year ever. It did not like the -sun- at all and all blooms were bleached out