my Sinningia seedling N1

[Dennis Kramb]

Well, this is weird.  This is maiden bloom for this 3-yr old seedling.  It produced flowers directly from the (large!) dormant tuber.  I've never seen this happen before.  While it's normal behavior for a few obscure, rarely grown Sinningia species, none of those species are in the background of this hybrid.  So I think this effect is temporary and cultural, but only time will tell.

Another weird thing is that the flowers bee guide is deeply warped into a 3-D gully effect to an extent that I've never seen before on a Sinningia.  I quite like it!

For comparison I'm adding a couple photos of its sibling who had maiden bloom 4 months ago with normal flowers on a normal plant.

The parentage is Sinningia eumorpha 'Saltao' x "Seminole" (white-flowered sport)