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I was kicking around one of my gardens and found this minature rose with something growing out the center.......what is it? Is it the rose bush trying to grow out of the flower?
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Okay, I just read through a ton of stuff on phyllody or the production of leafy growth instead of petals. Most of the time in most plants it will be the disease aster yellows. But in roses, it's a known and documented thing.
This is from UC Davis, IPM online.
[url]https://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7463.html[/url]
This is from UC Davis, IPM online.
[url]https://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7463.html[/url]
Fascinating stuff.However, in roses the most common cause of phyllody is environmental stress, such as hot weather when flower buds are forming, or water stress. If environmental factors are the cause, affected plants usually have normal and abnormal flowers simultaneously but otherwise look healthy. When the weather cools, the bush resumes producing normal flowers.
Rose growers familiar with the characteristics of individual varieties can assess if phyllody is caused by disease or environmental stress by carefully examining plants. A lack of stunting or yellowing and good overall growth indicate a virus or phytoplasma likely isn’t the cause but instead an individual flower probably is responding to specific environmental conditionals.
No management practices are suggested other than pruning out individual blooms.
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Actually the weather here in Western Oregon has been cooler and wetter than normal; we've only had maybe half dozen days where we hit 80. It sounds like the disease mentioned above was caused from heat stress if I understood it correctly.
As for the rose bush, their nothing special. Just miniature roses that we have received over the years as gifts, the ones you can go pick up for $6.00 from your local grocery store. So if we had to uproot them it wouldn't be a biggie.
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As for the rose bush, their nothing special. Just miniature roses that we have received over the years as gifts, the ones you can go pick up for $6.00 from your local grocery store. So if we had to uproot them it wouldn't be a biggie.
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Yeah, me too. Aster yellows just fascinated me with that thread you linked, so I pursued it.applestar wrote: Having posted the above, I was concerned that unlike a veg plant, a rose shrub would be a significant loss if Twistedlarch had to uproot and dispose of it.
Yep, from that quoted selection. And apparently that's the most common reason for phyllody in roses, but other environmental stresses can produce this too. It would not have to be weather related. An inadvertent whack with lawn furniture, a half hearted nibble from a squirrel, perhaps a close encounter of the third kind: anything that stressed the bud at a critical point could have produced phyllody.Twistedlarch wrote:It sounds like the disease mentioned above was caused from heat stress if I understood it correctly.
If all else is normal with your rose, such as the leaves have a good color, and any other buds are normal, I'd leave it alone and just think it was a pretty cool thing to happen in my yard.