Below are photos of one of my most valuable breeding plants. The leaves have five colours - white, light grey, dark grey and two shades of green. Grey and white are very sought after colours on variegated clivia leaves and a combination of these colours are quite rare to find. Grey are usually found on fukurin variegation. The colours of the flowers are white, light green, medium green, yellow and orange. The flowers develop as white, green or green variegated flowers. The inner center of the flowers is a combination of two colours, yellow and orange in this case. This is also a rare phenomenon and something I have seen only on some ghost flowers. As the flowers open, orange start to develop around the edge of the petals. As for the leaves of this highly sought after variegated clivia, each flower looks differently with different patterns developing on the petals. When the flowers open the green variegation is quite pronounced, but it fades into either white or green or vague variegation when the flower is ready to drop. The pollen grains are much larger than any type of clivia and it is extremely difficult to get seed from this clivia, although it is luckily not sterile. It is approximately 7 years old and has made no offsets. Some of its seedlings should flower within a year or two and it will be interesting to see whether they also have variegated picotee flowers. Unlike other clivia plants with variegated flowers, the flowers of this plant is large and fully developed. The picotee and variegation patterns are visible on both side of the petals as you can see from the last photos. It is said that plants with variegated flowers and break up of flower colours as the case with this plant is used to create new flower colours.
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