Fasciation: in roses, again!

Last year was a good year for fasciation, in the sense that I found quite a few examples of it, in the gardens in and around where I live.

I don't see anything sinister about this: rather, I think it's the kind of thing that you start to notice, once you start looking out for it. It's all around us, all the time, but mostly we just don't look for it.

This one is actually from the tail end of last year, oops, I didn't get around to filing all my photos, and this one was overlooked...

There you go - isn't that weird? 

("At least!")

It's a Rose - or, should I say, it's supposed to be a Rose, a perfectly normal (if somewhat lax) David Austin shrub rose, which normally produces single flowers.

This time, it produced a wild, mutant cluster! 

I know it looks like something out of a strangely botanical horror-mutation film, but it's purely cosmetic, and is perfectly harmless to the plant.

It may never happen again, to that particular plant: it's not infectious, and it doesn't do the plant any harm at all.

It just looks weird!
 

 

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