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It was a Hoary Plantain (Plantago media) [...] . But this specific specimen was special. One of its leaves was split almost perfectly down the middle: one half a deep, healthy forest green, the other a pale, luminous cream-yellow.
Early in the leaf’s development, a group of cells lost the ability to produce chlorophyll [...] . In a sectoral chimera, that mutation follows a strict geometric line.
This kind of variegation isn’t written into the plant’s full genetic blueprint. It’s a local error, a mutation in a specific layer of cells in the growing tissue. The parts of the plant that produce seeds are usually unaffected, which means that any offspring will revert to the standard, fully green form.
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