Albino plants

Organisms with albino mutations are pretty weird in general, but albino plants are extra weird.

Tom Stapleton's research on albino redwoods started with searching for these rare trees in the wild and has led to the patent of three albino redwood varieties, named “Mosaic Delight”, “Grand Mosaic,” and “Early Snow,” which are albino redwood chimeras. Stapleton hopes to shed more light on understanding why these mutations exist.

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Monstera plant with white leaves!

I didn't know they existed, until I read a story at NPR... Park rangers in the Northern California Redwood Forest are protecting a decades-old secret. Actually, eight of them: Albino redwood trees... Kuty points to a white bush. It's about six feet tall and it's sprouted from the base of a normal redwood tree. Mr. KUTY It's not particularly tall. It's not particularly big. And so it could look dead. STANDEN: Until you get up close. Albino redwood trees lack chlorophyll. Their needles are…

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I sow some Adenium seeds few weeks ago.. some were germinated and looking really very good. But one plant have pink and white leaves.. initially I thought this is some kind of disease and new leave...

Green fades as fall proceeds. A dead fern leaf along the High Mountain Loop Trail in Wayne, New Jersey ... my daughter called it an "albino fern".