Rose photo courtesy of jedmar

Rose photo courtesy of Margaret Furness

Mt Lofty BG, South Australia, mid-spring.

Rose photo courtesy of Arno

Getting nearer to the leafs surface of Rosa multiflora watsoniana. May, 1st, 2008. This foto is for jedmar, as he statet, this is kind of a variegata type. It seems that he is right. I think: As there are two different greens, it could be a different production in the two celllayers that build cell layer II, or, the Mesenchym. And it has perhaps something to do with influences by cell layer III, as exactly where the layer II meats the layer III at the leafs 'nerves', the functionally chloroplast production is visibly higher than in the rest of cell layer II ... ! Perhaps here in layer III an only localy active (and not far transported) gene product is produced, that is needed for normaly choroplast development, and that on the other hand lacks in one of the two layers of cell layer II, or, the Mesenchym.

Rose photo courtesy of David Elliott

Tokyo Japan 2006