ALBINO TREES! W/PICS!

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KellyFrancis said:
To answer the "how do they survive" question: you said it in the first paragraph, they are parasitic on the parent plant. As to the how does it happen question: I have no clue but I do have a theory. Let me just start by saying that I didn't bother reading the whole article so forgive me if it's already been hypothesized. I've seen white grass before. It grows under boards, under trailers, places where there's enough nutrients in the soil for the seed to germinate but no sunshine for it to develop chlorophyll. I wonder if the same thing doesn't happen to these trees. Do they start buried in a nutrient rich spot and grow in total darkness so they don't develop the chlorophyll that their sunny siblings do? I don't know if a plant would start developing chlorophyll once exposed to the sun, nor do I know what kind of environment they are in, whether that total darkness would happen under a pile of dead leaves or something.... Just a thought.


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Sorry your hypothosis is not valid. The plant as stated in the article and again by you as parasitic utilizing the root system of the host tree. Therefore seed germination in a nutrient rich location is not a factor as this would be done with the albino trees own root system.

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This actually happens quiet often, with all kinds of plants, working in a nursery for 6 years ive seen all kinds of abnormalities like this. But since they are unable to photosynthisize once seperated or more commonly divided in the case of most perrenials where this is common they wither away. However there is a cultivation of hosta that is purely white, but still very hard to grow.
 
I am sure you guys have seen yellow and red cacti for sale in every supermarket. same deal. they dont have chlorophyll. that's why they have to be manually grafted on to regular green cacti.
probably genetic defect. the only question is how do they get attached to normal trees root system
 
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