Camellia virus is useful
Variable, but distinctive creamy-yellow discolouration of the leaves of camellias, as shown above, is usually caused by a virus infection. Although there is no control for the problem, it is only rarely that infected plants have been seriously affected
other than to influence the colour pattern of the flower. It is actually one of the few occasions when a disease is used for propagation. A form of one of these viruses is used for creating bi-col-ours in single coloured camellia varieties.
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Press, 19 April 1985, Page 9
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