A chance seedling is the name given to a plant cultivar discovered by chance. This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ...

This is often the case for heterozygote clones that can't be reproduced by seeds. An organism is a heterozygote or heterozygous for a gene or trait if it has different alleles at the genes locus for each homologous chromosome. ... As a word, clone was first coined by J.B.S. Haldane as subject for theoretical replication of a frog, though the term clone is derived from κλων, the Greek word for twig. In horticulture, the spelling clon was used until the twentieth century. ...

Famous cultivars of apple like Red delicious, Golden delicious or Granny Smith are chance seedlings. This article is about the tree and its fruit. ... The Red Delicious is a cultivar of apple. ... The Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple with a yellow color. ... Granny Smith, or green apple, is an apple cultivar originating in Australia from 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Sir Nicholas Birtles. ...