Eureka – have I got it? For years I have been pondering the problem of how and why the form of rossouwii appears in mirabilis ’heidelbergensis’, mirabilis ’sublineata’, and emelyae ‘multifolia’. Essie has independently indicated that he observes this too. I should actually be travelling, in my series of posts about heidelbergensis, from west to east to show this. Sadly I do not have pictures of the heidelbergensis I saw further east of Heidelberg, nor any of Essie’s for the eastern Hessequas area. DNA does not create form. It only provides the materials to do so. Form depends on the creative power of the metaphysical element (causal mind – consciousness) of each life form? I will put a question mark there again, because this is a serious issue we need to contemplate. The photos I add are multifolia variants from 4 populations from Little Karoo. The last one touches on Warwick asking why I fingered a single variant from S of “heidelbergesis var. toonensis” along the Slangriver.