musaboru

I agree with Varig8.

When I search for the 'Florida' variety in Thai, I get pages with pics of both 'A'ea'e' and the variety with the different shaped fruit. Perhaps this assumed second variety is a lot easier to propagate than 'A'ea'e' and the nurserymen are not distinguishing it from the expensive variety that demands more money. I should mention, one of the links mentions the variety with the different fruit/pink tinge is from Indonesia.

But I recall an old article I read where a Thai research facility irridiated plants. One of them was a water lily tuber and the mutants resulted in having different petal counts and different colors (it went from white and pink picotee to full purple). I wouldn't be surprised if this was being performed on other plants to purposely produce variegated forms.

And this isn't necessarily a bad thing to do to plants. Some of the produce we grow and buy in the US are of irradiated cv. such as some seedless mandarins and grapefruit.