Quote Originally Posted by jmcrook View Post
All morphs are ~technically naturally occurring whether they were found in the wild or spontaneously appeared in captive populations. Selective combinations of multiple morphs is the "frankenstein" part.
i didn’t think about spontaneous occurrences within captivity and to that end i think that would lead naturally to a really interesting (and perhaps critical) reexamination of this dichotomy of “wild vs captive”

Line breeding does work to enhance the probability of expressing (and degree of expression) of various phenotypes inherited as a polygenic trait related primarily to color and pattern (tiger coastal carpets for example).

There are patternless scrubs, yes. They have not been verifiably proven to be able to pass this trait to offspring in a dominant/incomplete dominant/polygenic/recessive fashion and as such are simply a natural phenotypic variety until that can be proven otherwise. Patternless rock pythons are a proven recessive means of inheritance.
i didn’t know this re: scrub pythons - i had just assumed that if it was true for burms, African rocks, and other large pythons then it would be true for them but that’s a silly error on my part