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ID seed issue - perilla frutescens / shiso

I lied. I have another question!

This is my third round of shiso seeds I've planted this year. All have germinated successfully and I've given quite a few away in 3" pots as gifts and I've kept about 5 mini-plants at this point.

This round, though, has something bizarre happening.
What is this?

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All three shown germinated green cotyledon, just like the one with the arrow still has. A day or two later, the suspect three turned this color -- but the stem was still green and still is. Now some shiso have dark color leaves -- true, but these are all from the same package, and more importantly, none of the 20-something I've planted thus far did this.

So, I'm thinking it's perhaps some disease or condition. I don't think it's a bug of some sort....but perhaps a fungus? In any case -- I wanted to confirm it's no good before I chuck these....

Can anyone educate me as to what this is and what happened, please?

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