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I think it's fairly obvious that the father was a stand user. Dio was only searching for other stand users, so inlisting a normal person sounds farfetched. Same goes for planting the spores. Only problem is Araki never stated what the stand was. I think immortality is a pretty good guess as to what it's ability was.