laevigata etc
- Subject: laevigata etc
- From: z*
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:29:59 +0200
Dear Cornelia
H laevigata has very few hybrids The reason is that it is nearly
sterile being not a proper species but a yingeri hybrid ( G Schmid
names it a ''specioid"). Further you mention the white spidery
flowers of H yingeri . That must be the white mutant of it H yingeri
'Chrystal Tim/des' Usually early flwowering seems dominant like
those from H venusta. As G Schmid mentioned already. A possible
explanation is that this is due to hybrid vigour . I suppose too that
Mikawa-no-Yuki got its name from the fact that the leaves have a
white back, it does not have white flowers.
Ben J.M.Zonneveld
Clusius lab pobox 9505
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
mintemp-16C(5F)
Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
Fax: 31-71-5274999
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