Re: Interesting Hosta Story
- Subject: Re: Interesting Hosta Story
- From: J* H*
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:23:54 -0400
Bill,
You are indeed right. If Mark was propagating Birchwood Parky's Gold and found
Sweet Home Chicago, it would NOT be a tissue transfer. You are really on the
ball this morning, Bill.
If, however Mark encountered (maybe didn't even see or find it in a culture
container among other propagules ) an identical sport to Parky's Prize and
then a sport from this plant in tissue culture, it could technically be a
tissue transfer. I am quite sure Mark was not propagating Parky's Prize at the
time. This was performed by Miss Vitro. At the present time, it is being
propagated by Hans Hansen.
I do not know the exact details of this propagation sequence. Only Mark would
be able to tell us that if anyone could.
But one thing I can assure you, Sweet Home Chicago and Parky's Prize are
identical twins in the colors of tissues involved (re plastid kinds,
populations and distribution) , except for the relative position of the LI
and LII layers and their respective colored tissues. This suggests a tissue
transfer as the indirect "cause".
Jim
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Bill Meyer wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> In the case below:
>
> >The two plants are equally beautiful although they are
> > "tissue transfers" of each other. At about this time, I also found a
> > sport of Parky's Prize, identical to Mark's in my garden. I planted
> > this one also next to Parky's Prize and Sweet Home Chicago..
>
> Was Mark tissue-culturing Parky's Prize, or B. Parky's Gold? If the
> latter, it wouldn't be a tissue transfer, but a new sport, right?
> ............Bill
>
> > Sports,
> >
> > It seems that just about every hosta has an interesting story connected
> > with it. Birchwood Parky's Gold and its sport progeny has such a story.
> >
> > One summer about 8 years ago, I found a green streak in the center of
> > one leaf of
> > Birchwod Parky's Gold. In the fall I took a bud cutting of the axillary
> > bud to capture the bud sport if possible. The next year a new division
> > appeared and developed perhaps 8 leaves all of which were identical.
> > All leaves showed a chartreuse border and a dark green center. The
> > following year there were four divisions, all uniform. It appeared to be
> > stable. I potted the plant and took it to Alex as a guest plant in his
> > garden for the Convention garden tour of 1995, I believe. It was seen by
> > several people who commented favorably on it. Alex named it Parky's
> > Pride and I registered it by the name I thought I heard Alex
> > use...Parky's Prize.
> >
> > Some years later, Mark Zilis found in his lab, a reversed form with a
> > chartreuse center and a dark green border. He named it Sweet Home
> > Chicago. I got a small liner from Jim Swartz and planted it next to
> > Parky's Prize. The two plants are equally beautiful although they are
> > "tissue transfers" of each other. At about this time, I also found a
> > sport of Parky's Prize, identical to Mark's in my garden. I planted
> > this one also next to Parky's Prize and Sweet Home Chicago.. Then just
> > this spring, another sport occurred in the garden.. Parky's Prize
> > produced a clump of six streaked divisions. Four appear to be
> > chartreuse and white and two appear to be a brighter yellow and white in
> > color. These plants need more time to determine if the yellow color is
> > truly different from the chartreuse ground color. If so, then there will
> > someday be a pure yellow color at six oclock on the Birchwood Parky's
> > Gold Wheel of Sports.
> >
> > Isn't this fun?
> >
> > Jim
> > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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