Re: HYB: pseudacorus X

 

Jim,
 
As far as bi-colors in pseudacorus-x, 'Alley Oops' comes to mind. Educated guess is that the other parent may be versicolor. Though it does well in gardens, it turns into a wonderful weed in standing water.
 
The only other amoena pseudacorus type I know of is my 'Shape Shifter'. I've been running the same kind of exploration with its kids.
 
'Chance Beauty' gave me just over 20 seeds. 3 have survived. The first 2 appeared pseudacorus and I intentionally crossed them to give me the seedlings blooming now. 11 have bloomed including a cream and what appears to be a broken color. I didn't do a count but wound up with 78 that grew large enough to plant out. This season I'm crossing the first generation pseud types with the last seedling to bloom from that group (It appears I. laevigata) as well as the best of the yearlings. There won't be many crosses done since pollen from 2CB3 is sparse.
 
I selfed 'Shape Shifter' the first year it bloomed. (I haven't been able to coax it to set seed again.) From dozens of good looking seeds, few germinated and only 8 of the 9 survivors have bloomed. Crosses made among the first 6 plants (all pseudacorus type) produced the seedlings I'm watching this season. From enough seed to weigh, I germinated enough seeds to give me a nice sampling and currently have 58 seedlings.
 
So far, 7 of these have bloomed. I'm using the oddball seedling's pollen from the previous generation on the best of these. As with the CB group, not many crosses can be done because of the lack of pollen available.
 
I'm hoping to update my page as these groups both bloom (Our ISP is upgrading its system so nothing is certain). You can find them at http://www.povn.com/rock/newHybrids.html .
 
Christy  
----- Original Message -----
From: j*@kc.rr.com

A very charming flower. Are there any other bi-colors descended from I. pseudacorus?
I'm curious about the number of seeds you had to experiment with? Were these intentional
crosses or bee pods? I'd love to see some of the other seedlings.

Jim

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