Re: Help! What is this amoena?

Griff:
    I can't help you with the identity of your amoena, but your seedling
sounds like a classic case of somatic mutation ("sporting"). At the Logan
Iris Society meeting on Saturday, Brad Kasperek was discussing how he
obtained GNU AGAIN as a sport from GNU, and Jared Harris mentioned how
BEVERLY SILLS sported for him to produce BEVERLY IN WHITE, and in both
cases their descriptions were just like yours. The mother rhizome mutates
right down the midline and all increase on one side are of the original
appearance and all on the other side are the mutant form. The chimeric
bloom on the mother rhizome is unique and is lost after the mother rhizome
has bloomed.

Jeff Walters in northern Utah (Zone 4)
cwalters@cache.net

> I need help in identifying a tan amoena which was given to me some years
> ago as SAND AND SEA. It is not SAND AND SEA, which has tan stands and
> blue falls. THIS flower has pure white stands and tan falls, darkening
> toward the yellow beard. It has good substance and appears to be a
> recessive amoena. When pollinated by WABASH, it gave me a seedling that
> produced (1) two completely different irises on the same stalk -- one a
> royal purple amoena with a white edge on the falls (reminiscent of
> WABASH), the other having cream stands and red-violet falls with a
> bronze edge, (2) on the second stalk, a sectioned (sectored?) chimera --
> one stand white, one cream, and one half-and-half, and one fall purple,
> one red-violet, and one half-and-half. At this point, I think, you
> understand why I want to identify that tan amoena.
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