RE: unbelievable seedling

Mike, I love your web page.  I can't say that I like this seedling
though.  Even though I like broken colours and odd patterns, this one
lacks symmetry for me.

As to its genetic impossibility -- nothing is impossible, that's what
mutations are all about.  Mutations aside, the genetics of beardeds are
so complex (note the existence of nested recessive traits), that I
believe that just about anything is possible--except for fire engine
red. 

Did you make a self cross?  I'd be interested in hearing the results of
your crosses.

Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- reticulatas in bloom 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Sutton [SMTP:suttons@lightspeed.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 09, 1998 10:02 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Thought I would let everyone know that our mutated seedling TB with
> the
> bloom split down the middle, one side yellow and white the other side
> peach
> and white, is blooming again.  The mutation seems to be stable, the
> bloom
> is the same as last year.  There had been quite a bit of discussion
> last
> year amongst botanists and hybridizers as to whether or not the
> mutation
> would repeat, it did!  Most believed that it would be like Good 'N'
> Plenty.
>  Good 'N' Plenty did the same thing about 50 years ago but the
> increases
> bloomed one color, depending on what side of the mother rhizome they
> came
> from.  Our seedling has carried the mutation through, to the confusion
> of
> many.  Most botanists agree that it is genetically impossible. I sent
> a
> picture to the cyber cork board and its also in the past and future
> picture
> section at our website titled: An unbelievable seedling.  
> http://www.suttoniris.com  I would like to know what people think of
> the
> iris and if anybody has any ideas as to why it did this.  The flower
> is
> very fertile both ways, last year I had three pods on one stalk.
> Should be
> interesting to see what its' children do.
> 
> Mike Sutton
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