Re: IRIS-L digest 1040
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- Subject: Re: IRIS-L digest 1040
- From: S* C* <b*@mnsinc.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 18:58:59 -0600 (MDT)
I believe that this is how the flower forms, the two halves separate. This
could very easily happen in teh same what that a broken color happens: the
cell mutates into another color and everything generated from it is the
same color.
Ryan
whose atroviolacea is finishing, and teh MDBs and SDBs are starting
>Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 16:40:50 -0400
>From: dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
>To: iris-l@rt66.com
>Subject: Re:
>Message-ID: <v01510101b15431d22e41@[134.53.136.105]>
>
>>> 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. . . . I would like to know what people
>>>think >> of the iris and if anybody has any ideas as to why it did this.
>>
>>Mike -- In the Archives, see my posting of 10 June 1997 "Re: Strange
>>TB". Do we have the same pattern -- one petal one color, the second
>>another, and the third split between the two? If so, we might want to
>>think about doing some pollen exchange. I guess I need to get a scanner
>>so I can start sending some photos to the cork board.
>
>Okay, so this isn't an isolated phenomenon, apparently. If it's not a
>jealously guarded secret, may I ask the parentage behind each of yours
>& Mark's mutations? Perhaps we can get some L-ers to try to recreate
>the mutation? I would be willing to try.
>
>Perhaps we could also try to guess what other parents might produce this
>mutation. For instance, does it always involve crossing two bicolors?
>or a bicolor with a self? etc...
>
>Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
>Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
>Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, RIS, SIGNA, & Miami Valley Iris Society
>Primary Interests: Hybridizing Arilbreds, Raising Native Ohio Species Irises
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Ryan Carter
Five beds of irises, one hundred varieties
Half and half medians and TB's.
Winchester, VA
birddog@mnsinc.com
Youth Chairman of C & P Iris Society
AIS, DIS, CPIS
Visit my MDB homepage at http://www.geocities.com/~dwarfiris
Visit my Tree Frog homepage at http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/6617/
