Re: HYB: yellow "pallida", fragrance

I can't think of a single modern or old diploid or tetraploid yellow, or
brown, or anything with yellow in it that has the wonderful sweet
fragrance of pallida.  Would love to know of any.

Another approach that might be fun would be to try to cross some
tetraploid yellows with white pallidas, then backcross to pallida
again.  Lots of sterility, but what fun if you get some fertility.

My cross of pallida and MULBERRY ROSE is sweetly fragrant and has been
somewhat fertile - bee pods mostly, tho I think I did get a few
intentional crosses.  Some of the F2 bee babies look exactly like the F1
parent (triploid? - implying a diploid egg maybe?, since most of my iris
are tet), but at least one has been more like modern tetraploids,
readily fertile (or as readily fertile as anything here) with modern
tets.

Only have tried to make one cross with any of the other pallida babies
(from mixed tet pollen), and pollen from it readily formed a pod on
COLOR ME BLUE.
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