Re: Rebloomers - Diploids and MTB's
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- Subject: Re: Rebloomers - Diploids and MTB's
- From: m*@tricities.net (Mike Lowe)
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:08:41 -0700 (MST)
>Jeff writes...
>My understanding is that rebloom in diploid bearded iris is extremely rare.
>In the Ohio Gardens catalog I have (1992), which has an exhaustive listing
>of MTBs, LADY EMMA (F. Jones, 87) is noted as the ONLY reblooming MTB. It
>is a diploid, incidentally.
Lady Emma has given difficulty in classification since its introduction. It
is out of SDB x short BB breeding and I would venture, from both its
pedigree and from breeding attempts, that it is a sterile 44 chromosome
intermediate. Lady Emma's morphology puts it more comfortably in the IB
class although there has been lively discussion on just where it should be
classified.
Cheers,
Mike, mikelowe@tricities.net -- http://www.tricities.net/~mikelowe/
South Central Virginia, USA
"Stealing time from ROOTS and the web page to read and respond to iris-l...."
