Re: Rebloomers - Diploids and MTB's
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- Subject: Re: Rebloomers - Diploids and MTB's
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@cache.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:33:05 -0700 (MST)
Mike Lowe writes (16 Feb 97):
>
> >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.
Oops, sorry about that!
I think I also accidentally shipped Celia Storey off to Alaska in an
earlier posting today - VERY sorry about that!
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (Zone 4)
cwalters@cache.net
