Re: SPEC: Intergeneric hybrids
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SPEC: Intergeneric hybrids
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:02:49 EST
From: HIPSource@aol.com
In a message dated 1/3/00 3:51:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, BILLS@hsc.edu
writes:
<< Some of these listed hybrids would have been so interesting that it is
remarkable material of them seems not to have survived to the present day.
(Perhaps they weren't all that interesting after all...?)>>
Might have been weak. Hybridity does not invariably result in hybrid vigor
and the wider the cross the more one is trying to bring together plants that
have gone to some considerable trouble to distinguish themselves one from
another.
I'll say this, too, about survival of things: I think one can make no broad
assumptions. Some of the most famous and lauded named irises of the century
survive only in the written record.
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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