Re: Old Hybridizers' Tales
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- Subject: Re: Old Hybridizers' Tales
- From: b*@tiger.hsc.edu (Bill Shear)
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:07:11 -0700 (MST)
Sharon, I doubt that the food coloring method would work as you suggest.
The flowers don't have a defective vein system, they just lack the pigment
that ordinarily would have been synthsized and deposited around the ends of
the veins. The food coloring would be passively carried through all of the
xylem and would stain the whole vascular system--as described in another
posting where this trick was used with white iris blooms.
Best wishes, Bill
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