Re: HYB: Fertility
- Subject: Re: HYB: Fertility
- From: i*
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:02:12 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., "wmoores" <wmoores@w...> wrote:
> I have recently removed bee pods on pseudacorus, versicolors,
> and 'robustas.' Every pseudacorus bloom seems to produce a pod.
> All of the versicolors had seed pods except JOHN WOOD. No
> 'robustas' had seed pods. CAST ASHORE, maybe a 'robusta', had
> pods.
>
> So, what I am trying to say is that JOHN WOOD is not a versicolor
> and CAST ASHORE is not a 'robusta.'
>
> Can anybody verify the above statement?
>
> Chuck Chapman sent me a cross of versicolor x pseudacorus (a
> versipseu?) several years ago. It is now a mature clump and has
> the most marvelous blooms of blue veins on a white ground, giving
> a blue effect from a distance. It has pseudacorus form and blooms
> with them. Further, it makes no seed pods. What a delightful
> plant!
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
I had wondered re fertility of robustas and in a discussion with Carla
Lankow she indicated that a number of robustas produce seed. Cast
Ashore is very similar in flower to other robustas that I grow. I
have no firm confirmation of parentage as it is a collected plant.
Very different from the versicolours and from an area that does not
have virginicas. It seems to be a natural hybrid that has thrived
(perhaps because it is fertile) in an area where virginicas had grown
some point in history before climate change. Tony Huber has told me
that he has come across robustas in similar climate areas before. I'm
basing it as a robusta on form and performance and on Tony's guess of
it being a robusta. I keep telling myself to try some crosses on it
but by the time I remember the season is past. There is always next year.
I find it to be a very late bloomer, usually starts 4-7 days after
the pseudacorus.
I have two different varieties of versicolor X pseudacorous and they
are very similar, although one has slightly larger flowers.
Chuck Chapman
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