Re: Purple Pods - update
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- Subject: Re: Purple Pods - update
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@cache.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:56:24 -0600 (MDT)
I posted the following to the list on 22 June 97:
> One of the cultivars growing here that has pbf, though it is rather
faint,
> and seems to be confined to the center of the leaves, not extending to
the
> margins, is TENNESEE GENTLMAN (Innerst, 91). I pollinated some flowers of
> this cultivar this spring, and now that the pods are well-developed they
> are almost completely purple with green showing only near the base of the
> pods. The bloom stalk is also streaked with purple.
The purple pigment has now completely disappeared from these pods. They are
not drying out yet, but in the absence of any pigment they have acquired a
light brown *suntan*. All of the purple pigment has disappeared from the
stalk and the leaves as well. If you were to inspect TENNESSEE GETLEMAN in
my garden now, you would never suspect it had pbf - a real iris chameleon!
> Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
> cwalters@cache.net
