Re: TB: Purple Pods
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- Subject: Re: TB: Purple Pods
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 18:31:32 -0600 (MDT)
> 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.
>
> I also have some pods on TENNESSEE WOMAN (Innerst, 90), which has much more
> intense pbf than TG, but the stalks and pods on TW are completely green.
>
>
>
> Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
> cwalters@cache.net
> "This is the Place" - Utah Pioneer Sesquicentennial: 1847-1997
>
I mentioned during bloom season that the variegated (broken color)
iris JILTED had variegated stems as well as sheaths....well one pod is
variegated as well....really weird. Walter Moores, Enid Lake, MS 7/8
