Re: Re: CULT:Sports--anyone?

From: "William Stone" <wstone@volcano.net>

Not being a expert or any thing the oldest Sport I know of is in the Rose
Family " Austrian Copper "  When planted it should grow to be a red rose
with some yellow infusion, But if you get a sport of it,  It will be a light
bright yellow rose.  I believe the origin of this rose is traced back to B.
C.
    I note this as it is a sport which takes in the whole plant and not just
one shoot.             Bill
Stone's Iris Garden
Volcano, CA  95689
    55 miles SE of Sacramento at the 3500 ft elev. in CAlifornia US
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Schaffner" <drsnooks@buffnet.net>
To: <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 10:19 AM
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: CULT:Sports--anyone?


> From: Carolyn Schaffner <drsnooks@buffnet.net>
>
> Sterling Okase <sterling_o@yahoo.com>
>
> wants to know:
>
> Is there someone out there that knows what the true
> defination of "sport" is? HELP!
>
> ======>  Since sporting is the major sport in their field, Hosta Experts
> are constantly trying to find more information on sports and the wisdom
> of some folks who know the definition and other technical and scientific
> info may be found in archives. Ask for the URL if you're interested.
>
> As you know, variegated Hosta sport ALL THE TIME! All variegated Hosta
> are "unstable", or about to change their spots and stripes and colors
> either to all green, or to another sort of variegation. There is an
> entire committee devoted to finding and placing on cultivar's
> variegations on "wheels" to show the possibilities.
>
> The causes seem to be many, but in general, the genes rearrange
> themselves somehow. When a leaf appears which is a sport, the bud at the
> base of its petiole can be isolated, or cut, from the crown and removed
> with roots and grown on, hopeful that the new crown will produce a whole
> plant of leaves with that variegation.
>
> It's this sporting activity that keeps lots of people interested in
> Hosta.
>
> The act of sporting seems to be a form of survival of the fittest, and
> an adaptation to conditions. Whatever makes one plant sport more often
> than another makes for interesting speculations.
>
> Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY where the early daffodils are tiny and
> wonderful and who's going to get a Maple Syrup & Pancake fix today!!
>
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