HYB: Holden Tetraploid
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- Subject: HYB: Holden Tetraploid
- From: S* M* <7*@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:22:00 -0700 (MST)
Bill Shear wrote:
: Your mention of the Holden arilbreds reminds me that I still have one
: surviving, with no special care at all, at the base of a southfacing brick
: wall. The tag is lost so I do not know which one it is, but the flower is
: pure regeliocyclus (like the old Van Tubergen things) and the plant rather
: like an Intermediate bearded. The influence of korolkowii is fairly
: strong. I do not recall ever using it for breeding but it does have a lot
: of blue-green pollen. This plant originally came from an ASI plant sale.
That sounds a lot like one of the Holden-Norris tetraploid RCs I offered through
the plant sale some years ago. Any chance of persuading you to use some of that
pretty pollen on a TB or two?
Sharon McAllister (73372.1745@compuserve.com)
In Southern New Mexico, where temperatures in the 80s have given way to SNOW
