Re: HYB: questions - bee babies

A reblooming iris much admired by many of us is Lloyd Zurbrigg's JENNIFER REBECCA. There are also very, very few people who have ever gotten it to set seed. The second year that I had it, 10 years or so ago, I got seed pods on it from three different cultivars. All of the resulting seedlings were killed in the subsequent terrible winter. Since then, I have tried every year, sometimes as many as more than a dozen crosses, but have never been able to get another pod. The point of relating this (which I have mentioned in this forum before) is that during all these years there has also never been a single bee pod. So, there you are, for what it's orth. -- Griff


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Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: questions - bee babies


In a message dated 5/10/2006 9:25:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

Any population biology theories that shed light on these kinds of
difference in fitness of offspring? Or is this likely just more Murphy
at work?


Maybe the bees are more attracted to the stronger plants because those
plants have more of what attracts the bee, or more of what the bee is interested
in? Stronger parents, stronger offspring?

Maybe bee pods are set only on the more pod fertile stuff, and that fact
inherently signifies, possibly in relation to the above?

Population biology theories from the peanut gallery...

Anner

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